Log:Time and Tidal Wave, Scene 1: When Dinosaurs Attack

2008/09/18 	 Jennifer and Jessica Rakshasa Rebound Regent Xing-Liu|Fist Michelle 1

Alex steps into the cafe, reading his PDA and walking at the same time. He's gotten pretty good at remembering where the tables are and not running into anything. He makes his way over to the counter.

The server's listening to the radio, but it doesn't stop her from saying, "Hi, what can I get you?" to Alex.

Alex looks up from his PDA. "Large coffee, black, four sugars."

She nods and gets Alex's coffee. "Anything else?"

Alex looks at the display case of pastries. "Ah..." His eyes settle on the danishes. "Oh, I'll have one of those."

She smiles and gets Alex a Danish too.

Alex smiles. "Thanks." He pays for his order.

Alex is up by the counter.

Jennifer comes over from the Gym to grab a coffee and ten minutes relaxation before the next class is due to arrive.

Alex starts to head to find a table. "Hey Jennifer, what's new?"

Michelle is around drinking coffee and checking the recent news.

Xing-Liu follows Jennifer in from the gym, working there with her. She waves to Alex in greeting, wide smile showing.

Jennifer smiles, "Nothing as far as I'm concerned. Been peaceful, Alex."

Alex nods to Jennifer. "Well, maybe we'll find some baddies for you to smack one of these days." He looks past Jennifer for a moment, spotting Xing-Liu. He smiles. "Heya, Xing-Liu"

Rakshasa wanders in and orders here usual triple mocha hazelenut and caramal grande supremo expresso latte with whipped cream and chocolate shavings topped with a dash of curry powder

The server is busy fulfilling Rakshasa's oder when abruptly the music she's listening to on the radio goes silent. A moment later a voice breaks in, seemingly midsentence: "- breaking news. We now go live to Colonial Bay's transport nexus...."

Alex's smile turns to a look of concern as he faces towards the radio, listening.

Michelle hrms and listens to the radio "Wonder whats going on..." the skunk lady admits

The radio cuts to a rather noisier environment with not a few screams evident in the background. "The scene is panic at the train station as what appears to be a live dinosaur is on the rampage.... I think it's a brontosaurus or maybe a - it's coming this way! All around me people are rushing toward the central hub...." There an ominously loud thumping sound and the sound cuts off. "I'm sorry, we seem to be having technical difficulties," says the first voice. "We'll return you to this breaking story as soon as we have more...."

Joseph enters from Bridgend.

Rakshasa says, "Damn. Hurry up and give me my order. I'll need to be cafeinated to take on a dinosaur!"

Jennifer speaks by habit over the defunct SGG channel, "Kibin, you in trouble?"

The server hurries up with Rakshasa's request!

Alex thinks. o O ( I had to open my big mouth... ) He looks to Jennifer. "It was nice running into you... I ought to get going." He nods to Xing-Liu as he passes her and heads out the door.

Jennifer nods. "I'm heading to the Gym to grab my bike. Got room for a passenger if anyone wants a lift."

Xing-Liu moves with Alex rather than behind him, hearing what was said and while she thinks it strange, she isn't about to sit idly by. Once outside she is rooftop bound and headed for the trouble.

Rakshasa pays and begins chugging down her monstrous drink as she runs out the door.

Alex runs home and changes. Soon, he en route to the scene as Rebound.

Michelle finishes her coffee and grabs a sugary sweet to eat on the way.

'''Scene: Transport Nexus, between the pedestrian mall and the railways

By the time the heroes arrive the crowd is in a fair bit of panic. The roads out are busy with traffic. The train station building has had a wall knocked out by the dinosaur, which anyone who knows about such things may identify as an Apatosaur. And those who don't may still recognise as a Brontosaur.

The apatosaur looks more than a little confused itself and is heading for the pedestrian mall.

Xing-Liu recognizes nothing! It's a big lizardy thing and she intends to halt it. First though she tries to bridge her mind to it.

Rakshasa wipes the whipped cream off her nose ith the back of her hand, "Huh. Now that looks like good eating."

Rebound lands on the scene, looking to link up with any other heroes on the scene. "We need to act quickly. If airport security starts shooting at the dinosaur, we could have a real mess on our hands."

Jennifer nods to Alex. "You go talk to security, I'll play tag and see if I can lure it away from the crowd."

Jennifer heads for the beast to do exactly what she said, trying to get it to chase her if it will, or to herd it if she can.

Rakshasa hmms, "Ok, I'll try to put it to sleep. It's kind of a wussy solution for me, but I guess we don't want anyone getting squished."

Jennifer hopes this is being recorded by someone. Herding a dino on a bike is kind of neat in her opinion.

Rebound bounces over to the airport guards, putting himself in front of them and in the line of fire if they should want to shoot at the dinosaur. He stretches into an imposing figure twice his normal size and waves his hands to draw their attention. He summons his best hero voice and says, "Hold your fire men! Jennifer will try to guide the dinosaur away from the terminal."

The guy in charge says to the others, "Stand down, it's ok - the capes are here." He tries to sound confident, though clearly he's still nervous. Meanwhile, Jenn's beautiful close pass to the dinosaur is sadly ineffective. It turns its head to watch Jenn just briefly, then resumes its walk toward the mall.

Jennifer laughs and swings around for another pass. This time she's going to try and get it's attention by yanking a legs out from under and toppling it to the ground.

Jessica hangs back to pull Jenn out of trouble if needed. Jenn races her bike in towards the dino pulling whip from pocket as she does. The whip is extended to full reach as Jenn tries to circle around the front feet of the dino looping the whip lash around the front pair of legs in an attempt to bring it down to its knees.

Jennifer wraps the extended whip lash round and round the dinos two front legs. Then she pulls it tight. The dino tries to keep moving, pulling Jennifer off her bike. Rolling back up onto her feet in an acrobatic move she watches the dino stumble and topple onto first knees and then its side.

Rebound watches as Jennifer topples the giant beast. "Jennifer, it looks as if that dinosaur came from /inside/ the train terminal. I'm going to check it out." He turns to the guards. "Gentlemen, I need you to help control the crowd -- make sure no civilians come out into this areas." He waits a moment for their acknowledgement before he bounds over to the hole in the train station wall, hoping to learn more about where the dinosaur came from.

The station is abandoned now, apart for some scared looking first-aiders who've stayed behind to treat the injured.

Rakshasa sighs, "This is so, like, not me. I mean, I can't even insult a dumb brute like that properly. Oh well." She raises her hand and a spinning vortex of energy appears in mid air in front of her, sending questing tendrils out toward the bronto.

The tendrils anchor briefly in the bronto's butt. Sadly it's nervous system is buried just out of their reach.

The apatosaur instinctively tries to free itself - rearing up onto its hide legs to do so, much as it might if it had got itself stuck between two mighty trees. Jennifer is yanked off the ground as it rears!

The dinosaur breaks out off the whip and Jenn starts tumbling for the ground!

On seeing the sheer size of the creature rearing before them, one of the security guards panics and opens fire, followed shortly by another 3.

Jessica shouts, "Next time I'll leave Dennis the Dino to play and disarm the security." over towards Alex.

The dinosaur bellows deafeningly as four wounds are opened in its exposed underside. It seems more angry than hurt, though.

Rakshasa grins, "Looks like Plan A is back on the table!"

Jennifer bounces on the ground but takes the damage on her force armor enough if she failed to roll right back onto her feet.

Jessica sighs, "Okay, first knock down the dino. Without hurting it, everyone, you got that. It's probably some confused right this moment turned metamorph guy. Or girl." Moving in she strikes at the root of its tail.

Jessica slips on the way in to the dino's tail and instead of striking it she gets caught by the swishing side by side movement and flung into a parked vehicle.

Jennifer and Jessica roll back to their feet and wait for a few moments as they judge the beast's agility. It's big enough that dodging ain't going to work. They'll have to time their actions so it can't simply trample over them.

Rebound frowns as he hears the sounds of the gunfire outside. Quickly, he steps over to the device that he's spotted, and he tries to figure out its purpose and function.

Rakshasa smiles cheerfuly as she summons an energy spike, "Here boy! Catch!". She tosses it, trying to glance it off the beast's head.

The dinosaur bellows again. It didn't like that.

"Hold your fire!" yells the security chief.

The dinosaur doesn't seem to like being shot at. Dropping back to two feet it turns to move away from the gunfire, its tail lashing about as it spins.

The tip of the dinosaur's tail rushes past Jennifer as it turns and begins its walk - toward the car parks so many people fled to.

Jennifer grabs at the tip of the tail as it swings past her and tries to hold firm digging her heels into the ground.

Jennifer digs twin farrows in the ground with the heels of her shoes as she grabs the tail and pulls backwards actually halting the dino's progress for the moment.

Jessica snakes out the whip lash going for the dino's nose in an effort to pull it down and hold it secure between Jenn and herself.

Jessica manages to snake the whip lash up into those big nostrils so she can hold the head down while Jenn is holding the tail.

Jennifer and Jessica hold on and also squeeze a little, maintaining their extra effort.

Rebound kneels down over the strange device and he studies it, breathing out a sigh. He wets his lips. This device might be beyond his comprehension, but maybe parts of it are within his grasp.

Rebound tugs a chip out of a board the device. "There... that should at least leave with something to study when the fight is over with." He slips the microchip into a pouch on his belt, and then he turns his attention back out to the scene outside.

Rakshasa cheers the twins on, "Atta girls! Hold him steady!" She conjures up another energy spike and lets it fly

Once again, the dinosaur bellows in pain.

Jessica keeps the effort or hold the beast down underway.

Jessica and Jennifer keep the effort to hold the beast down underway.

The dinosaur strains at the whips, confused.

Rebound bounces back to the fight, with the briefcase securely wrapped under his arm.

Rebound says, "Sorry I took so long. I think I found the device that brought the dinosaur here... Everything alright?"

Rakshasa looks at the dino, "This is taking too long, but I guess I'll stick with what works." She tosses another spike

Jennifer looks a bit hot and bothered, "If you want to help out, Rebound, feel free."

This time the huge creature doesn't bellow. Instead, it just collapses to the ground - the twins having to be quick on their toes to get out of the way.

Jennifer says, "Nicely done Rakshasa."

The ground shakes as 40 tons of dinosaur hits it. And fortunately nothing else.

Rakshasa assumes a victory pose, accentuated by the fact that she's in her civie shirt and skirt not her usual one piece costume

Rebound nods. "Good job, guys. He was a bit out of your weight class, Jennifer, but I figured that you ladies could handle him." He offers a smile, tentatively. "I found this device in the train station..."

Jessica wipes her brow, "Phew! I was getting a bit tired."

Rebound says, "So kind of extradimensional tech, but it's not like anything I've seen before. It's... it's a bit beyond my grasp, I'm afraid to say. I managed to stop it from completely self-destructing. I'll take it to Transmat II and have the brains there take a look at it."

Rakshasa teleports over to the downed dino, "So... hmm. Anyone got a chainsaw? Butchering this guy is gonna take a while."

People get a bit braver now the dinosaur's down, but most are approaching cautiously all the same. The journalists, seem to be leading the way, unfortunately.

Jennifer points to the approaching Journalists, "Rakshasa, your admiring audience is coming." hoping Rakshasa will distract the pesky reporters.

Rakshasa flounces over to the reporters and tries to look cute, "Hi guys!"

"Hi, Rakshasa, isn't it? What was that about a chainsaw?"

Rakshasa points at the dino, "For cutting it up into steaks of course! Yummy yummy dino steaks!"

Rebound says, "The device may even be an honest-to-goodness time machine."

A woman in the crowd shouts out. "You can't do that! This is an extinct species! That's got to be worse than killing an endangered species!"

Jennifer says to Rebound, "That's impossible. We wouldn't allow anyone else to have it. Uh.. I mean there's no such thing."

Regent finally makes it over after hearing something on the PDA news report, he had been resting at his special place in the mountains when he heard the news, only now making it back...

The journalist says, "How do you answer that?"

Jennifer is quietly sneaking off along with Jessica leaving Rakshasa to handle, in her own special way, the press and media."

Rakshasa waves to the heckler, "Yeah! Think of how much money I could make!"

"Hey! What's happening to the dinosaur?" says someone.

The man points to the dinosaur, which is looking rather transparent.

Rakshasa cries out, "Noooooooooooo!!! My 1000$ per pound dino steaks!"

In a couple of seconds the apatosaur has vanished entirely.

Rebound bounces back to Transmat II.

Regent flies down to where the Brontosaur was just moments prior..."What happened to it...?" he pulls his PDA and sees if the Tyranosaurus is gone too..

Regent shouts, "People, we have a bigger issue that dino-burgers...There are reports of a t-rex in Washington and Ankloysaurs in Los Angeles.."

In every city - New York and Chicage are added to the list now - in which there are dinaosaurs, the local heroes seem to be fighting them.

Rakshasa falls to her knees, a single tear falling down her cheek, "Another 100 years at Space Burger..."

The journalists, kind-hearted souls that they are, take pictures of Rakshasa in tears.

Regent watches as the reports roll in. "These are targetted attacks..but to what end..?" he asks himself. Turning to the Rakshasa..Regent raises an eyebrow but that is all, he doesn't know the god/heroine well...and her behavior is not something he's use dto.

Regent looks at his PDA again..."They all seemed to have faded away, like this Brontosaurus..I wonder.."

Rakshasa springs to her feet, a look of determination on her face, and points a finger at the sky, "Somewhere out there is a supervillain who can summon dinosaurs! All I have to do is find him and make him give me a supply of dino steaks!"

This gets some titters from the crowd.

Regent frowns and starts to do a database dig..cross referencing..

Regent looks around..."Rakshasa...if you're done, I may have something you're interested in...Or..maybe not."

Rakshasa puts her hands on her hips, "I mean, really. Villains are so short sighted. If I could summon dinosaurs I'd be rich."

Rakshasa looks over at Regent, "Hmm..?

Regent shows Rakshasa his preliminary findings..."All cities that were attacked were major cities, I first thought maybe it was something to do with the Transmat, but now I find only one item that matches..every city has a meta team. I don't know what it means, but if you could turn your money making brain into a crime fighting unit, we may have a chance to understand.."

Rakshasa nods sagely, "Well I am an authority on the supervillaiin mentality."

Rakshasa looks thoughtful, "I wonder if there's a market for holovised super fights...?"

Rakshasa snaps her fingers, "A villainous news network, intent on winning the ratings war stages reall battles!"

Rakshasa looks suspiciously at the reporters.

The reporters look rather nervous.

Regent blows out a frustrated sigh..."Perhaps Rakshasa..perhaps. Were'nt you this legendary immortal villian at one point?..."

Rakshasa puffs out her chest proudly, "Still am! Er... I mean, I'm still me, not I'm still a villain."