Log:Big Man on Campus

2013/05/08 	 Alwen Brian Cecila Dr Fogg Ghost Grace Anthony Quinn|Quinn Riptide Scrapper Stan Stavert Sukeban Tigress Titan 1 ... well, strictly, on the Upper East Side

Ghost is in the Guard's quarters as well, in a bikini, lazing on a couch under a health-filtered sun-lamp with a glass of wine and a book borrowed from the embassy library.

Ghost says, "So what answer did you get, and what was the question?"

Scrapper says, "The question was 'who is responsible for tha giant creatures'"

Ghost nods.

Ghost says, "The answer you got was..?"

Titan waves to Scrapper and Ghost, but doesn't interrupt the conversation.

Scrapper says, "'The device you seek came from the fog, but now it is hidden even from fog. In the night a thief took it, yet the thief remains.' ... so, in essence, any attempt to track down the guy who made it is a waste of time."

Ghost thinks for a moment. "Dr Philious Fogg. At the CBSU here. He's a mad inventor type. I suspect the rest means it was someone working with or in his department that took the device. But they are still there."

Scrapper says, "Well, if it is this fog guy, it says that fog can't help us find or thief"

Titan raises a brow at Ghost's analysis. "I'm impressed." He tilts his head, "It might still be worth asking Fogg some questions, or checking security footage."

Sukeban wanders in, stares briefly at Ghost, shrugs, grabs some food and sits down.

Ghost says, "From what I've read in the media Dr Fogg couldn't find a bright light in a dark room." She grins at Titan, "When I first arrived I spent hours and hours in the library in the city. And once read I never forget, and all the knowledge is filed away in a retrival database."

Cecila yawns a bit and stretches as she walks int the base and smiles "Sooo... whats going on today?" she asks the others. Wondering if there was a meeting scheduled or not.

Titan chuckles. "That's a handy skill. Though..." He looks around slowly, "...I've found that there are sometimes things that I'd like to forget."

Alisha makes her way to the embassy, she is a little bit excited to share the news she discovered and then once she is let in and then she stands around in the lobby waiting to see if they will talk to her, she gave her name as Tigress.

Ghost says, "I can erase data if I want. I have to edit it anyway. My headware storage is not infinite. So I dump the unimportant stuff to my PDA and then to external data chips."

Scrapper tosses the scrap of paper aside, "Anyway, this was very definately a 'not green' type clue.

Titan nods to Ghost, "Definitely handy, then." A runner shows up, and whispers to Titan. He then looks to the others, "Looks like we have a visitor. I'll escort her in." He heads back out to the lobby area to meet Alisha.

[To Ghost] Scrapper says, "New member?"

It's been fairly quiet at the embassy. "Ellasse" has returned to Undermoon; whether he learned what he wished to during his visit is unclear. Lorelei remains absent, and has not sent much even in the way of mail. Several people have been visiting the basement of the HQ for extended periods, oddly including the ambassador, Princess Liandere, herself!

Ghost settles back down on the couch. Wearing the bikini reveals just how extensively Ghost is tattooed with enchantment runes.

Alisha smiles a little as she is greeted by Titan, "Hello, Not sure if you remember me, I looked different when we fought those giant ants, I was there weretiger." she says and then smiles, "have some information I wanted to pass on." she offers to Titan.

Ghost says, "No idea, Jo. Guess we'll find out in a few moments."

Scrapper says, "Have I been acting weird?>"

Titan walks out to the lobby, and approaches Alisha, "Ah...yes." He offers his hand to Alisha to shake. His handshake is firm, but not overly strong. "Nice to see you again. If you'll follow me, we can meet up with the rest of the team."

Titan leads Alisha inside to where the group is.

Scrapper says, "Evidently, a bunch of guys in my life got together the other night and agreed that ..." she cuts herself off when Alisha arrives and rises from her chair. "Welcome to the Princesses's Guard headquarters.""

Ghost says, "The word you're looking for is weirder. Jo, you've been as displaced as I have. We've each lost our original homes. So a little erraticness is to be expected. But you do seem to have been over reacting a bit from what I've heard."

Alisha nods and does shakes the hand that is offered and nods her head as she moves to follow Titan. She dips her head as she is lead back and then smiles, "Hello, I wanted to pass on some information I find out after we fought those Giant ants."

Ghost sits up and smiles, "That's most thoughtful of you. Alisha, would you like a glass of wine while you relay what you've discovered?"

Ghost sends a rabbit to Alwen asking her to bring another bottle of wine and more glassws.

Alwen appears with the new bottle in record time - she does indeed seem to be swift of foot, at least for someone with no powers!

Scrapper nods and offers Alisha the chair she recently vacated.

Alisha smiles a little and then shakes her head a bit, "Sorry, I don't drink, I have to stay in control of my faculties as much as possible, but I can share. I tracked where the ants came from to an access tunnel under the road for electrical cables, the cables had been tampered with. My guess is a machine was hooked up there and then the ants enlarged." she shakes her head a bit. "I smelled two men. I tracked the men to a large car park near the beach and they got into a vehicle, and I wasn't able to track them any further, but...I would recognize their smell if I met them." her eyes get bright as she says the last, a slight feral cast to them. She does take the chair that she was offered.

Ghost grins, "Jo, let's take Alisha along and go visit Dr Fogg in his lab at the CBSU. I'm pretty sure she'll sniff out the person we're after."

Scrapper sighs and shakes her head. "I doubt you will. As I discovered to my detriment, this person likes employing dupes. You will probibly never see these two again."

Ghost shakes her head, "Jo, think about it. There's a world of difference in getting some dupe, nice word that, to film an incident, and trusting a dupe with the device and knowledge of what is being done."

Scrapper says, "Okay, but when I slug the guy we track down, I don't want to hear any grief about it."

Sukeban shrugs, "Chasin' down a slim lead is better than chasin' down no lead."

Ghost says, "You will, Scrapper. Because he may well be a normal human. The law here is to use the minimum required force. Which is not how I learned to do things but when on Earth, do as humans do."

Scrapper says, "Hey! How many times do I have to say I pulled that punch when I gave that guy a broken jaw? I barely tapped him."

Ghost says, "You ought to analyze that last statement for internal logical consistancy, Jo."

Alisha nods, "I know that feeling I have had to explain myself before." she shakes her head, "Luckily I rarely try to take bites out of people anymore, well big ones anyway." she says, "So you have someone you want me to sniff?"

Scrapper snerks, but keeps her comments to herself for once.

Ghost says, "Several, Alisha. Hopefully you'll point your nostrils at one and tell us, that's the guy."

Ghost stands, "Let me go put some clothes on and we can get off, if everyone is in agreement."

Cecila smiles some as she listens to the discussion "Hey if you want to slug someone go ahead... I'll cheer you on" she offers Scrapper. After all she's one of the ones that prefers the direct approach. With that she wanders over to one of the chairs and sits down herself too.

"Will you need the carriage?" asks Alwen.

Scrapper considers Alwen's suggestion and says to Ghost, "What do you think? Loud or subtle?"

Ghost says, "Can't predict. Don't have any information about the prospective target, so a coin toss, and it's your call."

Scrapper says, "Subtle then. I'm tired of the bad guy getting away."

Alisha nods, "I should be able to tell without changing unless you want me to, my sniffer works better the closer to tiger I am." she says and shakes her head a bit and then stands.

Cecila says, "If he tries to run away I say you sock him one, but make sure to get him in the guts... we dont need him having a broken jaw so he cant talk"

Scrapper jokes, "Yeah, spinal cord injuries are so much better."

Ghost says, "Dr Fogg accidently enlarged one of his assistants as while back. So it's not unexpected for us to go talk to him. Hopefully that will give Alisha the chance to sniff around."

Alisha nods her head, "If not him, could be an assistant." she says and smiles, "I have my camera, can say I am getting pictures for an article or something too." she smiles a little.

Titan nods. "It's likely an assistant or someone like a night watchman."

Scrapper gathers the team and heads out

CBSU

The board at the door of the Physics Building indicating who is in what room shows that Dr Fogg has a brand new lab in the brand new annex! Nice and far away from any of the staff with a strong sense of self-preservation.

Titan heads into the newly built area, looking around...trying to find the appropriate office or lab, since Dr. Fogg likely has both.

 Scrapper says, "I wish these badges could transmit more than words. I'd love to loan her one just to get that scent."

Scrapper follows Titan's lead, droppoing once again into the entourage role.

Alisha does have her camera out and around her neck. She is watching things as well as sniffing now and again, trying to see if she is able to pick up the scent of one of the two men after all they might have been in the hall too. She isn't sure if she is going to have to change to get a better sniff yet.

Ghost is playing catch up as she had to change into her usual first before leaving the embassy. So she simply heads straight to the new annex after checking the board.

Sukeban tags along after the others. . o O (Not like I know this side of campus. I'm a Family Studies major!)

Dr Fogg does need have both - the office in the main building (no response to a knock), the lab at the extreme end of the annex.

Titan shrugs a bit as the group gets closer to the lab. "Even if we don't find him, we'll probalby find someone working here who might know where he is."

Scrapper says, "Doesn't matter if we actually find Fogg. He's just an excuse to poke around."

Titan nods. "Yes, and no. He might have some information that might lead us someplace else. Or he might have some knowledge about how to reverse the process quickly and painlessly. So we don't have to pummel a kitten into submission again."

An excuse to be on campus? Anthony is there more often then not, usually bending the ear of some academic or another as he runs an idea past them. Today he's on campus to speak with one of the professors of cybernetics, wanting to bounce a couple of ideas off of him about how to increase the target acquisition rate for his new Smartwave missiles.

Sukeban nods, "Poor little kitten."

Alisha blinks for a moment and then looks at the others, "One of the men has been in the hall, so we are on the right track." she says softly, "Lots of smells here though makes it hard to pinpoint but if we find someone I should be able to tell."

Titan nods to Alisha. "The lab probably has fewer peopel about. It might be clearer there."

Scrapper pauses at the door. "Ghost, can you see inside?"

Scrapper pauses at the office door before leaving. "Ghost, can you see inside?"

Riptide is often exploring the city, and the science buildings are a good place to go if you want to see what sort of science is being worked on by the surface world. It allows him to know what he can talk about freely without altering the future path of the surface world's technologies! Or so he thinks anyways, he does have a bit of an ego problem when it comes to Atlantean tech and magic after all. Also being a bonafide Atlantean there's been some questions about his physiology and whatnot and so Riptide steps out of one of the labs as he says over his shoulder to whoever is inside, "Please do not disseminate any information or discoveries without my permission. I'll be most vexed. Otherwise, glad to help."

Scrapper smiles when she spots Quinn and Riptide and waves them over.

As Quinn notices the phalanx of heroes all marching along with purpose he decides that following them might be more interesting than the conversation he was about to have. Veering across campus he heads after the group and follows them into the hallway. "Hey guys," he says with a wide grin, "what are you up to? Chasing down some lead?"

Ghost nods, "If you give me a moment. Scrapper, anything especially I'm looking for? Other than a room of people I don't know doing technical things I won't understand?"

Ghost sits, leans back against the wall, and goes limp as a rag-doll.

Scrapper says, "Just making sure that locked office door is actually empty."

Ghost goes into the office and checks it out.

The office is empty of people. Full of coffee mugs and pieces of paper, notably lots of notes scribbled on napkins, backs of envelopes, and the like. Even in this electronic age he seems to have managed to amass a a number of piles of books - well, more heaps, since they're often knocked down.

Ghost stirs, and looks at Scrapper as she stands, "Empty. And a mess. Not a ransacked mess. Just the kind of mess you get when things are put down wherever the guy happens to find space and then nver moved again unless wanted.

Sukeban snerks, "If I flamed this room, I'd be doin' him a favor."

Scrapper nods and helps Ghost up before they catch up with Titan.

Riptide looks over towards the gathered group and he raises an eyebrow though he smiles when he spots Scrapper and turns to head over in her direction at the wave. "Is there another giant animal attack about to happen?" He asks curiously, moving to lace an arm around Scrappers shoulders.

 Scrapper says, "Suke, how do you get away with comments like that and still give me grief over my attitude?"

Titan nods to Quinn, "A loose lead. Mostly poking around."

You kind of get the feeling someone had Dr Fogg in mind when the annex was built. At the end of the corridor is what looks suspiciously like a blast door.

Scrapper nods to Q "The ant and kitten guy may be around here."

Titan reaches the lab proper, and heads inside, rather than knocking. Assuming the door's unlocked."

 Sukeban says, "Hey, any time ya want to give me grief about my attitude, bring it O-Chibi-chan."

The door is unlocked, and promplty a vast cloud of orangish smokes billows out into the corridor, obscuring vision.

Scrapper makes a big purple fan and starts having the gas around.

Sounds of coughs and electic sparks can be heard beyond in the cloud.

Titan holds his breath, and works his way toward where he hears the coughing.

Sukeban sighs and walks in, looking for a person's heat signature

Ghost activates her space armor. Even if the smoke isn't toxic she doesn't want it in her lungs.

Immediately Quinn's forcefield snaps on, the slight haze that surrounds his body pushing away the gas before it can reach him.

"Oh my!" coughs a voice. "*That* wasn't supposed to happen...."

Alisha tries to watch her breath as she puts her camera away in its case quickly she looks at the others and tries to cover her mouth a bit.

Riptide blinks at the cloud of smoke, "That is an unusual color..." Then the cloud is washing over him and he is coughing, wishing he was under water...

Eventually Scrapper and the building fans clear the air.

 Scrapper says, "Welcome to America: land of 'its only slightly toxic'."

In the lab are a shortish, bespectacled older man, and an early-twenties bespectacled younger woman, both in lab coats. They're cautiously approaching some large, still-sparking gizmo.

Alisha sniffs a bit, once the smoke is cleared, "Is everyone okay?"

Quinn just shakes his head as the smoke begins to clear away. "Man, do I hate it when that happens," he says.

Titan keeps his breath held until the air is more or less clear. He looks to the older man, "Dr. Fogg, I presume?"

Ghost thinks. o O (Aptly named.)

Scrapper puts away the golf umbrella-sized fan as if she didn't produce it from thin air

Dr Fogg says "Yes?" without looking up. He tries to press the 'off' button without getting his hand fried.

Sukeban says, "Has anyone stolen yer growth device? Or the plans for it?"

Riptide coughs a few more times to clear his lungs as best he can, "The surface is most disagreeable in some ways..." He says to nobody in particular but then is distracted by the sparkly. "Interesting..."

Alisha does get a little closer seeing who all is in the room and then seeing if she recognizes Dr. Fogg's scent.

"Hm? Growth device? Oh, that! It'll be about somewhere.... can't think where I put it when I moved to the new lab.... more into temporal physics now." He glances up at last, as the machine finally powers down, and seems surprised by the number and/or identity of his visitors. "Now than, what can I - my word, Anthony Quinn, isn't it?"

Titan. o O ('Temporal'? He's messing with time now? Ugh. Hopefully he just...wont' be successful.) He follows up Sukeban's original question, "We believe that your research may have been used to create the giant kitten and ants that plagued the city recently. Could you please check with someone in your lab about where the plans or device might be? Even if you don't know where it is, someone else here might."

Anthony smiles and nods to the good doctor. "Yes," he replies, moving through the cluster of heroes and extending a hand. "Pleased to meet you, Dr. Fogg."

Fogg shakes Quinn's hand. "It's good too meet you! Someone else who understands the importance of cutting-edge research, not this slow plodding so many of my colleagues engage in.... It's a wonder we've never met before.... still, I suppose I don't go to many conferences any more...."

Alisha cocks her head to the side and then looks at the others and shakes her head, "Maybe one of your Lab Assistants might know where it is?" she asks, "You do have lab assistants?" she is hoping now that she knows he isn't one of the men.

"Oh yes, there's Grace here, and then there's Stan.... Grace, could you find, um, whatever it was they were looking for?"

Titan smiles to Grace. "That would be great. Thank you."

Grace looks rather despairingly at the mass of old inventions in the corner, but dutiifully goes to look.

Alisha nods her head and then shakes her head, "And Stan? Is he here today?" she asks as she looks at the others. That might be their person.

Titan walks over with Grace, to at the very least keep her occupied while Alisha pokes around. "I take it there's working prototype?"

Dr Fogg looks about before answering, as if unsure. "No... no, that's odd, he should be here on a Tuesday."

"It's Wednesday, sir," points out Grace.

"Oh, well, that explains it!" says Dr Fogg. "Oh, it's Wednesday? Wans't theere something I was supposed to do on Wednesday?"

Alisha cocks her head to the side, "Does that mean he is off on Wednesdays. I was hoping to meet him, does he have a work station I might be able to see?"

Fogg waves a hand. "Oh, I imagine he's off somewhere studying, or pretending to write his thesis or whatever students do...." he says, as if those days are rather beyond his memory.


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Ghost approaches Grace, "Do you have an address for Stan. A last name too. And might you know where he is likely to be at the moment?"

Alisha does try to get closer to Grace too just to double check her scent without being too obvious about it. She looks around the room and sees if she can find one of those familiar scents as she goes.

Grace nods. "Stan Stavert," she says, and fishes her PDA out to get the address.

Cecila is taking up the rear of the group. She's got less of an interest in speaking with absent minded professors as others are better at that than her and instead focuses her attention on her Seismic Sense to get a feel for the building layout and where people are in relation to them and of course trying to make out people where they should not be.

Scrapper slides behind Grace to see if the shorter woman has a picture on the contact list.

Riptide by and large is sort of extraneous so he just examines the tech that the Doctor has made, trying to puzzle out it's purpose and components, even though he isn't a scientist himself he is intensely curious.

Quinn thinks for a moment as the heroes ask Dr. Fogg about Stan. "Doctor," he says, "what can you tell me about your growth ray?" he asks. "Dimensions, power requirements, instabilities, things like that?"

 Scrapper transmits the image of Stan off the PDA to the rest of the team.

Ghost nods to Grace, "Thank you." Moving back out to the corridor she goes astral, leaving her body, and heads for the adress given.

Scrapper Steps out in the coordor to watch over Ghost's body and keep it prank free.

Fogg shrugs. "Well, that was the problem, I never got the thing stable. It always wore off after a day or so. Quite impractical. I don't recall the power consumption. Nothing the universities reactor couldn't handle. I'll have notes on it somewhere.... Stan would know...."

Grace meanwhile announces she's found the device amongst the junk in the corner. "Looks like it's taken a beating though."

Alisha nods and shakes her head, "I don't think you will find your prototype here, or the notes even." she shakes her head and looks around at the others and watches Ghost and then Scrapper step out.

Quinn nods to Dr. Fogg. "But it was simply a sustainability problem?" he asks. "The reversion wasn't due to something upsetting the process?"

Fogg chuckles. "Oh yes, I remember now, it got dropped in the move. No matter, it was a dead end anyway... Oh, yes, just a sustainability problem, but well, sustainability was the point, wasn't it?"

Quinn walks over to the device to give its damage a cursory investigation.

Alisha blinks and does look suprised that it was found.

Titan raises a brow, and looks to Grace, "This was the only working device?"

Grace says,"I don't know, I've only been with Dr Fogg this year."

Ghost summons a rabbit and sends it back with the information that Stan is just leaving his dwelling. Also, please take her body with them. The rabbit will guide the team and she'll stay with Stan to see where he is going.

Quinn frowns a bit as he examines the device. "Well, the bad news is that this probably isn't the device," he says to the assembled. "This damage doesn't look recent enough, so unfortunately Stan must have built his own version."

Titan nods to Quinn, "Seems likely if he's the one with all the notes on the project. Or he gave them to someone with the funding to build one."

Dr Fogg looks surprised. "I can't see why he'd do that - without stablity how would it solve world hunger?"

Sukeban facepalms

Cecila waits patiently and hmmms "Yeah... or improved on it" she notes as she shrugs and comments to Sukeban "I bet he doesnt watch the news at all"

Scrapper picks up Ghost and shackles the body to her back with force bands. Peeking her yead back in the door, she says, "Follow the rabbit guys."

Titan. o O (And he clearly has such a short attention span that he didn't hear me mention the giant animals.)

Riptide says, "He doesn't understand the fundamental laws of causality and paradox either if he is attempting to make a machine that can cause or manipulate temporal distortions. Such things can destroy whole universes if the paradox effect gets big enough." He hmms and looks at the machine, giving Scrapper a poignant look like: 'We should destroy this'.

Dr Fogg chuckles to himself, "I'd have thought he'd had enough of the device once he got enlarged by it.... never did work out how that happened...."

Sukeban just shakes her head, "Not even the news, I mean, anyone with half a brain would see the trouble ya could cause with a growth device."

A white two foot tall white rabbit pops into sight, "Stan is leaving his home. I'll stay with him. Follow the rabbit down the rabbit-hole and it will lead you to me. And bring my physical body please."

Sukeban follows the white rabbit.

Quinn nods to the white rabbit. "Just give me a moment to slip into my working clothes," he says. "I'll catch up with you guys," and with that he heads out to change.

Cecila ends up following everyone else again. Sounds like they have the guy that's been causing the problems.

Scrapper is *not* traveling slowly. Hitting 90 mph if the terrain allows it.

Dr Fogg's attention is distracted again as the time machine(?) suddenly produces another puff bang and of smoke.

The rabbit has passed on the message it was given. It doesn't say anything else. Leading the team to Ghost's astral form is the second task alotted to it. Ghost keeps the third task in reserve.

Ghost tracks Stan to an apartment building in the Upper East Side.

Alisha blinks and departs as the machine starts to smoke, moving to follow the others and the white rabbit.

Ghost follows, keeping her eyes and ears on Stan.

Titan follows the others, but before leaving, he says to the scientists, "Thanks for your time."

Riptide is clearly uncomfortable with just leaving the 'time machine' there but, he isn't going to be left behind either, well unless he /gets/ left behind of course but with the group he goes. Giant bad things are... bad.

Stan looks about a bit furtively before pressing a button and being buzzed up to Apartment 38.

 Scrapper says, "Please let me get there before he can activate anything."

Ghost uses the third task to get information to the team. The rabbit says, "There's a device here that Stan and the person who was already here are calling the growth machine. It's them, and the device is here."

Scrapper heads straight for the designated window, dropping her aerodynamic force bubble and summoning her two-handed sword at the same time.

Sukeban flies up, trailing flame as usual.

Ghost draws her sword, the blade glowing with an eldrich illumination as Ghost is on the astral. And if either Stan or his accomplice move towards the machine she'll manifest her image and warn the pair that she'll cut the first hand to touch the machine off at the wrist. -- Of course she can't. But will they risk it?

Quinn arrives quickly but waits for the others to take the lead, happy to sit back and let someone else lead the charge to arrest the vile miscreants. Instead he takes up a position of 'safety', in the highly improbable event that something should go wrong.

Alisha sniffs around as they get there and then looks at the others, "Will catch up in a moment," she says and then steps into an alley and strips putting her clothes into her bag. She changes into her tiger form, the cracking bones popping joins and swelling of form and then comes back out of the alley to join the others as they get to front of the house, her satchel over her shoulder.

Titan is well behind the others, leaping across the city...but he's just not quite as fast.

Riptide is nowhere near the fastest, at least on land. He can still move faster than most cars in the city when he wants to due to you know, traffic laws and the like. So much like Titan, he is following behind...

Stan cries out, "No! Brian, they've found us!" and shrinks back against a wall. Brian is quicker, and just slaps his hand down on a button on the machine, and is eveloped by blue sparks, and begins to grow rapidly.

Scrapper bursts through the window and slashes at the machine with her sword.

Ghost draws her sword, the blade glowing with an eldrich illumination as Ghost is on the astral. And if either Stan or his accomplice move towards the machine she'll manifest her image and warn the pair that she'll cut the first hand to touch the machine off at the wrist. -- Of course she can't. But will they risk it?

The machine explodes in a veritable shower of blue sparks. All of which seem to swarm around Brian, who promptly yells out in pain as hid head hits the ceiling and goes through. Floors and walls are knocked out as he continues to grow....

Stan shouts out, "No, what have you done?! The enlargement field is unstable....."


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Cecila isnt slow by any standards on land but ends up at the back of the group as she senses the guy growing and growing "Wow... someone put on a lot of weight" she cant help but comment as it also goes over the communicator for those not in earshot as well.

Scrapper turns to Stan with the purple sword in her hand and sparks flying around her body. "Stay here till I chop your friend down to size or I will
 * find* you."

Sukeban sighs and blasts the giant guy, "Seriously. What was yer plan. Step 1: Get growth device Step 2: Attract the attention of every hero in the city. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit?"

Scrapper imagines Stan complaining about Scrapper threatening his life.

OOC: "She just said she would find you? Nothing else?"

OOC: "You don't understand. It was how she said it."

Riptide is caught by surprise, "I suppose it was only a matter of time." He mentions, mostly to Titan since, well, he and Cecila are probably the only two near him. He pauses to watch Brian grow, and grow, and grow. "This is not going to end well if he doesn't stop growing soon. The problem is that it's an external effect... if we can't stop the effect he might never stop growing..." Then he cups his hands to his mouth and shouts, "STOP THE GROWTH FIELD!" He doesn't know that the machine's been wacked by his would be girlfriend yet. "Cut the power! Disabling the target won't stop the growth since it's not an internal mechanism!"

Sukeban's flames hit the still-growing Brian, causing him to topple backwards, crushing still more of the building.

Ghost is unhappy... make that very unhappy, to see her physical body draped over Scrapper's back as Scrapper charges into combat .oO(If we both live through this, Jo, you're dead!)

Titan looks to Riptide, "What if we just got him out of the area of the field? Would that work?"

 Scrapper says, "Admit it, Ghost. You make a great Nemean lion"

[To Titan] Riptide says, "I don't know how the machine works. I just know that if it grew a kitten and land crustaceans it's something external affecting him. He could be unconscious, maybe even dead, and still grow if the effect isn't stopped."

Ghost jumps back to her physical body and slams a hand down to activate her force armor suit, Immediately followed by s loud stream to alien words shouted angrily at Scrapper.

Titan nods. "Let's assume he'll end up in scale with that kitten, assuming it runs the same course. I'm sure he won't be too tough to beat. Not for us, at least."

Quinn takes a look as Brian comes bursting through the walls of the apartment building like some sort of nerdy Kool-aid man. "Huh. I can't believe that something went wrong," he comments, mostly to himself. He raises a gauntleted hand towards Brian and lets fly with a stream of Quantum Bolts (tm).

Brian is now taller than the building. At least when he reels from Q's blast he falls away from it, more into the street, thus not putting any /more/ lives at peril.

 Scrapper says, "How heavy you think he will get? I can fly 12 tons fairly easily."

Titan leaps closer to Brian, and shouts upward to him, "I suggest you give up! Even if you win this fight, what will you do then? You'll just be on the run...and you'll get caught! Make this easy on yourself and your friend!"

Brian somehow feels his confidence growing with his size, but Titan's shout makes him hesitate slightly....

Cecila realizes that well the guy who used the growth thing on himself is a whole lot more massive than the building is designed to handle structurally and you can probably imagine the string of 4-letter words she runs into the building the ashpalt, concrete and cement of the street and sidewalk race behind her as it covers her form. She looks around for the best place to place herself and reinforces the structure, or perhaps she'll be the one thing holding the building up. She comments out loud as she does so and over the communicators "You know there is a bunch of innocent people still in the building that is likely to collapse under that guy's weight, can someone do me a favor and pull the fire alarm"

Brian booms, "I was so close! A pay-off from the city and I've have been set up for life...." And he raises a foot to stamp on the heroes that ruined things...

He brings his huge foot down on Titan.

Brian is rather disappointed when Titan doesn't even sink much into the ground.

Titan gets buffeted by Brian's foot, but doesn't drop. "Seriously?! That's the best you've got?! I hit harder than that without even trying!"

Tigress watches Titan get stomped on and then shakes her head, "Well, big one." she growls and then takes a running leap right at Brian intending on slashing as she goes through him. The large weretiger is no where the size of the massive man but head maybe she can still do some damage, or at least help draw his attention.

The werertiger somehow not only hits the giant, but sends him staggering back to crash along the street, some 20m away!

Yet Brian continues to grow.....

Tigress is a little suprised as he goes flying and then cocks her head to the side, "Too far." she growls, at least she got him away from the building. She decides to try it again and leaps higher into the air, aiming to come down on top of Brian and slam him harder into the ground, claws and teeth flying.

Brian slides still further down the street - lucky his skin is so thick now or he wouldn't have any on his back!

Riptide had just spent all that time closing the distance when the Tigress sends him flying down the street to crash into the ground. "At the very least he'll at least be more manageable if he's unconscious... I guess..." He then winces as he sees tigress try another flying leap, "Oooh that's not going to end well with him already on the ground and getting bigger..." He runs fast, closing the distance but /not/ charging into Brian, no, he takes a gamble and prepares himself for further conflict since he has to spring just to keep up!

Quinn takes to a nearby roof, jets kicking up gravel and dust as he lands. "Ok, this is getting silly," he mutters to himself. "He's still growing even though he's not using the device. What's the way to stop it." He thinks for a moment. "Mass," he answers to himself. "He's got to be getting mass from somewhere, but clearly it isn't an energy transformation. He would have blacked out half the seaboard to gain that much mass. It must be coming from an extra dimensional source." Quickly he pops open one of his gauntlets. "Maybe if I can rewire the Quantum Bolt (tm) emitter I can disrupt the flow.

As an aside Quinn yells, "You know! Wherever you go! We will find you!" to the giant gentleman, adding in a muttered sotto voce, "because its not like you're going to be able to hide behind a building or anything."

Scrapper starts to rush out to join the fray, but sees the giant well in hand. Growling softly in frustration, she instead rushes into the building, snagging people with force arms as she rushes by them.... including Stan.

Anthony works frantically with the wiring, rerouting signals through the thermo-subcoupling array and reversing the polarity of the primary crossover coaxial manifold. He looks at what he has wrought and finds it good. "Well, here goes nothing," he says with a silent prayer as he extends a palm towards the Brobdingnagian boy and lets fire.

Quinn's deduction about the source of the matter - and guess at the exact modulations required - prove accurate. The field of shimmering blue sparks about the giant brightens, collapses and fades., leave Brian still huge but no longer growing.

Brian staggers to his feet, crushing a couple of parked cars as he does so. It occurs to him to puck up one of the parked cars at lob it at Tigress, who has hurt him more than anyone. "So no one will be able to stop me!" he says, not yet having noticed his growth has stopped.

Brian howver seems clumsy in proportion to size size, and the car smashes itself into the side of a house.

Riptide watches as Brian finally gets back to his feet and starts throwing cars like they were toys. "I can only imagine what would happen if a surface scientist got hold of..." He trails off because, well, because it's time! Time to do something! Since Brian seems distracted he shouts, "Please don't knock him away this time Alisha!" And rears back, going to give it everything he's got to try and help bring the hammer down.

Tigress growls and roars ferally, how dare he throw a car at her. She is about to go lay into him again when the shout comes from Riptide and she so wants to fight against it and just lay into Brian but she doesn't. She stands there, hands clenched, struggling to hold herself back.

With one Quantum Projector offline Quinn takes back to the air, attempting to override his armor's safety protocols as he channels the excess energy into the remaining emitter. He hovers, the glowing circle in his palm burning brighter and brighter as he allows the charge to build before unleashing it at the colossal man.

Brian is knocked back and down again - and out. The street, however, will take some repairing.

Tigress cries out in frustration as she is left unable to continue to fight. She paces back and forth in place calming herself down.