Log:Target: Titan

2011/01/05 	 Devil Dog Guardian Lily Mesmer Titan Wonder 1

Lily is walking slowly toward the Corporate Tower, returning to work after a late lunch.

Lee wanders down York Blvd in his secret ID, looking up at the tall buildings. It all seems so busy compared with the town he grew up in. Mostly he's just learning his way around his new home.

Devil Dog is flying low over the streets today as he idly circles the block belonging to the Colonial Bay Chronicle, going over the request he has for the news paper. Being friendly has never been his high point, and he is starting to think coming down this way was a huge waste of his time.

Anton for once Anton doesn't look out of place, his customary newspaper and hot chocolate fitting right in with the other business people as they go about their daily lives, he is however sitting on a bench, half reading the paper and half watching the people about him.

Why be downtown? That's easy. Guardian just wanted a bite. Rather than restaurants or whatnot, she's just attending a vending cart to get a hot dog. Ah hot dogs, the staple food of so many people. She's got a dog in one hand and her smartphone in the other as she scrolls through a list of names and portfolions she's come up with to try to help her decide which people she wants to bring with for the operation she's pondering. Sitting on a bench nearby the cart with a sprite opened and sitting next to her as well. Bite.. chew chew chew... swallow... scroll down and review another entry... yellow eyes concealed... okay not so concealed as much as just... well she likes the look of her aviator style sunglasses.

Titan is coming out of the Corporate Tower...having just finished an interview one of the television studios inside, to promote his upcoming movie, 'Kingmaker'. There's a reasonable-sized group of fans outside, who start to clamor for his autograph. He smiles amiably, and starts to sign various items and pictures.

A cheer goes out from the fans as Titan emerges from the studio. Camera flashes start popping and fans start calling out to Titan, everyone trying to get his attention for an autograph or a snapshot. A black sedan waits nearby to take Titan away from the scene once he's finished with his adoring public.

The downtown district, and above all famed York Boulevard, is an area of skyscrapers old and new and the jewel of the city where most of the real money is made. From the lower, older buildings like that of the Colonial Bay Chronicle to the height of the Corporate Tower, the district is alive with bustle through the day; while at night it is well lit by the light of ads and news reporting across the sides of the buildings, and the action is focused on a few clubs and other hotspots.

Titan knows that the attention is mostly due to his connections with Lorelei. And that she's also in the same film. But he takes the time to 'smell the roses' as it were. He makes sure to sign just about anything that someone asks him to...well, within reason.

Lee joins the crowd, trying to see who this celebrity is - after (unobserved) changing form to that of a taller man.

FWIPTH! A sniper fires at Titan with a suppressed weapon.

Titan is in the middle of signing a picture when the bullet hits his chest, piercing his shirt...and hitting with a thud. And then stopping in hte clothing. He furrows his brow, and looks down the front of his shirt, spotting hte bullet. "Damnit. Everyone...back away from me...someone is shooting!" He leaps away from the crowd, to get some distance from them, and looks around, trying to spot the shooter.

Lee shifts into a larger and more muscular - and defensive - form in the confusion, though for the sake of surprise he doesn't adopt wonder's costume.

Reaching up as she hears the voice calling out about being shot at, Guardian lowers her shades and just happens to spot a flicker of light. She inclines her head a bit and puts her cellphone away before launching herself into the air.. -not- heading towards the shooter but an alternate direction... hopefully getting out of line of sight from that location. Her plan... make the guy feel somewhat secure, like he/she hasn't been spotted yet, and circle around to try to catch'im before he can get away from there.

Lee knows he's a lot more bulletproof than most people, so he interposes himself between the crowd and the apparent source of the bullet and looks for the shooter.

Devil Dog hrms as he spots the muzzle flash and the sniper behind it, and Titan diving away. "STupid." he growls, then angles himself sharply up and to one side, attempting to get out of sight himself and higher than the sniper, him already starting out at the same level as the sniper's window.

Anton sets down his newspaper as he glances at the commotion just down the street, he glances around but doesn't notice anything at all, so he continues to sit on the bench doing nothing.

Titan doesn't seem content to let the sniper think he wasn't spotted. He looks right in that direction, and leaps up onto the building across the street...heading directly for where the sniper is, a couple of blocks away. He knows he'll get shot at a couple more times before he gets there...but at least there won't be a crowd around him.

Lily doesn't see where the shot came from, but she sees Titan leap off. "Ah! He must have spotted the shooter!" She leaps after Titan.

Titan nods, and points as Lily follows him. "Up there in that building!"

Lee doesn't see the shoot either, but starts running the same direction as Ttian is going, changing into costume as he goes!

Lily says, "Ok!"

Members of the crowd scream and start to panic. They run for cover and scatter, but a few people fall in the commotion. Traffic screeches to a halt as some of the fans flee into the street. "Oof!" A teenaged girl falls to her hands an knees in the middle of at the intersection. There's a truck barreling down the street right for her. The driver slams on his brakes, but he might not be able to stop in time!

Seeing the traffic issues coming up, Guardian narrows her eyes and makes a snap decision. That's why they made her an officer right? To make the hard choices. She streaks down at high speed, angling downward and angling right in towards the girl in danger. It's going to be close!... she snakes her hands out to try to curl them about the girl as she flies past. Either way, she'll make sure her body is between the girl and the car as she does so....

And with the yellow glow emenating from her skin and energy seeping from her eyes in an almost liquid yellow trail behind her, Guardian calls out, "Go limp!" to the girl as she wraps an arm under each of the girl's arms and lifts her clear of the danger area. Twisting then to make sure that -she- is between the girl and the sniper just in case the guy gets creative.

Devil Dog notices all the heros going after the window, and also Guardian rescuing the girl, and suddenly stops in his tracks, "Hrm." he grumbles thoughtfully, then turns and starts to fly back the way he came, angling to land on a building. This should put him 20 M up, but at pritty much the same place Titan was first shot at.

Anton glancs around in an attempt to get a better view of what's happening, he is still scanning the area for what would have begun the commotion.

Titan glances back upon hearing the truck...and sees that Guardian appears to have things in order. He lets out a breath of relief at that, and then continues toward the sniper, leaping to close the distance. He's still over thirty meters away from the gunman after the second leap.

Wonder continues to follow Titan!

Titan is hit in the chest again...and actually topples back a couple of meters. "Oh...come on." It doesn't appear to have pierced the skin, though.

Titan completes a backward somersault, and ends up back on his feet. He calls out to the sniper, "Seriously! Why at you shooting at me?"

Lily sees Titan tumble and leaps again with all her might, aiming for where she thinks the sniper is.

Narrowing her eyes as she thinks through the whole situation, Guardian comes to the conclusion that these attackers are either idiots, or far more powerful than they're letting on to. She sighs and launches herself into the air at a much higher rate of acceleration. Energy bleeds off of her as she moves down the street and upwards to try to get out of the line of sight -again- of the sniper where she can curl around and get closer.

Devil Dog thinks the hole situation over from his ledge, watching over Titan's fans as they run off and guarding against further mishaps.

Wonder runs faster than he ever has to try to reach this sniper before someone (likrly not Titan) gets hurt!

Wonder thinks. o O (I didn't know being a superhero would be so much running!)

Anton continues to sit on his bench, glancing at the sniper and sending a blast of psychic energy his way.

"Grah!" The sniper grunts, grabbing his head. He slumps down, disappearing from the window.

Titan leaps again...aiming for the window the sniper was in...trying to get into the room itself.

Titan brings up his arms in front of his face as he goes through the window. "Time for you to answer some questions..."

The interior of the office space is entirely bare, with reinforced metal plating on the ceiling, walls and floor. The corners of the room are occupied by high-powered laser projectors, the sort that would be used in point-defense anti-missile systems. At the rear side of the room, there is a flying van with chain machine guns mounted in the open sidepanel doors. In addition to the Sniper, there are three other commandos, plus a van driver.

The point defense lasers thrum to life as Titan enters the office space. The four of them swivel and focus on Titan and simultaneously fire on him.

In Wonder's staircase, the lights flicker off and on again ominously as something puts an awful strain on the building's power system.

Titan stumbles a little bit as the lasers hit him. "Gah!" He's definitely still on his feet, though.

The 3 Next Generation Agents fire Tasers at Titan.

One of the Agents shouts, "Hurry up and take him down. We have more heroes incoming!"

The Sniper regains his composure, shaking the cobwebs out of his head.

Her initial burst of upward and angular acceleration tapering off, Guardian surges to a higher speed which takes her off like a rocket of yellow energy towards the window. But, that's just a burst and she's already calculating her deceleration rate as she turns at the end of that burst and places her feet ahead of her. The plan here? To slow down by accelerating away and landing on her feet inside as soon as she can.

ZZZAT! The defense lasers acquire their new target: Guardian. They fire at her in unison.

Darting in through the window, Guardian remarks, "Yep, it's a trap... as I thought." and as she lands, the lasers start firing her way and her hands come up, crossing over themselves in the way of the laser blasts. Three of the four shots are actually -absorbed- into her body and the fourth strikes her in the torso to little effect.

Titan starts to say something after Guardian speaks, but slumps to the floor on his stomach, unconscious.

The Third Next GEN Agent grabs Titan, grunting as he pulls the brawny hero over his shoulder.

Lily tries to leap through the window and pummel the agent carrying Titan!

The defense lasers swivel and target the newcomer, Lily. They fire in unison at her.

The overtaxed power system in the entire building cuts out, and the defense lasers shut off.

The lights in the building go out, replaced in a moment by the emergency lighting.

Lily's punch slams solidly into the soldier and knocks him to the ground, where he falls on top of Titan. He manages to keep a hold onto Titan, though.

Wonder dashes up and bursts through the door!

Wonder charges into the door, shoulder first, knocking it from its hinges, ending up standing where the door way.

Anton continues to watch the window waiting for anyone to appear that he can blast.

The sniper tries to crawl away from the window while staying out of the mentalist's line of sight.

The Sniper collapses, unconscious.

Having sucked up some energy from the blast that -did- strike her in the chest... in fact more than she spent so far... Guardian recovers from being shot and strides forward to basically stand over Titan's body. Once there, she channels power into her muscles and steps in and down to basically try to lift the agent off of Titan and hold him there and planting a knee into the guy's stomach.

And lifting... twisting and driving a knee into the agent's torso, Guardian remarks, "Didn't your mother ever teach you that it's not polite to kidnap superheroes?" And as the guy slumps down unconscious, she shakes her head, "Guess not.." she mutters as she looks towards the other agents.

Having knocked the one guard out, Guardian shakes her head and looks up towards the far agent. She punches the air once, twice, three times and sends a blast of plasma towards the agent with each punch. Perhaps the reason the last one misses is because the second one knocks the guy off his feet and she didn't quite track fast enough. "Two strikes.... an almost perfect at-bat for our pitcher.." She mutters.

"Unh!" The agent grunts and he takes two blasts in the armor vest. He's knocked backwards into the wall. He slams against it and slides down to the ground. He's gritting his teeth, in pain, but still up. (though barely)

Wonder has little experience fighting, especially since getting super-strength. So he takes a straighforward approach - he goes up to the nearest bad buy and punches him!

Angstrom's punch connects solidly with the agent, in the gut. He staggers back a couple of steps before he sinks to his knees, clutching his stomach and gasping for air.

Wonder is relieved to find that works. He was worried when he saw these guys had taken down Titan!

Anton picks up his newspaper, and then walks into the nearest building, before pulling his mask on over his body, the suit is close enough to Mesmer's normal attire, and then he teleports to the top of the building where all the fun is happening.

Titan is apparently still getting zapped by the tasers...and doesn't appear to be moving yet, except to twitch every so often.

The van pilot shouts. "Ok, Agents... we are leaving!!!" The rear wall of the office building levers open, providing a space large enough for the van to fly through. The van lifts off and it move out alongside the building. The pilot waits there for now, to see if any of his mates will make it out.

The Agent that Guardian just blast, he pulls himself up to his feet and runs for the van. The other agent recovers from Wonder's punch.

"Go! Go! Go!" The Agent shouts. The Van pulls away from the side of the building and begins to fly away.

"Wait! Wait for me you bastards!" The agent next to Wonder shouts.

"Get the leads off Titan! They're still shockin' him!" calls Guardian as she lifts into the air and chases after the van but veers off to the left a bit until she gets the side door in view. Summoning a charge of plasma she releases it to allow it to erupt inside the van..... or hopefully.

The agent in the van slumps down, unconscious. The pilot is jarred by the blast as well and the van starts to swerve out of control.

Wonder was alreasy acting before hearing Guardian's order. He leaps out of the building and tries to grab hold of the van with his super-strength - hoping it's enough to make handholds!

Wonder digs his fingers into the van - enough to hold onto it anyway....

Seeing the blast go off inside the van, Guardian angles in through the side door. She lands on the floor in the back with a glowing hand aimed at the pilot. "Put it in hover... now. I -could- blast you out and fly it myself if I wanted but I'd rather do this the easy way... the super strong guy you just heard land on the van won't be feeling so generous..." she offers.

The pilot freezes with his hands on the controls.

Wonder climbs into the van after shifting to look bigger and scarier - to enhance Guardian's threat.

Mesmer appears in the middle of the room, his mask hiding any features, the newspaper and hot chocolate gone. An audible sigh can be heard and then he tosses zip ties to the man, his head inclining slightly and a finger pointing to the sniper, indicating the man should make use of them in the traditional manner.

"Okay..." remarks Guardian as she reaches down and grabs the zip tie with one hand. She holds it to Wonder and says, "Put it on the driver." She offers. Once that's done, she'll climb into the copilot's seat and familiarize herself with the control before gently trying to land it back where it came from.

The remaining agent reluctantly ties up his mate.

Mesmer throws another set of ties at the man, 

The man puts on the ties. 

Wonder makes sure the pilot is well and truly restrained.

Wonder says, "You can fly this thing?"

Titan wakes up, shaking his head a bit. He then looks around slowly, trying to get his bearings.

"We're gonna find that out momentarily..." Offers Guardian as she studies those controls to try to get an idea of how the vehicle works. Let's see... attitude control, vertical lift... throttle... altimeter... "Only one way to find out for sure." she adds as she reaches for the controls and starts to slowly -try- to land the thing. It's not a chopper, or a van, or a plane, but maybe it's just enough of a mix of all three that she can do this.

Mesmer sighs and shrugs nodding his head to Titan, putting out both hands, one thumbs up and one thumbs down and he cocks his head to the side as if asking a question.

Titan nods his head, and gets to his feet. "I'm alright."

The Agent in the building says, "Get out of my head. I want my lawyer."

And with a gentle touch, the van is landed back in the launch bay. "Okay, we're down." she remarks as she shuts down the engine and heads out the side door, "Is Titan alright?" she asks before looking at one conscious guy dealing with Mesmer. "I bet you'd be wanting to get arrested then?" she asks before reaching back inside and lifting the unconscious agent out of the back of the van...