Log:The Old Switcheroo, Scene 6

The Old Switcheroo 2006/12/10 	 Alex Allure Exodus Ferryl Jennifer Izzy 6

RegentIzzy is actually asking the fruit vendor on Wharf street for hand outs..bruised fruits..unsellables..anything..

Ah, to be free. It's not quite hers yet, but Ferryl is at play. Rooftop to rooftop, building to building, street to street she's moving like a bouncing leaping leopard-girl. She's not really worried about being seen by anyone.

Jennifer is wrapped up in formless clothes and low pulled hat, making her way towards the Gym for a period of peace and quiet, her nerves frazzled by the strain of keeping up the attempted deception.

Allure is tired of being cooped up, but also not keen to be out where she might have to deal with people as the twins. As a compromise one of her is heading to the coffee shop to get some coffee and a snack, while the other remains behind.

Jennifer is feeling especially fed up. She has a pinch bruise on her posterior from a chance-met ganger and aching knuckles on her left hand from when she reactively tried to punch him out.

"Help! Help!" A young blonde woman runs around the corner by Steel's Gym, apparently chases by a woman in a black costume. "Come back here!" calls out the costumed woman.

Girl in Black: A woman in a black catsuit. The suit appears to be armored, but still light enough to allow quick movements. Her identity is masked by a simple black domino mask. She appears to be in her late teens to early twenties, with lightly tanned skin and dark hair cascading to her shoulders.

RegentIzzy is hungry..hungry again..always hungry..he feels horrible for begging for food, but he's so hungry it hurts.

Spotted! Both Ferryl and Allure-Twin are easily described as this. The archer lands beside the mistaken identity person and grins, "Hiya, teach-boss."

Allure tries to interpose herself between the pursued woman and her pursuing, while asking, "What's happening?"

Jennifer starts to run forwards and then thinks better of it, "No, don't get Stephie's body killed. She'd never speak to me again."

"Looks like a party," Ferryl mentions to Allure-who-she-thinks-is-a-twin.

Allure says, "Looks like."

Ferryl moves to follow the chased girl, making her doubly-chased. "Hi!" she says. "Call for help answered. What's up?"

The Girl In Black smiles. She strikes a pose with a hand on her hip. "Nothing, just wanted to have a word with blondie, there."

Allure says, "A word about what? She doesn't seem to want to talk to you."

Exodus looks up and looks at the bruised fruit in his hand and decides to eat and run..literally..shoving the fruit in his mouth and running over to the others.

The blonde girl cowers behind the Allure-twin.

Allure-Azure hurries to join the excitement outside.

IzRegent walks in on his way to visit JenAllure and pulls up short, surprised at seeing everyone out and about.

The Girl in Black spots Azure as she appears on the scene, then to Izzy and Exodus. "Hrm."

Ferryl moves to interpose herself between the girl and the ones on the roof watching, "Three more above, seventh from zero-two-nine." She would be informing the twins of something useful. "So," she asks the blond girl again, "What's up?"

Allure tries to spot these apparent other people, though she has little idea where they are.

Exodus is able to draw on Izzy's speed and runs over from the fruitstand while eating.."Whats.." he slurps the rest of the fruit juice up.."Up?"

The blonde girl repeats, "Help! Help!"

Exodus stops the girl, taking her in his arms "Whats wrong Miss?"

"Help is what I can do if I know what you need help with," Ferryl says matter-of-factly. "You need to use other words."

Allure-Azure moves to take over interposition, hopefully freeing up Allure-Jenn. So long as the girl in black makes no more.

The Girl in Black says, "The getting's not getting any better than it is now. Let

The Girl in Black says, "The getting's not getting any better than it is now. Let's do it..." She snaps her fingers and a mote of light flits through the air towards Allure-Jen.

IzRegent just stands back looking confused, not really sure how to use is powers even if he knew what was going on. It sure looked odd seeing "him" with "his" arms around tat other girl.

BANG! The mote of light explodes in a loud and brilliant flash, that might have disoriented Allure had it landed close to the mark.

Exodus isnt sure what just happened, but the girl in black isn't a friend..so he lets go and goes to try to punch her like izzy does..

Exodus isnt sure what just happened, but the girl in black isn't a friend..so he lets go and goes to try to punch her like izzy does..

The Girl in Black gets slugged and rolls backwards along the pavement. "Oof." She holds her face in her hand as she tries to regain her bearings.

Allure-Jenn tries to hit the girl in black from behind while she's focussed on other-her and Regent-in-Blue-Streak, and regaining bearings. Though it's been years since she last tried physically to punch someone.

Allure's just not used to hiting people. She didn't punch through - and so barely grazed the girl in black.

Ferryl has an arrow nocked and ready as she mentions, "Three more on the way. Brute, armor, tech." She then moves to a more vantage-related point high above, with a rune floating in the air above it that looks kind of like a straight vertical line. She points it at a building roof area, and waits.

The Girl in Black, still groggy, looks up at Allure. "What's the matter with you? You hit like a.. girl?" She sounds almost surprised herself.

Jennifer racks her brain for something useful. . o O(what did Stephie say, it comes natural for her? Oh well try something, no matter how silly) and decides that if she is going to be useful she have to pick of a brute male to have any chance, so she waits for one to turn up.

From one of the rooftops nearby a woman in powered armor sails into the air with rockets in her boots. She takes aim at Ferryl with her hand and fires a bolt at her.

Powerarmored Woman: A woman in a sleek-looking suit of power armor. The suit is predominately blue, with bits of pink trim. The form of the suit appears sculpted to the frame of it's wearer and it is definitely female in shape. The face is a silver, featureless faceplate.

Ferryl moves, rather than sit and be a target for the blast from the armored woman. She leaps again, to find better cover, further away from the people that aren't her friends.

The blast misses Ferryl, instead hitting a nearby air conditioner vent. The blast dissapates without leaving a mark on the machinery.

A man in a dark costume jumps down from a nearby rooftop. He lands safely. He turns towards Izzy in Regent's body and holds his position for now.

Guy in Crossbone Costume: A beefy looking guy in a black costume with a skull and crossbones on his chest. He seems to be wearing some kind of high tech gloves and matching boots.

From the rooftop, another figure appears. He points a rifle down at Regent-in-Izzy's body and -- Poont! It fires a small tube of something at his feet.

Gadget Guy: A scrawny looking man in a mask with a backpack, a hightech rifle, with large pockets and tools over his costume.

Exodus blinks at the canister at his feet..and frowns.."GAS!!!" he yells.

Jennifer thinks. o O (So that is Brute. Oh well lets try this then...))

The capsule crashes on the pavement and sprays a mist of freezing cold liquid over Regent-as-Izzy

Exodus shouts.."Um..Not gas!!!..Freezing stuff!"

Jennifer opens her formless coat to reveal the dress and figure beneath, forcing a smile at the beefy guy, "Oh, just the person I need. I can't understand how these silly PDA things work and you have that hi-tech stuff, he must be a genius, can you help me, pretty please." she tries to rabbit on like the dump cheerleader types at the high school do and wills the guy to fall for it or something.

The blonde girl turns towards Jenn-in-Allure's body and runs towards her, repeating, 'Help! Help! Help!'. As she closes to hand to hand range, both her and Jenn-in-Allure disappear beneath an opaque hemisphere of force.

Regents Body sees danger so he tries to call up the spirits like matt said..he can kind of feel the power, but hasn't tried to call it up yet..

IzReg is engulfed in flames, and Pele is left behind, her eyes smouldering..she seems confused.."Where is the REGENT?" she thunders..//hold

Crossbone's Guy smirks as Jenn and the blonde girl vanish. "Aw. I was just about to enjoy the show." He shrugs and turns towards Pele. He leaps into the air, assisted by his boots, and tries to land a punch on her as he touches down.

Gryphon slowly fades from the IC world...

Crossbone's Guy says, "Yer lucky I'm holding back my punches!"

Exodus takes the punch in the jaw and smiles.."Foolish Mortal.." she says and her hands burn red as she tries to shower him with her firey attack.

Exodus tries to do something he's seen Izzy do before..and he starts to run at top speed around the black cat girl..she seems the weakest..

The Girl in Black gasps and coughs for air.

Exodus tries to do something he's seen Izzy do before again..and he starts to run at top speed around the black cat girl..she seems the weakest..

Exodus tries to summon the speed up but his legs wont move as fast..and he just ends up running in circles..at normal speed..

Allure is annoyed by the 'hit like a girl'. If just because it's true. Both of her try to strike the girl in black as hard as they can - even though she's taking more than her share of damage.

Allure can't help grinning as the girl in black drops at her feet. "Like a girl, huh?" . o O (Um - I hope I didn't hit too hard?)

Ferryl moves again! She is all about finding nice sniping spots to shoot from. Once she's located the next point of superior cover, she moves into it and draws back her arrow and takes the icy shot at the power armored woman.

The arrow flies from Ferryl's bow to strike the armored woman, encasing her in a thick coating of ice. While good for the probable ensuing fall, it isn't so good for doing things.

Jennifer is really fed up now, she didn't expect it to work but this opaque force wall is the last straw. "I'm having a bad hair day!" she tells the blonde girl, and spins around with a back kick to the chest.

The blonde girl staggers backwards from the force of Jennifer's kick. "Error! Error! Error!"

Poont! The Gadget Guy fires again at Regent's feet. This time the capsule releases a jolt of electricity.

Exodus oofs as the electricity hits him.."Ow!..damn."

The Crossbones guy tries to grab Pele with his armored fists.

Crossbones grabs a firm hold of Pele and tries to throw her into one of the twins.

Pele takes some damage, but is hardly shaken up..she stands and throws instead a gout of flame at the gadget guy...

The frozen Powerarmor Woman falls right across Pele's line of sight. The gout of flame thaws the villain and she fires her rocket boots to stay aloft.

"Okay. Fire-girl might not be on our side after all.." Ferryl looks confused for a second, but shrugs, figuring questions can be asked later if the behavior is repeated.

Exodus screams in anger! "Damnable man!..Where is the REGENT??!"

The Powerarmor Woman takes this opportunity to act, swooping in to pick up the Girl in Black and flying down the street.

Exodus Bluestreak, goes to try to punch the gadget guy out.."I"ve had enough of this."

The gadget guy is hit multiple time by RegentIzzy but the damage doesnt bring gadget boy down.

Ferryl decides that with the power armor woman out of comission helping someone else, she will take aim at the Crossboney person. She moves again, this time to misdirect where her shot will come from...

Crossbones Guy crosses his hands in front of himself and his gauntlets absorb the brunt of the attack. He's tossed backwards down the street, but seems none the worse for wear.

Ferryl demonstrates to her teammates that Crossbone guy isn't all that resistant to being pushed around...

Exodus is frustrated, and tries to take out out on the crossbones..

Exodusbluestreak tries to hit the guy gain..superspeed rules!..except for the hungerpains..

Allure doesn't like having her friend thrown at her! Well, the double-punch thing seemed to work last time - sadly that took a bit much out of her to try to hit *that* hard again, but let's try it again on Crossbones....

Exodusbluestreaks' fists miss..(damn I cant get used to this body)

Allure strikes the guy twice - not as effectively ss she'd hoped, but with enough force to knock him back from her. Wow! The twins *are* strong...

Jennifer says, "Darn right there's and error!" Gemini yells, angry through and through as she spins another 360 and lashes out with a hard back kick"

Jennifer's kick drops the blonde girl into a twitching heap of limbs. "Error! Error! Does not compute! Does not.. Zorcht! *"

The opaque bubble the was concealing Jennifer fades away.

The woman in the powerarmor flies away at full burn.

Crossbone's guy looks over at the force bubble that fades and reveals Jennifer as the victor. "That wasn't supposed to happen... I'm outta here."

Crossbone guy jumps up to his feet quickly and then bounds over a set of three story buildings, landing one street over.

Gadget Guy fires a set of rockets on his backpack adn takes off airborne, gaining altitude and distance from Regent.

Ferryl smirks. "Well, someone is staying around... which one do we want? Mister 'I might pull a rabbit outta my butt and escape' or the brute? Hard choice that..."

Exodus says, "Pele, angry, unfurls her wings and jumps into the air, she moves a fair bit before gathering her power and firing after the gadgeteer.."

Exodus fires the gadgeteer, the damage seems minimal but he is pushed out of his flight path..and she goes to follow him.

ExodusBluestreak looks around and sees no one present..he goes to Alluregemini.."Are you alright?"

Allure says, "I'm fine, I think...."

Jennifer nods, looking pure mad all the way through, "Yeah, I'm fine. Couldn't do a darn thing. heck, I don't know how Allure manages. How'd you do?"

Ferryl decides that egress isn't an option for these clowns. Not all of them. At least one needs to remain here and answer questions. Questions she's good at asking! She moves forward to get Crossbone-guy in sight, and upon acquiring him as a target, opens fire-ice.

Allure points out to Jennifer, "You took *her* out..."

Jennifer says, "She, I guess I ought to say it, was just a decoy."

Allure says, "Well, with that force bubble thing.... I wonder what they were after.."

Ferryl calls, "Might need some help here. No idea how strong this guy is!"

Jennifer says, "Us. The question is why and who for."

 Alex says, "Hello?"

 Exodus says, "Alex ?"

 Xing-Liu makes a sound from her noisemaker (BEEP) to show she is monitoring the frequency

 Alex says, "Yeah. I've got some good news!"

 Allure says, "You mean -?"

 Exodus says, "Xing?"

 Exodus says, "What do you have?..you've figured out the machine?""

 Alex says, "Not exactly... we haven't figured out how the machine works really, but get this... Zimm's goons who had their minds swapped, they woke up /unswapped/ earlier today. It looks like the effect is only temporary and it should wear off soon."

 Exodus says, "Really! that's great!"

 Allure says, "Thank goodness!"

 Alex says, "By my calculations it might happen as soon as tonight."

 Exodus says, "sweet.."

 Jennifer says, "That's great news."

Exodus looks around..."Can some one buy me some food?"

 Allure says, "Wonderful! Some not so good news though - we just had an odd encounter with some people.  Stay tuned - we've caught one - but, well, it looked rather like they were after us.  Oh.  And I think one might have been Eva."

Jennifer grins, "I can take advantage of being this rich model type now I know it ain'yt going to last. I'll buy you a shopfull. Let's celebrate!

Ferryl brings boney over with a bit of effort, making a call from her PDA to the police. "Yeah. It's the catgirl. I found an undetermined-powers guy who was with a bunch of others. So he's on ice and.. no, no.. not killed. Ice. Oh right. Stupid old sayings..."

Allure gives Jennifer a sharp look!

Exodus smiles and puts arms around Jenallure "I'm starving.."

Jennifer looks back at Allure/twins, "You were planning on paying me appearence stand-in fees weren't you?" she asks with a grin.

<Blood> Exodus says, "A bunch of metas..I think they were trying to draw us out.."

Allure mouths at Jennifer, "The others don't know!"

<Blood> Alex says, "Eva..?!"

<Blood> Allure says, "Not sure, but something about when one of the used her powers...."

Jennifer looks suitably embarrassed. "Oh. Oh, Stephie, I'm sorry. I was just so excited by the news. I'm really really sorry."

<Blood> Alex says, "Is everybody alright? Did she try to kill anybody?"

Exodus blinks between the two.."What are you guys talking about?"

Pele goes off flying after gadget boy at full speed.

Allure tries to put the cat in the bag. "It's nothing... really..."

Exodus looks as Pele flies off.."I never realized how she was..geez, shes sorta scary."

The cat outside the bag looks puzzled. "Never say it's nothing. That only gets people wondering what kind of nothing, how far away it is from being nothing in reality..." Ferryl grins. "THe more mysterious, the more likely others are going to press for questions."

The police operator responds. A meta-wagon is on the way.

Jennifer loks at Exodus, " Stephie's dad is a prof type at the U. He's rich. Well compared to me."

<Blood> Exodus says, "Everyone seems to be Ok, but we got some brick all tangled up in ice..we'll need someone to question him.""

Exodus frowns.."Well..that wouldn't be cool to use his money."

Allure tries the change-the-subject approach. "Maybe we can learn something from robot girl?"

"I think I missed the part where this is relevant," Ferryl mentions.

Ferryl points at the crossboney guy. "What about asking him?"

Exodus nods.."I'll take the parts of the robot girl to A...er Starguard for a look."

<Blood> Allure says, "We're basically fine - took a couple of hit but no permanent damage."

Jennifer nods, "Okay, I'll pay for a slap-up meal somewhere. If there's any of my allowence left. Have you spent me out of house and home, Stephie?"

Exodus nods.."Um..Allure..dear, maybe you can get him to talk?

Allure says, "How? There's not really mich of a way to waste money there...."

<Blood> Alex says, "Ok, that's good. Any sign of...?"

<Blood> Allure says, "Sign of who?"

<Blood> Alex says, "Phillippa"

<Blood> Exodus says, "None Alex..not that we can see."

<Blood> Allure says, "No. A few other people, but none matched her, thank goodness."

Exodus looks at the scene..it seems in order..

Ferryl turns toward boney, "So. I figure we have a little time before the nice policeguys show up. Anything you'd like to tell us about this at all?"

Exodus is gone in a blink..literally.

Crossbone Guy says, "It wasn't my idea... It was Blue Angel's"

Crossbone adds, "I want... uh... what's it called... immunity!"

Allure says, "And what was this idea, exactly?"

Ferryl looks amused, "Someone light a match?"

Crossbone says, "Angel had this plan to take out New Blood. Not like hurt 'em or anything... just see if we could beat 'em. So she came up with this plan."

Allure says, "Great plan. Learn anything? So who else was was in on it?"

"Oh, well, you need to do that when I'm not around," Ferryl says decidedly. "I'm not New Blood. But I kind of share a little in common with two of them tactics-wise. Fight smart, and all." She grins in jest.

Crossbones says, "This guy called IQ and this girl called Badaboom. The didn't tell me much though. Don't know why they were so tightlipped, though."

Allure frowns. Something she was afraid of, maybe. "So what can you tell us about Blue Angel?"

Crossbones Guys asks, "You guys are gonna let me go for this information, right?"

<Blood> Allure says, "Anyone know where Nils is these days?"

<Blood> Jennifer says, "Still in an institute I'd hope, but yeah, IQ would fit."

<Blood> Allure says, "That's what I'm thinking."

<Blood> Alex says, "Lost track of him. Yeah, I think he'd still be locked up."

Allure smiles. "Well, you know, we usually play nice with people who play nice with us...."

Jennifer says, "So what's your normal line of work, Crossbones? When you're not trying to take on New Blood.""

Ferryl grins. "Sorry, I'm not gonna lie to ya. I think they didn't tell you much because you have a habit of answering questions fast. But I'll put in a good word for you on the cooperation since you didn't hurt anyone."

Allure thinks. o O (Damn, I wish I were myself....)

Crossbones begins to ignore Ferryl and Allure and looks to Jennifer with a dopey-eyed look that she's been getting a lot of this week. "Me... I beat nerds up and take their lucnh money. Wanna watch me do it sometime?"

Jennifer says, "Maybe. What's your home phone number, big guy?"

Allure leaves it to Jennifer. She seems to have got the idea, at last.

Crossbones tells Jenn his home number. "Hey, somebody get me out of this ice. I want some lovin'!

<Blood> Jennifer says, "It's Bubba, I pretty sure of it."

<Blood> Allure says, "Hey, Alex, can you check if this matches Bubba's phone number: --?"

<Blood> Alex says, "Sure let me check...."

<Blood> Alex says, "No... it's registered to an Eric Stantz -- hey isn't he a junior."

Ferryl looks around, "Does he get let out? I'm inclined to let the nice policemen remove it using their special tools."

<Blood> Jennifer says, "Just a thought, some of us were in civies. They still knew who we were."

<Blood> Allure says, "Hang on. All I know about Eric is that he got beaten up by Bubba, and Bubba stole his PDA...."

<Blood> Allure says, "And Jenn - *you* were the one in civvies. Well, half of me, but not the half they were after.  I'm wondering if it's you, that is me, they were after...  Nils was, you may recall.  If it's him, but that's what got me thinking...."

<Blood> Jennifer says, "An opaque forcewall is targetted at one and only one of the New Blood team. And it's not normally me."

Crossbones puckers up. "Hey Stephie, gimme a kiss."

<Blood> Allure says, "Hm, point. You think they know - oh of course they do.  Damn..."

<Blood> Allure says, "If Eva's on the team!"

<Blood> Jennifer says, "Well, thinking about it I can't see a problem. We aren't at our best right now and we still walked all over them. Thanks to Ferryl as well of course, but if that's any idication of what they have I'm not worried."

Crossbones looks to Ferryl. "I'm talking to you, you have to let me go, right? That's how it's supposed to work."

<Blood> Allure says, "Well, true - still, I'm concerned that they *know*."

Crossbones says, "We didn't even hurt nobody or steal nothin!"

Ferryl says, "Actually you probably won't be held long. All you did was pick someone up and move them via flight. And that person went off to catch one of the guys with you. But the cops were already called. So you should be okay so long as they have no reason to hold you otherwise."

Jennifer shrugs, "I have to say she's probably right. Meta fight, no injuries, no collateral damage. Nobody's going to care. Be smart, don't give the cops any lip and you'll be home by night."

Crossbones says, "That's what Angel said, too. Hey, hows about that kiss."