Log:Superkids!, Scene 2

Superkids! 2007/03/21 	 Kibin Chaos Ghost Shoro Di 	 Porthole Spitball 2

Scene: Paparazzi are questioning Chaos on York Boulevard

The questions resume: "What brought you to Colonial Bay?" "Have you fought crime elsewhere?" "When did you decide to become a crimefighter?"

Chaos says, "Work, not so much, about a month ago."

"What made you decide to fight crime?"

Chaos hmms, "Why, desire to use my powers for the civic good of course!"

Ashton leaves Starguard, seeing if there's anyone that needs help... then notices the paparazzi. Oookay. Ashton watches from a distance, seeing who the victim is this time.

Ghost drifts slowly along the street flying above head height.

"So what are your powers, other than flight?" one of the tries again.

Chaos taps her finger on her jaw as she thinks, "There's just so many. I can teleport, how's that?"

"How far?" "Can you demonstrate?"

Chaos shimmers and vanishes, reappearing about 30 meters up. She floats back down slowly.

Farther down the street, unperturbed by traffic or paparazzi, some children are playing.

Yutaka raises an eyebrow..."

Yutaka says, "That's good to know.." he says to himself.."Very good.."

Ashton notes that Chaos is the victim today... he then wonders why Chaos didn't use that opportunity to teleport out of sight.

The paparazzi, though it's not clear they got anything usable. "What other powers do you have?" One says more directly, "Anything that makes for a good photo?"

Chaos thinks for a moment. Suddenly sparks of silvery energy arc out from her stripes and surround her with a swirling, flickering aura of silvery-green flame. "How's that?"

"How come we always play your stupid games?" whines a girl, of maybe 5. "Because your games always suck!" says an older boy, and another boy laughs.

The reporters like that and take lots of pictures. "What does that do?" asks one.

The girl sits down in a huff and starts setting out some toy teacups.

Chaos tilts her head to the side, "Besides look cool? Um. It destroys what I touch and absorbs attacks."

A reporter that was reaching out towards it snatches his hand back. "Destroys what you touch? Can you give a demonstration?"

Chaos raises an eyebrow, "What, you want something destroyed?"

"Well, um...." Various reporters starting looking about for something that can be destroyed without accusations of vandalism.

"Come on," says one of the boys, "We don't need her!" "But I want to play Eleven!" says the other, "and she makes a great bad guy."

The girl, unperturbed, offers the two imaginary tea and cake.

Suddenly one of the boys pulls out a gun from inside his jacket and says, "You try to push your cake to the wrong guy, you dirty drug dealer!" And he aims the gun right at the girl's head.

"I'm not a drug dealer!" shouts the girl. "Wrong answer, creep!" says the boy with the gun.

Ashton notices the gun, and then notices something else odd about it.... he runs over to try and take the gun from the boy without any harm to anyone.

Ghost knows Ashton from Starguard has exception speed and reflexes. She transmits a warning to his on the SGG frequency. 

The boy begins to squeeze the trigger.....

Ashton continues to run towards the boy, to attempt to grab the gun out of the boys hand...

If Ashton had a clear path, that might have done it. But people, including the girl, were a bit in the way - and the kid seems faster than normal - he narrowly dodges aside, his finger pulling the trigger as he does so.

With a loud noise the gun fires straight at the girls head. She, however, seems unharmed - doesn't even flinch.

The bullet seems to have left a hole in the side of a building, at nearly a ninety degree angle from it's original trajectory.

"Hey, no fair!" whines the kid at Ashton. "You're not in the game!"

Ashton glancing at the girls head, and then turns towards the boy and attempts to grab the gun again. "Give me that!" he says at the boy.

"No, it's mine!" His friend looks about to back him up on that, too.

Ashton attempts to grab the gun out of the boys hand again.

Ashton finally grabs the gun away from the boy, holding it in his hand.

"Hey, give that back, that's mine!" shouts the kid.

Ashton says to the kid, "No, it's Eleven's gun. How'd you get it?

The paparazzi reacted to the gunshot, but haven't realised it's anything more than a loud toy yet.

Chaos looks around.

The boy's friend looks rather like he's going to vomit for a moment - and then he indeed spews something at Ashton's face.

Some sort of disgusting substance misses the fast-moving Ashton and adheres to the wall behind him. "Give back the gun or next time I won't miss," he bluffs. :)

The first boy completely fails in what he tried to do, but what it was it itself a bit interesting - he seems to have reached into a portal just in front of his arm and tried to grab the gun out of a portal to the side of and behind Ashton.

"I traded for it fair and square!" he states.

The girl continues with her tea party. She seems to have a doll to have tea with her, anyway.

Ashton keeps grabbing the gun, ignoring the other kid. He says to the kid that had the gun in the first place, "This gun is stolen. Whoever you got it from probably stole it. This gun belongs to Eleven, not you."

The second boy has another go at spitting something into Ashton's face.

The boy suddenly realises as he misses again. "Hey! You have powers too!"

The first boy scowls, pulls a rock from his pocket, and drops it. It vanishes before it hits the ground.

Ghost looks up high above Ashton's head getting ready to blast the falling rock out of line.

Ghost suddenly emits a lightning bolt from her eyes blasting upwards over Ashton's head at the falling rock.

The rock both disintegrates and is scattered to the winds.

"Not fair! There's too many on your side!"

Ashton notices the rock above him, but then notices that it's disintegrated... "I'm not looking to fight you, but this belongs to a friend of mine, and he had it stolen, Okay?"

"It's mine! Trick stole it fair and square!"

Ashton says to the kid, "Yes. And he also stole from me, and probably others. And those people would like their stuff back."

The kid (he looks Malaysian or something similar) looks sulky and crosses his arms, but his friend crosses his arms. "Give the gun back, or else." The girl (who looks just the sort of part she acts, down to a pink dress) just goes on playing, though with an occasional glance up at the happenings.

Ashton sighs, saying to the kid, "I don't want to have to hurt you. But I'm giving this gun back to it's rightful owner."

"Ok, I warned you!" he says. "Come on, Porthole, let's go get the others!"

Porthole, if that's his name, suddenly grins. "Ok - that'll teach 'em!"

Ashton asks the kids, "Do you really want to make trouble like that? All I want is the stuff that was stolen back."

Ghost interfaces with the PDA that Porthole has, attempting to switch it into silent mode and open a call so she can hear what is said when the boys get to wherever they are going.

The girl tugs at Ashton's leg.

The girl asks, "How come you're being mean? I mean, you have powers too!"

Ashton replies to the girl, "Yes, and I'm using my powers to help others."

Porthole makes another gate - a larger one this time. "You coming, Di, or staying here?"

The girl starts packing up. "I guess I'll come, there's no one to play with here!"

The three scurry through he portal, which closes a little afterwards.

Ghost feels the processor in the PDA slipping out of her control. . o O(Never mind, I still have read/write access to the system so a little reprogramming will do the job)

Ashton says, "Need to keep an eye out now, I guess..." He idly spins Eleven's gun around a finger, wondering where he is so that he can return it.

Ashton *doesn't* take his head off with the last bullet, or anyone else's.

Ashton realizes that spinning a loaded gun like that probably isn't a good idea, so he puts it in his pocket. He looks around for the person that disintegrated that rock that was flying at him.