Log:Rock, Scissors, Paper, Scene 1

Rock, Scissors, Paper 2012/06/03 	 Chen Kay Miles Fuchs Snow Total Babe 1

Special Agent Miles Fuchs stands on the sidewalk just outside of Flying Saucer pizza. He's helping himself to a slice, waiting. Earlier, he contacted Chen to let him know that he has some news. He also contacted SGG to see if anyone wanted to get a bite to eat.

Total Babe comes down York Blvd, as much to say hi to the rest of the group as anything, since she's a bit out of touch.

Chen grins with undisguised delight as she sees Total Babe and Miles, waving happily to them.

Snow had been going to classes on campus so was pretty close. She decided to take the quick way home, so called her icy armor to hide her identity, taking that of her alter ego, Snow. The icy teen is sliding along an icy ramp that she is generating, when the smells of food from the Flying Saucer cause her belly to grumble a bit and she changes directions sliding down towards the ground.

It'd been quiet, still trying to track down loose aliens and all, but Kay's been just trying to keep a handle on things, stay out of the lime light and just /knowing/ people are going to love her connections to the 'bad guys(tm)' it's only a matter of time before she loses her job, or so she figures. So she's been trying to do right by the rest of the team until that happens.

When an FBI guy wants to meet (according to SGI files) she figures it's going to be one of /those/ days and so she flies off. Red aura surrounding her as she dives down towards the sidewalk outside the pizza joint and lands easily. Not a care given for her appearance beyond the normal before she looks around for the guy on the file.

Total Babe waves back to Chen. "Hey!"

Chen gives Kay a cheerful wave too as Kay comes flying in.

Chen says, "Hey. Good to see you again."

Total Babe says, "Same here - how's it going?"

Miles sighs. "Nothing quite like a slice of Flying Saucer. Hey Chen. Hey Babe," he says. He waves with a free hand before taking a bite of his pizza. When Kay shows up, he nods hello her as well. "Hey there."

Chen says, "Hi, Miles. Hey, Kay, hi. TB. Been busy earning a honest living."

Miles checks out Snow as well. "Hm. Is this another number of the Starguard team? I don't recall her from my files."

The red aura fades away from Kay leaving her standing as her normally bombastic self, since she doesn't need any aura to stand out even in this city. She nods towards Chen and TB with a smile, "Girls." She says companionably but it's Miles who gets the most of her attention as she looks towards him as well. She studies him, openly, expression unreadable before she looks over towards Snow, "No, that is not a member of Gamma at least. I don't know who that is."

Chen says, "She's a hero, or at least calls herself one. I meet her briefly in the Gym."

Snow doesn't really know any of the others except one, but the red aura did draw her attention a bit. She is approaching but mostly because they are outside the place that is making her belly rumble. She realizes that she is being checked out, "Um..hi..." she says softly. She smiles and dips her head towards Chen.

Miles nods to Snow. "I'm Miles." He looks over to Chen. "Hey, I looked into that name you turned up..."

Chen waves and beckons Snow forward, "Hi. Come meet some people. This is Snow, right? Snow," she points to indicate who's who, "Miles Fuchs, FBI, Kay, Starguard Gamma, Total Babe, all round tough girl."

Kay smiles slightly, corners of her lips curling just a touch but she nods to Snow, "Nice to meet you." She says before looking over towards Chen, "TB's in SGG as well you know." Sounding amused before she looks towards Miles and her expression goes serious again, "Given the location I'm guessing this is informal and off the record." She pulls out a chair with nothing but a gesture, not actually touching it before she sits down gracefully.

Total Babe grins. "Never been described like that before."

Snow cocks her head to the side and nods, "Yeah, Snow." she says and smiles, "A pleasure to meet you all." she looks back and forth a moment. "Um. off the Record?" she looks a bit confused.

Miles nods to Kay. "Off record." He says to Chen, "Tan Jiazhen is safe and sound in a federal holding facility. We've got him as a material witness to Hollowpoint's attempt to kill him. It

Chen explains to Snow, "Miles and Kay have offical hats to wear. But Kay's saying she figures this is not going on any official record anywhere."

Miles nods to Kay. "Off record." He says to Chen, "Tan Jiazhen is safe and sound in a federal holding facility. We've got him as a material witness to Hollowpoint's attempt to kill him. It's probably a good thing too; I think a bunch of people might have it in for him."

Chen turns to Miles, "I may have made a big mistake. I asked one of Lee's Metas about Tan when I was trying to find something that would make him a target. One Man Army reacted quite strongly, and advised me to stay out of Chinatown for a while.

Total Babe frowns. "I've clearly been out of touch for too long - anything I should know about?"

Chen looks to Miles...

Snow looks a bit confused a bit herself and stays quiet, though she might need to help if it is needed.

"Before the revolution in China, we think he was a scientist in secret government lab," Miles says. "So the current government in China probably wants him." He listens to Chen and nods. "He might have been involved in some not-so-legal experiments on metas. Lee's people probably want him as well."

Kay looks over towards Snow, "As the Team Leader for StarGuard Gamma, when dealing with people who could be acting in an official capacity as a Federal Agent, it's always good to be upfront about what kind of situation it is. That's all." She smiles, "As it's off the record, it's just a social situation. Please, have a seat, make yourself comfortable. I am /so/ getting a Calzone..." she murmurs to herself, letting the others talk about chinatown and the like since she's not involved with it.

Total Babe takes a call on her PDA, then says, "Darn - I'm needed to cover for someone. See you all soon, I hope!" And she hurries off back the way she came.

Miles nods to Kay, as she goes to get a Calzone. "I've got a case I wanted to bounce off you and your people when you get back."

Snow nods and does move down, "Food does sound lovely." she smiles and the icy exterior seems to melt and be absorbed into her body, showing a girl in her late teens, wearing a white mask and white spandex.

Miles looks to Chen. "So far he's not been talking... Would you happen to know anything we might ask him about?"

Chen says, "Only... why did Lee's people react so strongly?"

Kay returns in short order with her meal and settles back down into her chair. "What sort of case? Why not go through the official channels? After all Gamma and the FBI have the same overall boss." Her tone curious now. She looks back and forth between the others as she starts cutting up her calzone with plastic knife and fork to eat.

Snow does go and order herself a small pizza. She shakes her head a bit as she comes back.

Miles answers Chen first: "My guess? Tan experimented on some of Lee's people back before the war. They might be looking for revenge..."

Chen says, "Experiemented? Miles, I wasn't able to find out anything about Tan. Nobody wanted to talk about him. What's he done?"

Miles the answers Kay: "I was in the neighborhood, and felt like grabbing a slice. Talking is more fun than pushing papers around. Besides, if I went through official channels, I might never get out of the basement they have me in."

FOOOMF! There's the rush of displaced air as a pair of women appear on the sidewalk, about 10 meters away from the gathered heroes. One is tiny woman, dressed like a Shinto priestess, in white robes. She lowers her hands to her side, as though completing a set of complicated gestures. The other woman, is older, and rounder. She's wearing orange buddhist style, with her round arms bared, and hair that's cut close to the scalp.

Kay doesn't notice, she's to involved in her food. Apparently she'd forgotten to eat breakfast today and as such is busy demolishing her calzone without trying to look like she's busy demolishing her calzone. It's a tricky act, but she's enjoying the food even as she fills her tummy.

Chen catches sight of the arrivals, but doesn't react more than a casual question to Miles, "Execting company?"

Snow doesn't have her pizza yet, but blinks as she sees the two just appear. Frost and what looks like snow seems form in the air around her body solidifying back into her icy armor. She might be over reacting, but she is the new girl on the block and wariness helps. Especially when she notices something else, and point to the roof of the Saucer.

Chen grins, "Now this is more like it." she says, and as she hasn't yet seated herself nothing delays a leap towards the sneaking sneaky ninja.

Miles shakes his head. He continues to eat his pizza, but his other hand deftly slides open his blazer to provide faster access to his sidearm.

Chen leaps to the edge of the roof, clinging there with her hands and feet, and grows another pair of arms to reach out the rest of the distance to the ninja, attempting a martial throw to toss him into the street.

The ninja jumps out of the way, handspringing to safety.

Snow blinks as she watches Chen go leaping to the roof and the Ninja getting out of the way. She glances towards the two that just appeared, "Friendly or Hostile?" she calls out, waiting to see.

Chen says, "Neutralize first, ask questions later. Friendies don't sneak."

Kay blinks as she looks up from her calzone, especially with arm growing girl that totally kills her appetite, "I'm trying to eat here..." She says with only a hint of disgust but she pushes her lunch away. "That depends. Friendlies can sneak if they're trying to not be noticed by the bad guys." She suggests and then stands up with a stretch and then puts on her best 'in charge' voice, "Everyone calm down before this escalates." Even as she says that however she is focusing her TK into a shield to protect herself and weighing her options.

The Shinto priestess says in accented English, "We have you no quarrel with you. Chen is the one we want!"

In Japanese, the priestess continues: << Rock, Scissors... Remember, we need to capture Chen alive. >>

[Speaking Japanese] Chen says, "But we haven't even been introduced yet. A bit early to be talking of capturing me, although, yes, alive is good."

Moving very quickly for a heavier woman, the nun darts along the sidewalk until she's face-to-face with Chen. She tries knocking Chen into the wall of the pizzeria with a double-palm strike.

Chen flows her body away from the spot the Japanese nujn is striking at, leaving her even more contorted than before.

The nun says to Chen: << The ninja is Scissors. The child is Paper. And I am Rock. Surrender, if you care for the well being of your friends. >>

Kay smirks wryly, "Yeah that's not gonna happen. Let's play." She starts to move as the Nun comes in but she's to slow to stop the attack, which thankfully, Chen avoids. Redirecting her attention towards the other one in the street who hasn't moved yet Kay focuses her will and she pulls her hands back, hands glowing with crimson energy before she throws an 'air punch' at the one still on the ground who hasn't moved yet. A rippling wave of crimson energy pulses out in a beam towards the smaller skinnier one.

Chen laughs, "You really don't know them very well, do you. Kay can handle all three of you without breaking into a sweat, even if Snow and I weren't here."

Paper twists out of the way, and Kay's air punch buffets through the flowing cloth of her sleeve, narrowly missing her.

Miles drops his pizza and pulls his handgun. "Back off! Now!" He aims it at Rock, while backing away a bit.

From nowhere, the ninja produces a small dart gun. Fffft! He blows a dart at Chen.

Chen hurriedly morphs again, forming her torso into a hollow ring so the dart pings against the wall having passed though her without hitting.

Blam! Miles takes a shot at the nun. He hits, center-mass. She seems entirely unphased.

Kay frowns as her shot gets avoided though her frown deepens at the gunfire, "Don't bother with the small arms. They wouldn't have come after a meta if they could be hurt by small arms." And then she's on the move, bounding forwards into a sprint she tries to smash her forearms into Paper's chest and trample the shinto priestess!

The priestess tries to get out of the way of the attack, but she's too slow. At the last moment she raises her hand in defense, clutching a set of beads. A magical barrier gives her some protection, but not enough, as she gets bulldozed.

Even as the priestess goes sprawling Kay says loudly, "One down, two to go. Who wants to be Number 2?"

Chen adds, "... or you could try talking. I don't know you. Any of you. Why do you want me?"

"Kami!" The buddhist nun wheels around to face Kay. She charges towards Kay and tries to return the favor.

Kay doesn't even move as she gets hit though she does grunt at the impact softly, her hands flashing outwards as she anchors herself to the ground with spikes of crimson energy. She smirks, "I guess you're Number 2. Bet that didn't go as well as you hoped, no? Give up now and I won't break all of you before you go to jail."

Rock look past Kay for a moment to her momentarily downed partner. Her mood seems to shift, from calm to aggressive. She's seeing red now.

The ninja readies another dart. This time he aims for Kay. Fffft!

Kay gets stuck by a dart, right through her force field, dangit. She'll need to make that better. With a frown she plucks the dart out, looking a touch woozy, "Careful Chen, those darts... not so hot."

Kay keeps hold of that dart, she'll have it analyzed later figure out what about it is making her feel so drained. As it is... well, now she knows who the biggest threat is and it's not the Big Bertha Nun. Narrowing her gaze she says in an aside to the Nun, "I'll get back to you in a second." And a crimson energy field snaps into being around her, or she tries to do so anyways. If successful she launches herself into the air towards the Ninja, reaching out to try and grab hold of him and treat him like a puny god to quote the Hulk.

The ninja moves, flowing smoothly from his evasion of Chen's attack to barely avoiding Kay.

The priestess rises unsteadily to her feet, still reeling from the shot she took from Kay. She reaches her hand into her opposite sleeve and pulls out a slip of paper, inscribed with Chinese characters. She tosses it at Kay, with surprising range and accuracy.

Rock turns, her eyes following Kay. She drops to one knee, before she springs into the air. Her arc takes her above Kay, and she tries to smash her downwards into the pavement.

Kay goes still as the paper wraps around her head, so to speak, enough so that she doesn't even seem to react as she gets clobbered by Rock, still somehow her mind works enough to lash herself into place with her TK so instead of going /flying/ she just gets knocked someways into the ground with a crash, where she's awake, and annoyed, but for the moment... unable to move even still.

Chen strikes out at the ninja once more, her fist propelled forwards with sight defeating speed.

Whud! Chen's punch connects with the ninj solidly, jarring him off of his feet. He drops to his knees in front of her.

Kay throws off the effect of the paper to the brainpan with a sibillant hiss of annoyance and then she's in the air, flying towards Chen she calls out, "Time to go Chen, strategic retreat time. We keep this up we'll lose." As she flies past she tries to grab hold of Chen and zip off into the air, trying to get enough distance to where she can really put on the speed and outdistance the trio of villains.

As much as she hates to admit it, Kay knows with the three on one situation that was going on, and the mind grabby paper, she'd lose that fight and Chen would be alone. Better to retreat, no matter how bitter it taste's. Forcing back her urge to fight Kay flies past Chen and grabs hold of her with one arm and then flies straight up, trying to get out of range as best she can until she can go supersonic...

The ninja kips up to his feets and watches as the heroes escape.

The priestess pulls another slip of paper from her sleeve. This one erupts into a bolt of fire as she throws it at Kay.

Chen spreads herself across and over Kay's back, protecting the flyer from ground fire coming up after them.

The nun shouts at the sky in anger as her quarry escapes.

Kay keeps her grip on Chen even as Chen gets all mighty morphin' and the impact doesn't at least, tear Chen from her grip. Once clear though she focuses her will and then with a loud BOOM of the sound barrier shattering in an instant Kay steals Chen from the RoShamBo Squad.

Chen hangs on, and asks, "Why did we leave? We could have beaten them."

Once out of immediate danger Kay slows down to subsonic so the two can converse, flying Chen towards the Star Guard building since, well, guards are good. As are hopefully more team mates. "Was to risky... The skinny little to throw it off and while locked up... I was easy pickings. Big Bertha hit pretty hard too and that Ninja..." She pulls out the dart, "This thing is poisoned or something, I'm weaker than I should be."
 * CENSORED* had some sort of ability that locked up my brain, took some effort

Chen says, "I guess. They were all picking on you. Sorry I wasn't more help.""

Kay smirks, "Well I was the unknown quantity. They were there for you... Take me out of the equation and then they'd gang up on you. Judging by their clothes I'd say this is in response to that business you were talking to Miles about. Someone is very angry with you."

Chen says, "Maybe, but they were Japanese. The business I was talking to Miles about happened in Chinatown."

Chen adds, "Of course they could just be hired. Kay, do you think Starguard files might have anything on them?"

"Oh." Kay says as they come in for a landing on her office rooftop. "I apologize, it's all oriental to me unfortunately. I thought orange was like Shaolin monk or something..." She shrugs a bit, "I hate having to run though... we were just outnumbered and it was getting bad." Then at the question she hmms, "Don't know, we can check." And she leads in towards the rooftop entrance and down to her office to check the computers.

Chen says, "Can I use a phone in here? I want to check up on Miles."

Kay says, "Mi casa et su casa."

Chen says, "Huh? I speak Mandarin, Japanese, Greman, and American. I have no idea what you just said."

Kay laughs, "It's a tiny bit of spanish. I know Agua, and Hola, and Loco in the cavesa, which means crazy in the head... but, My house is your house is what I said." She smiles and moves over towards her desk to offer the phone to her.

Chen phones Mile's number, hoping for a reply.

"Chen! I'm ok," Miles says, "I'm with Snow, and we're heading for SGG HQ. Good news -- no sign of those three metas. They just teleported away after you left."

The computer search is a miss on the ninja and the nun, but the priestess gets a hit. By facial search the name Chika Ashikaga turns up....

Chen says, "I'm glad you're okay, Miles. I have no idea who they were. I've never met them before and don't recallanyone I know talking about them."

Snow frowns a bit and just sits there feeling a bit useless after freezing at the fight.

Kay pulls up known companions, methodology, abilities, criminal record, essentially everything she can about the priestess. She humms softly to herself as she pours over the data trying to find the link.

Ms. Ashikaga hails from a once prominent Japanese family that fell into financial ruin after the death of the patriarch of the clan. She's got no criminal record. Practicing Shinto magic is a skill apparently passed down over generations through the females of the family.