Log:Capelli-Cangelosi War, Scene 1

Capelli-Cangelosi War 2016/09/27        Ruger Vajra Nohrbor Lady Winters Toby 1

The downtown district, and above all famed York Boulevard, is an area of skyscrapers old and new and the jewel of the city where most of the real money is made. From the lower, older buildings like that of the Colonial Bay Chronicle to the height of the Corporate Tower, the district is alive with bustle through the day; while at night it is well lit by the light of ads and news reporting across the sides of the buildings, and the action is focused on a few clubs and other hotspots.

Normally this would be a relatively quiet afternoon in downtown Colonial Bay. It's the middle of the work day and folks are returning from late lunches to their offices. Alarms and an explosion shatter the otherwise normal day. Sirens can be heard in the distance. Smoke billows forth from the front of the First National Bank, square in middle of the district.

Lady Winters certainly hears the explosion. She probably experiences it as well. She's in the bank, discussing her investment portfolio with an advisor. Something she has to do face to face as technology doesn't work for her.

Vajra had been hopping around on patrol, living the carefree life of a college student/superhero, when she picked up the call for help via her AR Sensor Systems. Kicking in her Flight Boosters, she flew to the scene! <>

Ruger Mk. IV(#1803TOnp)

This is a tall suit of power armor, entirely the color of gunmetal, aside from the black letter 'R' on the left side of the chest. It's relatively form fitting, but still quite solidly built. The helmet covers the wearer's full head, and has a blackened visor, as well as several slits in the front where the wearer's mouth would be. The feet are large metallic boots. The left gauntlet is similar to the feet...but the right forearm looks like a large revolver cylinder, with one of the holes at the top.

Nohrbor is here in the financial district because it is lunch time. Trying to get a better 'feel' for his adoptive homeworld & the natives on it he has been disguising himself as a 20-something 'Hu-man' male. He figures this is a good place 'to see the gears oof the machine at play'.

His looks are near off the charts in this form so its not as inconspicuous as he'd like but it does do the job.

As the explosion rings out, Nohrbor unshackles himself from the grip of gravity and hurls himself towards the rising column of smoke.

Toby was just chilling, sitting somewhere atop a building, probably lost in some train of thought or another. But then an explosion rings out. He flicks his tail a few times, briefly contemplating what to do, before settling on checking it out-probably bad guys doing bad stuff again. Thus, Toby surrounds himself with a pink aura, that brightens, before he zooms across the skyline. And maybe a little smirk is on his face as he flies.

Standing in the remains of the doorway is Ruger. Rather...a newer version of the Ruger armor, but clearly the same general design. He calls out to the workers inside, "Safety Deposit box. Number 1319. Get it. Now." He points to the nearest bank teller with his gun-arm.

The security guard inside the bank draws his firearm, only to get backhanded by the man in power armor and sent flying to the side of the room, unconscious against the wall. After that, the teller points to the manager, who in turn grabs a key and heads to get the box in question.

Lady Winters shakes her head at the foolishness of the security guard. Standing she faces the power armored man and tells, not asks, him that she's going to check on the condition of the guard. Suiting action to words she begins to make her way to the security guard's location.

Nohrbor 's arc comes to a halt just South of the column of smoke and the ruined entrance of the bank.

He lowers himself to the ground gently- his toes pointed down the whole way until he comes to a stop just above the ground.

Despite be prepared to fight he maintains his 'hu-man' disguise.

Once level with the doorway (and Ruger) he begins moving forward to investigate. Once he sees the power armor though he comes to a stop.

"Hail Armored Human! Have you come to investigate the explosion as well? are their injured?" He asks- not realizing this man is the villain responsible.

Ruger levels his gun arm at Nicky, "He's fine. Get back over there, lady." Clearly he has no idea who she is.

Nohrbor(#2744PenACcF?)

This disillusioned 'God of Midnight' takes the form of an intimidating young gentleman. He is very tall and has a very lean athletic build. He has thick, feathery, black hair worn in a precise style- though in the right light streaks of his hair take on an almost blood-red color. His narrow & ever-watching eyes are gray, like the color of an on-coming storm. When he's using his abilities at full capacity they begin to glow a smoky red color- the same shade as his Nullity Bolts.

He has light brown skin with a notably inhuman grey tone to it, this combined with the hard carapace-like plating on the bridge of his nose makes it plain to see he is not of this Earth.

His wardrobe is strange and dignified, with a completely black and blood-red color scheme- accented by gold. He always has some sort of cape, cloak or scarf on.

Somehow, he reminds you of a noble or stately raven.

Though to biological senses he may look more or less human depending on his mood.

Lady Winters(#2743PenACcF?)

Nicky Winters is an attractive young albino girl, apparently aged about sixteen but with the poise and composure of an older person. She is wearing a light blue jacket, white blouse, ankle length dark green pleated skirt, and sensible rather than fashionable leather shoes. She is also wearing a pair of bright blue surgical gloves. Outdoors on sunny days she usually carries a white umbrella for shade.

Vajra(#2600POeCcmF?)

A 145cm tall battle armor with a feminine form. Shiny white armor. Pink shoulder and wrist guards. Yellow highlighted boots. Frilly skirt at the waist. Blank blue face plate, except for yellow eyes. Fluffy pink hair in twin-tails and yellow clips. Glowing neon pink and yellow and blue piping. The 'eyes' on the face plate are actually images displayed on a screen, and can change shape to mimic various Japanese emoticons, allowing her to be expressive. Her voice sounds like a perky, cheerful GLaDOS.

Toby arrives, a large streak of pink light trailing behind him as he stops, though the streak fades within less then a second. Toby moves to investigate the bank himself, his light dulling from bright pink to a more mellow pink as he floats towards the entrance. He looks between Nohrbor and Ruger-man, tilts his head a little, and swishes his tail a few times. He just watches for now, wanting to get a better grip of what's goin' on.

Vajra also alights in the doorway. (^ ^) "Vajra has arrived~!" Her face-plate's virtual eyes forming a cheerful emoji.

Lady Winters looks at Ruger in a clearly distainful fashion. "While I'm impressed at your claim to be able to determine the guards physical condition from across a room I'm not convinced. I can't do it and I'm a medic. So, no, I will not 'get back over there'."

Ruger moves a little further into the room, noting Nohrbor, who clearly looks like a meta. "Just one, so far. At this rate, there's gonna be more." His attention has moved from Nicky to hte other new arrivals. He turns the cylinder on his gun-arm one notch.

Lady Winters continues on to the guard and starts to check him for injuries.

It takes a few moments for the GodFlora to understand exactly what it is that's going on here & just who's to blame.

"There shall be no more injuries on this day!" Nohrbor says loudly. If he were on the ground he'd stomp his fet to press the point home. Instead he moves towards Ruger.

"You're weaponry is no match for I foolish Mortal! You face Nethermane the Stranger this day!" He shouts in a voice better suited for the arena.

Toby closes his ears a little from standing next to Nohrbor and his loudspeaker voice, maybe flinching juuuuust a little. Toby takes up a ready stance himself. "Yeah, you're, uh, going down! So, yeah!" Toby shouts, trying to sound impressive. Trying.

Ruger raises his gun arm in the general direction of the entrance to the building, and aims at the ground before he fires a shell.

Vajra headtilts as the shrapnel pings off her armor. "I think you need a bigger gun, Villain-san~!"

The smoke clears, and Ruger grimaces. He was expecting it to be more effective than it was.

"Aye- you'll need to bring far more to bear if you think you're going to defeat the combined might assembled here today!" Nohrbor shouts.

Vajra skips forward, until she's directly in front of the menacing armored person. "Hi~hi~! I'm Vajra~! Would you like to surrender now~!?" (? ?). She raises her right arm and her weapon module sprays stands of pink polymer ribbon at the villain!

Toby blinks a little at the explosion, and seems unharmed entirely. He shrugs a little. Instead of just destroying the ribbon Vajra coated him in, Toby stands by and readies himself in case that doesn't hold. He figures it probably won't, but attacking it isn't going to help it!

Lady Winters removes her jacket. Folding it up she puts in under the guard's head. "Watch what you're doing with those weapons, guy." she commands Ruger. "If you want to fight, take it outside."

Ruger growls, "Fine. Outside, it is."

< Jamie, it seems that there is trouble brewing. Shall I translocate us? > inquires the floating relic that holds thousands of petabytes of data in its phased data storage medium. "Sure!" exclaims the young girl who has taken to this superhero thing with far more enthusiasm than skill.

She's dressed in a bargain basement superhero suit. It's.. well it's a matte black bodysuit, skintight and such since she's in decent shape and doesn't mind showing that off. But aside from that, her head is exposed and she wears a black domino mask. Decorations? Nah. She hasn't really thought of anything. Either way, there's a ripple of energy and she appears just outside the hole in the wall... with a tiny floating thing the size of a Rubik's Cube, but constantly changing shape.. hovering by her head. She takes it all in, the wounded guard, the armor suit, and the wrapped up Toby... "Only in Colonial Bay." she mutters with a bit of a grin. "So... let's stop this fighting before anyone else gets hurt, okay? I'd hate to have to blast anyone..."

The servos in Ruger's armor kick in and he attempts to break out of the ribbons that Vajra wrapped him up in."

Ruger decides to start to 'take this outside', but at the same time target his perceived greatest threat. His boot jets kick in and he launches himself at Vajra.

Ruger blasts past, ending up outside. He pivots, turning to face the doorway again.

Vajra chrips. (^ ^). "Missed me~! Missed me~!"

"Whoa dude. Decaf!" calls out Jamie. She shakes her head and gestures at Ruger. "Seriously, you need to cool your heels. I wager you're the one causing all this trouble." And as she speaks, the floating relic over her shoulder glows... and then flares as it sends a pulse of neural sensory overload energy towards Ruger.

Toby, seeing that the ribbons were broken, now he's gonna attack. Toby summons up a ball of energy in front of himself, and then from it, a a ray of pink light shoots towards Ruger!

Ruger gets hit by the beam and tumbles, sent another good 10 meters further from the building.

Vajra flies over to the downed Ruger and tries to pin him to the ground by stepping on him with on foot. "Ohohohohoho~! That's a good position for you~! Beneath my heel~!"

Ruger grunts a bit as he gets pinned down, but that's hte only reaction. Certainly not the 'humiliated and angry' response that Vajra was expecting.

Lady Winters takes a couple of steps to the door of the bank and then waits for developments.

Toby flies closer to Ruger, and decides to give Vajra a hand with the grabbing. He focuses, and little tendrils of pink light come off of his aura and move towards Ruger, aiming to grab him and suspend him in an aura similar to Toby's own.

Nohrbor rises.

After righting his horizontal axis, Nohrbor floats right back to where he was before the explosion.

He watches Vajra's pink ribbon with interest. It certainly doesn't seem like a viable weapon at first- but as Ruger struggles againsts it he reconsdiers his opinion.

His very human form nods graciously at Vajra.

His attention is called towards Lady Winters as he the vampire influences via the psionic web all around them (at least from his perspective).

Nohrbor prefers to use his physical prowess in battle before depending on his psionic abilities- though a part of him is happy there is another here who might control the field from the rear. He was figuring he would be forced to drag Ruger out himself, but Lady WInter's quick action has put the villain out of reach of his original goal.

With so many of Earth's Guardians on the ground he almost considers taking a seat to enjoy the bout as a spectator- but 75 cycles of grueling Gladiator Games gets the better of him far more than he cares to admit.

He watches the young girl in the black spandex number hit Ruger followed by Toby's bright blast.

After tracking Ruger's trajectory from that last blast Nohrbor throws his right hand out and the scarf around his neck follows suit.

As he brings his arm in front of him, the scarf rolls itself up & he reinforces it with his telekinetic power.

With his right hand he reaches forward and takes hold of his bo-staff.

He twirls it back and forth as Toby reinforces Vajra's hold on Ruger before leaping towards Ruger to strike.

Ruger grunts again as he's hit...but he can't even see it coming.

Wincing every time the bad guy gets hit now, Jamie waves her hands and says, "hey, hey hey.. he's blind. I overloaded his sensory input in every way but touch. He can't even see it coming. Just restrain the guy and take the stuff he tried to steal. There's no reason to just beat a defenseless guy to a bloody pulp!"

Lady Winters pipes up, "Young lady, I would normally be in full agreement with you. But that guy has already shown himself willing to injure innocents and he has weapons of ranged capability. I suspect he will not hesitate to use them even while blinded. So I believe he must be speedily rendered unable to use his weapons."

"Blind?!" Nohrbor says before gasping.

"This battle has turned dishonorable!" He shouts as he visibly stands down.

He won't hit a defenseless foe.

Ruger takes a swing at Vajra and misses wildly, remaining on his back.

Vajra headtilts at Nohbor (? ?). "We're not exactly fighting him one on one either~!"

"There is no dishonor facing a foe who shoots at many- he began by taking aim at all of us. He called that down upon his own head my armored comrade!" Nohrbor answers certainly.

With the power suited man being effectively restrained Nicky turns and heads back into the bank looking for the manager, to inform him the safety desposit box won't be needed.

Toby floats, focuses, and just maintains his hold on Ruger. The little pink tendrils running from Toby to Ruger move slightly as Toby floats in place and focuses.

Vajra aims her weapon module at Ruger and sprays him with more pink polymer ribbons. (^ ^). "Time to wrap you up as a present for the police~!"

The manager nods to Nicky. He had never gotten the point of bringing the deposit box out. "Thank you for hte assistance."

Lady Winters smiles keeping her lips closed. Out of habit. Her new incarnation lacks those big pointy teeth she used to have. "The security guard is bruised but not injured as far as I can tell," she tells the manager. "But it would probably be wise to have him checked at a hospital."

The manager nods. "The police are already on their way. They shoudl be here any moment. I believe an ambulance in enroute, too." He walks out to the doorway to look at the results of the combat.

Vajra hops over. "Mr. Manager~! Do you know who rented the box he wanted~!?"

Inclining her head as everyone changes gears, Jamie just watches the armored enemy. She looks to her relic and then shrugs. Then she looks over towards the others. "I dunno. I mean.. I don't see anything like that." she mutters half-whispered. But then she looks back to Ruger and snorts... trying to restrain a laugh at whatever she heard her relic say in her head. "It's not that primitive." she mutters.

The manager nods. He had gotten that far, at least, "A Mr. John Smith."

Vajra (- -). "Really~."

Toby smiles and giggles a little having subdued the guy without doing too many violent things. He somersault in mid air before floating back over towards everone else. "That's uh, an interesting name." Toby says, swishing his tail a little. He tilts is head a bit, "So, yeah. I guess it's a common name, right?" Though Toby has yet to meet anyone named 'John Smith'.