Log:Superkids!, Scene 4

Superkids! 2007/05/17 	 Barricade Jennifer and Jessica Spirit Psiforce Spitball Rainbow Toymaster#Cowboy|Cowboy Toymaster#Saucer|Saucer Toymaster#Doggie|Doggie Toymaster#Hoverboard|Hoverboard 4

Scene: Boardwalk Mall 

Jennifer approaches Maxwell, "Good afternoon, Sir. Would you like a schedule?"

A small business sits to one side, it's windows completely covered from the inside with brightly colored posters and T-shirts.

Maxwell looks up and cocks his head to the side, "Schedule?" he asks, looking just a little curious. He shifts his backpack and runs his hand through his hair, "What type of schedule?"

Jennifer says, "For the summer fixtures for the high school sports teams, Sir. All the events are listed along with a booking office number for purchasing tickets."

Jessica waves casually to Dorian when she sees him exiting the technology store.

Dorian looks up from the flyer he's looking at, and notices Jessica, waving to her with a smile on his face. He walks over casually, "What're you up to?"

Jessica says, "Passing out these leaflets." She hands Dorian one of the schedules. "I look good volunteering and got a discount on the Gym advert on the back cover.""

Jessica lowers her voice, "Shopping or is something going down here?"

Dorian seems to consider a comment, but refrains, considering Jessica's age. "Well, that's cool. Oh, I was just doing some shopping. I have a personal life, you know." He chuckles.

Maxwell shrugs a bit, "Sure, I can take one." he says and shakes his head a little, "Not sure if I will find the time, but, I can try."

Jessica smiles, "The athletics team are looking good this year. The City Cup is as good as in our hands and there's hope we'll go all the way in the state finals. Well worth watching."

Maxwell nods, "Yes, but I have to go at a moment's notice if my pager goes off." he shrugs a bit.

Jessica gives Dorian a wry grin, "I have several personal lives it seems. You know about all these rifts that are happening?"

It's a typical to busy Thursday afternoon after school at the mall: much shopping, and people of all ages.

Dorian nods, "More or less, yeah." He's busy talking with Jessica, standing in the middle of the open area of the mall.

Jessica is chatting to Dorian, Jennifer is talking to Maxwell after handing him a leaflet.

Vicente is taking a break from Starguard. The SG officer is visiting the fishing store at the Mall.. Hmmm.. nice bait!

Jessica says, "There's a more or less permanent rift in Lisa's place at the moment. Seems Lisa's place is a SWAT team hangout in the other dimension and other me is assigned to SWAT as a bomb disposal expert. So I keep bumping into me-2."

Dorian says, "Huh. That's kinda weird."

Jessica nods. "Sure is."

Maxwell nods and shrugs a little. "I might be able to make a game and maybe crime will calm a bit in town too." he chuckles and shakes his head a bit.

Vicente gets distracted by something else outside of the fishing store and wanders towards the comics store. Is that a ripoff of Starguard in the comics? Hmm...

Vicente glances out to see if there are any security guards or anything in the vicinity. Trouble could be brewing. Barricade remains just outside of the comic book store as he assesses the situation.

Jessica glances over at a bench. "Uh, Dorian, the bench over there by the hotdog stall. See the stuffed dog on it? Any sign of electronics or radio activity? You know, the kind that remote detonators use."

Maxwell just continues chatting and looking at the pamphlet a bit.

Vicente decides to murmur something into his SG com unit as he assesses the situation.

Dorian glances over...and his eyes light up as he scans the dog.

Vicente tries to remember the info on Spitball.

Jessica lifts her head and looks to see which way the comic shop is located. "I've just heard over the SGG channel. There's a report of a villain having been seen in the comic shop." she tells Dorian.

Jennifer nods to Maxwell, "Do come is you can. You'll enjoy it." and then starts making her way towards the comic shop.

Dorian looks at Jessica, "Let's check it out. I mean...what villain would go to a comic store?"

Dorian starts walking toward the place briskly.

Maxwell nods and watches her go as he looks at his pamphlet and starts to continue a bit, not having noticed too much yet, while he was talking to Jennifer.

Vicente tries to act casual and nonchalant as he picks up comic book and peruses through it a little peeved at the way this so called wannabe SG org is depicted as an incompetent government group needing the Spirit of Valor team to bail them out all the time. He still stands just outside the comic book shop. He's now just inside the store so that it wont seem like he's trying to steal anything. The SG officer radios in more info.

Jessica chuckles, "A vain one? Maybe he or she wants to see if they've made it into the league of super nasties?"

Dorian chuckles. "That'd be kind of sad, I suppose." He reaches the front of the store, and looks around quietly.

Spitball just seems to be chatting with the clerk about this ancient comics, with enthusiasm, and the clerk seems to be happy to show him more. Several are on the counter now.

Jessica does likewise looking for a villain. On first glance she'll be looking for bright colored spandex or dark sinster cloaks.

Vicente spots Dorian and Jessica approach and decides not to draw too much attention and puts the comic book down and heads back to the entrance of the Fishing Shop across the way so he can keep an eye out.

Dorian and Jessica are almost there when there's a scream from a different part of the mall entirely - rather closer to Maxwell, indeed.

Vicente blinks. "What was that?" He glances in direction of scream.

Maxwell blinks a bit and tries to find the source of the scream, without being too obvious.

A mall security guard starts heading for the source of the scream.

Jessica tells Dorian, "I'm told the villain is the kid at the counter. I'll deal with this if you want to check out the screaming."

Maxwell looks for a place to change outfits quickly.

Dorian sighs..."I know the kid. There's probably a bunch of them about. Probably six or seven."

Restrooms happen to be close by.

Dorian says, "I'll check out the screaming, though. Be careful..the kid spits acid."

Maxwell heads quickly to the restroom, well as quickly as possible so he can change and make it back.

Dorian moves away from the comic store, and jogs out into the mall, looking for the source of the screaming.

Maxwell gets back about as the security guard reaches the entrance to the store. He's hit by a purple beam from within the store and collapses on the ground. He looks more surprised than anything.

Jessica makes her way over to the counter where Spitball is, "Hi." she smiles to the clerk and the boy.

Dorian blinks..."Rainbow, I'd guess." He quickly moves to the entrance to the store in question.

Vicente spots Dorian moving to the source of the scream and seems relieved that there is more help. He moves back to the entrance of the comic book store and waits to see if the twins need help.

Psiforce blinks a bit as he sees the guy collapse and brings up his forcefield and heads to the entrance as well.

"Hi!" the clerk smiles. The boy looks slightly annoyed. Girls apparently rate higher in the books of spotty clerks than do kids.

Vicente looks to see if Dorian needs assistance.

In the candy store is an odd scene.

A cowbow doll has a the screaming shopowner tied up in his lasso. Meanwhile the flying saucer is sucking up various candies with what seems to be an orange tractor beam.

Dorian's eyes light up again briefly, looking at the two items..

Psiforce blinks, "Um...." he shakes his head, not sure what to think of the scene in front of him.

Dorian grumbles, and changes form in a flash of light. If nothing else, that should draw out the culprit...they attacked the security guard...it's likely he'll get attacked now too, now that it's obvious who he is.

"Can I help you?" says the clerk hopefully.

Jennifer hurries into the comic shop shaking her head, treating the clerk to a double act, "There's something strange going on out there. Mind if I come in here out of the way?" she asks the clerk.

Vicente rushes over towards where Dorian went while putting on his helmet and gauntlets...

The cowboy doll squints and hand by his gun, says to Spirit, "Draw, pardner!"

Spirit brings up his energy shields, just standing there. "Don't force this, kid."

"What's going on?" asks the clerk, looking about worried.

Psiforce cocks his head to the side, "Know anything about this stuff?" he asks, as he moves up towards Spirit.

Spirit nods, "Just a little bit. Group of kids...there's probably six of them here at least. Be wary."

The cowboy doesn't seem dissuaded, and draws and fires anyway!

Jessica leans forward to answer, her hand dropping onto the boy's shoulder in that annoying habit older people have of treating kids like furniture. "It's a SGG operation I think. Only it's all going down softly-softly."

Spirit's light shield shimmers as the shot strikes it, and rockets back toward the diminutive gunman. "You can't actually hurt me...just stop, before I actually have to hurt you."

The bullet misses the small doll but shatter the container behind him, spilling gobstoppers over the floor.

Spitball, seeing the clerk is distracted, decides he has to stop Jennifer first, and readies a gob at her....

The cowboy and (somehow) the saucer both seem to hesitate. They're only little!

Spirit points at the two of them. "Sit down, both of you."

Spirit knows he's guessing that it's just an illusion that they look like toys...but he'll come off seeming omniscient if he's right.

Jennifer sees the tensing of muscles as Spitball prepares to spit acid or whatever at her. It's enough. She moves in to him, flanking him on the opposite side to Jessica and strikes at his feet with a stamping kick, downing down with Spitball to pin him against the floor of the store with his face turned away from Jennifer, Jessica, and the clerk.

Spitball can't spit at Jennifer, so he spits at what he can - the floor.

Jennifer holds Spitball down against the floor, "Now you can be still or you can be punched out. Your choice." she warns him.

The floor starts fizzling.

The flying saucer isn't *that* scared. Still hovering, it drops the candy and zaps at Spirit.

Again, these toys are a bit small to hit. There goes a light and a good chunk of ceiling though.

Spirit folds his arms. "That was your last warning. Next time one of you two tries something, I blast you. Actually use your brains...you're outmatched."

Jessica drops into a crouch and slugs Spitball with a reverse fist to the side of his head, pulling the blow.

Spitball makes a loud "oof!" as the fist connects with some light concealed armour. That seemed to hurt him a fair bit, though not to stun him. "You'll pay for that," he yelps, then yells for help at the top of his voice.

Jessica is happy to feel the armor. Now she can squeeze. So she does.

Psiforce mutters, "Can't do anything unless I can see them..." he isn't sure the toys are real or not, so holds off for now.

Spirit says, "I think it's them...just an illusion over them."

Spitball seems to be a little shaky but not out yet. His yell becomes more of a scream.

Barricade hears the screaming and hesitates. His mind thinks about what will happen next. Will the villains come to rescue their fallen friend? The SG officer uses his criminology and deduction to try to figure out if staying put will be the best thing to do. If the flies come to the flytrap, he might just be able to nab them.

Barricade prepares for the trap. He radios in to the twins.

Jennifer keeps Spitball pinned to the floor and squeezes.

Jessica tells the clerk, "Go! Leave by the rear exit and lock it."

The clerk doesn't need tell twice! He runs!

It's not Spirit's day. The damaged ceiling suddenly decides to collapse on him.

Barricade says, "Where is lady luck when we need her?"

Jessica hold ready to react if one or more kids come to the rescue.

The screaming gets louder and then abruptly stops as Spitball goes limp.

Barricade thinks. o O (Ok, the trap is set.. Let's see how close knit these punks are.)

So, you wait, and wait, and then....

And racing through the mall to the rescue comes....

... a stuffed dog sitting on a hoverboard!

Barricade thinks. o O (There's got to be more of them.. but where?)

The dog appears to be attempt to ride right through the twin holding Spitball!

Psiforce blinks a bit as he realizes the place just collapsed on Spirit. "Not good," he looks around seeing if there are any others that need assistance and trying to remember if Spirit would or not.

The dog jumps teeth-first (it has teeth?) in attack at the last minute, but misses, and the board crashes into racks of comics.

Spirit seems to be out, but unhurt. The cowboy may be a little hurt, but not the saucer or the woman running the shop. Anyone else had run already.

Psiforce gives a moment and then looks into the store, "You two should come out and give up." he focuses his mind to influence or try to anyway the Cowboy.

Barricade takes this opportunity to close in and place an entangling wall on the doggy. Hopefully he'll catch them this time.

The dog whines pitifully.

Barricade smiles under his helmet as the force wall entangles the little snozzer. However he is worried about others that will be here. "Be careful!" He warns the twins!

The cowboy laughs at Psiforce as he fires!

Jennifer nods, "That stuffed dog has for real teeth. It will chew its way out, Boss.

Barricade nods to Jennifer. "Noted. I'm sure there are more of them around. Don't let your guard down."

The cowboy's toy gun seems to have the impact of a real one!

Jessica laughs, "Me! No chance. I remember how deadly I was at this age. No chances being taken."

It's at this point an alarm sounds at a third location in the mall.

Barricade frowns. "Uh oh.. There's more."

Psiforce blinks a bit but relaxes slightly as his psionic shield takes the shot. "Not nice." He says and focuses his mind to cause pain to the cowboy, though not sure if the mind is there or not."

Jessica and Jennifer stand ready for whatever happens next.

The flying saucer has filled its cargo bay with candy - it now takes a shot at Psiforce!

The board suddenly flies back at the twin!

Psiforce blinks, there is a mind, well he thought that before the saucer blasted him, his shield taking most of it but enough gets through to knock him down, and stun him.

Then the cowboy takes another shot at Psiforce.

Jennifer steps to the side and pushes the hoverboard off line causing it to slam into yet another rack of comics.

Psiforce isn't very coherent, though his shield takes the shot.

The dog tries to gnaw at its bonds.

Looks like it's going to take it a while.

Jessica steps over to the hoverboard and smacks it hard.

The board twitches aside at the last moment!

Barricade tries to entangle the board!

The board appears to be immobilised.

Barricade seems a bit relieved as the board is also entangled in his force barrier.

Barricade says, "We have to secure them. Make sure they do not escape. We don't have enough man power to secure the other locations."

Psiforce falls to the saucer's next beam.

Barricade thinks. o O (I hope Spirit and whoever else is there is ok...)

Jessica nods, "Your job I think, Boss. All I can do is hit them. You can tie them up. Is that really a stuffed dog and hoverboard? So do I stay here or go get the rest of them?

The dog keeps failing to get out and whining.

Barricade nods to Jessica. "I'll call SG over to place them in secure holdings. You move out to see if Spirit is ok and then if that is secure move to the third location. We can't spread ourselves too thin. I'll place a wall around here to secure. I'll call you if I need assistance." Barricade also englobes Spitball in an entangle.

Barricade calls for support.

Jennifer nods, "On it, Boss." She chuckles, "You know, Boss, one of these days it would be nice to be officially on duty and actually be able to use my wolfie equipment. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to carry it." And with that the twins move out to check on Spirit.

SG say they'll send a team right away. And some mall security turns up, too.

Security assure you they can call you for help if any look like they might begin to get loose.

Barricade tells Security that it is under SG jurisdiction and that he will remain with the villains until backup arrives.

Barricade tells security to check on the third location.

Security goes to do so.

Barricade eyes the villains warily. This is a lot of work.

They don't seem to be doing much of a job of getting free. Spitball comes round, eventually.

Barricade makes sure to secure the mouth of Spitball.

Barricade punches the villain out with his free gauntlet.

Jessica spots a girl flying out of a store with an armful of clothes on the way over.

Jessica shouts over to the flying girl, "Hey, you with the armful of loot. Are you with those other kids or just taking advantage of the chaos?"

Rainbow giggles and starts flying away from Jessica.

Jessica shrugs and carries on to the Candy Shop. Chasing flying thieves is not in her job description.

The candy store looks in pretty bad shape. Half its ceiling lies on top of Spirit. Psiforce lies unconscious just outside, and no one is left but the shopkeeper, looking a bit shocked.

"My store...." she mumbles to herself.

The two seem they'll be ok, just out for a while.

Jessica and Jennifer move to Spirit and Psiforce. The twins start with using their healing kits. The kits can't do any harm and will help in there are injures.

Once reasonable certain the downed heroes can be moved safely the twins carry them back to the Comic Store and Barricade.

The alarm continues to sound when the twins bring the downed heroes back. No word from security.

Jessica says, "They don't look injured. Any word on SG ETA?"

Barricade shakes his head. "Its going to take some time. Looks like they are trying to lure us out. I have no idea on what's happening elsewhere in the mall."

The alarm rings on.

Barricade tells Gemini, "I don't think these guys are killers. Just kids wanting things their way. They'll do some damage to the building and to the businesses, but I don't think they are out to kill people."

Jessica says, "They're nicer than I was at their age then. I hope you're right. But what's with the stuffed dog and hoverboard? Those are just weird."

Barricade glances down. "I'm not sure. We'll have more time to figure things out back at HQ."

The dog barks.

Barricade calls on his communicator to see how the rest of the mall is doing with SG ETA coming over.

SG turn up before too long. It's seems that five different stores were robbed.