Log:Lightning Tag, Scene 3, Scene 1

Lightning Tag, Scene 3 2012/12/03 	 Longbow 1

The Colonial Bay Yacht Club occupies a picturesque section of the waterfront, the view to seaward looking past Sandy Bottoms Island and the Colonial Bay Bridge. The grounds are immaculately kept, with evenly trimmed shrubbery and lawns where the members can stroll or picnic.

The club includes a modern restaurant with glass walls overlooking the marina and the bay, boathouses of a basic design unchanged in centuries, and the administration building, a multi-story stone building dating from the early 1900's but maintained to look brand new.

The marina is usually full, with a variety of boats. Small sailboats and motor yachts are present, with a launch spot for jet-skis as well. Larger yachts in traditional styles dominate the scene, and a few more modern hovercraft and hydrofoils float here and there among the standard ships.

The beach and Bridgend are normally dead once winter starts rolling in, and winter is definitely rolling in. So there's not a lot of crowd around when there's an explosion down at the Marina as a yacht, a big one's, engine room goes up in a fiery gasoline powered explosion. This of course alerts the police, and fire and safety, heck maybe even the coast guard as it is a boat on the water even if it is at a Marina at the moment. And of course, if the explosion wasn't seen by some, the police band lights up and everything else. It's an odd occurrance for sure. At least until there are reports of a pair of /ghosts/ appearing on the docks at various boats. Ghosts apparently stealing valuables as one report has one of the ghosts bedecked in jewelry!

Ghosts? That's rather bold of them. Well either way Longbow has been sent out by everyone's favorite illuminati esque group (well everyone doesn't know about them so atleast they did that part right :3) He moves out towards the waters bow in hand looking about. He eneds a way over to that boat. if it's ghosts he'll have a fun time. Ghosts are alwaays such a joy to catch... or banish.

Yep, more situations of mass insanity. It is fortunate for Allison that she has her little buddy always monitoring emergency frequencies. Otherwise, she'd never hear about any of these things in her work addicted obsessive nature. <> thinks Ally towards Julius who responds, "I am simply telling you what is being reported. I cannot make any judgements about the accuracy until we are on scene."

And they're almost on scene. It took a couple minutes to get changed into the undersuit and then have the armor put on but Interface is truckin' through the skies now, gravitic drive carrying her effortlessly in a soaring arc over the docks. She zooms in as much as she can, looking down towards the docks as she asks, <>

Well it seems like Jolt is out getting some coffee at the coffee shop when calls go out on the police band, typically these get reported on the Starguard channel. She doesnt even get a chance to enjoy her drink before it's off to deal with whatever problem it is this time... in this case it seems like a ship getting ransacked.

Machina is flying towards the marina at top speed, jet engines roaring as she flies past Interface before stopping in the air and waving as she says, "So. Ghosts? Odd, but I suppose there are stranger things in this world." her jets then shrink down to a smaller form as she says, "Shall we?"

Getting to the ships is easy, they're all at dock, the one that blew up, is at the dock, and it's being attended to by onsite safety trying to get the fire out before it puts any other yacht's at risk. Fortunately for big boats like that there's some decent space between them so they can maneuver in and out of dock safely. That and rich people love to take up more space than they should. It's like a complex or something it seems, at least amongst boat owners.

As the capes start arriving on scene it's easy to see why there were reports of ghosts! A young woman is literally flickering in and out of existence except that she's moving rapidly from one place to the next, from deck of a yacht, to the air in between yachts, to the deck of another yacht where she starts to head in. The flashes of white light that accompany each flicker leave behind a ghostly after image for half a second before it fades.

Meanwhile a male figure is running /through/ the hulls of boats, he's dressed like that old 'The Shadow' movie, something straight out of the Pulp era. He's also covered in jewelry, most of it women's jewelry of course, so he's looking more than a little out of place!

Ghost: A 6'3" tall man, wearing a long leather trench coat (black), a fedora (charcoal), with a bandana (grey) wrapped around his face so that only his eyes can be seen. Underneath the coat is a white button up shirt, grey slacks, and dress shoes. He's also wearing leather gloves of course. He also has a pair of ivory handled pistols in shoulder holsters.

Blink: A young woman wearing a more traditional costume, all skin tight and clingy, white of course, her mask hides all of her face (think spiderman style) and she's got a flowing cloak and hood as well.

Hmm. Longbow thinks for a second looking to note the others arriving on the scene. 200m, a long shot from here, but not worth it yet. He moves to get closer, interception if able. He wants to track them nothing more or less. the female likely will be the easier. Are they ghosts? well he needs to get closer to investigate that. Mobility is something He mentally notes as needing to be improved.

Suddenly, the jets on Machina's body bulk up -significantly- again as she rockets off towards Ghost, then starts hovering in the air near him as the jets retract into a more manageable form as she says, "Stop. I will use force if you do not surrender yourself and the valuables to the authorities. The record of those such as yourself besting the local heroic populace is not in your favor."

 intones Julius in Ally's head.  And Interface's helmet turns towards Machina. She points a hand down towards the obvious metahuman activity below. <> And Interface reaches up to tap her helmet as if indicating a desire for a connection. Then she starts to drop out of the sky, transitioning from grav-pulse to thrusters for the descent.... she's staying up in the air though, providing high cover so to speak.

Before he can get close enough to be of real use, there is a ZOOM above his head 'bugger' he thinks as Machina goes right up enxt to the targets. he hasn't had a chance to get close enough to asses them! Damn still 83m out...

Jolt continues flying at top speed to get to the apparent ghosts or thieves. Wondering just how immaterial they might be. Getting as close as possible since lets face it getting close is probably her best bet since no doubt they're up to no good.

As soon as capes start arriving Blink yells out, "Capes! Time for stage 2 of the game!" And by the sound of her voice she's grinning like a lunatic or a little kid all gleefully happy. One almost expects her to bounce on her feet and clap excitedly. Instead she starts to twist into a kick then poofs, leaving behind a ghostly image she arrives /right/ behind Jolt and even before she hits the ground she completes the kick, aiming right at Jolt's back!

Jolt smirks a bit as Blink misses and leaves her at point blank range too... Perfect opportunity to open fire. Channelling energy through her hand she takes a swing at the girl

"So you've decided to fight..." Machina says before sighing and saying, "In the words of your bard, 'What fools these mortals be' though I'm hardly a fairy but... I digress." as her arm turns into a laser cannon as she says, "Let me know when you're ready to come quietly." and fires it at Ghost.

Blink easily avoids Jolt's swing, her kick carrying her down and away from the swing of lightning, probably thankfully since it's clear Blink is a martial artist and those really aren't suited to dealing with that much raw power that Jolt can throw out!

Longbow moves towards the enemies. . o 0 (I have a signifigantly decreased chance of making contact. I'll want to hit one if not both of those guys. due to their ability to move so readily tracking will likely be the best option for a surprise attack. I get the strange feeling they can get away, but I don't believe they are ghosts.)

Ghost doesn't even have to move and that laser blast goes flying wide, just the subtle rock of the docks themselves more than enough to avoid it and he looks up at Machina, and Jolt, "Oh this should be good. You're that one who tried to shock Rayo." He chuckles, "How'd that work out for yah?" He sounds a lot younger than he's dressed for sure. Maybe his grandmother picked out his villain costume. Either way he whips out a pair of pistols and points them at Jolt's head, "Your face bullet proof girly?"

Up above, Interface has her proton pulse cannons deployed. She's hovering on her thrusters and aiming downward with those shoulder mounted guns. <> she asks Julius as she watches the red-ringed targets on her HUD move about, watches Blink vanish and reappear nearby.  And Allison just blinks a bit before asking, <>

ripples and as they pass through Jolt, she ripples too, no blood or bone, but the shock... yikes, that doesn't feel good at all.
 * BOOMBOOM* As the guns fire the bullets tear through space, leaving visible

Soon as the guns fire, and Jolt reacts as if injured a bit, Ally narrows her eyes inside the helmet, and she sends to Julius <> And the blaster cannons traverse, aiming before they unleash a purple pulse of energy down towards Ghost.

The pulse blast tears through the space where Ghost stands and he winces as it does so, but there's not an actual solid impact as the energy passes through him. It visibly disrupts him, leaving whispy trailers as the holes start to close up but, it doesn't have the same effect as it would on a normal person.

Jolt takes the hit and starts falling towards the deck or is that the water... either way when she gets up someone is gonna be paying for that.

As Jolt starts to fall Blink steps forwards and goes to add insult to injury! She reaches out to slam her forearm into Jolt's back and she hooks her foot in front of Jolt's ankles to 'help' her down, to the docks, face first, at speed! That's the plan anyways.

As Blink gets shocked she gives a little shriek, "Ow! What the *CENSORED*!?! That hurt!" She shakes her arms and legs out afterwards, trying to get some sensation back!

Longbow is still a great deal of distance away as he draws his arrow from it's quiver. his cape flurishes as he moves quickly getting to his location and his bow forms from black dust in the air. He takes aim at Ghost, now 56 meters away. . o 0 (I'm going need to improve my distance accuracy more one of these days.) He fires his arrow.

Thrusters changing pitch just a bit, Interface drops down closer as her cannons reform. Yeah, to fire wide shots, they split the emitters out to look like half a dozen tiny guns on each shoulder. She doesn't speak yet... just rips off a second shot at Ghost, this time with more power.

Jolt is easily hit but thankfully it's not as much a problem taking that hit as it is from the weaponry that Ghost has. That said she still crashes into the deck pretty hard. Shakes her head and starts to get back up "I'm still amazed that the fact it hurts that badly is still a surprise to people" she laughs at Blink's reaction to her damage shield.

Energy blasts past through Ghost again, more whispyness, more holes through his form that close up soon after but he is getting a bit frayed, and wincing from the blasts. Almost like he's having trouble keeping himself together maybe.

Flying towards Ghost, Machina charges up another blast and lets it fly saying, "You're outnumbered, and outgunned. What makes you think you have any chance of winning here?"

The laser beam passes through Ghost like he wasn't even there whispy holes closing up and he flicks his pistols down to shoot at Jolt again! BOOM BOOM BOOM! "Maybe because you still haven't managed to really hurt me yeah? Just wait your turn girly. We'll do you soon. Gonna get so many points it aint even funny."

Blink looks down at Jolt and then smirks, "Yeah well we'll see who's laughing now!" And she moves to kick Jolt hard, aiming for her face to try and knock the shockey girl out so they can focus on someone else without getting zapped, "No pain, no gain, woo!"

Jolt stands there as she gets kicked and knocked out ... Well yeah thats gonna suck but at least she'll not be able to do much to her while she's out of it. Well unless she wants to get shocked to death by an unconscious Jolt.

Longbow says, "Analysis, Ghost is glowing, electric girl is harmed, Two mechanical fighters appear to be in the area. Longbow decides distance is still a good ting but he aims his Hunter's Quarry at the teleporting on, thinks agian then fires at the man with the whisps. The fine dust seemed to hurt him so let us see if Magic has any more effect. but gotta move closer for accuracy"

Magic or not, the arrow doesn't seem to have much more effect than the other energy types that have hit him so far. The hole might be bigger but Ghost looks down at his chest and laughs as it starts to close already. More frayed around the edges, sure, but, still solid! Well, as solid as he gets.

Machina flies towards the ground, then glares at ghost and says, "If I can't capture you, I'll simply have to destroy the ground beneath you."

Ghost takes a moment to steady himself and he grins at Machina, "Sure, you do that. See how far that gets you." And he runs up towards Machina and then snaps an elbow towards her nose!

Longbow thinks .o0 (Oh god that'll drop him in water and lose my tracer. please don't!)

As Ghost hits Machina high, Blink spins down into a legsweep, trying to hit Machina in the back of the ankles and send her to the ground!

As another hero presents themselves as an easy target for the double team, Ghost and Blink go to work on Machina... Ouch. Ghost chuckles, "Can you believe these people?" He sounds amazed.

Well, with everyone focusing on the ghost, Interface traverses her guns towards the teleporter. At least -she- is solid. She turns her thrusters down and descends until they cut off and she lands with a metallic *clank* facing towards Blink. <> she tells Julius as the emitters break apart and each fires a pulse into the general area of Blink.

Blink gets tagged by Interface's blast and sent flying down the docks to hit the ground rolling. She shakes her head and blink, "Ok, you're next then!" She shouts at Interface, "After we down robochicken armor is next Ghost!"

"Good idea." says Interface's digitized voice, "Everyone target the teleporter. She is at least... solid. Take... her... down." she says as the purple glow starts to fade from her cannon emitters.

Longbow hmms, may as well take one target down. Moving closer he fires another shot but this time at Blink. Let's see how durable she is, shall we? Opening gambit

As the flashbang goes off, Blink's facial expression isn't able to be seen, since her mask covers her face and eyes completely. One might guess the lenses of her costume provide at least some protection from the flash, if not the bang. She blinks out of existence, leaving behind an afterimage of her sprawled, but when she reappears above Machina, she is anything but sprawled and she drives her foot down in an axe kick towards Machina's chest, since, well, she's down on the ground! "Reinforcements." She says (loudly) to Ghost, "Let's work quick. Can't hear you so just give a thumbs up or something."

Machina takes the hit, with a cry of pain as it hits her chest and she says, "Nngh... Should have... Picked a male host... before she stands up as the laser cannon barrel widens before it starts to glow, and even crackle with energy as she says, "Robochicken? Hmph. I'm the avatar of technology, hardly a fat, lazy, bird. Now, for you own sake... Run." as it -explodes- outwards towards Blink.

Blink gets blasted and sent flying down the length of the dock where she hits the 'ground' and rolls a couple more meters to a stop. She seems, for all intents and purposes, completely out of it. She's not moving. She could be playing possum but, who knows.

Meanwhile Ghost blinks, "Well well well, I guess you did have a little spark left in you." He quickdraws a pair of pistols out of their holsters and fires them point blank into Machina's back with another pair of BOOMS. "Blink you know the rules, you get captured you lose all your points!" He calls out to the downed villainess.

Eyeing Blink's blasted form, Interface looks back to Machina just as she gets shot. She cuts the thrusters and lands with one foot on either side of the avatar. "We're starting to make a habit of this." she remarks as she points her cannons at Ghost. "Anyone got anything that might work here?" She asks, the cannons firing point blank.

Ghost is blasted again, and again seems more or less unaffected. Well he's affected, just not a terrible amount and he doesn't get knocked around, "Blink?" He asks as Blink doesn't respond still.

Longbow moves forward, taking aim. He fires his shot at Ghost, it is not much be he needs to get the man interested in him.

As the arrow flies past him Ghost smirks, "Really? Really?" He seems amazed and he shakes his head but he starts to run down towards the end of the dock. Getting about twelve meters away he stops, pivots, and fires on Interface with a pair of pistol shots!

The phase bullets ripple through the air and impact into Interface but, she doesn't ripple. Some mechanism or field providing her protection against the effect and Ghost blinks, and says something that won't make it to print!

Longbow takes aim and fires an arrow towards Ghost's path. Now that he's cleared of pesky collateral damage targets he can easily be blinded with some luck.

 says Julius as Interface gets hit by phantom bullets. "Well, that's interesting." she says towards Ghost.

Ghost gets hit by the flashbang and he stops in his tracks, covering his face with one arm. To late of course and meanwhile, Blink flips back up to her feet, apparently not as down for the count as she appeared! She runs forwards, closing the distance to Ghost and then she wraps her arms around him. Blink. A fading afterimage of the pair is left standing on the docks and when it fades momentarily afterwards, neither of them seem to reappear!

Jolt grumbles and stands up as she takes stock of where they were and just unloads a bunch of lightning in the general direction where they seem to disappear at

The dock gets blasted the hell out of it, pieces of wood fragmenting as the water moisture inside boils and turns to steam from the lightning strike, there's an explosion of wood fragments as the dock itself gets a huge hole punched in it, nearly cutting it in two!

Looking about the area, Interface listens internally as Julius advises her.  And Interface gestures to the ships, "They might be in one of those ships. I'll check below." she says as she uses her thrusters to carry her towards the hole and then drops through it.

"Got'em! They're down here!" calls Interface as she pulls her head out of the water.

Ghost swims up to be right next to Interface, well, more appropriately, he swims up and sticks his head through her boot, taking a breath of air. He pulls himself up /onto/ the water and then starts to run towards the city, passing right through the bow of a yacht! He's definitely not all there now.

Blink vanishes from under the water, leaving behind her afterimage and appearing in the air 27m directly up from where she was. She takes a look around quickly and before she starts to fall she blinks out again, leaving another afterimage. She doesn't seem to appear again. or if she does appear again, it's probably in one of the nearby yachts!

Jolt flies in the direction that Ghost is going and decides she'll concentrate fire on him. She charges up as electricity crackles and arcs around her form while she takes aim and unleashes a huge amount of electricity this time. Looks like someone pissed Jolt off.

The lightning bolt shot from Jolt's hand is truly ferocious, but, it has no effect on Ghost as tries to run. He might not even know he's being shot at! He can't feel it, can't hear it, can't see it, the lightning disperses into the water but otherwise seems completely ineffective now.

Shaking her head inside her helmet, Interface mutters darkly. She lifts up from the water and thrusts over towards the yacht actually in the -opposite- direction of the way Ghost is running. She figures... Blink is smart, but not -too- smart... so she goes for where she believes the teleporter would be hiding. Granted Julius offers tactical advice to give her that idea too... and she lands on the desck.

Blink, out of sight and not in clear view of anyone, doesn't move. Instead she concentrates, preparing to Get Out Of Dodge!

Ghost continues to run towards the city, still blind and deaf, and not even running straight really as he jostles one way or the other with uneven balance due to the flashbang, but he makes it another twenty meters towards the beach!

Interface heads down into the below decks of the yacht, just in time to see Blink, Blink out one more time. The afterimage is Blink waving goodbye to Interface.