Log:The Flying Bank Job

2008/09/21 	 Golden Halcyon Kibin Psiber Sable Skyhawk 1

Golden has returned to the pizza establishment is now out making another delivery in the Old Town district, flying overhead on her way to the residential dwellings.

Kibin walks through the Old Town district, continuing on his walk through the city.

Parasol in hand, Halcyon accompanies Kibin, apparently wanting to learn to read him speak. At least, this is her explanation.

Golden lands by a building and checks the number. A pizza delivery bag hands at her side with its strap slung over her shoulder.

Kibin glances down at Halcyon. He asks, "Why are you following me again?"

Closely watching Kibin's mouth, Halcyon forms words: 'Learning to read' that move with her parasol, staying in the shade.

Kibin ahs at Halcyon. "I see," he says, as he contines on walking.

Halcyon is walking with Kibin, watching his mouth with vested interest.

Kibin asks Halcyon, "How much progress have you made so far?"

Golden is delivering pizzas to earn some fashion clothes money.

Staring, Halcyon looks on with a rather bright expression. 'I'm getting used to your mouth :)'

Sable is once again on patrol, running and leaping from rooftop to rooftop across the neighbourhood. Spotting Halcyon and friend she changes direction to land on the road in front of them. "Hey you two."

Kibin nods at Halcyon, waving to Sable once he hears him. "Heya, how's it going?"

It's a pleasant Saturday afternoon in Colonial Bay. The relative peace of the day is broken by a rumbling noise that trembles the ground. If it's an earthquake, it's only a minor strength one. The tremors are soon followed by crash that sounds like a building being collapsed: a combination of tumbling concrete and twisting metal. And then the rumbling stops. Car alarms and some panicked yells can be heard too. Soon, the cause of the commotion is evident; The First National Bank building, encased in a pale blue energy field, rises quickly in the air, looking like it was torn right up from it's foundations.

Kibin blinks, staring at the building for a bit... he quickly recovers and runs over to the building, looking around for the cause of it floating into the air like that.

Golden stares in stunned amazement, all thoughts of pizza delivery driven from her mind, "Oh my...!"

About to greet Sable, Halcyon feels the tremors and looks around quickly, soon taking notice of the bank's new desire to no longer be where it was built. Shadowy wings form on her back, which spread out, touch the light of the sun and vanish. Pursing her lips, she concentrates for a few seconds, and vanishes, appearing near to the bank with a view from across the street, momentarily dazed.

Sable turns and leaps smoothly in the direction of the disturbance, as she lands she starts running, her legs a blur of motion as she races along the street.

Golden belatedly realizes she /ought/ to be doing something. She has no idea what so just follows the others for now.

The energy field seems to be holding together the building for the most part, but the underside of the building is a tangle of shorn power and data cables, water pipes pouring water out, and large concrete bits dangling precariously and threatening to fall off.

The Bank continues to rise, now to 20" in altitude.

Golden shouts, "Hey. I can see people on the roof."

Golden turns her head to shout down at Kibin, "What should I do?"

Kibin glances around for anyone... if he doesn't see anyone, he asks Golden, "Can you give me a lift up to the bank?"

Halcyon shakes her head to clear it, and then takes a breath, knowing already what she is going to do.

Golden nods, "Sure, if I can catch up with it. I'm not that fast a flyer." She tells Kibin, turning in her flight to go down and get him.

The roof of the bank suddenly goes completely silent. Halcyon's handiwork, no doubt.

Kibin grabs Golden when she comes down, holding on tight.

The bank's ascent slows and stops, but not before it reaches 30" up.

Golden starts up after the bank again. "I've got to tell you, Kibin. This was not on my list of things to do today. It's a robbery isn't it? But taking the whole bank? That's crazy."

Kibin replies back to Golden, "I honestly have no clue, your guess is as good as mine."

Sable's lips purse slightly as she moves to shadow the bank's course, following its path.

The men on the roof spot Golden approaching. One of them tries talking on a walkie talkie. The other one tries talking on a walkie talkie. They both try talking to one another. In general, they seem confused.

Golden reaches the roof and lands on it to let Kibin down. She looks around trying to figure out what she should do next.

Kibin hops off, looking around at the people on the top of the roof.

On the rooftop, the two lookouts spot Kibin and Golden. They are dressed in suits and ties, worn beneath their safety harnesses. They are armed with assault rifles and their identities are hidden beneath ski masks.

Kibin opens his mouth to say something... blinking as nothing comes out.

Sable looks up in concern, her brow furrowing.

Halcyon looks at her PDA, and sets to tapping out information on it.

Kibin stares at the two guys with assault rifles, and assumes that they have something to do with the floating bank. He runs up silently and goes into furious slashing, trying to tear the barrels of the guns up beyond their ability to be used.

Kibin slices through both of the barrels, leaving long scratches in the metal of both barrels and effectively breaking them. He grins at the two men after that display, wondering if they'll continue to try and fight.

Golden tries to ask Kibin what to do next, "......."

The two lookouts on the roof drop their weapons and raise their hands in the air.

Golden steps off the roof and heads down to go and get Sable since she has little idea what else she can do that would be useful and cannot ask Kibin.

The entire building lurches as the Bank begins to move slowly eastward in the sky. The sudden movement rattles the building a little bit, and it causes a giant chunk of concrete and rebar to crack loose from the foundation, it begins to fall over the busy downtown street.

On the roof top, the two lookouts manage to keep their footing.

Sable dashes forward, running hard at the hunk of concrete and she leaps to try and intercept it with a smashing kink

A woman pushing a baby stroller looks up at four hundred pounds of descending concrete doom. She screams, frozen in fear, as the rock drops for her.

Kibin takes the radios from the two guys on the roof, trying to say something.... remembering again that there's no sound up here. Right. He looks around, for anything else up on the roof.

Kibin motions to the radios, and puts his hand out to take them. He glances around, seeing if there's anything else on the roof out of the ordinary.

The men hand over their radios to Kibin.

Kibin sniffs a bit, then looks over to Halcyon, opening his mouth and pointing inside. He hopes she catches the hint.

Kibin then goes down the stairwell putting the radios in a pocket, assuming those two guys aren't going anywhere...

The silence stops, letting the world of sound and the world of bank roof interact once ore.

Halcyon focuses on the bank, preparing to move herself again.

On the rooftop of the building, the stairwell access door opens up. A woman in a black and yellow body suit floats through the doorway with a finger pressed to her temple. She's surrounded by a yellow force field. She spots Kibin immediately, and she says, "I thought that that something funny was going on..."

Sable's knees bend as she crouches low before launching herself straight upward. Once off the ground she twists into a somersault to aim a powerful kick at the falling rock, hoping to smash it to fragments before it can do any harm.

Sable's boot smashes solidly into the plummeting hunk of debris critically deflecting it from the its original path of destruction. Once the kick is complete she reaches her arms in Golden's direction, trying to make herself as easy a target as possible.

"Yaaaaiiiii!" The hapless pedestrian screams at the huge chunk of debris falls towards her. She bends over her stroller trying to shield her baby... The chunk of concrete, redirected by Sable's kick, misses her by a just a handful of meters. It last with a thunderous, pavement-cratering impact.

Golden swoops down, her body enveloped by the golden aura that signals active use of her abilities, and tries to catch Sable before the heroine falls back down to hit the sidewalk.

Golden wraps an arm around Sable and changes direction. Unable to actually stop before hitting the sidewalk herself if she simply tried to reverse course Golden instead curves around to fly along the street for a few yards before she can make the turn so start heading up towards the bank again.

Golden says, "You were incredible. I don't think I could have gotten to the rubble in time to catch it."

The front doors of the bank fly open and a man in fixed wing power armor zips rockets outside. Aside from the wings, he seems to be armed with a jet pack, and blasters on his gauntlets. He spots Golden and Sable and he banks towards them. "Evening ladies," he says with a waves. "The name's Skyhawk. I'll be your pilot today. Expect a rough flight, with plenty of turbulence and a big crash at the end!"

Sable grunts softly as the flying heroine swoops to pluck her out of mid-air. She relaxes slightly with the realisation she is safe. "Great catch Golden."

Kibin frowns, stopping and staring at the woman that stepped outof the stairwell. He says, "I suppose you're the reason why the bank isn't on the ground?" Kibin refrains from attacking right now, unsure of whether or not knocking her unconscious would drop the bank.

Skyhawk stays level with the bank but flies about 5" away from the entrance. He levels his blasters at Golden and Sable, and opens up fire.

Sable says, "tries to keep her limbs tense and stream-lined so that she is easy flier for Golden to hurl."

Golden sends Sable hurtling through the intervening space and into the bank.

Inside the bank, someone has moved a high tech device into the middle of the room. It's about the size of a phone booth and it radiates twsting tendrils of blue energy out towards the walls of the room. There's a man with a mask in a suit and tie at the controls...

Also inside the bank are about fifteen bank employees and customers, they are held hostage against one of the bank walls by another masked man. There are two more masked men inside, and they are busy loading money and valuables onto a pair of what look to be submersible vehicles. All the masked men are armed with assault rifles.

The man at the controls of the device calls to the ones loading the submersibles, "What are you doing? Get her!"

"Now that would be telling..." the woman says. Keeping a finger to the side of her head she looks at one of the air conditioning units on the rooftop. A bubble of yellow energy wraps the machine. With the mere raising of her head, she rips the unit from it's moorings and she tries to use it smash to Kibin.

Sable rushes to the nearer of the two armed thugs, her torso twisting as she winds up to unleash a powerful back-fist aimed at the centre of the man's chest.

Kibin jumps back away from the woman, the air conditioning unit flying in front of him. He notices the yellow color, reasoning that it's probably not the same as the one holding up the building. He shrugs, jumping back in and swinging around, to attempt to whack her forcefield hard enough with his tail to stun her.

Sable's gloved hand smacks smoothly the man's chest, smashing the breath out of him in an incoherent grunt, staggering him slightly. "Drop your weapons and slowly lower the bank and you won't be hurt."

The woman tumbles against the ledge at the side of the roof, but she stops short of going over. She doesn't look that hurt from the impact of Kibin's tail; she seems eager to continue the fight.

The man at the controls of the device says, "Not a chance. We're holding all the cards here!"

Sable steps forward to lash a crisp forward kick at the man she con-stunned, this time without holding back at all on her power.

Sable's foot smacks powerfully into the man's chest, smashing him to the ground like a rag-doll. "Holding aces? You think that's going to stop your ribs from caving in?"

Halcyon vanishes, reappearing inside the bank somewhere central. She is invisible, but for the moment unmoving.

Kibin jumps back in towards the woman, hitting her back away from the edge. He stays silent for now, nothing much to say.

The woman grunts and Kibin's tail pounds her into the roof. She looks up him angrily through her mask.

Sable strides purposefully over to the second of the gunmen and aims a powerfully scything uppercut at the centre-point of his solar-plexus.

Skyhawk says, "Don't worry about your costume-- I'm probably doing you a favor. What's your name supposed to be anyway? 'Sunshine'?" He fires another volley of lasers at her, drifting backward to maintain 10" of distance from her.

Sable's torso twists and unwinds, her weight rocking forward to lend extra force to the impact, smashing her target up and back to thump against a nearby wall. "Now, you were saying something about card games?"

Golden says, "Stop doing that. You're really making me angry."

Golden flies towards Skyhawk but realizes she can't catch up to him this instant, and she's just angry enough to spit. Her eyes flare with a golden glow as heat beams lance out from them.

Skyhawk tries to roll out of the way of the attack, but he can't avoidn the wide angled beam. He grunts.

Golden says, "How do you like it, then? Huh?"

On the roof, the woman in the yellow and black costume looks up at Kibin, eyes narrowing. "Hmph." A slight smile comes to her lips.

The guard who's been watching the hostages turns his assault rifle on Sable.

Kibin stares at the woman, wondering what she's smirking about... then suddenly hears a whirling behind him and leaps a couple of feet to the side, an air conditioning unit whizzing by his head. "Nice try..."

The gunman opens up with a burst of fire. He misses and bullet pepper the far wall behind where Sable is.

"Damnit. We need to go faster!" says the masked man at the device's controls. He grabs a level and throws it full forward. The entire building shakes. It accelerates it's flight through the air to the bay. As it gains speed, the building begins to tip forward until it's almost at a 45 degree angle. Everything inside the bank that's not nailed down begins to slide forward across the slick marble floors towards the front entrance of the bank.

The two unconscious gunmen begin to slide towards the entrance. The hostages scream as they are unbalanced too. Most of them manage to grab a hold of something, as does the gunman gaurding them. Five of the hostages are as lucky, as they start sliding towards the doors as well.

Kibin quickly digs his claws into the rooftop of the bank as it starts tilting, sliding a few inches across before finnally stopping. He looks at the woman, seeing how she fares.

Sable steadies herself by bracing one footagainst an ATM machine.

On the rooftop, the masked woman grabs onto a satellite antenna. "What in hell is going on down there?!"

Halcyon allows herself to start skidding.

Kibin waves to the woman, running off downstairs while she's occupied with not falling.

Halcyon rights herself in flight once she clears her head, floating up a little and taking note of the people sliding door-ward. Instead of trying to stop the movement of the people, she stops the doors from opening by covering them and the wall in all directions in a dark picture of nothing.

The two unconscious gunmen slide up against the darkness conceals doors. The doors hold shut, but with much more weight against them, they'll open manually.

in addition, it seems Halcyon's darkness has grown shadowy tendrils and they grow out to hold the doors in place. She becomes visible floating in the air just above the slanted floor.

The bank security guard slides towards the exit, but he manages to stop his movement by grabbing onto a table leg. A woman sliding past, manages to grab his hand. That leaves 3 people sliding for the exit, aside from the two gunman,already there.

Sable braces herself against the ATM and then leaps over to the control panel, leaning against the device to regain her balance before trying to grab the lever to pull it back to its former setting.

Sable's gloved hand clasps the lever and she shifts her weight, using it to haul back on the stick to right it to its former position.

Halcyon focuses her attention momentarily on the PDA, thankfully not needing to hold it in hand when she does.

Golden flies towards Skyhawk and the bank again, "Stay still." She tells him as heat beams lash out from her eyes again.

Skyhawk is ready for the eye beams this time. He floats above them. Keeping his distance, he fires at Golden again with his wrist lasers.

Golden winces as the laser sting her badly.

The woman from the rooftop floats into the bank room from the roof access stairwell. A satellite dish floats ahead of her supported in a bubble of yellow force. She spies the situation in the bank and flicks her wrist towards Sable. The satellite dish hurtles towards her.

Kibin reflexively swings his tail around to hit the woman from the rooftop, as she comes down from upstairs.

Kibin bats the woman aside, but she's still able to toss the dish at Sable.

With the lever in the device pulled back, the bank slows to its original pace. The bank lurches, but tilt back so that it's level again. All of the hostages breath sighs of relief.

The dish slices smoothly across the room and thumps solidly into Sable, who staggers unsteadily under the impact, apparently momentarily bewildered.

Halcyon's shadows hold when the bank tilts back to its correct orientation.

The gunman by the controls says, "Psiber! It's about time... take care of these supers and earn your cut of the take!" He speaks towards the woman in yellow and black.

The bank robber by the controls raises his rifle and fires a burst at Sable. Meanwhile, his partner fires at Kibin.

Kibin jumps out of the way of the gunfire, and then swings at the psychic woman today. He growls, "I don't think anyones earning anything today."

Sable is struck square in the centre of mass and drops like a stone to the floor.

Kibin's tail glances off of Psiber's force field.

Sable lies inert on the floor but moves slightly, rocking slightly back and forth.

Kibin growls as his tail bounces off the forcefield. He leaps at her forcefield with the sickle claws on his feet, trying to at least get some of the force through the forcefield to stun the woman.

Kibin manages to hit but not penetrate the forcefield, with a large flash of energy. He lands back down, ready to dodge more flying objects.

Psiber winces from Kibin's attack. She says, "Skyhawk: Quit playing around and get in here!"

Outside, Skyhawk says, "Roger that." He flies into the bank through a window and tries to assess the situation.

Golden follows Skyhawk into the bank and tries once more to fry him with heat beams.

"Gyaaah!" Skyhawk gets blasted by Golden and his armor sizzles slightly from the intensity of it. He spins and fires back with this laser gauntlets.

Psiber put finger from both her hand to her brow as she faces Kibin. "I've had about enough of you." Her eyes narrow as she tries to rip up the marble slab that Kibin is standing on.

Psiber levitates the section of floor that Kibin is standing on.

With Sable out of the way, the head bank robber takes the lever and pushes it forward full again.

His remaining conscious partner takes aim at Halcyon.

Halcyon's personal darkness visibly deepens, anticipating the trouble that might arise of her being visible to the people here.

Halcyon looks terrified when she's shot at.

The bank shakes again and begins to barrel forward to the bay.

Sable groggily rolls onto her side with a groan. "God, am I just that much of an easy-beat?"

Taking aim at the man shooting, Halcyon releases the dark imagery from the doors (now holding them closed forcibly) and sends shadowy tendrils after the shooter to both tie him up in them and keep him shooting anything.

Kibin jumps off the levitating piece of marble, doing a flip. His tail swings out of the flip and attempts to hit Psiber down towards the doors.

Unnerved by the gunfire directed at her, Halcyon's shadows go wide of the gunner.

Kibin lands back on the ground after hitting Psiber all the way across the bank, "Watch your step!"

There is some strain on Halcyon as she feels the doors try to open forcibly.

Sable rocks onto her shoulders and pulls her knees into her chest before attempting a kip-up to regain her feet.

Sable's foot swigs up and down in a powerfully scything crescent kick aimed for the junction of neck and shoulder on the gunman who shot her.

Skyhawk floats above the tilted floor, jetting away from Golden as he tries to strafe her with yet more laser fire.

Sable's boot strikes firmly, staggering the minion slightly from the controls and knocking him momentarily senselesss

Golden flies up to Skyhawk drawing back her fist. "I finally get my hands on you." She exults as her fist swings forward in a powerful blow.

Golden grins rubbing her knuckles. "Hey, punching works a lot better than trying to burn him."

Golden grins even more as Skyhawk bounces off the wall limply and crumples to the floor.

Meanwhile Psiber floats up to her feet by the bank door. Right by her, there are two unconscious robbers, and three hostages who have slid there since the last reorientation of the bank. The still maintains control of the giant slab of marble, and she tries to use it to skwish Kibin flat.

Sable steps back to the controls to pull the lever back to its original position/ "I feel so damned infantile yanking this thing back and forth."

Kibin jumps to the side before the marble floor tile shatters next to him. "You don't go down easily do you..." he comments.

Halcyon changes tactics, sending a field of blackness over the one who shot at her instead of trying to stop him outright.

Kibin runs after Psiber, jumping at the end and slashing at her forcefield with his sickle claws. "Mind staying down this time?"

Kibin succeeds in penetrating the forcefield partly again, with another bright flash visible.

Psiber yelps in pain. She looks around at the situation. "It looks like this party is dying down..." she says.

Once finished with the lever Sable steps over to the stunned bank robber and smashes a backfist into his face, crashing hoim to the floor. "I'm through playing nice."

The gunman stuck in Halcyon's realm of darkness slides towards the front of the bank, and into the light. He catches himself on the desk used to house deposit and withdrawal slips.

Golden flies over to Psibar and swings a fist at her.

Golden smiles as her fist slams into Psibar's ribs.

Wham. Golden's punch knocks Psiber out cold, but the unconscious villain slams hard against the front doors of the bank, forcing them wide open.

Sable turns to Golden. "Wow. We should call you the one-punch wonder."

Psiber falls out of the bank unconscious. The hostages scramble away from the open doors.

Golden appears aguished. "Oh. I never thought about that happening." She says as Psibar slides out.

Kibin barely grabs onto Psiber, keeping a hold of the bank with one foot. He lets out a breath he's been holding, doesn't want even villians to fall down and go splat.

Sable turns and runs to the remaining gunman, her elbow cocking as she leaps on the last step to add the downward momentum of her falling body to the force of the punch.

Halcyon looks relieved when the guy who shot at her is knocked unconscious. She helps Kibin into the bank, flitting over to the controls to try to figure them out and right the bank.

Kibin drags and tosses Psiber back in, with Halcyon's help. He asks the hostages, "Are any of you injured?"

Golden sighs in relief, "Thank you, Kibin. That was silly of me to punch her toward the doors."

The hostages shake their heads to Kibin in general.

Sable's fist cracks sharply into the thugs cheek, his body crumpling as his knees sag and he is hurled violently back against the wall behind him. "I'll be ok." She says, flexing her knuckls. "Awesome work everyone."

Golden looks around. "I think.. yeah.. This is the first time I've punched anyone since third grade. I got sent home for it."

Halcyon pulls levers til the bank stops moving, then looks around for someone more liable to move the bank in a manner that won't result in a lot of property damage putting it back.

In her experimentation, Halcyon makes the bank shake up and down for a moment.

Sable takes over at the controls, experimenting gingerly with the levers as she feels her way through their intricacies and steers for the transport nexus where the bank is finally brough to rest

Kibin wobbles a bit. "Be careful not to crash the bank..."

Golden looks out the door as the bank travels to its destunation. "That gadget would make a terrific addition to a secret base. Well not that secret if it's floating but you know what I mean."

Sable turns a mild glare on Kibin. "Isn't there someone you could be treating for broken bones?"

Kibin says sarcastically back to Golden, "Because a secret base flying around is totally a good way to keep a base secret."

Sable smiles to Golden. "Sadly this is going to be evidence in a police station."

Kibin replies back to Sable, "I don't have any medical knowledge really..."

Sable says, "Depends how high you fly it she says idly over her shoulder."

Halcyon lets a relieved breath, winding down now finally, and standing very close to Sable, almost touching.

Golden nods and looks over at the gadget, "I wonder if it would reach the moon. Or even orbit. I tried to get up into orbit once but I had to give up and turn back. It was taking far too long."

Halcyon looks at Golden from practically behind Sable, forming words for her: 'I can go there quickly with you'

Golden says, "I'd love to but," She swings the pizza bag around into clearer sight, "I still have a delivery to make and if I don't get to the house in time the pizza is free and it comes out of my wages."

'I didn't mean right now'. Halcyon seems a bit apprehensive right now. About pretty much everything.

Golden smiles. "Another time?" She asks Halcyon. Then she flies out back towards where the bank started from.