Log:Powerless in Chinatown, Scene 8

Powerless in Chinatown 2021/03/19 	 Chen Dark Horse Kid Tengu Lennox Nara Union Another Man's Army Microwave II 	 Silkworm II

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Nearly a week has passed since One Man Army, Microwave and Silkworm (in her cocoon) were attacked and deprived of their powers. Precision has declared that she can do no more for Silkworm, and the coccon has been taken to the hospital to see if Western medicine can help at all. Things in Chinatown remain tense, and Lee's metas still travel round in groups, but no more has been seen of the attacks, yet. It is a cold day, even for Februrary (yes, this is time-shifted).

After a big fight against 'Another Man's Army' at the house a goon's teleporter led the heroes to, the heroes questioned AMA until he gave them the address of a warehouse in the Industral Park, near Route 9, where, he claimed, he was given his powers. Chen scouted this warehouse while the other heroes hung back to various degress. Alas, it proved to be an ambush: at least three dozen instances of AMA, to together with a man with Silkworm's powers, a woman with Microwave's powers and otther three agents awaited inside!

Luckily, they ambushed Chen at a point when she was mid-shift and effectively intangible. Thus they lost the element of surprise, but they joined battle anyway, blowing off the doors of the warehouse and statting to come out in order to attack the heroes. Microwave II blew a hole in the warehouse wall, too, trying to take Dark Horse by surprise. The battle has has only just begun! 

Union moves to join Dark Horse, avoiding any attacks that come her way.

 Union says, "On my way, DH."

Lennox continues to move forward, shifting his aim to the AMA closest to his allies, hoping to knock him down.

Lennox's rounds go a little wide, three 9mm FMJ slugs punching into (and maybe through) the building's wall, but his target is not yet hit.

Nara instantly moves themselves from a moderate distance to well within the midst of those armed and trying to do harm to those they are presently happy to work alongside. Once Nara arrives, they take rapid assessment of the situation, moving in nearly imperceivably small adjustments and becoming a difficult target.

Chen solidifies and morphs into a slimmer faster version of herself. Dancing through and into the middle of the mass of AMA clones she targets the Ego Weapon clone for a takeaway maneuver, and if successful, tosses the weapon toward Kid Tengu.

5 AMAs fire on Chen as she solidifies and miss!

 Chen says, "KT, incoming ego weapon."

Chen hands the weapon to KT.

 Kid Tengu says, "Thanks! Now to make someone eat Ego!"

Kid Tengu runs toward trouble with the others, rushing forward with all due haste until one of their targets can be lashed out at.

Of course by then Chen has passed off a vicious weapon recovered from their enemies.

He grins, nodding to Chen to go along with his thanks over the link they share via Union.

He leaps forward- getting about 10m closer & then takinng aim at another target with a weapon in hand.

The beam clearly has some kind of effect on the guy, but has failed to zombify him.

KT looks a bit bothered it didn't seem to work. "Maybe the batteries are low on this one?" He asks rhetorically.

Silkworm attempts to encase Chen in a great sphere of silk, since the smaller-scale entangle failed. Alas, that means a few instances of AMA will have to be in the sphere with her, but it can't be helped.

 Chen says, "Doubt that, KT. This was a prepared ambush. That should be fully charged. Give it another try, and if it doesn't work, hit them with the butt. "

Silkworm II wraps Chen up in a sphere of silk with only two instances of AMA in there with her.

Agent 1 (tranq gun) attempts to fire on Dark Horse through the hole made by Microwave II.

The tranq darts whistles by DH.

Agent two grabs his secondary weapon (standard blaster), but there's a big silk sphere between him an viable targets.

Chen looks at one of the agents, "Hi. Remember me? Because I remember you. We'll have a little talk after this."

Nara communicates their intentions clearly thanks to the linked minds. They seem to want everyone nearby to avert their gaze for a moment and while the words and mentally provided light patterns are beyond comprehension for most humans, the mental link translates it beautifully.

 Dark Horse says, "Union, we should target Microwave first, I think. I really...REALLY don't want to be hit with that blast I saw a few seconds ago."

 Union says, "Which one is Microwave?"

Microwave II attempts to fire a wider spread of microwaves at Dark Horse!"

Dark Horse narrowly avoids the microwave blast. "That one. There."

What's left of the chain link fence beyond bursts into a display of sparks as the microwaves hit it!

[COMBAT] Dark Horse is now no longer holding!

[COMBAT] Nara is now no longer holding!

Nara moves once they are made aware of the designated Microwave, instantly arriving nearby and emitting an overwhelmingly bright display of colourful light in a gorgeous pattern that no one will be able to appreciate from within its effect.

A dozen AMAs, an agent and Microwave II are blinded!

Union Moves to join DH, still making sure to avoid any attacks.

Dark Horse hurries into the room through the hole in the wall, and throws a side kick at Microwave II, wanting to take advantage while his opponent is blinded. Is he honorable like Artemis or Victory? No sir.

Somehow, Microwave II seems to sense the attack, alas. More than that she blinks a foot or so away from the attack.

Continuing to close, Lenox thinks into the link, << Flashbang out, >> his hand moving to a portion of hia combat harness to pluck and toss without needing to think of it.

About another dozen AMA instances are (briefly) blinded by the flashbang.

The two instances of AMA cocooned with Chen fire on her!

The silk globe is weakened at two points as the blasters hit.

6 instances of AMA fire on Nara, though their shots are somewhat hampered by other blinded instances.

The two that manage to make their shots land on Nara cause the alien to stop appearing at all aware or active, though Nara still remains aloft somehow when they go still.

Nara is knocked into a blinded instance of AMA, who is knocked over.

Five blinded instances of AMA take pot shots at where they think Lennox is.

None of them come anywhere near their target.

Kid Tengu was going to shoot his previous target but with Silkworm 2 out there gumming up the works and Microwave trying to nuke Dark Horse he's elects to change targets- working from seemingly most dangerous to least.

He leaps up to cling to the warehouse wall & tries to fire down on Microwave.

The beam strikes Microwave II - whose blank, blinded stare somehow becomes even blanker!

Chen bulks up muscle tone as she reaches for first one and then the other clone with a swiftly grown third arm. She attempts to grab, and if successfull throw at the barrier where the weak apot is.

 Union says, "Microwave?"

If you need to open a can and you don't have a canopener, use a villian. One AMA is held, the other thrown hard at the weakened area and breaks through. In the next few moments the silk globe unravels like a knitted garment when a loose thread is pulled.

 Kid Tengu says, "Microwave has a head full of raygun!"

Dark Horse finds Microwave is difficult enough to hit that he decides to try to make it easier. He attempts to step through and knock down his target with a hip throw. Who knows what the meta's powers will do after that raygun hit?

Microwave grunts as thrown to the floor but still seems out of it. Dark Horse finds she lack armour.

Union says, "Running and using a blinded goon as a vaulting horse, Union makes her way to the agent with the dart gun, whom she promptly boots in the head."

The kick spins the blind agent around, disorienting him.

Silkworm II looks for a moment like he might try to restrain Chen again, but instead points and shouts, "Focus on that one! She has powers well worth taking!" And then she turns her attention to Kid Tengu, who has hold of such a dangerous weapon, after swinging closer to him on a line of silk.

Kid Tengu is wrapped up in silk, which weaves itself like a thing alive!

Everyone else does superheroics; Lennox just does close-and-shoot. One foot in front of the other, now targeting the AMA closest to him, since all his allies are now inside.

The bullet just glances off the armour.

The second agent fires on Chen, now clearly visible to him.

He only manages to finish the hole on the other side of the cocoon.

Microwave II can only barely get together the willpower to attack her attacker...

A great chunk of the corrugated iron roof is blown away in sparks!

Dark Horse winces as the blast goes past him. . o O (And here I was worried about hurting her. That'll hurt if I get hit, for sure.) He goes ahead drops an axe kick on her, trying to put her out of hte fight...but not injure her too badly.

Chen stays with her current strength and agility as she weaves her way between the AMA clones and slams a spinning back kick at Silkworm.

Chen doesn't hold anything back. She's not intentionally trying to injure but these people almost started a war in her home district.

Chen boots Silkworm II through the blinded crowd surrounding Nara, stunning him despite his silken armour.

As the agent stops spinning, Union lets him have an elbow to the gut.

The man is knocked out and thrown away from Union. He drops the tranq gun.

Lennox pause for a moment, his hand snatching another flashbang from his tactical gear. << Flashbang out, >> he thinks into the link again, and tosses the grenade.

The blinded AMAs don't attempt to fire. But some in the further reaches of the warehouse remain unblinded. And they have but a single, target, according to Silkworm's orders: Chen.

The unblinded AMA instances manage between them to take out all the wall bettween the existing hole and the gap where the door used to be, but not a single one hits Chen.

Chen avoids all the attacks from unflashed AMA clones, doing Matrix like impressions as she dodges and ducks the multiple blasts directed her way. "This is who I am! This is who you challenged when you started troble in MY home district. You should surrender now and save yourself pain and bruises."

 Union says, "Loose tranq gun on the floor"

Dark Horse doesn't go after the gun. Instead, he goes after Silkworm to go ahead and try to strike another potentially non-armored target. He crosses a few steps, and throws a solid punch toward his target.

The AMA instances in Dark Horse's vicinity blink away the spots before their eyes - and take aim at... Chen!

Of the dozen AMA clones firing at her one, and only one, comes close to hitting. But as is said, close only counts with grapeshot and grenades.

The weapons fire takes out the rest of the front of warehouse and part of one side! I few chunks of roof fall in.

Union scoops up the dropped dart pistol and snaps a shot at Silkworm

 Chen says, "Exactly what I was planning on doing. Good move, Union."

The dart hits - but doesn't penetrate that organic armour of his!

Chen morphs to sabre tooth tiger form, bounds over to the webbed KT and rips at the binding with teeth.

Chen steps closer and crouches briefly beside Silkworm as she drives a elbow hard down into her chest.

Silkworm's breath is driven out of him as Chen's second strike put Silkworm out cold.

Kid Tengu focuses on shifting his body to cut his way out of his bonds.

He's never tried this before, but it shoudl work in theory. He focuses on shifting spots all over his body into razor-sharp spines and wiggles against the cocoon he's been wrapped up in.

He pays sepcial attention tot he link but does not call out for help. He is a practical alien royal.

KT's spines slice through some of the super-strong radioactive silk thread- but sharp edges are difficult and so despite his efforts, the escape is slow going.

He can feel fibers begin to give way as breathing becomes easier with each wiggle.

Oh boy -- looks like the OpFor is learning fire discipline. That spells bad news for Lennox, in a way. Well, let's see how this plays out; he moves forward more quickly, but somewhat erratically ...

The AMAs blinded by Lennox's last flashbang can finally see to act. The ten out front fire - on Lennox, who is getting too annoying with the flashbangs.

Three more fire at Chen.

Chen avoids more blaster fire.

The OMA instances and agent 2 all fail to hit Chen, yet again! And there's no wall left behind her to hit,