Log:A Theft at Lucky Finds, Scene 2

A Theft at Lucky Finds 2019/07/05 	 Amara Natasha Thunder Union Wade Zero Apparition Brainbox Carter Sponge Venus Flytrap

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A quiet evening in the Artists' Quarter was disturbed by a giant sign saying HELP! above Lucky Finds.

The heroes rushed to the scene, where they found Natasha unconscious and encaged, and five people looting the store:

Brainbox - A brain in fluid in a floating, transparent box. (Mentalist)

Carter - A humanoid robot built for power, of unpainted metal. (Brick)

Sponge - A sponge in the shape of a woman. With eyes. (Spongy body. Seemingly some sort of Drain attack,)

Apparition - A man of slender but athletic build - who is chalk white. (Desolidification. Vision-like fist-in-chest attack.)

Venus Flytrap - A curvy blonde woman in a low-cut green dress. (Entangles with 'living wire')

Brainbox has ordered a withdrawal, for fear that more heroes would turn up if they delayed (prophetic!). He withdrew back into the back room and closed the door. Apparition ghosted down into the basement. Carter has just made it out the front door, with Natasha and a crate of goods, though is held by Thunder. Venus and Sponge are in the main part of the shop, engaging the heroes. Wade has been entangled by Venus.

Union charges Venus, "Leave him Alone, You WITCH!" and slams her fist into the older woman's gut.

Venus jeers, "What him for yourself, hm?" But the pain on her face is evident.

Zero charges Carter, rolling out the door and swinging her leg out to sweep the leg!

The 7' tall Carter is knocked to the ground! And so is Thunder, and Natasha, and the crate....

A small statuette falls out of the crate. Its eyes begin to glow red.

Venus smiles wickedly. "Sorry, this one's mine." And she attempts to ensnare Union....

But Union moves faster than her twisting wires!

Having seen the "HELP" sign manifest while she was touring, Amara activated her bracer, causing a suit of armor to form around her, and a shield to be constructed out of thin air on her left forearm. She races to Lucky finds in time to see Carter being dog-piled by several others. She tries to assess the scene to tell friend from foe, then sees Carter drop the cage. She holds a hand out to Carter as waves of temporal distortion cascade towards him. "Cease this before somebody gets hurt," she commands.

Zero announces to everyone, "The Big Brain is slipping out the back with a crate in tow guys." Her voice is calm but she redoubles her efforts to get Natasha free so she can tail the Box if possible.

Union punches Venus in the face

The wires whirling about Venus, as always, take the brunt of the blow, but she's still knocked agains the wall.

Zero tries to keep her eye on the prize- Natasha, but flashes of information from all around the battlefield & the rest of Lucky finds flood her perception. She falls back on an old habit her father taught her to manage a large influx of 'extra'. She shares what she sees aloud and lets her body run on muscle memory. Her training will see her through.

She lets out a calm breath and says, "The Ghost-guy is doing the same, but he's lifting things from beneath the floorboards that were beneath a piece of furniture in the basement. I'm pretty sure they know exactly what they're trying to make off with."

Zero sees Carter well in hand, so she turns and shoots her line gun towards the roof of Lucky Finds so she can intercept & slow down Brain Box.

Zero uses her momentum to spur her forward into the back of Brain Box's ... Cerebral Container, retracting her line already to position herself defensively upon landing hit or miss.

The brain is bashed about in the box a bit more. The fluid it's in bubbles angrily.

Venus once again tries to snag Union - this time using a wider spread of wires.

"What are you here for? Why kidnap a baby dragon?!" Zero demands angrily as she stands off against Brain Box solo.

"Thieves and brigands would do well to surrender before making this worse," Amara intones as she steps up to the time-locked Carter. She holds a palm out towards the cage containing Natasha, her hand beginning to glow as it attempts to disassemble the cage on a molecular level far surpassing nanotechnology. As she tries to free the cage, she says to Thunder, "Don't worry, assistance is here. If we stand fast, we can take on this villain!"

The wires of the cage get visibly thinner, but still hold.

Sponge moves to the entrance to the store to help Carter. Since Thunder is currently prone she decides to target Amara.

Energy is visibly drawn out of Amara toward Sponge...

Amara's whole body feels weakened as Sponge draws away the power her armor grants her.

Carter is still held by his bonds - just.

Thunder blinks as he finds Carter apparently... frozen. Getting out from under the big robot as he releases him, Thunder's attention turns towards the statuette and frowns. "Uh-oh. I don't think we want this one around!" He reaches to grab the statuette, then throw it straight up as hard as he can.

Thunder hurls the statuette skyward just before it releases its curse - which consequently strikes a passing pigeon. The consequence to the unfortunate bird, however, is not immediately obvious. The statuette begins to fall to earth again.

Brainbox says to Zero, <&lt;I should have thought that the value of a dragon would be obvious to someone of even your limited intellect.>> The liquid still bubbles angrily, and he lashes out hard at Zero's mind.

Zero grits her teeth as she staggers back a foot step as her mind is assaulted directly. "She's... sapient- you can't sell people." She replies as her tone grows a bit angrier.

Union squirms and wriggles, trying to escape the living wire

Union manages to wiggle her way out of the entangling wires. "Not good enough," she says, and punches Venus again.

Venus is beginning to look rather shaky on her feet, despite her wires always coming to her aid.

Zero seems to ignore Apparition as she charges Brain Box. Her movements don't belie her anger but she is not letting that souless thing out of here.

"You're a Monster." She says venomously.

The brain is once again battered about in his unbreakable box.

Venus runs for it. Leaping off the furniture cluttering the stores, she makes it past Union and out the door to the back room.

Amara still feels odd after whatever Sponge did to her. Her eyes flit to the fleeing people, and she realizes she can't free Natasha while she's in danger. "I think your allies just left you behind," she comments as she waves a hand at her.

The sponge woman slows to a halt.

But suddenly Sponge speeds up again, as she absorbs the temporal energy into herself!

Carter bursts out of his bonds, gets to his feet, and tries to headbutt Thunder - while his legs start transforming, becoming more fixed. Rockets slide out of his thighs....

Brainbox masters his temper, and simply flies up into the air and away, telekinetically towing the crate.

Moving to bring his hands up to stop the incoming headbutt, Thunder is a bit too late as he ends up stumbling back a few steps from the headbutt, shaking his head as he settles himself into a martial artist stance again. "Cheap shot, robot!" Now that he's had a good clanging head bang, he's fairly sure that is a robot he's facing.

Apparition, too, floats off into the air with his loot - angling away from Brainbox, so that any pursuit has to make a choice.

Zero advances on Brain Box, unrelenting in her assault even as Apparition splits off.

"A souless snake!" she hisses as she draws her linegun and fires it off past Brain Box. She lifts off the ground swiftly as the line retracts and pulls her up. Her leg swings in a roundhouse kick to try and smash Brain Box into a wall.

THe brain gets battered once more - at least there are no walls to hit up here!

Union tries unsuccessfully to free Victory from Venus' wires (Not enough STR to succeed)

Venus finishes slipping out the back way, wiring the door shut behind her.

Amara steps back as Sponge manages to absorb time, shocked and amazed by the implications. "Very well, I have gone easy on you thus far, but no longer!" Her right hand raises up and clasps at the air, an ornage warhammer suddenly forming into existence, constructed from local atoms. She spins once and hurls the hammer, letting it arc in ways that defy physics as it swings out to strike Carter and then Sponge before returning to her hand.

The hammer clocks Carter, but flies over Sponge before it flies back into Amara's grip.

Carter is knocked back some 10m.

Carter keeps hold of the crate, but drops Natasha's cage!

Brainbox finds flying isn't enough to escape from Zero - so he attempts to ensure that Zero can't perceive him or his companions.

Union tears herself away from the helpless Victory and pursues Venus toward the back door, only to find it blocked (wired shut). She tries to kick it open.

The door splinters: the wire net behind it, not so much.

Sponge once again tries to absorb energy from Amara.

The energy-vacuum effect misses Amara.

Natasha pushes himself upright with his free arm, then blasts skyward on his now-rocket legs.

Carter pushes himself upright with his free arm, then blasts skyward on his now-rocket legs.

Amara looks between Sponge, the escaping Carter, and the cage left behind. She looks to Thunder. "If you can fly as your name may suggest, I'd recommend chasing after the robot. It goes where I can't follow."

Thunder curses as he notices Carter's a bit too high for him to jump, turning instead as he spots Sponge. And leaps towards that one instead, bringing a fist back as he tries to just punch the last one he can see that's a villain. He blinks, then looks at Amara. "How do you know my name, and what part of it implies I can fly? I just jump really good."

Thunder curses as he notices Carter's a bit too high for him to jump, turning instead as he spots Sponge. And leaps towards that one instead, bringing a fist back as he tries to just punch the last one he can see that's a villain. He blinks, then looks at Amara. "What part of Thunder implies I can fly, Queenie? I just jump really good."

"I suppose I assumed you had weather powers with a name like that. What part of your name implies jumping?" Amara quips back.

Thunder shrugs, "I have no clue. A sea dragon gave me the powers."

Sponge bends her flexible body away from the attack.

Union picks up a piece of the door and swings it like a club, trying to break through the webbing.

Apparition floats further away and through walls, making pursuit effectively impossible.

The candlestick is heavy but well-balanced, and when Union swings it the wires snap, leaving the way clear for her to jump through and keep after Venus.

Zero's trained mind overcomes the mental suggestion quickly. Brain Box and Apparition vanish from her vision only briefly before the fog clears and she sees them again. Her Linegun reels her up further and she fires it off again for future movement, getting just within range to smack Brain Box, getting just above him as she tries to force him down.

<> says the battered Brainbox. <>

Venus runs hard, trying to elude her pursuer.

Sponge simply starts sprinting away. She doesn't run faster than a normal person, though.

Carter rockets off beyond reach of the heroes.

With Carter too far away, Amara turns to the fleeing sponge. She winds up her warhammer as it crackles with energy, then sends it flying for Sponge.

Sponge tumbles down Pennyroyal Lane after the hammer hits her.

Thunder leaps after Sponge, even as the hammer takes off. Thunder simply comes down with a punch aimed to hopefully knock the villainess out rather than let her get away so easily.

The punched Sponge rolls further down the hill.

Union chases after Venus

Sponge holds up her hands in surrender as she rolls to a stop.

Union runs out into the alley chasing Venus - but doesn't find her. Did she double back the other way down the alley? Unclear. But she's not here.

Union goes back into the shop to try and free Victory.

(She also puts the candlestick back)

And so the heroes have captured Brainbox and Sponge, though the other villains have got away, one way or another. Victory is easily enough freed from his cage once some wire-cutters are located. Natasha is too, but she's in a bad way, with a broken wing. A number of items of value have been stolen - but not the crate that Brainbox was carrying. But Apparition got away with Natasha's hoard! 