Log:Alpha and Omega

2009/06/19 	 Chrysalis Dark Horse Dragon Guardian Ellbeth Hidden Flame Silver Spider 1

Wandering the modern parts of Colonial Bay, he's actually had to leave his motorcycle behind to venture around the block a few times. Mostly looking for the store he was told was around. "Crazy streets... I seem to get lost more than ever. I just had to leave my PDA at home today." He mutters to himself more than anything.

Ellbeth is visiting a prospective new publishing outfit with offices in the Crimson Towers. She's just arriving, the Roll having drawn to a halt outside the entrance to the building. Harry is out opening the rear door for Ellbeth, prior to driving away until required again.

Dark Horse is actually perched on the frame of a holo-sign, midway up one of the buildings. "Bah...it's too difficult to monitor the streets from here. And no crime happens in this section of town anyway. It's too ritzy. I should be in Harrisburg or Chinatown. I need....binoculars at least. Bah."

Chrysalis is having fun - and practising - swinging between the skyscrapers. Nowhere better for that than the Towers!

From the west, a man-sized figure hurtles through the air. It's a person in a gray power armor, flying into the city. On a second glance, perhaps, flying isn't the correct word -- the suit's thrusters seem to be off and the armor is in rapid descent. The pilot seems to be trying to angle his body to steer in for a crash landing. At this rate, he'll impact on the construction site of the new luxury towers going up an the corner.

Chrysalis starts swinging over as fast as she can and increasing her strength as she does so!

Looking up at a sign, the shadow of the flying armor is spotted by Feng who just blinks a few times at first. Then he takes off quickly towards an alleyway along the armor's flight course. Mystic flames spark up briefly as he pulls something from his pocket and puts it at his waist. The transformation is quick, painless, and he quickly slots in a card as he takes off with wings appearing out of his back even as his helmet closes itself around his head. The armored Dragon Guardian heads for the flying power armor to try and stop it's descent as well as set it down safely.

There's another power armor in the air, flying under its own power, and following the out of control suit.

Ellbeth starts to run a mental calculation, and then abandons it. Jade could manage in it time. She herself cannot. So she plays it by ear, and casts a weak material barrier in front of the descending power armor, aiming to slow it down with a series of such walls rather than stopping it abruptly with the possible damage and injury that might result.

 Dragon Guardian says, "Going shopping for deals on some equipment and you find a falling power armor suit... I think... it's moving a bit fast for me. Anyone else here?"

Dark Horse jumps off the sign he's perched on, and lashes out with his swing line, making his way over toward the site where the suit of armor is plummeting to the ground.

The falling power armor crashes through Ellbeth's magical barriers, slowing as it breaks through each one. It's still going to crash, but now the impact should be lessened.

Ellbeth hurriedly casts a weak material barrier spell directing the field of force to appear in the path of the falling power armor. The wall is not much stronger than a couple of thicknesses of dry-walling. Not aimed as stopping. Just slowing down so others have a better chance of acting in time.

Chrysalis no longer looks exactly human but rather likely some bulky web-swinging monster as she swings round the half-assembled skyscraper on her lines to snatch the falling figure from the air.

Dragon Guardian nods as others catch the flying armor and he turns to look where the armor came from. He calls to Chrysalis, "Nice catch, Chrysalis! Heads up, though, we have incoming! I'm going to try and stall it!" He turns to head for Omega.

Ellbeth says, "They may," Ellbeth starts to say before Dragon Guardian flies off, "be coming to help their disabled companion." She looks again at the weaponery on Omega, "Or, of course, they may be the ones who disabled the falling armor suit.""

The streamlined white power armor maintains its altitude, but closes towards Chrysalis and the downed power armor. She trains her plasma rifles on the both of them but doesn't fire yet.

Dark Horse lands on a girder, and extends the line upward, climbing up to a higher level, but trying to keep the structure of hte building as cover from the incoming armors' lines of sight.

The pilot of the downed power armor says to Chrysalis: "Thanks. Those two have locked down all the functions of this suit. Right now I'm about as useful as a screen door on a submarine." He speaks with a Texas twang to his voice.

Chrysalis says, "Will you be ok if I put you on the ground?"

"Sure." The pilot says. "Much obliged."

Dragon Guardian looks up as he spots Alpha. "Time to see if mystic armor stands up to power armor, I guess." He shoots upwards, aiming to pop up right in front of Alpha. "Hi. Nice suit. You mind telling me why you're after someone or at least providing some sort of identifiaction so I can stop saying 'Hey you'?"

Alpha says, "That's the problem with Colonial Bay..." She raises a rifle and takes aim at Dragon Guardian.

Omega says, "What's that, Alpha?"

Alpha says, "Too many damn heroes." She squeezes the trigger and tries to blast Dragon Guardian with plasma.

Dark Horse winces a bit as the blast is fired. . o O (Answers that question, I guess.)

Chrysalis swings the man down to the ground on the far side of the building from the presumed hostiles, and then shifts once again - this time to a highly armoured form.

The Crimson Towers. Chandrika Williams is sitting quietly on the couch, running over some law notes. o O (Thank god I don't have to be in the office today. All it does is rain, rain, rain, and I can't imagine how much fun my girlfriend is having...) Her head turns a little bit lazily as the plasma blast slams into Dragon Guardian with a loud shrieking roar of heat. "Oh, this is so not good." She rummages in the closet for her costume and winces, throwing it into a bag and heading for the elevator. She slips under the camera as she gets in, and pops the emergency exit to the elevator after hitting the down button, slamming it shut behind her as it descends. She snags the passing cable as she is yanked upward, throwing on her costume as she goes, pulling her mask down as she splats against the top grate. "OW!" She mutters. "Misjudged that..." She forces the grate open and runs to the lip of the building, peering down to look at the battle.

Dragon Guardian tries to dodge, really does, but that close to a firearm and someone that knows how to use one? Not going to happen. He ends up flying backwards in a tumbling bit of aerobatics before he catches himself in mid-air, glaring at Alpha. "Good thing there is. You won't get what you are after."

 Dragon Guardian says, "Ellbeth? That you I see down there?"

Omega rumbles forward through the air until he's hovering beneath his partner. He says to Alpha. "Right. I'll try to keep this short and sweet, then." He levels his rocket launcher at the downed power armor and fires.

Omega rumbles forward through the air until he's hovering beneath his partner. He says to Alpha. "Right. I'll try to keep this short and sweet, then." He barrels forward, towards Chrysalis and the downed pilot.

Ellbeth observes the question of good armor suit and bad armor suit isn't fully resolved. Both sides may be bad guys. But at the moment there's an obvious choice to support. Moving a little closer to Omega as she casts a protective spell, she unleashes a Voltan's Sparks spell into the back of Omega, the protective glowing blue aura around her singing from the stress applied to it as multi-million volt arcs surge forth from her hands at the conclusion of the incantation.

Ellbeth's blast connects and knocks Omega further into the construction site. For a few moments, ribbons of electric energy twists and flow over his armored shell. The appearance is a little like a plasma sphere, but Omega seems mostly unharmed by it.

Whang! Omega does slam into support cross beam in the skeletal building, but seems to shrug that off as well.

Silver Spider looks down at the battle and inhales. "Okay...here goes nothing..." She takes a step off the building, dives downward, and begins to fall, descending downward with no strings or weblines...o O (If I screw this up, I am so dead...)

Omega turns and looks over his shoulder back at Ellbeth. "Watch out for that one, Alpha."

Ellbeth smiles, "Ah, so your companion's armor is susceptible to the spell's effect. Thank you for the confirmation."

Alpha says, "Roger that." She flies forward and gains altitude until she's hovering 15" above Ellbeth's head. She seems ready to dodge if necessary.

Chrysalis says, "So what's this all about, who are you and who are the people who are after you?"

The Downed Pilot says, "Archangel was my callsign, but I guess I should pick something new; I reckon there's little chance of me going back to ACRO now."

Dark Horse sneaks a little closer to Omega along the girders, and takes a closer look at the armor, looking for a weak spot on it.

Dark Horse shakes his head as he fails to find a weak spot. . o O (Maybe the other armor would be easier, but she's too wary to come down here.)

Dragon Guardian looks up at Alpha, then chuckles. "This'll be fun. Thanks for answering a question, though." The wings move as he flies upwards at Alpha aiming to literally ram a fist into her as he passes by. Flipping in the air after he passes to hover nearly. "You forget about someone?"

Chrysalis says, "Oh, ACRO, right. So, um, can you tell me what kind of stuff their suits can do?"

Silver Spider thinks. o O (Oh, !@#$#654 I think she can see me...)

Dragon Guardian connects solidly, and Alpha grunts from the impact. The force of the blow carries her upwards, and she ends up practically next to the hero.

Silver Spider plummets downward towards the battle, a distant speck plummeting in a diving vee, the wind whipping around her as she descends, trying to time everything exactly right...

Archangel says, "I'm not sure -- they have newer models than my suit. Alpha's more a recon and stealth model, and Omega's for assault, but I'm thinkin' you've figured that out by now.

Chrysalis draws herself up to her now considerable height and interposes herself between Archangel and the opposition, especially Omega.

Silver Spider extends a webline out towards one of the towers as she plummets, descending in a fierce, looping arc down towards the battle, tumbling through the whipping air. o O (If this webline snaps, I'm a dead woman...totally...completely dead...)

Omega takes a moment to right himself in the air and then continues his pursuit, navigating the interior of the construction site.

Chrysalis says, "*Any* idea what his armaments are? It would really help to know!"

Ellbeth casts another spell with her attentions focused on Omega and his surroundings. At first nothing seems to happen at the conclusion. Then a metal beam above Omega buckles and drops sacks of heat mallable plastic construction beads in a massive shower into the area where Omega is passing, and as they bounce on the exterior of his battle suit a blue flame billows up and melts them into a sight obstructing mass covering the top half of the suit.

"What you see is what you get..." Archangel says. "That suit ain't about subtlety. Center mounted plasma cannon, rocket launcher, minigun."

Hidden Flame enters from MagLev System.

"What the...?!" Omega swerves a little as the illusion of the molten plastic flows over the head and shoulders of his armor. "Alpha, I got a bit of an issue here..."

Silver Spider falls further, webline extended as she arcs gracefully down, rotating twice as she attaches a swingline to the construction site and comes falling in, extending a hand out as it charges up with blue-green energy. The eyeslits narrow as she focusses on Alpha, and continues arcing downward, preparing to swoop back up. "Did someone call for Roger?" She teases as the blue green bolt launches at Alpha. "I'm not Roger, but you know, I just couldn't help but eavesdrop..."

Alpha is still off-balance from Dragon Guardian's attack. Silver Spider's blast clips her armor and knocks her forward in a spin.

Skillfully, Alpha rights herself in the air. She flies full speed for Chrysalis. "This situation is going downhill in a hurry, Omega. Just blast him and let's get out of here."

Dragon Guardian frowns as he notices where Alpha is heading and flies towards the construction site itself. His first stop is on the ground level as he picks up a steel girder and chunks it at Alpha full strength.

Hidden Flame roars down the street on her bike trying to find the battle when she spots them done a side side street. "Shit" she exclaims and spins the bike to U-turn to head to the fight.

Omega tries to clear off the molten plastic from his helmet.

Dragon Guardian (DG) pages: .. hrm... how long would you say these girders are? I'm guessing at least 2 kilometers. And using the I Beam statistics depends upon length at the moment.

Silver Spider swings forward and down, towards Alpha as she tumbles through the girders and beams of the construction site. "Hey!" She shouts loudly. "Come back here! You haven't introduced me to Roger! And if he rogers well enough, I might give up my girlfriend!" She flips downward and over in a smooth, liquid arc, arms and legs extended as if moving like a ballet dancer, and extends a webline out towards Alpha.

Silver Spider teases as the shot misses. "Awww...don't tell me you've got some little rocket people at home..."

Dragon Guardian flies forward suddenly with his newest 'picked up' weapon. The girder is being carried neatly and as carefully as the armored guardian can before he launches said girder right at Alpha in a show of immense strength from the otherwise normal human hero.

Alpha twists in midflight, trying to avoid the girder but not succeeding. The steel beam knocks her aside and into a structural support.

Alpha still seems alright after the blow.

Hidden Flame just barely misses and she lands on her feet, moving down to brace her fall to stop major damage.

Chrysalis remains standing in defence of Archangel.

Ellbeth glances over towards the new arrival and smiles, "Welcome. I hope you're here to reinforce the hero team?"

Silver Spider thinks. o O (What the heck is going on down there? Did someone just try to burn the construction site down?)

Hidden Flame's bike wrecks on the construction site, it begins to smoulder and it lights on fire.

Ellbeth momentarily debates dropping her rotective spell to free sufficient magic power to take a more directly disabilitating action against Omega. Then she comes to her senses and discards the foolish notion. Maintaining the illusion will be her contribution to this effort.

Silver Spider swings towards Alpha, shouting out loud. "There are workers here! Be careful!" at the top of her lungs, crossing the distance over to the support beam as she takes aim with a glowing, crackling fist. "As for you, lady, this just isn't cricket. Come here..." She extends the webline again and tries to pull Alpha into her grip. "Someone down there start the cement mixer up!" o O (She's fast. And smart. And probably six years old, the way ACRO builds armor and indoctrinates people)

Silver Spider shouts "Got you, yo!" She chuckles playfully. "Now we play by playground rules!" The webline yanks Alpha into Silver Spider's grasp, and she locks her arms around the armored woman's waist. "Going down!" Then she lets go of her webline....

Foom! Alpha fires her jets full power, heading straight up. She spins tightly, trying to shake Spider loose with centrifrugal force. She tries to break free.

Silver Spider shouts "Yahoo! I got me a naughty armored girl to ride! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 'Scuse me...are your nipples pierced? Yipe?"

Alpha manages to spin herself loose from Spider's grasp.

Silver Spider blinks as the rockets carry Alpha upwards. "Whoops!" She manages as the webline disconnects from force and she begins plummetting into the abyss. "That...didn't work so well..."

Dragon Guardian whistles on that one as he watches Alpha go skyrocketting. "Spider'll be just fine." He turns to look at Omega, then flies quickly towards Archangel. He gets an idea before he sets out, though, considering the structure of his wings. Pulling a card from the holder on his belt, he holds it to the side before flipping it and sliding it into his belt as he switches to his cape as the wings shimmer in a pulse of energy along the lines of his armor. Grabbing the newest addition to his armor, he begins a glide towards the ground quickly. "Chrysalis, get that guy over here, would you? I can probably fix his armor."

Hidden Flame looks up as the armored woman's jets and spots fire. "How about this?" she says and slams her fists together and then closes her eyes to make the fire go out on Alpha's jets.

Chrysalis says, "Can you fix it?"

Dragon Guardian says, "Not sure yet. Just get in there. I'll keep an eye on him and call if I need protection. I can't get through their armor near as I can tell."

Alpha says, "Omega! Quit screwing around. Blast them and let's get out of here!"

"Roger," Omega says. He turns his rocket launcher to where he last saw Chrysalis and Archangel, and he fires blindly.

Dragon Guardian looks up just in time to see the rocket. "Oh hell." Then the rocket hits a couple of meters away, and he blinks a few times before wiping his face mask off. "... Chrysalis, can you at least try to get this 'Omega' away from Archangel and myself? We need time."

Ellbeth adds a couple of horribly cut short screams to the sound of the explosion that is heard by Omega as part of the illusion she's maintaining around him.

Chrysalis says, "Not really - I'm in full-armour mode at the moment...."

Ellbeth then sighs as Dragon Guardian makes the audible illusion pointless by spreaking to Chrysalis after Omega 'blasted' her.

The explosion shakes the entire site. A pair of construction workers are tipped and they nearly fall from the height of the structure, but manage to hang on just barely. They hold onto the edge of a girder, clinging for dear life.

Chrysalis spots the workers in peril and shapeshifts promptly to a winged form to snatch them from their doom.

Chrysalis gasps, "Whew, made it!" to the men as she just snatches them before they drop.

Ellbeth lets Omega 'scrape' a clear patch in his visor for a moment, just long enough for him to see the way out to the free sky, and also the figures of Rebound, Howl, Titan, and possibly the most worrying of all to him, Network, hurrying to the scene. Then the plastic smears back across the visor.

Silver Spider plummets towards the ground, struggling to maintain her balance as she falls, looking a little off balance as she moves towards the ground.

Alpha says, "Omega, it's time to bug out. It's too hot down here." Alpha flies straight up. The coloring of her armor shifts slightly, to blend in with the sky above.

Silver Spider extends a webline to use her momentum to loop herself up and around, swinging back up after Alpha as she launches a parting bolt at the jet-pilot, seemingly blended with the sky above. Hey...wait...that's not a bolt...it's a sphere..."Bug out, huh? Well, the bug IS out..." She says cheerily, as the massive clot of webbing blasts out towards Alpha's location, trying to gum up the jets with the big ball...

Hidden Flame see's Omega closer and trys to use the attack he used to cancel Alpha's Jets and uses her attack to kill one of Omega's jets and power up the other one to make him pinball off walls and metal bars.

Dragon Guardian looks over Archangel's armor, whistling a bit. "Piece of work, alright. I'm not going to ask who made it, but you seem to know a lot about it. What did they hit you with and what were the symptoms?" He idly slots a card in just in case as a shield manifests in his hand while he works on getting Archangel up and running.

The ball sails past the chameleon-skinned Alpha, and hurls off into the ether, spinning and turning as it floats through the sky. There is a whoofing sound as it sails over some buildings...

Below, Knox Pooley is having an outdoor book signing. He smiles congenially as he writes in people's books, and laughs politely at the middle aged disgruntled folk who ask him when Silver Spider's moral decline will plunge the city into chaos. "Thank you very much, Linda...can I call you Linda?"...

SPLAT! The massive web ball engulfs Knox Pooley and his entire table, glorping up his pile of copies of "Silver Spider and the Moral Decline of Colonial Bay" and getting in what little hair rests on his male pattern baldness. "THERE!" He shouts. "You see! Silver Spider is a menace! A vagrant! An attention hound! You'll read all about this in my editorial tomorrow! You'll pay for this, Silver Spider! You'll pay!"

Dragon Guardian blinks a few times as his helmet slides back to reveal his face. "A self destruct device?" He frowns, tapping Archangel's chest area. "You're not injured in there, are you?"

Archangel says, "Yeah. It's a security feature. I guess ACRO uses it to stop people from using their equipment against them."

"I'm ok though."

Omega says, "But what about Archangel? I didn't get him."

Dragon Guardian nods. "So, my guess is when it blew, it took out the power systems?"

Hidden Flame see's Omega closer and trys to use the attack he used to cancel Alpha's Jets and uses her attack to kill one of Omega's jets and power up the other one to make him pinball off walls and metal bars.

Ellbeth says loudly, "Network, good timing. Guy in power suit. Nice CPUs just waiting for your mind touch. Go for it."

Omega's thrusters sputter a little and he drops a couple of feet in the air. He catches himself and boosts his throttle to compensate.

Omega says, "What about Archangel."

Alpha says, "Forget about him. We can't afford to get captured. We'll just have to hope the encryption hold."

Omega says, "Roger." He starts to fly up straight up.

Hidden Flame hollars to everyone, Someone grab him, he'll brake my drain." She yells

Dragon Guardian reaches down to pick up Archangel. "No tools and no supplies at the moment, so with a serious lack of power I'm going to have to take you some place we can fix you better." He picks up the armored hero and heads for Ellbeth. "Ellbeth, long time no see. You able to make those portals still?"

Ellbeth says, "Ask me again in six months. As I explained when you kindly stood guard over the Ritual of Dissolution, my magical abilities have been temporarily greatly weakened by the process."

Dragon Guardian grumbles a bit. "So... any ideas other than my shop? I need tools to fix Archangel's armor..." He pauses, then looks around. "Huh. Construction site..."

Ellbeth smiles, "On the other hand, if what is wrong with that suit is a lockout code, well that I can almost certainly do something about. Archangel, two questions. Do you have a data-jack interface accessible from the exterior. And seeing this suit, and I assume you, have come from ACRO should I enable it again?"

Silver Spider follows up the construction site, swinging gracefully upward and over as she launches skyward on her webline, closing the distance as she keeps an eye out for the shifting, shimmering figure....She sticks to the girder and takes a moment to aim, taking the time before firing off a clot of webbing at Alpha...

Alpha continues flying off into the sky.

Hidden Flame runs to omega trying to keep focused and trying to keep the distance close to allow the drain to fully work, but desideing it'll be bad, she trys a different approch. She now trys to put enough force in his jets to make his jets explode.

Archangel says to Ellbeth, "I won't lie, I've done my share of dirt, but I heard that ACRO has some kind of new weapon, and they've targetted Colonial Bay as test site. I got some family here, so I came here to get them out."

Dragon Guardian frowns. "Okay, you two, spill. What's ACRO?"

Chrysalis flies the two men she grabbed safely back down to the ground - for her their safey is much more important than trying to run down the villains. Well, at least assuming the constuction workers are sentient. She gives them the benefit of the doubt. :)

Hidden Flame looks up and swears "crap"

Omega continues to fly away.

Ellbeth :lets the image start to lapse, making it appear that the speed of Omega's flight is making the plastic flow away and off from the battlesuit.

Hidden Flame sighs and moves her hand to her flaming bike and then closes it, making the flames go out "Can somwbody tell me what just happened?

Archangel says, "On my way out, I got a copy ACRO's plans. ACRO -- that's Advanced Cybernetic Research Organization -- international arms dealers. The plans are encrypted, though."

Chrysalis heads back to Archangel, resuming human form as she does so. "Plans for what?"

Dragon Guardian hrms. "Can we have a copy? Ellbeth and myself are some of the top computer experts."

Ellbeth steps over to the crashed bike. "A classic I believe. And in sorry state. That at least I can remedy." She casts a spell on the bike, and over a few seconds it straightens and unfolds, and returns to it's original factory fresh condition.

Chrysalis says, "Wow, that's a neat trick!"

Archangel says to Chysalis, "I'm not exactly sure. Some kind of weapons test."

Hidden Flame walks over to Ellbeth "its about 100 years old" she says and looks at her beauty and pets it like you would a cat. "You like it?"

Ellbeth says, "Encrypted? I think that shouldn't present too much of a problem. The four, no, make that five, best code-crackers in the world live in the city."

Chrysalis says, "Really? Who are they?"

Ellbeth nods to Hidden Flame, "I used to have one very much like it when I was younger. Now I ride in style in a 1950's Rolls Royce."

Hidden Flame nods to ellbeth "I built this myself, found the parts somewhere in texas" she says and hands Ellbeth the keys. "wanna take her for a spin?"

Ellbeth shakes her head. "Thank you, but no. My old bones aren't up to moterbike riding any longer. Comfort has won out over thrills."

Chrysalis says, "That's sad...."