Log:While You Were Out, Scene 2

While You Were Out 2009/09/24 	 Conviction Crystal Decibel Ferryl Flyne Hellfire Jade Jennifer Rakshasa Titan 2

Decibel hovers above the street in front of the Transmat Research building, about 10" away from the front doors. He uses his sonic powers to amplify his natural sound into a deep, booming sound that can be heard for blocks. He says: "ATTENTION TRANSMAT RESEARCH -- YOU HAVE BEEN JUDGED AND FOUND GUILTY - GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST EARTH. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE NOTICE, AND CARRY OUT PUNISHMENT ON BEHALF OF ALL EARTH-LOVING PEOPLE. WE ARE EARTH'S PROTECTORS, WE ARE THE ALLIED CHAMPIONS OF EARTH."

Jade isn't here. She's remained in the Riftgate Chamber to supervise shutdown.

Hellfire was flying over, from the direction of the campus. She was done teaching for the day and caught up on grading so decided to change to her alter ego for a faster flight home. She is flying along, demonic looking wings and the eerie green flame aura. She hears the booming and decides to fly closer to check it out.

Jennifer races out into the street. She wants to talk to ACE. But she keeps her hands empty and visible, and leaves her force armor deactivatived to display her intention to not get into combat with them.

Rakshasa strolls through the wall and sighs dramatically, "Hey Dumbbell, keep it down. Think how bad it'll look for you in prison when they find you were busted for a noise violation.

Jessica remains in the gate room watchuing the gate as the slow process of shutdown proceeds.

Flyne may still be a new arrival to the planet, but wants to know what made that sound, and if there are devices and technology that did it, or if it was some power based thing. Flyne was gliding twoard the Transmat building that Decibel was over. And right now he's in defense form. He takes note of the others, hmm, who's side is he on? He isn't sure... o.o;

Lightray comes out of the doors of the building, his wings unfurling and sunlight gathering around himself as he exits the building. His face is stony as his gaze sweeps over the members of ACE present.

Decibel's deep-throated roar rattles window panes and sets off car alarms in a broad swathe that sweeps across the city. Some small distance away Sable stops in her tracks, head swivelling sharply before she abruptly sets of toward the scene of the disturbance, her booted feet swiftly eating up the distance to the Alien district leaping smoothly from rooftop to rooftop.

Titan is right behind Jennifer, but dressed in civilian clothing. He gets outside, and glances over the gathered terrorists, trying to determine who'd make the best target.

Vector is flying some 50 metres or more up in the air and above the street.

Ferryl pokes her head out from her apartment, muttering, "damnit... tryin' to get some sleep here..." She grabs her bow, slings her quiver strap over herself and leaps out to head toward and silence the source of sleep depriving din.

Flyne looks up at Lightray. "Hey, what is happening here?" Flyne asks lightray.

Conviction is on the ground, about 10" from the entrance. He's got his hands closed into fists, ready to fight.

Crystal is practically at the entrance to the building - she changes to her crystal form just as Decibel made is announcement, ruining her clothes.

Flitting out of the place's doors along with everyone else, Imaginary Girl darts up into the air so that she's over the heads of the non-fliers, putting her hands on her hips as she scowls at the 'bad guys'. "You're here to carry out punishment for /who/, again? ...'cause I kinda love Earth, too, and I don't see no punishment needing to be dished out. Why're you lying like that?", she calls out at Decibel, her tone sounding 'scolding'.

Rakshasa looked at Decibel.

Titan looks to Jennifer. "Run into these folks before? What're we dealing with here?"

Vector maneouvres to make sure she remains a reasonable distance from Imaginary Girl.

Decibel speaks, this time in a more normal tone. "The device that rests within that building is powerful enough to destroy us all. we

Jennifer nods to Titan, "A couple of times. As I recall the last time.. well I don't recall much of it. I was caught in surprise and ko'ed. Jade could have told you more. Or I can look up their records but I suspect any fight will be over before I finish logging in to the database."

Flyne decides it'd be best to shift into attack form and disapear...Which he does. His scales shift from being a single tone of purple to many tones of it. He grows claws out of his toes and hands, and his body seems to become a fourth transparent, and it incresses in transparency until he seems not to exist anymore, though surely he is still in the air...somewhere...

Decibel speaks, this time in a more normal tone. "The device that rests within that building is powerful enough to destroy us all. We're not leaving until it's in pieces. Team? Attack!"

Rakshasa snickers, "Moron. The only thing powerful enough to destroy us all... is me!"

Imaginary Girl looks a little confused. "Wait? It's /dangerous/? But... I've been through it a couple of times... it doesn't /look/ dangerous...", she says, her earlier ire about the 'lie' seeming to fade...

Jennifer says, "Hey, Loudmouth! While you're still conscious, so be quick with they answer, has ACE targetted Masters for assassination?"

Sable emerges over the roofs of the nearby buildings in a smooth, graceful arc which ends in a well practiced tumbling roll aimed to bring her back up to standing near the crystalline woman.

Sable rises smoothly from her tumbling entrance, weight transferring smoothly onto her left foot as she sweeps her right in a tight whipping scythe aimed at the junction of the villainess's shoulder and neck.

Crystal's body cracks under the blow sending tiny shards of glass into Sable's foot.

The glass woman is dense but does topple to the ground.

The Alien District is long and thin, stretching north and south on either side of StarDancer Boulevard, but of great historical significance: here aliens made first contact with the superhero StarDancer herself. A bronze plaque in the middle of the boulevard, toward the southern end of the district, commemorates this momentous event, while as does a park further north, with a statue of StarDancer and the alien shaking hands.

The architecture and style of many of the businesses here shows profound alien influence, even ones built more recently than the initial alien craze, as if here the fashion never went away. This alien flare manifest in the products too, and if you are lucky you may even see some actual aliens here.

Almost at once, however, the fracture lines seem to be healing.

Sable's breath cathes in a soft hiss as the slivers of crystl bite into the ball of her foot but drops smoothly back into a loose guard, her right foot leaving a small bloody smear as she adjusts her gait.

Conviction flies forward towards the group of heroes gathered in front of the Tranmsat building. He touches down onto the ground and shift his feet before throwing his weight behind a punch aimed at Titan.

Jade pages: Oh. Conviction IIRC is inclined to go on about how he will will through supeerior willpower. :)

Jade pages: Now might be a good time. :)

Conviction resumes his combat stance after landing his punch. "Titan. You are strong, without question... But are you strong of will?"

Titan is knocked back a ways...and strikes the ground soundly. He rolls to his feet, and laughs. "You're going to have to hit me a lot harder than that, whoever you are. I'm afraid your reputation doesn't precede you."

Imaginary Girl's momentary look of confusion passes as the fight starts. "Hey!", she says as Sable goes into action, then "HEY!!!", as Titan gets wholloped! Taking measure of the situation, she dives right down at Crystal, balling her fists together to slam them down at the fallen 'bad guy' as Imaginary Girl's feet touch down on the sidewalk.

Vector manoeuvres flittingly to line up her shot - on imaginary Imaginary Girl, at an angle caclulated to drive her into the Transmat Research building.

The beam bounces off the building, then off a car and shoot up into the air.

The crazy cat-girl finds her way up, up, up high to get into a nice comfortable sniping position. "Gonna rue the day you woke me up from sleep..." she mutters to herself, in one of the more coherent strings of words that come from her at this time.

Titan says, "The park."

Rakshasa sighs, "Oh well. Looks like it's my lucky day. I get to hurt people." She points at Decibel, "Fortunately for you, I make it a point not to beat up anyone older than me." Her stripes begin glowing brightly and she vanishes in a flash of light. She reappears behind Decibel, "Of course, I am over 2000 years old, so I guess you ain't so lucky after all." Sparks arc down her right arm, coalescing into a ball of energy which she grabs, squeezing it into a 4 foot long blade of energy, which she procedes to swing at Decibel

Jennifer watches, noting the actions, and wonders if Decibel is going to last long enough to answer her.

Rakshasa's blade connects with the force field of solid sound that Decibel uses to protect himself. He's mostly unhurt, but the blunt force of the attack smashes him against the second floor windows of an office building.

Crystal says, "You're fools if you think you're the heroes here!" Standing, she reaches out for Imaginary Girl with her glittering right hand....

Crystal isn't quite quick enough to tage the fast-moving heroine.

Decibel says to Jennifer. "We aren't here to kill anyone -- our target is the gate device itself. If you stand aside, we'll let you go."

Rakshasa hmms, "Hey, how about we let you do that, and then you let us hand you over to the police to pay for all your other crimes?"

Rakshasa says, "Not like they can't just rebuild the thingy anyway"

Decibel floats away from the side of the building and rights himself mid-air easily. The adopts an offensive stance, using a two handed blast to fire a wave of sonic energy at Rakshasa.

Rakshasa impacts the side of a building, cracking the facade. She smiles. Lots of teeth. Some pointed.

Jennifer says, "In case you and your companions hadn't noticed, I am standing aside. Mostly because right now I'm afraid I'm angry enough to really hurt anyone I get into a fight with. I can't speak for the rest of the heroes of course. And in any case, once again you're shooting at the wrong target, and doing more damage than good to your cause."

Hellfire blinks at the scene that she finds in front of her. Her gargoyle like demonic wings stroke through the air keeping her aloft while the greenish black flames surround her. She does see them attacking those that she might consider friends, so starts tracing her hands through the air, leaving runes of greenish flame in the air as she prepares to summon and grasp control of her powers preparing to attack with a bolt of Hellfire.

Hellfire smiles as the runes hover in the air a moment before the greenish flames flow up her arms and her hand glows as she hurls a bolt of greenish black flame at Decibel.

Hellfire's blast engulfs Decibel in hellfire and slams him through the side of a office tower. He's unconscious, and as he slumps over, he begins to glow. In a flash of light he's gone, teleported from the site.

Lightray mutters something under his breath as Decibel teleports away.

Hellfire blinks, "There are other ways to handle things, legal wa....." she starts to call out as she watches Decibel fly back and then vanishes. She hovers stunned a moment.

Lightray leaps into the air and flies over towards Conviction. As he starts to pass him, a sword of sunlight forms in his hand and he sweeps it at the Aryan figure.

Conviction smirks at Lightray, while keeping an eye on Titan.

Flyne finally has made up his mind of who to attack. Flyne glides 1" closer to Crystal and Conviction. Flyne decloaks, reviling his 1/4 naturally transparent body. His scales change color from purple to red, as he shoots a powerful red ray at Conviction. Anyone that can see aura would also see a powerful red aura around Flyne as he fires.

Titan jumps forward toward Conviction, "Let's see how much intestinal fortitude you have, little man. I _dare_ you to take my punch, much like I took yours. You won't be quite as quick to get up as I was, I'm sure. Though...I suspect you'll dodge, afraid to deal with the repercussions of your actions! Stand still, and feel my wrath!"

Titan brings his arm down in a broad arc, and easily has it deflected. This only makes Titan grin. "Now we wait as others hit you. I hope you're quicker than you appear."

Conviction blocks Titan's attack. "You will never be able to defeat me. Do you really believe yourself to be a god? How can you pit your delusions against the power of my will?"

Titan laughs. "God? No. They came after me. You need to study your history a bit more."

Sable steps forward toward crystal, her gloved right hand sweeping in what looks like a knife-hand aimed at her opponent's temple. At the last instant however she shifts her weight slightly and flexes her wrist, her fingertips scything across Crystal's eye sockets.

Sable's weight shift leaves an opening as Crystal easily steps forward into the angle of the attack rather than dodging away. It seems a movement Sable was not prepared for and her attack swings well wide of it intended mark.

Vector flies upward for an improved angle and fires at Ferryl, trying to knock her from her perch!

Ferryl moves away from her current spot, moving for cover and out of Vector's line.

Jade fails to blast the agile Ferryl before she dives for cover.

Vector fails to blast the agile Ferryl before she dives for cover.

Ferryl gets out of the line of fire, behind hard cover. "Okay. The noisy one is no longer priority..." she mutters, doing what she can to hide herself, planning her next move carefully.

Imaginary Girl takes a half-step back, as if to /let/ Crystal back up on her feet, even as Sable steps in to try and blind the woman. Then she comes back at her opponent, aiming a punch at her gut!

Crystal is knocked by 10 metres clean, to the sound of breaking glass.

Flyne stretches his sails fully to stop his decent as much as he can. He also fires another blast at Conviction. Maybe this one will hit.

The blast slams into Conviction from the side and sends him tumbling out into the street in front of the Transmat building.

Rakshasa shakes her head, "I need tougher villains." She pries herself out of the building and casually flicks her energy blade at Crystal. The spear of energy fragments in mid air, each shard homing in on the villainess.

The energy appears to be refracted harmlessly by Crystal's body to emerge dispersed on the other side.

Hellfire flies a little closer to where Vector is trying to attack Ferryl. She figures that is the best place to focus her energy next. She shakes her head and starts tracing her hands through the air, glowing greenish black runes forming like an afterimage, as she works on summoning her powers.

Hellfire manages to summon the energy, the runes flaring and then the greenish black flames run up her arms and then a large ball of greenish black hellfire forms between her two hands and flies at Vector.

Ferryl tries to figure out what just happened, hearing the exploding doom and the following crash.

Vector slams into the side of the building, then woozily slaps a part of her costume, vanishing like Decibel did.

Lightray looks around the filed of battle and up at the explosion above. Upon seeing Vector vanish, he ssme to make up his mind. He flies over to where Conviction is and strikes him again with his sword. He says in German as he does, "Nietzche was not always right, child. Its just a philosphy."

From his back, Conviction rolls onto his side, avoiding the worst of Lightray's attack.

Crystal scrambles to her feet and runs to grab the nearest guy on the sidewalk!

Imaginary Girl sees Crystal going for a civilian... and cries out, "No!" She jumps forward, flying between the two people, making herself the woman's target instead of the random civilian.

Crystal throws Imaginary Girl in front of a passing vehicle. "Stop interfering! We're trying to save the world!"

Imaginary Girl counters, as she's tossed aside, "And I'm trying to save people!"

Jennifer tells Crystal, "Go for the other heroes and I'm staying out. Go for another civie and I'll spatter you all over the street. Trust me, I can DO it. nd I sure feel like venting my anger on someone. So just ask yourself... do
 * you* want to volunteer for the role of spatteree?"

Crystal turn to Jennifer. "Very well. I did not want to hurt civilians...."

WHAM! The car slams into Imaginary Girl before skidding to a halt. The car is totalled, with its front crumpled in. The airbag deploys and the driver seems ok, if shaken up.

Imaginary Girl ends up sitting on her rump on the street. Looking over at the car, she calls out, "Are you okay?!", to the driver.

Taking a quick assessment, Ferryl finds a distinct lack of people who she wanted to shoot. Seeing Crystal has started to get a bit stupid, she takes aim at her and lets loose an arrow, which sails easily almost straight down at the head region.

A good chunk of Crystal shatters about the arrow - then she, too, vanishes.

Ferryl hms. "How droll. Vanishing like that without possibility of spreading the terror-tastic wisdom to one's captors. I hate fanatic-depressives..."

Flyne glides the rest of the way to the ground, and cloaks himself. Then leaps over to a building, moving 15" horizontally.

Lightray looks down at Conviction, the takes a step back. "Teleport out, Conviction. This battle is lost." He does keep the sword of sunlight ready for action if needed though it seems.

Hellfire flies over closer to the transmat building, they are down to one target, but she was a distance away after apparently taking out two, but she wonders about the vanishing.

Conviction says, "The battle is lost, but not the war. We will meet again, and on that day, our roles will be reversed." He presses a concealed button on his basic uniform, and he too vanishes from sight.

Lightray sighs after Conviction disappears. "Not unless I get something that allows me to teleport, no." The sword disappears from his hand.

Flyne decloaks and jumps to land near Lightray. "So what was that all about?"

Imaginary Girl gets to her feet, moving around to the driver's side of the car that crashed into her. Tapping on the window, she repeats her question to the driver: "Are you okay?"

Hellfire lands next to the Transmat building and gives a faint cry of pain as the flames fade from her and the wings as they start to fold up seem to be sucked into the flesh of her back. She clenches her fists and then relaxes after a moment. She glances around a little and nods, "Was anyone hurt?" she asks softly.

The driver groans. He's woozy and out of sorts.

Lightray looks down at the purple alien. "Fear. Although they would calim it is about justice."

Ferryl returns to her bed then, liking the idea of a nice peacful relaxing sleep.

"Lightray!", Imaginary Girl calls out, turning to look at him. "I think this man's hurt!", she adds, before reaching down to try and open the door - the normal way, first.

Lightray flies over to assist Imaginary Girl.

Flyne jumps over to try to assist in any way he can too.

Hellfire glances over towards the car but sees enough people there and really her powers would not do much to assist in the situation. She glances around a little where she is at as if checking other things over.