Log:The Navy is in Town

2008/08/23 	 Jocelyn Michelle Sable Diamond 1

Past Times Coffee shop. The smell of fresh coffee is the first thing that assails you. The next is the very old style. It seems the owner has gone for the Edwardian style from early last century. Lots of imitation wood panelling and prints of old English countryside. There are many partitions between the tables, affording some privacy and the sound seems hushed in the room, this has been achieved mainly through very good design, which muffles sounds. At the counter service is quite quick and cheery, conveying a welcoming and friendly attitude. The menu boasts the fact that for a little extra real coffee is served along with light hot and cold meals and snacks. All in all a pleasant place to pass a bit of time.

Regan sits quietly reading an e-book, her hands folded in her lap and lips softly pursed as she digests the entries on the current page before sparing a glance for the coffee shop and its patrons.

Jocelyn enters the coffee shop and looks away a little guiltily from the temporary sheet of construction plastic blocking up a hole in the rear wall of a booth leading into the kitchen. Nodding to Regan who she's seen in the shop before she heads over to order a drink.

Regan smiles and returns Jocelyn's nods. "Hi, how are you doing?"

Jocelyn looks back towards Regan, "Uh, me? Oh.. I'm okay thanks. Someone called Lightray healed the bruises."

Michelle finds herself wandering into the shop and grabbing some coffee and sugar filled stuff.

Regan's brows lift slightly. "The bruises?" She asks. "What have you been up to?" Her gaxe sweeps to the repairs. "Nothing too untoward I hope."

Jocelyn says, "Oh, not really. An alien bug-man come into here yesterday and tried to kidnap Lorelei and kill Alex Winters. I sort of hung onto one of its arms so it couldn't use the gun it was holding in that arm. But it was strong and I was being thrown around when it tried to dislodge me."

Regan blinks and nods. "Oh, well, first of all, that seems extremely courageous." She gives her head a small shake. "I know I would have been cowering in a corner, there seems to be a lot of interest in Lorelei recently, but what would anyone have against Alex Winters."

Jocelyn says, "Alex was trying to help Lorelei too. That's why the buggy alien attacked him I think."

Olivia comes into the coffee shop and glances around a little. The light catches her skin and hair making them sparkle a bit, must be glitter. She looks around a bit and doesn't seem to see anyone she knows but she does hear some familiar names being said.

Michelle yawns as she sips the coffee and ponders "Probably something to do with the one he's trying to track down or something"

Jocelyn sighs, "If Alex hadn't been wearing some armor stuff under his ordinary clothes he would have been killed. I guess he does that cause he worked for Starguard."

Olivia moves a bit close to them so that she can hear, but might be a bit obvious, she isn't the most stealthy of sorts.

Jocelyn glances over and then openly stares for a moment before remembering her manners. "Oh, sorry." She apologizes to Olivia.

Regan glances to Michelle. "Alex Winters is hunting an alien? I wasn't aware of that." She nods to Jocelyn. "Well I'm glad he took that precaution, was everyone ok?"

One of the coffee shop windows at the front of the shop has been opened. A rather cunning ploy as the aroma of fresh coffee is drifting out into the street. It's for sure that more than one passing shopper is going to be tempted and come in for a cup of coffee.

Jocelyn nods. "Yes. Rebound and Lightray turned up and they stopped the alien."

Olivia shakes her head, "It is alright, have gotten used to it, over the many years." the way she says many speaks of far more than one would think given the age she looks. She still seems to be listening after all, they are talking about aliens and all, at least she thinks, and heroes. Without thinking she reaches up and takes off her sunglasses and puts them away. It reveals her gem-like faceted eyes, that look like diamonds.

Regan says, "Well I'm very glad to hear that, and that you're safe, it must have been a harrowing experience." Her sombre gaze moves to Olivia and she inclines her head in greeting."

Entering through the window comes the sound of screams and skidding tires. A couple of crunches that sound like a tailgate incident or two. plus some deep loud animal like growls and roars.

Jocelyn starts to nod when the sounds from outside change from the normal everyday type to something that sounds like trouble.

Regan blinks and turns her attention to the window at the front of the store. Her lips compress fractionally. "That sounds bad." She says simply.

Michelle shrugs and reflexively heads towards the door... After that big tank like thing tried to kidnap people the last time she's not taking any chances.

Materializing from nowhere right outside the window as Regan turns there's suddenly a large bear like creature standing in the street. It's standing on its hind legs, slightly over seven feet tall. The creature is wearing a brightly colored kilt and belt with several pouches attached. The fur around its right upper limb is dyed in three dark green rings.

Diamond blinks a bit and then starts moving towards the door. As she does she seems to glow slightly and something seems to cover her body. When the glow fades she seems to be a woman made out of Diamond.

A hovercar swerves to avoid running into the creature and scrapes along a building wall with a crunching sound.

Stepping outside the coffee shop. Bridgend is an upmarket coastal stretch, between the port to the north and the yacht club to the south, where several main roads meet: Golden Sands Road from the southwest, Ming Street from Chinatown, Bridge Road from Sandy Bottoms Island, and Wharf Street, running roughly parallel to the shore. Some more prominent businesses have warehouses here, but expensive houses and nice cafes, restaurants and shops are more common. The spectacular arch of the bridge to the island guarantees these businesses always have a good tourist trade.

As each of you step outside you see the creature is not alone. There are three others in sight and another appears an instant later. The creatures are alike in shape and size, all wearing the same style of kilt and belt. There are variations in the dyed patterns on their arms though, with the number of rings ranging from four to none and the color of the dye being either a dark green or a sky blue, and in one case a dark maroon.

Another bear like creature appears, this one close to one already there. The robo-truck heading towards it, programmed to avoid obstructions, swerves and thuds into the side of the creature that was already on the street.

Diamond frowns a bit and tries calling out to them, "Pardon me, does there seem to be a problem?" always a chance for peace before you have to beat things up.

Michelle speaks up to the bears "Excuse me, you might want to not stand in the middle of the street" the skunk lady points out to them, hoping they speak English.

The bear creature that just appeared roars (in amusement?) as the robo-truck knocks the first one down.

One of the bear creatures, the one with four dark maroon rings dyed around it's right upper limb, bounds into the air towards Diamond.

Michelle ponders out loud "Maybe these are the ones that ant guy was chasing after?" she offers to Jocelyn and Diamond since they're close enough.

"Troublemakers?" Narosia's quiet, accentless little voice drifts onto the scene as she steps out the shadows, one minute invisible and the next there in her becowled robe.

Standing up after being knocked over the bear creature being roared at by the newest arrival grabs the robo-truck and throws it at the arrival.

For a moment the growling and roaring from the bears stops. Then all but the one leaping at Diamond start rushing and leaping at each other.

Diamond cocks her head to the side and watches the leaping bear but doesn't do anything just yet as she realizes it is going to land in front of her.

"The Blue and Green are at odds." Narosia mutters, suddenly emerging from Regan's shadow. Readying herself, the whispish aura of magic around the girl becomes palpable.

Jocelyn rushes off into the ladies hope that Regan is in a cubicle and she can change without being seen.

The bears slam into each other swinging arms and body-checking with hard thuds. A couple go rolling over on the street as they are caught off balance. The others end up facing each other with arms swinging.

The bear leaping towards Diamond lands in front of her and growls at her. The growling is modulated. It seems likely to contain information content.

Michelle says, "At this rate we're gonna need to retain that guy who was here yesterday on a permenant basis... Assuming they're aliens or something"

Sable carves a smooth arc through the air as she leaps back into the street, landing softly on the pavement.

Narosia reacts quickly, shifting in front of Diamond to lunge, stabbing black blasts whiplashing at the bear, raking flesh.

The bear blasted by Narosia is hurled back across the street and slams through the windows of the Wing Chu take-away eatery. There's a moment's silence after the blast as all the bears look at what happened. Then a roaring starts than makes the previous sound seem a whisper in comparision.

Narosia withstands the screeching roars with just a wince, but something akin to fear holds her next blow and she stays in place, staring at where the bear flung.

Sable's lips compress as she surveys the scene. Her head swivelling slightly to inspect the wrestling ursoids. "What in heaven's name is going on here?"

Jocelyn changes into costume in the ladies in the coffee shop

Diamond cocks her head to the side and moves to intercept the car. She moves to grab it as it comes flying at them.

Diamond manages to grab the car and stops it, catching it and holding it in the air. She seems to enjoy this really.

Sable watches the auto arc through the air and seems visibly impressed when Diamond catches the car. She turns to face the bears. "That doesn't seem very friendly."

The bear leaping at Sable misses and slams into a wall instead.

Sable steps aside to let the bouncing bear soar by. She watches sombrely as it collapses to the pavement. "Does anyone know who these people are?"

The bear leaping at Michelle slams into her and sents her flying down the street.

The reat of the bears finish their leaps and end up close to the heroes.

Sable watches Michelle go sailing through the air and now seems genuinely unimpressed. "That howed enormously poor judgement."

Narosia observes the flying Michelle and shifts, teleporting herself several feet closer. Reddish lines spiral the air, alighting from outstretched arms and writhing over the bear, visibly latching onto the skin underneath...pulling.

The bear that slammed into Michelle gets enwrapped momentarily by the reddish lines of power coming from Narosia. It seems to shrink into itself, sagging and losing bulk to look like a badly stuffed bearskin rug.

Sable 's feet shift as she adjusts her stance slightly, shifting her weight to the balls of her feet. "Is there anyone I can talk to?"

"Stop now." Narosia utters what comes out a statment of fact, walking towards the shrunken beast, repressed shudder at her handiwork.

The bears are roaring and growling with ear-piercing volume in fury at what has happened to Narosia's victim. Two open pouches on their belts and draw out hand weapons. The others move in swinging and grabbing parked vehicles to throw or slam down onto the heroes. Except for the first bear who climbs out of the busted windows after recovering from Narosia's first blast.

A cloud of projectiles rockets out from the hand weapon and missing Narosia dig chunks out of the front wall of Steel's Gym.

The bear with the car brings it slamming don on top of Narosia's position. Fragments of car go spinning off. The car cannot take many impacts like that. Can Narosia?

Narosia staggers, holding her temple as the car impacts, miraculous powers innate and unknown saving her from a pulpy mess, serving to instead topple the girl briefly onto the pavement.

The blast of solid projectiles strikes Diamond and knocks her back into the front of the coffee shop.

Sable dives forward, curling into a smooth forward roll before rising again to her feet next to her attacker. "I could attack you now, or I can let you decide for yourself that I'm not here to hurt."

Diamond shakes her head brushing off that hit as if it was nothing and moves to slam her fist at the one that slammed the car at Narosia. Her fist moving with full strength and practiced ease.

Struck by the thunderbolt that is Diamond's fist the bear is sent flying down the street and slammed into another parked car. He is either stunned or knocked out by her blow.

The impact with the car is enough to complete the job of knocking that bear down.

Diamond is in her element now and it is good to be protecting or fighting, though she wonders if it was necesarry or not, too late now till they are all unconscious anyway.

Guardian doesn't understand what is going on but hitting the bears that the others are hitting is a good fall back action.

Guardian unknowingly picked on a bear that had already been hit and he goes down after slamming hard against a wall.

Michelle lays there crumpled on the concrete where she landed, she's not about to get up and go back into the fight, particularly since it seems like everyone else is doing fine without her.

Diamond cocks her head to the side and then leaps at one of the bears that is still attacking and slams her fist at it when she lands, putting some extra umph into it.

Diamond drives her fist powerfully into the bearman and knocks him out, driving him to the ground unconscious while she pulls her fist back.

Sable glances at the wreckage of the battle-field and decides belatedly that perhaps it's too late to negotiate her way out of this situation and unleashes a smooth front kick aimed at its sternum.

Sable's foot smacks crisply into the bear's chest, her weight rocking into the impact to smash the bear to the ground. Once he's flat on his back she lowers her foot to the ground and points sternly. "STay there or you're going to get hurt!"

The bear of the ground by Sable growls up at her but the tone is not that aggressive.

Sable opens her palm and then bends at the waist to offer the bear her hand to help it up.

Diamond cracks her neck a little and looks around at the others and seems to take a defensive posture now that no more bears appear to be attacking.

The bear accepts the hand up from Sable. Meanwhile the bear with the maroon dye goes over to the shrunken ill looking bear affected by Narosia's drain.

Michelle finally sits up when it seems like people pounding on each other has stopped and holds her arm and side, trying to keep from showing much if any pain. Although she's pretty sure something's broken or multiple somethings.

The bear with the maroon dye job gets a device from his belt pouches and uses it like a communicator. A few moments later the drained bear vanishes amid a haze of tiny sparks.

After a moment the maroon dyed bear walks over to Michelle and points at her side. He mimics breaking something with his paws and points again.

Sable helps the bear back up and offers a close-lipped smile before slapping it on the shoulder and walking over to where the others are standing. "Are you ok Michelle?"

Diamond frowns and cocks her head to the side and looks at the bear for a moment, wondering.

Michelle shrugs lightly at Sable and rolls her eyes "I'll live..." she grumbles as she tries to get to her feet with her good arm "...I think I might have broken something" she admits to Sable quietly

The maroon dyed bear uses the communicator again. After a short delay a new bear appears in the street. This is like the others except the dyed rings are silver in color.

The new arrival is holding yet another device. He growls into it and a sound like a dozen birds chirping is heard.

Diamond blinks and looks and then shakes her head, she still has the defensive posture and is making no moves as she tries to figure out what is going on.

Michelle peers over at the new arrival "I think they've got their translator on the wrong setting" at least she thinks its a translator... After that Ant Guy showed up yesterday she wouldnt rule it out.

The device growls at the new arrival. He makes an adjustment. "Can you understand me. Have I got the translo set to your Earth language?"

Sable nods firmly to the new arrival. "I can understand you."

Diamond blinks, "Well you might be right, yes." she says towards the bear.

The bear speaks with the maroon dyed bear and then to Michelle. "Have you received an injury from one of my fighters?"

Michelle nods some "Yeah" she admits finally "Broken ribs for sure and maybe my arm" after all those types of injuries arent exactly unknown to her. She is surprisingly resilient for someone without brick-type powers.

Diamond cocks her head to the side and shakes it a little and then watches.

The silver dyed bear growls out an order and one of the recovering bears steps forward. Michelle can see he's the bear that hit her. "He claims he was not aware the impact would cause injury. It did so. Therefore I place him in your custody for trial."

Sable glances to Michelle and tilts her head. "I might observe, just for the record. That innocent people are always likely to get hurt during melees in the middle of thoroughfares. So if in future you have a choice of venue you might select somewhere more remote." She turns her gaze to the senior ursine. "Does that sound reasonable?"

The senior bears answers, "They should not have been fighting at all. All involved will lost the remaining period of liberty on your planet." He shrugs, an awesome sight in a 7ft bear, "But marines and navy service bears have been fighting each over since the beginning of the service."

Michelle nods some and ponders for a moment "It's alright, I'll accept it as an honest mistake... Although the people who had their vehicles destroyed might not be too happy" she admits then looks over to Sable quietly "Hey do you know where the hospital is around here?"

Sable nods to Michelle. "Certainly, we should get you a taxi for the trip."

Diamond nods and just watches the bears, "I would suggest maybe then that the marines and navy service bears take liberty's on different planets?"

The bear looks around at the scene of destruction. "A Guild bond was posted before liberty was granted. All costs will be covered." Then there's a short conversation with one of the bears. "I will take custody of the one who injured the marine now. The Court Martial will commence in one rotation of your planet around its axis."

Diamond cocks her head to the side, "Custody of the one who injured the marine?" she raises a brow a bit.

The bears nods, "Yes."

One of the bears involved in the fight points to Narosia.

Sable says, "I hope that no unduly severe punishment is being offered?"

Sable says, "Or considered."

Diamond raises a brow, "And what commences at such a Court Martial?"

The senior bear tells you. "If convicted by the Judge Martials that human will be handed over to the Guild. I believe they use mental techniques to ensure the person will never do the same again."

Michelle pauses a moment as she holds her side some more "Umm, any way we can just leave things go... after all if I wasn't very tough enough to survive such an attack there'd be murder charges being tossed around about now and I'd not be here to be able to basically forgive the guy for the accident"

Diamond looks a bit upset. "So let me get this straight. You are wanting to subject Narosia," she points at her, "To some Court Martial which technically has no authority over her, and should they find her guilty, they will alter her mind? I do not think so." she says softly. "Your people were in the street, no announcement of any kind was given of their intentions and then started causing problems. We have dealt with similar attacks in the past and it would be understandable if we respond in force even though this instance was a case of mistaken intentions. If she was altered it would hamper her ability to help defend future attacks from persons who do not have intentions of a good nature. All of your people were in the wrong to choose here today, and it should be left at that, as most your people used force that could be considered too much." she is speaking calmly the entire time.

Sable says, "This may be a mix-up, I don't think they can court-martial anyone who isn't part of their service."

The bear shakes his head. "The marine that injured you showed stupidity and bad judgement in striking a human in the same way he would have struck a bear. There is no excuse for his action but it was not intended to injure. Whatever unbearish weapon was used on the injured marine severely injured him. Can you tell me that is a weapon in normal use when human fights human? Or that the intention of using it was not to injure or even kill?"

Diamond cocks her head to the side, "She isn't human, she would be termed metahuman and yes, it is a weapon that she would normally use when fighting other metahumans." she says using the opening the bear gave her, "And do you mean to say that throwing vehicles and hitting people with cars are normal bear weapons?"

The bear nods. "Yeas. Of course. Although our vehicles would not have been damaged like human vehicles were."

Sable says, "This was a brawl, and yes it was a bad thing to have happen but the perpetrators are now in custody."

Sable says, "The weapon was a spell. I don't think that I approve of the style of weapon used."

Diamond cocks her head to the side, "Yes, but the point would be that if such occurred she should be reported and turned into an Earth authority, such as Starguard or such, rather than an outside agency, though nothing to keep them from working together."

The bear shrugs again. "This will be reported to my forepaw and probably then to the Guild. I request you give me an assuance that the human will not be allowed to leave this planet. If I have that assurance I will leave the Guild to decide on and arrange for custody."

Diamond nods, "I do not forsee her leaving this planet of her own will in the near future, that is not to say that she couldn't get sucked into a timewarp or dimensional portal or such, but not of her own free will."

The bear nods. "Then I will go and pull the claws out of the defaulters' feet." He thinks for a moment, "That is a saying. It is not done literally. It means I have explain in simple words and great force how idiotic they have been."

Sable nods. "Well, I hope they learn their lesson."

Diamond nods, "Of course, thank you for coming and explaining things, and I am glad that not more of your people were hurt, I was worried that I had hit them too hard."

The bear guffaws, "They will remember little Earthlings for long time. Bang heads together only way some bears learn."

Michelle nods some and looks over at Sable for a moment

Sable nods once more. "I'm very glad we were able to sort this out without too much in the way of serious injury, and I'm very glad to have made your acquaintance. Now if you'll excuse me I should get my colleague to medical care."