Log:Enter the Shocker

2013/07/11 	 Dorian Fox Spirit Ten Bifrost Bee Shocker 1

Alien District (right in front of Starguard Headquarters)

''The Alien District is long and thin, stretching north and south on either side of StarDancer Boulevard, but of great historical significance: here aliens made first contact with the superhero StarDancer herself. A bronze plaque in the middle of the boulevard, toward the southern end of the district, commemorates this momentous event, while as does a park further north, with a statue of StarDancer and the alien shaking hands. ''

''The architecture and style of many of the businesses here shows profound alien influence, even ones built more recently than the initial alien craze, as if here the fashion never went away. This alien flare manifest in the products too, and if you are lucky you may even see some actual aliens here. ''

Fox grows in size abruptly, digging her claws into the edges of Shocker's exoskeleton at a few specific points that look kind of weak in structure compared to the rest. "Stand...down," she says menacingly.

Ten was heading toward SG to check in during a break when she noticed something seemed to be up in the street outside.

Outside the Starguard building, in front of the main doors, is a man in a steel exoskeleton with electrical arcs crawling all over him. He is stood in a shallow smoking crater in the sidewalk.

Shocker abruptly turns into a living bolt of electricity. The bolt shoots up into the clouds. An instant later it shoots down again in a deafening blinding lightning strike hitting a couple of feet away from the existing crater.

The twisted metal signpost used by Star Girl to bind Shocker's arms falls to the ground.

Fox fails to harm Shocker's gear, surprised at what he did, but not about to make the mistake a second time. She finds herself blinded and deafened, but this is hardly enough to really completely totally stop her.

Star Girl staggers backwards from Shocker, clasping her hands over her ears. o O ( My ears! )

Ten, arriving on the scene and finding several heroes fighting a presumed villain, blasts a couple of segments off her staff aimed at Shocker's eyes.ooc

Shocker blinks as segments of Ten's staff shoot at his eyes, but that seems to be the only effect as the staff segments impact on the metal of the exoskeleton before getting to his eyes.

Nowhere is ever far away when you have a teleporter and Bee appears hovering above the street only a few seconds after the battle is joined. With mechanical wings humming madly, she spins quickly to assess the situation, but this time there isn't much to assess: a lone stranger battling known heroes.

Ten fails with the blinding, but given that this is a team effort she keeps up the effort to but the villain off balance. "Hey all - whose the guy who ought to be grounded?" The close to 7m and attempt to knock his feet out from under him.

A lash of Ten's staff sweeps the feet from below the villain!

Shocker falls ungainly to the ground.

Bee swoops to within less than a dozen meters and calls out for the benefit of the less informed. "Shocker, ex mafia berserker with a vulnerability to mental attacks." Adding, almost as a side comment, "How did you manage to beat life with no parole for the murder of that senior French politician? Or is your release not exactly sanctioned?" She also also whips a marble-sized gas bomb out of her pouch and flicks it in his direction.

Spirit can't hear Bee's comments at all, so he can't really fill her in on the situation as of yet.

Some coughing seems to indicate the gas bomb had an effect on Shocker.

Spirit builds up some energy in his fists again, and glances in the direction of Star Girl while he hesitates for a moment.

Star Girl's eyelets narrow. She can see Ten talking but can't pick out meaning from the movement of her lips. She turns back to Shocker and fires both hand blasters at Shocker, unleashing twin streams of blue-white energy. ZAAM!

Spirit lets loose with a laser blast from both hands toward Shocker, coinciding with Star Girls' own attack.

Shocker turns briefly into electricity. When he reforms he's back on his feet. Looking at Spirit he lifts a hand. Lightning forms in a intense ball around his hand, and he throws the ball at Spirit.

Spirit gets hit by the electricity...and is lofted off his feet, back through the door of the Starguard building to land on the floor of the reception area. "Ooof..."

Bee hmms and considers doing something clever, but flips another gas bomb at Shocker while she looks over his suit.

Bee thinks .oO (Well old girl, mental attacks are out for me today, so that leaves overload or grounding).

More coughing from Shocker as a second gas bomb envelops him momentarily.

Spirit gets to his feet, and tries something different while Shocker is distracted by the gas bomb. He reaches out a hand like he's gripping something, and attempts to draw off some of Shocker's energy.

As Spirit drains energy from Shocker the villain sags and looks hurt. The energy seemed to come not from any reserve but from the very essence of the villain.

Spirit tilts his head, considering the implications of that. . o O (Hmm. He's going to target me again, after that. I don't want to kill him...I might want to lay off on that.)

Bee yells, "Anybody have a pair of jumper cables handy?"

Star Girl doesn't react to Bee's question, still deafened by the Shocker's thunderclap.

Down the street a motorist crouched down behind his car yells to Bee, "I have a set in the truck."

Ten decides to trip the villain again, once more to give the others the chance to gang up on him.

Ten once more sweeps the villain's feet from under him but wonders how useful this is....

Bifrost comes roaring in from off camera. "Sorry guys! I got lost somewhere along the way!" she says. She spots Ten sweep someone to the ground and goes after them, landing on them with the force of a hurricane packed into a seven foot amazonian package.

Shocker turns into electricty again, and reforms back on his feet.

Shocker lifts his arms, and from every electrical device within 16m of him arcs of electricity sear and sizzle across the space and ground into him. The crawling lightning around him, which had dimmed, brightens to almost what it was at the start.

Bee swoops down next to the bystander and snatches his keys. "My hero," she says with a smile as she pulls out the jumper cables from the trunk. "Stay down," she adds "I'm better equipped for this kind of thing."

Star Girl straightens up and plants her feet in a wide range. She gathers energy between her hands like she's holding a basketball. Blue-white energy glows with greater and greater intensity between her hands. She thrusts her palms forward at Shocker, hadouken style.

Shocker is stuck be Star Girl's blast and knocked off his feet again, ending up a few meters further down the road.

Spirit moves a little closer, and tries to draw off more energy from Shocker. . o O (I have enough control over this. I'll be able to stop long before he's seriously hurt.) He uses both hands, trying to draw off as much energy as possible, to hopefully put a stop to the fight in short order.

Shocker's electrical aura of crawling lightning dims visibly as Spirit drains his energy.

Wisps of energy draw off of Shocker's body, heading toward Spirit...only to dissipate into the air before it reaches the hero.

Star Girl steps a little closer to Shocker, maintaining her distance to him. She fires her blasters again at Shocker.

Shocker sags a little, his head drooping as if starting to get too heavy to hold up.

Bifrost isn't the fastest person around, but she's tough and she's strong. "You try that electricity bullcrap on me mister." she says, dashing in and grabbing him as hard as she can.

Ten decides just to join in the generally beating, given that being clever doesn't seem to have helped much. She thwacks at him with her extended staff as hard as she can.

Bifrost grunts as she wraps her impossibly strong arms around the shockingly weak (badumtish) villain, lifting him off the ground. And she squeezes, with a grinding of bone and the sound of popping joints.

The villain is looking in a bad way. His lightning aura is virtually extinguished. He looks at Spirt, "If you don't hand the girl over I'm going to get my friends and we'll burn this city to the ground." he threatens. Then he transforms into a bolt of lightning that shoots up to the clouds high above.

"Take a number," Star Girl says, as her hearing returns.

Ten says, "Why do people like to issue dire threats when running for their lives?"

Spirit looks to Ten, "You missed the prelude. We have an issue at Stronghold. Prisoners being deputized."

Ten says, "That... sounds like someone's got a bit confused about the point of a prison."

Spirit says, "Looks like there's some mind control at work. Some kind of Guild rep. I need to get a team together to deal with this, and get on the horn to the UEMS and SG higher ups.""

[To Spirit] Bee says, ""How do we know it is a Guild rep? A mind controller could invent whatever 'credentials' he required."

Spirit says, "The 'girl' he was chasing is the one who told me. Even though she's technically a criminal, she came looking for sanctuary, and I do consider her a friend. I'm willing to trust her on the matter."

Ten says, "A Guild rep? That doesn't sound good."

Dorian changes back to his human form. "No idea if he's acting on behalf of the Guild. Even if he was, I'm sure they're disavow all knowledge. Either way, the prison's compromised."

Dorian says, "All I can say is...I'm glad it's Stronghold, and not Tranquility. THAT prison would be a nightmare to deal with."

[To Dorian] Bee nods, "Well, I'm familiar with mentalism but I'm not one. Do you have anybody specific in mind for this?"

Ten says, "A compromised Stronghold is a scary idea. I mean, when the Chinese super prison was trashed, they had a revolution!"

Bifrost settles in after patting down her frizzed up hair. "Sorry about getting lost like that. What'd I miss?"

Dorian shakes his head, "No one specific. Clearly, we need to contain it. I'm sure I can get SG Delta forces to act as perimeter defenses around the prison, along with some UEMS support. But I'm loathe to include too many marshals. Then we need to hit the prison with a strike force."

Bee sighs as everybody runs off in different directions. Raising her wrist to her lips, she says, "Base. One to port home." A few seconds later, she disappears.