Log:Tranquility Lost, Scene 9

Tranquility Lost 2021/11/12 	 Dialydd Engelicus Golden Girl Grimm Judith Magda Reactor Sentinel

Candela Captain Fish Chalk Cheese Galaxy Ghoul Honeycomb Ignite Kelvin Mutilator Newton Ohm Pandora Pivot Quintessence Razor Runaway Second Shrinkwrap Sword of Justice The Thinker Watt

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Unseen to most, the winged avenger Sword of Justice flies after the villain Ignite, who has only recently escaped his cell....

The villain goes down, but is uninjured.

Runaway moves to the back of the clockwise crowd of villains, fleeing from Sword of Justice, but can't get further.

Razor once more shoots a 'scale' at Sentinel!

Fast though Razor is, he isn't fast enough.

Cheese has learned not to touch Reactor. Instead she tries to gum him up with a lesser amount of cheese she detaches from her body!

The glob of rubbery cheese misses.

Chalk lets his partner engage Reactor, while he concentrates on escape. He shoots past the hero, turning his energies against the door leading to the main level.

Even the prison door is showing damage under the might of his attack.

Candela takes another shot at Sentinel, who is blocking the exit!

Her shot is wide.

"Can someone verify that the bad guy or guys... are still in that direction?" asks Judith as she points roughly the way she was told earlier.

Ghoul is nothing but persistent. Well, persistent and ugly. And evil. Among the many things Ghoul is... In any case, he attacks Sentinel with tooth and claw again.

But Ghoul also proves too slow!

"What's your plan here guys? I can do this all day. Might be here in my skivees here soon if you keep at it- but there will be an army on the other side of that door by then." Griffin shouts to the inmates. "Wouldn't abetter play to be to barter what you've got so far into- I dunno. Enhanced privledges or something? No one has to die on this rock. Not today." He tries to sound hopeful, but stalwart as well- as if its in their best interest, not his.

He ducks under Ghouls strike, barely acknowledging him at all despite Ghoul being behind him.

"It is too long since I tasted human flesh!" is Ghoul's simple reply.

So, having shoved her way in front of an attack, Judith was immediately blinded. She asked where to find the bad guys, and so she orients herself roughly in that direction. "Okay!" she calls out. "Here we go!" And she shrugs out of her blazer, leaving her in the upper part of her normal costume... her arms rippling with muscle as she rolls her neck.. pulls her hands backwards at her sides before she literally uses every muscle in her body... leaning into it with her hips, and bringing her arms forward until she grunts with the effort as her hands slam together with hundreds of tons worth of force. The shockwave that blasts itself forwards is... hopefully... covering the area that the bad guys are in.

Not that Judith can see, but the light motes that constitute galaxy are knocked about and seems down to be a shade less bright.

The force field is also weakened.

Mutilator pushes his way forward to join the attack on Sentinel! He reaches out a hand...

... and comes nowhere close.

Magda, still deeply stunned, continues to lay there -- though she's at least blinking her eyes.

The Thinker signs some suggestion to Quintessence.

Sword of justice continues to assault Ignite.

This time the sword draws blood.

Cheese sucks the cheese she threw last time back to herself and repeats the cycle, trying to hit Reactor again!

This time the very rubbery cheese encases Reactor.

Galaxy collects itself into more of a spiral galaxy pattern again and attacks not the heroes but the force field.

The field looks only slightly weaker.

Razor attacks Sentinel yet again. "Stand still, dammit!"

Once again, the Sentinel is far too fast.

Griffin ignores Ghoul, letting everyoned ecide from themselves. "From the speed you're throwing at, you wouldn't fare any better if I did. Consider it a professional courtesy to my tailor." Griffin says to Razor in a rare retort.

Quintessence breaks out of Pivot's hold fast enough that he has time to throw up a force barrier between him and Magda and most of the villains!

Candela fires again on Sentinel...

... and again comes nowhere close.

Chalk continues to blast the ground floor door.

The door is almost burnt through!

For those who can see, Engelicus's cage seems not to bother Galaxy.

This must be a really weird sort of cheese. Some of it melts but most is still there.

Reactor powers up to blast the gooey cheese surrounding him, melting a majority of it but not all, as he's still entrapted, "Dang it .. " as he watches chalk continue to burn thru the doorway.

Golden Girl looks at Grimm. "I can punch the starry person, the door at the bottom or the force wall at the top so we can help Reactor. Which do you want me to do?" Why ask Grimm? Senior SGG agent on scene.

"Up top. We don't want them getting to the upper levels," Grimm makes the call. "We need to put these guys down and reunite with the others."

Golden Girl bounds up the stairs to the edge of the soul cage and unleashes a heat beam at the force wall. Just in case it burns through with sufficient power left she angles it to impact Reactor's cheesy entangle.

The barrier is signifcantly weakened but still standing.

Tesla decides to try to fix Sentinel's steel-toed boots to the floor so he can't dodge!

Naturally, she misses.

Pandora once again points two fingers at Sentinel. "Maledico te!"

The curse misses Griffin. The paint on the door behind him peels off!

Ignite tries to set Sword of Justice aflame!

He's clearly panicked and misses by miles.

Grimm notes that the soul cage isn't really affecting galaxy. She looks to Engelicus. "Hey, you. Pretty boy. That fire thing is probably hurting us more than them, so maybe take it down. Aren't you supposed to be a Godflora or something? So Godflora smash!" It's too chaotic to think that she should give more careful instructions. "You know what? Come with me and help us stop the guys up top. We'll secure that and push forward again." She opens a dark gate up top and hops through to face off with Chalk, then holds out her hands. "You guys know if you escape, you'll prove Tranquility doesn't work. Which just leaves law enforcement to decide if executions need to be reinstated," she warns the villains as she tries to turn out the lights for them.

Engelicus blinks and says to Grimm, "I am assuming you're talking to me. I cannot see. It is hard to 'smash' when one is unable to sense their target."

"In my homeland of Buranda, executions were never banned, and are often used without proper trial. That is one reason I must escape," says Chalk.

A dark sphere envelope's Cheese's head, then shrinks down as if being absorbed, leaving her eyes a pure black as she's potentially blinded. Grimm forgets others can't see like she can, since she's blinded, too. "Uh, right," she calls through the gate. "I'll, umm. Try to guide you." She replies to Chalk, "You're going back to Buranda if Tranquility's broken."

Cheese is blinded and gasps. "Everything I do is for Buranda," says Chalk.

Watt joins those trying to shoot Sentinel.

And shares the same fate. :P

Ghoul make a bite at Sentinel again.

CHOMP!

Griffin seems unmoved by the bite. He turns and looks at Ghoul. "This is what I was telling that guy over there." He says, pointing to Razor.

Ghoul is disappointed not to get even a sip of blood. "Feh! This one is too tough!"

Shrinkwrap tries to contain Quintessence again.

And misses.

Griffin doesn't look surprised no one took him up on his suggestion, but that doesn't phase him.

Griffin keeps the outpouring of heat being negated by Kelvin to keep the latter tied up. The Super Soldier can give more.

"Too tough is exactly right. You're all moments from being tossed back in your cells- in a worse situation then you were in before." He says, looking wholly content to lecture when suddenly he's shifted entirely and is throwing a roundhouse aimed for Ghoul's head.

It seems Ghoul is too fast for Sentinel, too!

Kelvin keeps the temperature down. In fact, too make a point he makes it a bit chilly.

Pivot tries to reassert his hold on Quintessence.

This time he fails.

Dialydd leans against the wall at the bottom of the stairs. "I'll just take a short rest, shall I?" he says in an exhausted voice. The golden-silver haze around him fades away as he speaks.

The Thinker leaves his cell - to drag Magda back inside with him, under cover.

Sword of Justice silently continues her assault on Ignite.

This time the angel misses.

The blinded Cheese assumes a liquified form, defensively.

Mutilator reaches out for Griffin again.

... for all the good it does.

Waking, Magda continues to lay low, but adjusts the focus of her power, reinforcing her defenses and channeling the ambient energies of the universe into herself.

Blackout waves a hand at Quintessence's force barrier.

The barrier is weakened but not gone.

Second says in what sounds like a Zu accent, "I'm going on the offensive. If this guy is so tough..."

Second's irises begin to emit a bright golden glow. "...let's see what he can do!"

He blasts at Sentinel with a strangely familiar optic beam.

Unfamiliar with the copied powers, he misses.

Engelicus tries to follow Grimm's voice, and get through the portal in question. It takes a bit of time, but he manages to get there.

Galaxy keeps attacking Chalk's force field.

The field is almost down.

Razor takes yet another shot.

And he misses again.

Quintessence restores his almost-destroyed barrier, clearly with giving Magda breathing room in mind.

Candela fires a bit less wildly.

Golden Girl sees the Cheese wall is almost down and tries a casual backhand strike at it, hoping she can finish it.

Golden Girl turns her attention to Galaxy, firing a heat beam at him.

It turns out it's very hard to hit tiny dancing motes of light. On the other hand the force field behind them is an easy target. It goes down.

Reactor over-channels and manages to break free as his gaze falls upon Cheese yet again. "You never learn," he says as he levels his fury on the woman firing off a blast of radiated energy at her.

Burnt cheese splatters over the staircase. But is still moving.

Eyes finally clearing, Judith shakes her head. She recalls hearing something about escapees. So she surges forward and bounds around the corner with her legs pumping powerfully. She uses a hand to redirect herself off of one wall as she spots Chalk up ahead. She narrows her eyes and keeps moving his way, trying to come up behind him to wrap one hand about each of his upper arms and enfold him into a grapple.

Once she gets her hands on him, Judith mutters, "Don't make me erase you from the blackboard Captain Powder."

Chalk has a force field up. That didn't hurt him much.

"I am not so easily erased, as the dictator of my homeland has found to his cost," he says.

Chalk sends the chalk-white cosmic energy he wields into his own limbs, in an attempt to break free.

Chalk breaks out of confinement, not for the first time.

Ohm, who has simply been on defence so far, shouts over the din, "This is foolish. If you don't have a wide attack, fall back! Let people who can hit quick people handle this one."

Ignite continues his private battle with the angel.

Again he misses his target.

Pandora ignores Ohm, and once again attempts to throw a curse at Sentinel.

Grimm frowns as Chalk tries to break out. She tosses a hand towards the wall Chalk is trying to break and attempts to bring up a dark wall to impede his progress.

Ghoul, remarkably, falls back as Ohm suggested, perhaps because Sentinel proved to tough to eat. Meanwhile Captain Fish eagerly pushes his way forward to make his contribution to the fight, but doesn't yet have line of sight.

Shrinkwrap fires on Quintessence again.

This time, the (arguable) hero is entangled.

Pivot picks up the wrapped-up Quintessence...

Dialydd moves away from the wall by the base of the stairs as the golden-silver haze that surrounded him returns. He then steps lively to and through the Gate Grimm left open as he 'sees' with the Dream of Reality. He assesses the situation and decides that Chalk, who seems the more powerful of the two vils, looks tired.

Perhaps he is just still too tired, but the Dreamer does not even make contact with Chalk's mind.

Honeycomb and Newton move forward through the crowds of villains.