Log:Miasma

Miasma 2009/03/10 	 Sable Rapture Silver Spider Jolt 1

First CitiConglomo Bank  IC Zone The First CitiConglomo Bank is a modern financial institution fit inside a classic edifice. A row of teller stations lines one wall with the rest of the bank floor is divided by velvet ropes marking lines, islands for customers to do their business, and a number of offices for more private financing. And, in the back, is the all important vault.

A call goes out along the usual police bands calling for backup and superheroic help given a robbery at a local bank.

Silver Spider swings by the bank at her usual arc of velocity, tumbling through the sky as she extends a webline out and begins heading for the door. The sun quivers along her new costume as she moves, a beautiful ripple of light on the edge of her webline.

Rapture is near by and hears all the trouble and walks to the bank. She frowns at the situation since this the bank she been keeping her money and some other stuff in a box in the volt. Sable races across the rooftops of Colonial ay approaching the fracas, her footwork crisp and swift as she leaps across lanes and alleys, closing in on the bank in question.

The police have already established a cordon around the bank. Its large glass front doors remain closed, and the old building offers a few closed and barred window along its sides. There is no sign that anyone has forced entry, though given the crowd of bank employees and customers outside it's not likely that things are hunky dory within, though on the bright side hostages look to be at a minimum.

Silver Spider lands on the roof across the way and studies the hostages, trying to keep an eye on their postion. o O (Got to keep track of this carefully. There can't be any mistakes.) She begins sneaking around out of the bank's line of view, and swings across the way to land on the rooftop of the building next to the bank. Then she begins scuttling down.

Sable adjusts her approach, changing course to try and close in on the bank from the rear. Her gaze wandering over the staff entrances for an inconspicuous way in.

Rapture walks up to the cops and speaks up, "What's going?" She does not look to be worry or in a rush. She in fact has a small smile on her face.

Silver Spider makes her way down the wall and over towards the door of the bank, trying to get a closer look at the hostages from an oblique angle. The walls will be too difficult to open, so the door will have to be the preferred method of entry.

The interior of the bank appears to be completely empty with one notable exception, a security guard lying on his stomach with his sidearm in his hand.

"Bank robbery, ma'am." A policeman remarks to Rapture. "Looks like everyone got out, but we suspect the perp is still inside."

Jolt is on her way here of course, having heard there was some sorta bank robbery in progress...

Rapture nods and looks at the bank, "I see well that's no good I have all my money in there." She sighs, "i guess I have to stop them" she unbuttons about button on her shirt and a just her self, "wish me luck" She starts to walk slowly to the bank.

The police officer blinks at Rapture as she starts to go through. "Ma'am, wait! That's a crime scene! You can't just cross the yellow tape!!!"

Silver Spider turns to the police officer as she looks up at him. She texts him a message on her PDA. "How many inside besides the security guard?"

The police officer glances at his PDA and notices he has a message from SexySpider50. He texts back: "Unconfirmed but at this time all employees believed accounted for."

Rapture does not look back or say a word she just keeps walking to the bank moving the tape when it gets in her way. In truth she scared out of her mind and not sure how smart this is they could shot her dead right there.

Jolt pops one of the manhole covers and floats up out of the sewers. The electrical lady making sure there's a healthy distance between her and everyone else as she focuses her attention on the magnetic waves.

Sable lands lightly on the roof toward the rear of the bulding and starts to work quickly but deftly to break through into the bank's interior.

Silver Spider flips down through the doorway and extends a webline towards the security guard, yanking him towards her and drawing him into her grip. She turns her torso slightly as she catches the heavyset fiftyish man around the waist, and turns him so that he's behind her. "You okay?" She says. "Get down! Crawl out of here!"

The guard slumps in Silver Spider's grasp, clearly unconscious, though he does moan when he strikes her.

Jolt's look into the bank is not entirely fruitful, but clear enough. There's a lot of interference from security systems and the high metal content of the building itself, but Jolt can pick out one handgun, the security guard's. The vault itself, being essentially a massive faraday cage, is blank.

Silver Spider holds position and blocks the doorway until the police can come get him.

The policeman gets a little schmutz on Silver Spider's new costume. He might be leaking a little.

Rapture frowns seeing spider actions she happy the man is safe but she wanted to try this with out scaring or making the robbers mad. She picks up the speed to enter the bank

Sable drops smoothly from the ceiling, her knees bending under her to absorb the shock of her landing and make it nearly soundless. She braces herself for a moment with one gloved hand before straightening and turns her gaze around the confines of the bank.

Sable successfully disarms the lock and is able to open a hatch in the skylight. She has a good view of the bank's interior, being able to see behind the counters and into partitioned offices. The place looks deserted, the only signs of life being a stain on the carpet where the guard was lyng and his gun.

All three, Rapture, Silver Spider, and Sable are hit with a rather foul, acrid odor. Sable especially as she leaps into the bank.

Jolt grumbles a bit and shakes her head "Stupid banks..." then mumbles "Well I only seen one gun in there and I think thats the one the security guard was carrying... so either they've made it into the vault which I cant see through or they dont need metallic weapons" the electric lady admits as she starts to fly around to the back door.

From her vantage point Sable gets the first good look at the vault, and it isn't pretty. The door was closed, but now it lies face down, and looks as if it was carved out of the larger metal structure, its edges curled and melted. The interior doesn't look much better.

Silver Spider moves quietly through the bank, studying the ceiling and floor as she makes her way inside. She gracefully winces as she looks around for the sprinkler system, in case the acrid odor means something, and keeps careful track of her own movements.

Jolt talks into her communicator "I'm coming in the back door" she says as she examines the door's security system and ponders just ripping the door out of the wall if it seems like it would work without setting off the alarm.

Silver Spider thinks. o O (How can there be a bank robbery with no one here? If we were here and the bank was closed down, the acrid smell could be ammonia, but how are they opening the vault?)

Sable's lips purse slightly as she looks back and forth across the room. After pondering a moment she sets off toward a door to one side. "I'm going to check the security footage. Her progress is guarded but not intensely defensive yet.

Rapture wrinkles her nose at the foul smell and shakes her head, "I hope this mean they just use the acid and not one of them is a meta with acid smell" She talking to her self. Walks to the front door and opens it. She looks around and then walks her way to the vault to look for people.

Jolt decides to check the back door, the electric girl pondering for a moment as she examines the door. Well she'll try the handle first but if that dont work she'll manually manipulate the locking mechanism directly via magnetic force to open it. After all she's still focusing her attentions on the magnetic spectrum so she might be able to see partly through the door where the locks are holding it closed.

The door pops open, its locks defeated by the canny eletrical heroine. She's treated to a small stairwell leading up to the main level of the bank. It will open into one of the partitioned offices.

Jolt talks into her communicator as she starts to head up the stairwell "I get the feeling noone's here but us. Hopefully they're not in the vault. I really dont feel like opening it today"

Immediately in front of Rapture the carpet starts to molder before a being emerges from the floor. A tall woman, easily six and a half feet tall and with an amazonian build, hovers a few inches off the floor. Her body is shrouded in a swirling black mist, but her more solid form and its charcoal grey skin is apparent beneath it. Baleful red eyes, imposed on the tempest rather than resting on her face, stare down at Rapture while a mouth filled with fangs grins down at her. "I am Miasma, Daughter of Decay. Goodbye, pretty thing." A plume of dark smoke is expelled from her body, swallowing up a small area around her and Rapture. It chokes out all light, and fills her nostrils with a gut wrenching stench.

Silver Spider blinks her eyeslits. "She was...the floor mold? EWWWW!" She leaps out and extends a webline, squatting for a moment as she fires it off to try and entangle the creature. "Miasma. Great. Why couldn't I get an archenemy like "Candy Kane, porn star," or "The Leather Clad Gaucho"" Webbing bursts out of her wrists as she lands just outside the edge of the area of darkness.

Silver Spider's eyes widen. "She's rotting my webbing?" She winces. "I've never fought anything like this." She stares for a moment. "I need to get a move on, or this thing is going to kill us." She beckons Miasma with a finger. "When you get out of that, come and get me." She coos. "Bet your life really rots, sweet cheeks."

Rapture Blinks and looks up at the woman and smiles, "oh there you are I was wonder what you were going looks like. I am Rapture daughter of pleaser and peace, Well as much as I can bring." She blinks at the darkness and wrinkles her nose some, "Um I did not come to fight if I have to I like to talk to you. No one need to get hurt. Why are you here? Why are you robbing this bank?"

Sable braces herself against the cloud of putrescence and moves forward, her knees bending as she drops into a defnsive start and cross to where Miasma stands, her steps certain even through the stygian tendrils of the smoke.

Miasma elicits a cry as she's snared by the webbing. This, combined with Sable's sure footed approach, tells her that her Stinging Veil is not as potent as she thought it would be. She backs away, the webbing falling through her form as she shifts towards incorporeality. The dark, stinging cloud dissipates but leaves an odor in your clothing and hair.

Jolt arrives through the door at the top of the stairs and starts to navigate through the offices to the main room and as she flings the door open she asks "Alright what's going on here people?" Sable's lips compress slightlyas Miasma retreats and she comments in perfectly uninflected Japanese. "This could be tough, I don't know what I can do about this."

Silver Spider shrugs. "She's got decay powers. I have an idea, but I need to figure out how heavy the vault door is. How good are you at computers?" She says fiercely. o O (I don't know. I've never tried anything like this before) "So you're the daughter of decay?" She says. "What happens when you run out of stuff to rot?"

Silver Spider looks up at Miasma for a moment. "Right. Middle of the room, active decay powers, we need a bonding agent." She leaps for the fire extinguisher and shouts "Everyone down! Jolt! SHOOT IT!" as she grabs it and hurls it towards Miasma! "It's gonna bond with you, honey!" She calls out to Miasma. "You're not gonna like this...'

Jolt is left on the spot. After all she's not sure whats going up entirely but she's just been told to so something and so she does it as she flings lightning from her fingers at the fire extinguisher as she follows the path.

Sable shakes her head slightly. "Computers are not my thing."

The lightning bolt goes awry and the fire extinguisher plinks harmlessly on the ground under Miasma. "You make too many assumptions, Silver Spider." Miasma hisses back.

Sable continues closing in on Miasma, her boots scuffing across the bank lobby fllor as she covers the last distance to her opponent. Once within striking distance her hands curl into loose fists and rise into a defensive guard.

Rapture blinks as the cloud vanish and looks around, "okay what happen? I wish everyone would let me talk to her before going hero on me." She sighs, "you should give peace a chance first." She shakes her head. She looks back and walks forward, "Hello Miss Miasma I am sorry my friends came after you please talk to me." She looks back at all the other, "will you people relax I like to know more about what's going on! By all who have pass to the next life do you heroes always shot first then ask questions? She has done nothing to harm us sure she not innocent of breaking into a bank."

Silver Spider thinks. o O (Ohh, my god! She's the daughter of DECAY! Is she CRAZY?)

Miasma looks down at Rapture from her imperious height, those large red eyes looking at the alien like she's crazy. "You are not well."

Rapture shrugs, "are you here to hurt us?"

"I am here for my own purposes." Miasma replies. "Melting your beautiful face did strike me as appealing, however." She grins, those fangs glinting in the phosphorescent light.

Rapture nods and frown, "oh I see" He body start to glow and there a bust of light at daughter of acid

Black tendrils swirl upwards to absorb the light over Miasma. "Foolish."

Silver Spider looks at Miasma for a moment. "I make a lot of assumptions when people beat up security guards, stink up the place, have evil glowing red eyes, and destroy vault doors." She says. "So you've got neat powers. I've got something neat for you, too." She lifts her red gauntleted hand up and fires her bioelectric energy blast at the sprinkler system. "Sorry about this, folks, but as much as I have a desire to see Miasma clean up her act, I think I'm gonna have to do it for her."

Miasma moans as she's doused by the sprinklers. Her feet touch the ground and the swirling masses of darkness around her dim somewhat. "Yaargh! You bitch!" She shouts.

Silver Spider shouts "Jolt! We need more water! Gather it!"

Rapture frowns, "you know I would given you chance if you wanted to be good but now. I am sorry" She raise her hand and blade of light form on her hand. She swings at the kneeling women

Rapture her aim is off and hit next to the woman

Sable's weight rises onto the balls of her feet as she moves forward, her gloved fist snapping in a brisk, brutally powerful punch aimed at the middle of Miasma's sternum.

As Sable's punch connects she can feel her fist tingle as it punches through Miasma's aura. The toxic woman oofs, but doesn't seem too hurt.

Sable's fist smack home but her balance seems slightly off and the impact lacks sting. Her weight rocks backward.

Miasma has no intention of remaining in the downpour, which soon has all the heroines soaked. She flees towards the vault as fast as her feet can carry her.

Sable is slightly rocked by the force of Miasma's counter-attack which doesn't seem to do too much real damage but does knock some of the breath out of her.

Jolt is not very happy with the whole 'get everyone soaked' plan by Silver Spider! "Goddamnit... Did you have to go and do that. I hate water" the electric heroine protests as she jumps up onto a desk or chair nearby to keep her feet out of the potential puddling despite the rubber rain boots she wears normally. Well she's not about to let Miasma make it into the vault and despite the weakened powers tries to use her magnetic force to slam the vault shut in her face... Although she has her own doubts at the moment.

Silver Spider thinks. o O (Sable looks so hot in the wet outfit. Mmm...can't wait till I get home.)

Sable seems oblivious to the downpour, her balance even and graceful as shepursues Miasma, intently focused on the ebb and flow of the combat.

Jolt clenches her fist tightly and makes a vague punching motion as she concentrates on pushing the vault door closed with a loud creeking slam. Presumably the electrical heroine is guessing that Miasma's 'evacuation plan' was in the vault or she entered through the vault. Although she knows herself that she doesnt have a chance to do something that big again "Come on people... do something, I'm getting kinda useless here, its up to you now"

Silver Spider chuckles a little bit. "Actually, it's up to the sprinkler system." She says with a chuckle. "You know, Miasma, at first I was just grossed out by you, but now that you're all washed up, I think I'd kind of like it if you stick around." She idly hops forward towards Miasma to get into her field of vision just as the vault door slams closed, and then promptly extends her fingers out and webs the vault door shut. "Hit her, ladies." She casually poses against a desk. "This might sting a bit."

Rapture Sighs and sees Miasma running for the vault. She turns to face the fleeing villain. She frowns some, "you know it not to late to give your self over to the side of good and right. Even if you want to melt my face off I welcome you if you become good." She nods and jolt and smiles, "will try" She palms her face at the bad puns Spider used but then get back to her game plan. She cups her hand and the light swirls in it forming what looks like a glass ball. She then throws the ball at Miasma.

Sable's boots whisper through the slick film of water that is collecting on the lobby floor, each stride lifting a fan of finely misted spray. As she closes on Miasma she takes a small stutter step, gathering her balance before launching a smooth kick.

Miasma is struck by the ball but seems largely unaffected. It's then that she notices Sable barreling towards her.

Sable's foot swings in a swiftly powerful arc, lifting and then dropping in a scything motion aimed at the junction of Miasma's neck and shoulder.

Miasma crumples from the impact, slouching to the carpet unconscious.

Silver Spider grins. "And that settles that." She says as she makes Jolt a little lean-to out of webbing. "Nice job, everyone." She walks over to one of the bank desks and gets out a piece of paper and a dry erase marker. She scribbles "Wash me, I stink!" on it and hooks it onto Miasma's costume. "There. That's better."

Miasma isn't wearing a costume, and the paper disintegrates as it touches her. Spider might not want to stick around either.

Silver Spider blinks. "Oh, man." She says. "We need to get this lady a doctor. Someone call the authorities and get her a special cell. This one's dangerous. We're lucky she wasn't smart."

Jolt is glad to be out of the sprinkler downpour. The electrical heroine still grumbling but hey you can’t help it when a bad guy has the same weaknesses as you do.

Rapture shakes her, "I was not much use" She walks closer to the fallen foe but not to close, "She was a little cute to bad she evil. You got to admit her outfit rocks" She smiles some. she sighs, "what do we do with her?"

Sable moves over to the doorway to alert the police outside that the fight is over and warn them of the risks Miasma presents.

Silver Spider turns to the others. "Come on." She says. "I think I...oh, nuts." She looks down at her costume. "Skin tight, and if I am not mistaken, showing off everything." She pauses and looks around. "Is there a back door I can go out through so I don't get hit with an indecent exposure charge? Guys?"

Responding to the situation the fire department shuts off the bank's sprinklers. Police start to filter in to 'secure' the premises. They give Miasma a wide berth.

Jolt nods some to Silver Spider "Yeah... I opened the back door to get in, didnt close it"

Silver Spider scuttles out carefully.

Jolt decides to head out the back way too... After all she doesnt need to stick around. Presumably theres some guys with fire hoses to deal with Miasma or something.

Rapture looks down at her white dress shirt she wearing and shows she wearing no bra, "oh yah might be back" she cups her chest to cover it. A hazmat team soon arrive to deal with Miasma as the heroes slink out.

Sable stays long enough to hand over to the authorities before she too makes her departure.

As the heroines filter into the alleyway a series of flashes and clicks reveals the insidious workings of one Knox Pooley, who positioned himself just perfectly to capture the retreat of what he will soon dub the city's Indecent, Buxom Defenders: Should Female Heroines be Trusted with Our Children?

Rapture seems not to made and pose some for the camera.

Silver Spider waves to Knox Pooley. "Hi!" She says. "Hero porn sites will pay you more. Bye, now..." She says as she leaps upwards to the wall of the alleyway. "Oh...almost forgot." She raspberries him as she leaps over the edge of the building and is gone. "Thppppt."

Jolt would be tempted to fry the camera (and everything in a pretty large radius) but given the situation she's not in a real position to so she just heads to the nearest manhole cover and disappears down it. Seems the electrical heroine has a good knowledge of the sewers of CB...

Rapture blinks, "he get payed to take these photos? Hey if a site does pay for them send me the link" She then turns and her hands and feet start to glow and she takes flying with jets of lights behind her

Sable departs the way she came, slipping away across the rooftops and disappearing into the night.