Log:Chinatown Shortcut

2020/04/27 Blockbuster 1

It's late at night, but too early to sleep. Chinatown is mostly closed, save for restaurants and night spots. But someone didn't get the memo, as a few busted ATM machines throughout the neighborhood prove someone's been taking some late night withdrawals.

Blockbuster flits above the streets, following the trail of busted ATMs through Chinatown as she tries to burn off some calories. So many pastries, so little struggle for her life! It's probably going to be hard to get the drop on the thieves, considering Blockbuster is lit up like a Christmas tree... But at least she's overhead, so maybe the street lights will mask her presence.

Finally catching up to the end of the trail, Blockbuster sees the culprits. There's two tall, young thugs with hoodies holding a duffle bag each. They stand behind a shorter young woman who looks a bit different from them. She has long blonde wavy hair that travels past her backside, a black baseball cap, a black mask that covers her nose and mouth, a crop top, shredded black jeans with hot pink fishnets showing through, black gloves, and back shoes with hot pink laces.

That young woman happens to be carrying an overside sword that looks more like a meat cleaver made of black metal with a pink edge. She raises it up and then swings it down, cutting open the latest ATM. More like burning/melting it open. She starts walking away. "Get to work, boys!" The two thugs start grabbing the cash.

Blockbuster drifts down from the skies above to hover in place behind the young lady with so much pink accent work. Waiting until the thugs are well at work, Blockbuster leans in to whisper into the woman's ear, "I, like, totally love your outfit. Tres comfortable, nes pas?"

Somewhere, in the distance, Pauly Shore laughs. His power grows at having been used as a pop culture reference.

The woman halts at the question in her ear, then quickly spins around to answer Blockbuster with her blade.

Eyes wide, Blockbuster bends over backward, allowing the blade to whistle through the air where her mid-section had been an instant before. Once the blade has finished passing her by, Blockbuster finishes the backflip since she's still in mid-air. As she finishes her aerobatic maneuver, Blockbuster wrenches some light from air while she keeps bobbing in the air, waiting for the next attack.

"Totes nega-schway," opines Blockbuster. The light she snatched from the air has condensed down into a dull, cherry red orb that gets flicked at Shortcut's chest whereupon it explodes in a burst of light.

The explosion hits Shortcut and sends her flying. She twists into a back handspring and lands on her feet six meters away.

Shortcut frowns and Naruto-runs forward before swinging her huge meat cleaver sword cross-wise at Blockbuster. "No anx, then. Just leave!"

The thugs are frantically loading up their bags with cash.

Shortcut's Buster Sword slams into Blockbuster with a burst of pink light that radiates outward in a ring. The silver-haired heroine blinks a few times before tilting her head to one side.

"Good thing I'm just, like, the distraction," remarks Blockbuster as she floats backward a few meters.

With a gesture, Blockbuster launches an orb of white light out toward the thugs. Hopefully Shortcut looks in that direction to see how it explodes in a spray of intense light that may short out any electronics in the space on top of blinding eyes and cameras.

There's another brilliant flash of light as Shortcut's blade impacts Blockbuster's unitard. She squeaks in pain as she's forced backward a few inches in the air, her eyes narrowing while her face scrunches up in mild frustration.

"No fair! You're not allowed to hit me while you're blind!"

Which is about the point that Blockbuster stops playing around. Her hands clench as she draws the light in from her surroundings. A big ball of pink light forms in between her palms before erupting outward toward the blinded swords woman. The pink laser beam may or may not explode on impact.

Shortcut is struck and bounces a bit on her feet to stay aloft. "Well, no fair hitting me while I'm blind!"

The accomplices are starting to panic, feeling around.

Shortcut spins around, holding her sword with both hands as she does a wide sweep toward Blockbuster.

The swing comes short.

Blockbuster huffs indignantly at Shortcut's response. She drifts away from the wide sweep with ease, her eyes narrowed behind her domino mask as she considers the swords woman. Another Blockbuster gets hurled at Shortcut while Blockbuster tries to come up with a better strategy.

That hits Shortcut hard. She wobbles a bit, needing a moment to shake it off. "Hey, idiots...don't let her get the cash!"

"Uh. I don't actually want the cash," remarks Blockbuster, "But I also can't let you guys take money that people need!"

Blockbuster holds out a hand, squeezing her fingers tightly as another prismatic field abruptly forms in the middle of the space between the thugs and Shortcut. It explodes a split-second later, spraying the villains down with blinding light and disrupting the local electronics too!

Just as the spots start to clear from their eyes, the trio are blinded again!

The thugs stumble and try to feel their way around to run away from Summer. One hits a light pole and falls down. The other doesn't get far.

Blockbuster frowns as she sees the effects of her Glitter Bomb wearing off faster than she had hoped. Drawing more light from the area, Blockbuster forms a big ball of swirling colors between her hands. Promptly she launches it at Shortcut in a way that sends the orb of light bouncing off of surfaces. Shadowy after-images trail behind it right up until they all explode.

The orb of light strokes Shortcut and sends her flying. Her buster sword flies out of her hand before she even hits the pavement several meters back, knocked out.

The thugs scramble. One to get up. One to run away, only he finds himself running blindly into the street.

"Boys, please."

Rolling her eyes, Blockbuster goes drifting through the air toward the one scrambling to get to his feet. Another Cherry Bomb gets hurled at him, hopefully knocking him out in a hurry. Blockbuster's attention is drifting toward the guy who scrambled into the street because that's... Not a good place to be.

That knocks him out cold. Fortunately, he doesn't seem too badly injured.

Blockbuster pivots toward the other guy, floating after him quickly to close distance. Once again, she launches a Cherry Bomb at his back. Hopefully she can knock him out cold too and drag him out of the street before anything bad happens.

She does one better. The thug is blown out of the street and onto the sidewalk. But he's also unconscious and pretty bruised up. A few bills flutter in the air in his wake.

"Well."

Blockbuster looks around curiously. After a few moments of contemplation, the floating heroine quickly gathers up the villains and ties them up, back-to-back in front of their latest ATM. The money gets packaged up and weighted down with Shortcut's sword. She quickly calls the police and then looks around again.

"That was exciting."