Log:Dr Omnipotent, Scene 1

Dr Omnipotent 2019/12/13 	 Chen Grimm Night Marshal Porter Rangel Thunder Wonder Ray Jackson Dr Omnipotent

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It's a windy evening by the docks. Someone called in a report to the police of suspicious costumed types creeping about a warehouse, and (since nothing that needed their attention more was happening) they CBPD sent their Meta Response Unit. Practically as soon as they arrived, they sent a mayday. Nothing has been heard from the since.

People who happen to be nearby might well have noticed odd energy-weapons sounds.

Night Marshal has been monitoring the CBPD reports. He's on admin leave after the debacle at the coffee shop, but he has some serious anger issues to work out. As soon as the mayday hits, he's on his way, gliding from a higher building in the next district over and landing on top of a warehouse. The glider wings made of energy disappear as soon as he lands on the rooftop.

Grimm is at times called in by police for unusual crime scenes. But in this instance, she hears about it through Starguard. She opens up a gate from the landing field to the Port...right in the thick of it.

"Better scouting needed, better scout on the way," Rangel murmurs without sending that over the comms when she catches wind of the strange event at the port/warehouse combination area. Between her sense of smell and hearing, her careful movements to avoid leaping into view of anything she does not want to be seen by and making strong use of cover as she goes, Rangel stalks the area in search of clues.

Chen is determined to fight through her current 'illness' and is at the dock to pick up a consignment of fresh spices coming in from China as soon as it clears customs.

Chen pages: targeting, discrim, and analyze, on hearing and smell.

Thunder was more or less there doing small patrols of the waterways. He had an underwater flashlight and was currently coming out of the water as he clicked it off whenever he heard... energy weapons? He blinks a few times as he climbs his way up the dock to look around. The aquatic hero's eyes look around as he seems to be trying to figure what happened, where those came from, and what in the world he had stumbled on now.

It's the Port. So shouldn't there be a Porter? There isn't... until, just after commenting about poor aim, he FLASHTHUWMPs himself off to the store for a new TV.

To appear in a FLASHTHUMP here. 5 meters above the ground. To land atop a random cargo container.

Which may happen to contain a shipment of televisions.

Each coming from their different angles, the heroes soon find the source of the trouble: it's hardly hiding. A costumed villain - a blue costume with golden trim, a big gold O on the chest, and a helmet - is standing before a force field bubble, in which there are two people: Meta Response Unit captain Ray Jackson and the rarely seen hero Wonder. Standing guard about them are five goons in less impressive costumes in the same blue, each holding a weapon of varying descriptions.

The Meta Response Unit can also be seen. Some are injured. Some are ghostly - they seem to be ok but unable to touch anything.

The costumed villain laughs. "At last, I have you trapped, my archenemy! Soon no one will be able to withstand the might of Doctor Omnipotent!!! (Yes. He definitely used three exclamation marks.)

Night Marshal sighs to himself. . o O (Let's hope he's not omniscient too.) He draws his weapon and sneaks to the edge of the building to see if he can get a shot lined up.

Chen simply advances on the arch-fiend, "That's a very good friend of mine in there. So I'm going to start hitting you. Now you might see I'm not in the best of condition as bits of me keep rotting away and falling off. So I may or may not hit very hard. But this condition is highly contagious. Do you really want to come in contact with me?"

Porter blinks as he stands up from his corrugated metal container unintented landing pad. "Huh, this isn't..." He stops and blinks at hearing, then seeing (as he looks that way) the blue costume with the real life snowglobe (just with more people and less snow).

"Uh... you know you don't have to be upset about that, right? They got these little pills that will fix that right up. I think they're even your color..."

Rangel maneuvers to latch onto and set up sniping position in what she believes to be an optimal spot. Distant to about 40 metres and with a bit of cover.

Grimm cringes at the state of Chen as she announces. "Damn, that sounds like nightmare fuel." She looks at the Big O, wondering what he's compensating for when he announces his actual name. "Ohhh. Right. Omnipotent. Not where I thought that was going..." she smirks as she's wreathed in dark energy.

Hearing that, Thunder blinks a few times. And well... surprise isn't his thing. He walks right out into the open. "Hi! You know, I think I took a wrong turn, but did you say something about someone trapped?" The teen hero calls out, "If so, I'm going to have to ask you to let them go. Nicely. Oh, and drop the alien tech while you're at it before I break it."

Dr Omnipotent turns and smiles – his mouth is visible under the helmet. "You are too late. Wonder is trapped in a force bubble, which will keep contracting till it crushes him! And then my one vulnerability will be no more!"

Chen nods, catches her head in her hands as her neck comes apart. Putting her head back on the stump of her neck she says, "You know what. The h*ll with waiting. Punches at Dr O.

Chen tries to change herself to martial mode. Lucky she's got a great sense of balance as her left leg falls out when she does so. Her concentration though is on her right arm and fist, swinging with dire intent as the device partially hidden beneath Dr. O's cape. Well she things it's a device. It might be a bad hunchback. Either way, hit it hard is the plan.

Chen tries to change herself to martial mode. Lucky she's got a great sense of balance as her left leg falls off when she does so. Her concentration though is on her right arm and fist, swinging with dire intent at the device partially hidden beneath Dr. O's cape. Well she thinks it's a device. It might be a bad hunchback. Either way, hit it hard is the plan.

Rangel takes her pick of dangerous hand-operated weapons, not really completely certain which of the five will lend the most trouble. She launches at the one that is most in the middle according to her perspective.

The arrow marking Rangel as being present craches into the weapon's rear, pushing it upward with the force applied in a downward direction upon its rear section and sending the weapon into an uncontrolled state on the ground.

Wonder presses with all his might against the contracting force bubble, but it doesn't slow. "Good one, Chen. I don't think he's got much in the way of attacks in his current powerset!"

Grimm doesn't jump right into the fray just yet. She may be powerful, but she's not exactly a brawler. "So one of these guys knows your weakness? Nice!" She draws a circle in the air while focusing on Wonder and Ray, trying to open a shadow gate inside the bubble.

The shadow gate opens within the bubble and Grimm smiles at the two caught inside. "Maybe you could tell us what this guy's weakness is?" she asks Wonder.

Porter blinks. He had a lightsaber?! Part of him laments not being able to see that. Part of him is relieved, since he'd probably get shown the burning end up close. Still, there's the exploding flipping the cape around, and right on the water there's always all kinds of random breezes. All it might take is a good updraft to flip the cape up over his head. Obviously, he didn't have his supersuit designed by Edna Mode.

That just – doesn't happen. Maybe his cape is too stiff. Or something. But anyway.

Wonder says, "Unfortunately it's not really a weakness – just my power trumps his. He can't see through my shapeshifting. As for his weakness – that changes. He can change what powers he has – it's different every time you meet him!"

Wonder says to Ray, "Get through that portal – now!" He still tries to hold off the shrinking bubble.

Night Marshal sees a lot of people dancing around the target...but not striking him directly. Time to see what happens when someone does. He levels his pistol at the 'doctor', and fires – aiming for center of mass.

It does – nothing. It hits and the energy just seems to vanish.

The bullet just stops, and drops to the ground.

Ray exits through the portal hurriedly!

Grimm looks over to Dr. Omnipotent. "Whatever it is...it's magic. No wonder it's always different. I think the energy from that shot just fed his magical reserves."

Shoot them!" shouts Dr Omnipotent. And the goons act, trusting in their alien weaponry. The one whose laser rifle was knocked from his hands goes and grabs it up again. The others use their respective weapons.

The guy with the compression gun fires on Chen!

He misses Chen widely, and a streetlamp behind her is crumpled.

A second fires on Night Marshal...

The third fires at a car?!

Grimm suddenly becomes aware that the car which vanished from *there* has just reappeared high above her head....

The last guy also fires on Night Marshal - putting him in a bubble like the one Wonder is in. It begins to shrink....

[To Grimm] Wonder says, "Yes, his powers are magical in origin – same source as mine. That's the other reason he wants me dead – he thinks that will increase his power...."

Thunder runs straight up to the goons once they start firing, skidding to a stop as he smiles, "You forgot someone!" Then he spins as his leg sweeps out, a burst of force coming from the teenage strong man. Of course, other heroes might notice that Thunder is faster on foot than he was before.

Chen collapses into a goopy puddle with a mouth and two eyes as her one remaining leg is blown completely off and she falls hitting the sidewalk. The mouth rotates around the puddled mass toward Thunder. "I would complain about that, but I suppose I can't as when it comes to justifiaction I don't have a leg to stand on."

Perhaps it's how fast he's going, but Thunder doesn't get enough to do more than annoy the goons. He sighs. He blinks, then looks to Chen. "Uhh... sorry? And perhaps I should stick to just punching these guys instead of the fancy marital arts stuff, huh?"

Dr Omnipotent shouts, "Give me that!" and snatches the weapon from the second goon, to replace his missing lightsabre.

Chen says, "Hey, whatever works best for you, Thunder. Don't mind me. I'm just feeling a bit goopy around the edges today."

Grimm feels the car appearing above her and dives out of the way with a gasp.

Rangel lines up a shot to eliminate the weapon from Dr. Omnipotent's grasp, happily playing plan foiler. "If the main guy can't do anything, tell everyone to focus on removing the threat of the weapons," Rangel suggests over Starguard Comm.

Rangel's second arrow is not nearly as good at this as the first. It sails past and disarms a warehouse door! No armament is left in the door's grasp!

Wonder escapes out the portal just in time. He looks a little short – about 3' tall – which is just as well because so was the bubble by this point. It looks like it will collapse entirely in a second or so....

Night Marshal calls for assistance. Suspecting that firing his gun in an enclosed allegedly indestructible bubble might be a bad thing, ricochet-wise.

Chen extends multiple tentacles from her goopy mass, reaching out for the goon with the englobing weapon. With Night Marshal trapped she needs to know how to break open the bubble. How better than have the villain show her. Spreading her effort she grabs at the goon with three tenacles and at the weapon with two. The sixth formas a hand with a single outstretched digit facing Dr O.

Chen almost delicately pulls the weapon's trigger back with a tentacle tip when its points at Dr O.

Chen is as surprised as anyone when the globe formed actually envelops Dr O.

Dr Omnipotent smiles crookedly as he's englobed. "Clever, aren't you. Oh wait. No, you're not. Have you forgotten what 'omnipotent' means?" He teleports outside the bubble and fires his weapon at Chen.

Chen says, "For you in means "

The phase gun shifts Chen half out of this plane of existence, to join many of the CBPD officers.....

However only about 60% of the mass of goop that is Chen is shifted onto another plane. A pile of black rotten offal is left behind.

Thunder shakes his head, "Riiight... omnipotent this then." Thunder steps up, and flat out tries to punch Omnipotent. Right in the face. With full force. Guy's got powers, so will survive it. Right?

It does – nothing. THe punch just stops as it contacts Dr Omnipotent's helmet.

Rangel turns her attention on Night Marshal, shifting position to send a sharp tipped arrow into the bubble at a point where it is extremely unlikely to strike its entrapped Marshal.

Thunder quirks an eyebrow as his punch doesn't do a thing. He hums, "Force field or something, huh?"

"Someone else who doesn't understand 'omnipotent', I see," says Dr Omnipotent.

Rangel mutters, not over comms, "I swear to whatever I should be praying to if it ends up that I have to do every single part alone I'm promoting myself to unofficial best of the best..."

The second goon finds himself fighting superheroes with his bare hands. No thank you. He runs. At least he had half his pay up front and might even get away with the neat force field belt!

The first goon fires on Rangel.

A good chunk of warehouse wall is crumpled up into a ball.

The goon with the teleport gun targets Thunder.

A bit of rubble from the fight it teleported high into the air.

The guy with the bubble gun finds himself suddenly not held by Chen. Which is good. He grins and shoots at the recently-escaped Wonder!

Wonder just clears the spot where the new bubble forms!

The guy with the x-ray rifle also aims at Rangel. It's meant as a distance weapon, after all.

The invisible laser misses by only a whisker. Not that that's obvious.