Log:Checkmate, Scene 1, Scene 1

Once upon a midnight dreary, well mid-day dreary. The city moved weaked and weary, until off it's hinges flew a door. toward a van many fled, rifles in hands an 'P' on their heads. They went in and then out in less than a minute, cause when you rob a bank you're in it to win it. The cops are no where in sight, as the attack happened so fast. What seems like 20 people flying down towards a parked moving van all holding bundles of cash in various containers. They seem to have no basic uniform to distinguish them from the people in the bank. In fact there was an explosion, why is no one screaming in terror from within the bank... Either way we have people with rifles, they appear to be energy rifles, and blank stares moving towards a moving van. Quick someone stop them!

Lily, who had been heading to the library, leaps into action. Literally. Leaping toward the van. "Hey~! Stop right where you are! I'm sure there's a good reason you need that money, but I can't just let you take it, and those guns look dangerous!"

People say the sound of an energy rifle humming to fire is a scary thing, surely 20 of them will be much more scary. All pointed at her. Their eyes are blank as the ready to fight. It's clear they are beyond talking to.

Lily walks forward and looks at their glassy eyes, "Aw... you're not doing this because you want to. That's so sad!" She unleashes a spinning kick (always an interesting sight in a short skirt!) at the six in front of her, "I'll try not to hurt you!"

"Ugh! Oh! Ugh! OW!" come from the 4 people hit. minor bruises form on their bodies and some pain but they remain standing. The door to van opens and all 20 people run and toss their cash into the van which then closes it's doors. The people turn and look back to lily guns aimed again. the 4 that were hit have been shifted into the back closer to the van for safety.

Lily hmms, "I really don't want to hurt you... Ah!" She snaps her fingers and leaps over the mob to land near the van...

the van is flipped upside down but then there is the sound of whirring gears. What ever evil genius tricked these people has also prepared for the strong meta of the city, wheels come out of the sides and the top as it rises up to drive off, and impressively quickly. The cab had rotated to accompany the new position. Mean while the ones with 'P' on their heads open fire at Lily.

Lily pouts asthe van drives off, "Aw! No fair!"

Lily says, "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop that!"

Lily scuffs the ground with her foot as the van speeds away faster than she can leap, "Oh, pooh!" She sighs and looks at the mob of pawns, "OK! Let's keep going!"

Bank robbery, 20 people came running out with energy weapons, filled a truck with money. Lily flipped the truck, but who ever set this up had planned for it flipping and it managed to keep going despite the flip. Moving to quickly to be caught (I want it to get away so villian can gloat later) Lily was opened fire upon, out of 20 shots 11 hit. these people seem normal in every way, save for a glowing P infront of their forheads. Police have not even had a chance to respond yet because the attack happened so quickly and no alarms were sounded.

Wonder, hearing the energy fire, has leapt onto a nearby rooftop, and looks down on the scene. . o O (That is a LOT of energy weapons....)

Lily smiles at the pawns and spreads her arms, "Here I am! Don't miss!"

And as commanded they all open fire. Lily might find herself beseiged by energy bolts.

Lily winces a little. She smiles at the one that missed, "Come on, you can do it! Just hold your gun a little tighter!"

Having heard weapons being fired, Dark Horse runs along the rooftop. He swings to a nearby building, and moves to the edge, looking over toward the street where he thinks he heard the confrontation.

Below is Lily surrounded and taking energy bolt fire from energy rifles in the hands of a large group of seemingly civillians. She is blasted with plasma, though she seems to be fine, if not annoyed.

Wonder notes the Ps and the blank stares, and decides to try something. He jumps down from the roof and makes a grab for one of the men, to try to wipe the P off his forehead!

Wonder is annoyed to find the P can't be wiped off. "So much for being clever. I guess I'll have to do this the stupid way!"

Lily says, "Yay! Someone else is going to let themself be shot in the face!"

Dark Horse looks around...seeing if there is anyone else in the area who might be the person who is controlling these people. Since they do look like perhaps normal people under some kind of spell.

Dark Horse swings down, and across the street, to near where the camera is set that he wants to take a closer look at. He attempts to swing right through the window.

Dark Horse breaks through the glass window, and tumbles, rolling to his feet.

Lily smiles encouragingly at the pawns.

Dark Horse steps over to the camera, and replaces the lens cap on it. THEN he bothers reading the note attached to it.

Wonder decides just to grab the weapon off the man he's grabbed. That's one less dangerous weapon, right?

The minions stop for a second before every last one of them throwing their weapons to the ground after flipping a switch on the side and bolting in random ways.

Lily tries to dive on top of as many of the guns as possible, using her arms and legs to scoop the under her! "RUN!!!!!"

Dark Horse looks outside, noticing what's happening...and knowing he can't do much about what's going on down there. Instead, he starts to look around the office, seeing if it's a current office for some company, or an empty one.

As Dark horse explores he notices that this office is empty. The items in here seem to be placed like a facade of people should be working here. the real bank just works out of the first floor not needing too much room.

Wonder leaps behind cover back on the rooftops and for good measure shrinks down as far as he can to reduced the chance of shrapnel hitting him.

The guns release a large amount of energy rapidly depleting their remaining ammo

Lily giggles as the explosions tickle her.

Wonder thinks. o O (Darn, I wasn't much use, again!)

Wonder grows to full size again and looks down to make sure Lily (and anyone else) is ok.

Lily stands up and dusts herself off, "Hmm! At least we know the bad guys aren't *too* nasty." She calls up to Wonder, "I'm going to go check in the bank to see if anyone is hurt!"

Wonder says, "Ok!"

Wonder just looks about where he is, to see if he can spot the mind controller or whatever.

The cops are jsut now arriving. Though the robbers have made it off with the money. It's strangely silent in the bank.

Dark Horse comes back over to the window, and tries to get the attention of the heroes below. "Up here! I think I found something related to what happened."

Wonder locates Dark Horse then jumps too the appropriate window. "What's up?"

Lily searches the bank for wounded people and clues.

As lily searches she too finds something interesting a strange device tucked into a corner popping out of a fake potted plant, and a crate behind the desk that looks like it was designed to hold munitions.

Dark Horse points to the camera. "I think the controller person was watching through the camera.

When I put the lens cap on, that's when the people scattered."

Dark Horse shows the note to Wonder, "Here's the note I found on the camera." It reads, 'Hello! It's your move now.'

Lily picks up the potted plant, device and all, and carries it outside.

Wonder says, "So - I guess whoever's doing this sees it as a game?"

Dark Horse nods. "Looks like it. I think it's a group called 'King's Gambit'. Kind of a chess-motif.

Outside cops are roping off the area and the media is beginning to come in. An officer approaches Lily and asks about teh device, also asks she put it back for them to take crime scene photos

Lily puts the pot back.

Wonder says, "Huh. It didn't look much like chess to me!"

Dark Horse nods. "The 'P' on the forehead? A 'Pawn.'

Wonder says, "Oh! I didn't think of that. Though I did think the P was weird."

Wonder says, "Hm, but there were more than 16 of them. Unless I lost count."

Dark Horse shrugs a bit and chuckles, "I don't make up the analogies." He motions to the rest of the office. "This area is all a facade. We might be able to trace the connection of this machine back to its source, but I'd need some more computer equipment."

The officers are questioning people in the area, the media wants to question Lily.

Lily happily talks to the reporters!

Wonder says, "Sorry, I don't really have access to any."

and the reporters are happy to get a story. Questioning Lily about the events and what exactly she thinks is happening.

Lily explains that there seems to be some sort of mind controlling villain at large, and makes sure to name-drop that she works for Colonial Bay Property and Life.

Dark Horse tries to get hte attention of a policeman, waving at one from the second story. "You'll need to come up here. There's something related to what happened."

A few officers hurry up to darkhorse and the media buzzes a bit with action. The officers look around and listen to what Dark horse has to say.

Wonder listens too, mostly being pretty clueless.

Dark Horse is well away from the media, thankfully. He points out the note, the camera, and the facade of an office. He also mentions the correlation with the lens cap being covered up, and the response of the controlled people. He also mentions his suspicions of the organization behind the event. The officers nods, thanking the meta for their involvement. Lily may notice the people she fought are actually, coming BACK to the scene of the crime. They seem bewildered though.

Lily apologizes to the one she kicked a little too hard.

"Kicked? I..." The man rubs his ribs. "It would explain why I hurt." The cops are wondering why Lily would have kicked a man and ask such.

Lily explains that these are the mind control victims.