Log:Fire and Water Don't Mix

2008/10/06 	 Arclight Chimera Deluge Golden Fuzzt Inferno Teflon 1

The high school students find themselves on a school bus returning from a field trip to the oceanarium. As if the trip wasn't boring enough, traffic on Exeter Ave seems to have slowed to a crawl, prolonging an already long day.

Erik is sprawled in the back of the bus, taking up as much room as he can at least when it comes to leg room and the like. Head leaning back onto the seat he stares at the ceiling of the bus, daydreaming or the like perhaps. "Gods..." He says to himself in an exasperated sigh. "Only thing that could make this worse is if my mom was chaperoning..."

Fuzzt rolls along, the big fluffy koosh ball taking the gentle downhill and letting gravity just push him along the streets. He even takes a convient ramp to go airborne for a moment before coming down and landing with a squish, before reforming into a ball and rolling once more.

Julia has given Donald a wave on spotting him on the bus but right now she's too busy chatting and gossiping with her friends to be paying any attention to other than her immediate crowd in the seats beside her and the adjacent rows.

Donald sits on the bus, playing video games on his PDA. He's got his headphones on and seems engrossed in the virtual action.

Narosia walks the street, jotting down scrawled notes in a slimline journal behind Fuzzt, far less phased than others having this giant, animate ball bouncing itself onward flying itself off ramps. It might as well be the local inhabitant. Distracted by the seemingly meaningless hand spidering itself across white sheets a near certainity.

Exeter Ave is a busy main road through the heart of Colonial Bay City. It's a wide avenue, with two lanes running in both directions, with a large grassy divider between the opposite direction sides. There are cars parked along the sides of the road and long the street are a number of major chain and department stores.

Jolt finds herself cruising around the city to see if anything interesting is going on. After all she's been looking to blast something for a little while since the fight with the Black Queen this particular hero hasnt been seen too much.

Traffic hasn't just slowed down it's stopped. And a police officer seems to be making his away down the street towards the school bus. He stops to talk to each car, and it looks like he's convincing the occupants of each car to abandon their vehicles. Having convinced the occupants of the car in front of the bus to disembark, the cop approaches the school bus.

Mr. Markle, the science teacher and field trip chaperone, rises out of his seat at the front of the bus. "This doesn't look good..." he says, mainly to the bus driver. "Open the door?" he asks. The bus driver obliges, opening the bus door.

Erik looks forwards as the ceiling of the bus isn't getting any more interesting than it was thirty seconds ago. Leaning forwards he plants his arms on the seat in front of him and begins checking out the local scenery with an appraising eye. Notable points of interest are Julia and her crowd, as well as Serafina (Tho only for a moment as he can barely see her) before his attention wanders towards other pretty girls on the bus. Looking past the girls and to the goings on outside he blinks, "People are getting out of their cars." He announces to those in the back of the bus, just in case they didn't see that for themselves.

Fuzzt wouldn't know it to be strange, he just rolls along down the street. Hitting a ramp he misjudges slightly and ends up wrapped around a light post. Literally. -splat- The alien ends up puddling down to the base of the lamp post, then one tentacle lifts with an eye on it looking around, curious as a cat, bored out of his.. ok, so he doesn't have a skull. But he's now looking over at one of the few moving occupants of the road, watching the cop and the bus. A second stalk rises with the other eye and looks around as well, but in the opposite direction.

"You in charge?" the police officer asks Mr. Markle, after he climbs up the bus steps. "You are gonna have to get your kids off of this bus and away from this area. Everything's alright now, but there's some kind of superfight going on up ahead, and we don't know how long it's gonna stay up there."

One of the crowd gather around Julia spots Fuzzt and 'eeks' at the sight. Within a moment or two all those girls are peering out the window towards it.

One of the kids sitting behind Donald kicks his seat, causing he boy to jerk forward. He casts an annoyed glance at the boys sitting immediately to his rear. "C'mon guys, grow up. It wasn't even funny the first time..." The boys seem less interested in Donald, than in the policeman at the front of the bus. Donald follows their gaze to the police officer and tries to figure out what's going on.

Fuzzt sprouts a third eyeball with a pair of ears on it and looks around for the source of that 'eek'. Isn't that what his food does when it's trying to hide? Wait, wrong world... the eye and ears locks onto the girl that said it and once he realizes she's not food, he raises a tentacle and waves once to show he's friendly.

Jolt is flying overhead of the stopped traffic... Hrm police blocking the road, that is never a good sign so she flies forward a bit more to get a better look at why theres the blockage... or rather who's actually fighting up ahead so she might be better prepared for if they come in the direction of some innocent bystanders.

Erik leans forwards further to try and see what is going on but when he notices it's a cop, Erik immediately ducks down and hides in the back corner of the bus so that the cop doesn't see him before it's to late. He must be allergic to police officers.

Julia isn't paying any attention to the conversation up front. Shewaves back to Fuzzt when the tentacle lifts up.

At an intersection about 20" in front of the bus. A female figure rushes out from a side street and onto Exeter Ave. She's not running, but rather flowing, as her body seems to be composed of water. Her legs form a jet of fluid that she propels herself forward on. Chasing her, is a man in a suit of power armor. He rides a plume of flame like someone would ride a surfboard and he hurls fireballs after the watery woman.

Mr Markle stands up to address the students on the bus. "Ok, everyone, we need to exit the bus in a quickly and orderly fashion." He raises his voice. "Listen up! This is important!" As if punctuating his statement, a stray fireball ignites a parked car and causes it to explode.

Jolt is there infront of the bus high enough in the air to see the two meta's coming in their direction as she basically shouts at the two of them "If you two dont stop fighting right now you're in for a heap of trouble" the electric heroine gives the two of them a warning "If you want to keep fighting hows about doing it outside of the city where you wont hurt some innocent bystanders?" she tries to get the attention of the two fighting.. Oh god dont let it be a domestic dispute!

The explosion catches Donald's attention immediately and he sits bolt upright in his chair.

As the car goes up and the bus driver makes his announcement Erik lifts his head up just a touch to look over the back of the bus to see if the cop has left or not before deciding on wether or not it's safe to come back into view. Rather than forwards however he is looking towards the emergency exit in the back of the bus as he reaches into a pocket for a simple black bandana, toying with it. (Do I want to get involved in this or not...)Oo. the teenager thinks to himself, trying to make a decision.

Fuzzt gets to rolling... or bouncing really. He draws himself up into a tight little ball, getting ready to /launche/ himself straight up, aiming to land besides the bus. He's seen enough TV to know that fireballs + cars and busses = really big bangs. Wouldn't look good for anyone if the bus went up like that. (Plus that girl on there actually waved at him. Gotta save the nice girl.)

Julia jolts upright at the sound and sight of a car exploding close to the bus. For the first time she starts to take in the scene outside. . o O(Oh no, not again.) "Come on, we're better get off the bus." She tells her friends. Looking at the fight ahead she stands and starts making her way back towards the emergency exit at the rear. "Follow me."

The cop runs off towards the explosion, to see if anyone is hurt.

Student starts to scramble off the bus through the front and rear exits.

The man floating on the cloud of fire shoots jets of flames from his gauntlets. The fire forms a circle around the watery woman. "Damnit, Deluge," he barks, "You'd better tell me what you did with the loot, or so help me, I'll boil you like a kettle!"

Deluge, the water woman, spots a drainage grate within the circle of fire. She flows down it, re-emerging elsewhere on the street, now only 10" away from the bus. "Inferno, honey," Deluge says, "I'm afraid this partnership just isn't working out for me. I'm taking the score from the bank job, and going my separate way."

Fuzzt rolls around to the front of the bus and flattens himself out, making a wall in between the students and the two brawling meta's. Infact he's plastered on it's front, a pair of eyeballs in the center of the newly created vehicle armor as it waits to see when all the students are off, and what the two meta's are doing. Hopefully, getting away from the bus... but when she's now in the middle of a fire ring, he's torn... is this one of their courtship rituals?

Erik watches the students get off the bus and he stands up to make sure that no students are being left behind even as he's pulling out a simple rubber band as well. "Time to go boys and girls, field trip's over. If you'll be so kind as to use the posted emergency exit nearest you and make best possible speed away from the exploding cars. We apologise for the disruption on your intended trip today please ride the friendly school transportation system again. We welcome your patronage." As the last of the students make their way off Erik too slips off the bus through the rear exit and then starts to head around to the side to get a better view, approaching the ensuing battle. As he walks he ties his hair into a ponytail, tucks the tail into the back of his jacket and then wraps the bandana around his face, yeah, some costume kid.

Julia sees the hurrying students starting to push and shove in their urgency to exit the bus now the fight has come close. "DON'T SHOVE." She calls out in her trained voice, "There is sufficient time for all to leave the bus safely. Heroes will be arriving any moment. Look, there's one out there now protecting us until we can exit. So stay calm and everyone will be okay."

Donald climbs out of his seat and joins the line of people leaving through the back of the bus, thinking to bring his book bag with him. As he gets to the rear exit, he trips onto the pavement. Wincing, he slowly rises and runs away from the bus.

Jolt hearing them argue over loot she figures they're both probably villains, or at least crooks. Still she cant let that man boil the watery woman away without doing something and then she escapes "Wow, that was a neat trick" and here she thought she was the only one that utilized sewers for travelling the city and escaping. She shakes her head and decides to build some protection for the bus, reaching out to some nearby parked cars that have been vacated and tries to tip them onto their sides and slide them infront to protect the bus from any fireballs from the more hot headed of the pair and to buy the students a little more time to escape. Figuring the vehicles in the way probably wont even stop the watery woman but they might provide some cover for the bus and students at least. Hopefully she wont have to deliver any ass woopins to the two crooks.

Mr. Markle seems to have trouble corralling the attention of the students, but Julia's voice cuts through above the noise and chatter. The students evacuate the bus in an orderly fashion and are mostly off it now.

Inferno shouts, "You traitorous little --! I should have known better than to team up with you." He throws a fireball right at Deluge, with a shout of anger.

Jolt seems to be pretty successful with the vehicles as it tips over it makes the sound of scraping metal on the ground as it is slid in the way of hopefully some incoming fireballs to protect the bus... Ofcourse its little more than throwing something to explode infront of the bus so that it doesnt take a direct hit "Keep yer heads down kids!" she warns the students escaping the schoolbus. After all if another explosion with shrapnel goes off they might be lucky enough to be behind some of the parked cars to help save their asses.

Fuzzt peels himself off of the front of the bus to drape over the car and the hood of the bus, making a larger protective wall (6" or so). If anyone notices, the front of the bus is now pristine condition.. and paintless. Alien must have gotten hungry or something.

Deluge dodges the fireball easily. "Stop acting so hurt, Inferno. I did all of the work anyway. Without me you would never have gotten into the vault!" She talks, oblivious that the fireball intended for her has slammed right into the barricade that Jolt has set up.

The car is ripped right in two pieces, but luckily it absorbs most of the fire, with only a few bits of the fire carrying past it. Unfortunately, the car is now burning. If the gas tank were to explode, it could spell trouble.

Fuzzt ends up eating that fireball, Yumm! The white furred cloak seems to go red for just a bit and then it's back to normal, if the edges a little agitated now. "That wasn't nice!" he shouts back at the fire tosser, a little annoyed.

One of the stray embers of fire drifts from the destroyed barricade and onto Donald's backpack, setting it alight, homework and all. Donald gasps. o O ( My costume! )

Julia continues using her influence to gather the students together and get them into one of the stores out of the road. She cannot help a momentary pause though, to point out to her friends one of the dresses in the store window, Sally, that's would go perfectly with your hair color and style."

Inferno says to Fuzzt, "You stay out if this! It's between me and the watery tramp here." He levels a finger at the alien, threatening.

Arclight begins to make his way towards the fight, from the side so that he doesn't have to go around the barricade, nor worry about the bus blowing up near him. With 'mask' in place he buttons up the front of his jacket to hide his t-shirt underneath trying to do his best for a makeshift costume anyways. At least to not be recognizable as one of the high school students. A glowing tennis-ball sized sphere of crimson energy pops into existence in his right hand as he considers the situation. Looking back to make sure the kids are taking off he then looks up towards the flying heroine, "I don't think these two are going to listen to reason!" He calls out to the flying heroine and then lobs the ball of energy under the flaming half of car that contains gastank to hopefully bounce it up into the air with a shaped charge so that when it does blow it won't set off any additional vehicles. The ball explodes under the car, sending a wave of force that knocks the gas-tank up into the air before it ignites and explodes.

Fuzzt says, "WHAT?!" ok, alien's MAD now... "Then keep fireballs to yourself you dim witted little campfire spark!"

"Ok, Freak," Inferno says, turning towards Fuzzt. "If I'm the campfire, you're gonna be the marshmallow." He drops down to the ground and aims his gauntlets at Fuzzt.

Fuzzt says, "Oh please, you couldn't even light a cigarette. I would smother you like a wet blanket."

Arclight moves forwards towards the scene of the altercation so that he's even further from the bus now in case it does go up. He waits to see what the others will do before acting further than that tho, watching and judging the situation as it unfolds.

Fuzzt grumbles... nothing polite and nothing in english either. He leaps up into the air and then glides straight down, the alien in the shape of a sheet going right for hot stuff here. He was being literal about the wet blanket insult, as he's intending to drop right onto the guy in an attempt to grab him. Heavy G critter doing a faceplant on this guy...

Fuzzt floats over the guy like a sheet and then at the last moment, he drops like a ROCK, flattening the guy into the ground. "TOLD YA!" and puts up with an appendage the victory symbol.

Chimera shifts into her hero costume quite literally once she's away from prying eyes. Once done she shifts her legs to make jumping easier and leaps onto the scene a short distance away from Deluge and the fight. Her eyes widen as she comes to focus onto Fuzzt, letting out a very high-pitched squeel of glee -despite how inappropriate it may be.

Julia checks all the other students are inside the store as far as she can see. Then stepping over to a display rack she snags up a couple of dresses. "No reason to miss out on the chance to try these on." She tells her friends and hurries into the changing room area. To change, yes, but into costume rather than party dress.

Jolt doesnt particularly like the idea of letting the water woman get away but considering she's the least hostile of the pair she figures she'll cut them a break since this Inferno guy seems to be a much bigger threat to the people around here. She was going to zap the guy but considering Fuzzt is covering the guy she cant exactly get a clear shot so she floats down to ground level

Donald pats out the fire on his backpack. He quickly check to see if anyone's looking at him before he pulls his mask out of his back. From a distance, it probably looks just like a dark rag.

Deluge looks at Chimera as the young heroine lands in front of her. She studies Chimera's from and says thoughtfully, "Hmm. You seem almost as shifty as me. I'd love to stay and chat, but I should go. I'm trying to break up with my partner and I think the best way is to let you heroes deliver the message. Ciao!" Deluge begins to flow down the street.

Another ball of crimson energy comes into existence out of nowhere in Arclight's hand and he throws it fastball style over towards the ground right in front of Deluge as she starts to flow away. The ball hits and then explodes in a ball of plasma fire energy that is contained from exploding fully by the heroes power, even as it fades tho it leaves charred and melted asphalt where it was and a wave of heatwash. "Give up peacefully and you won't be harmed!" He shouts to Deluge.

Deluge doesn't seem to be cowed by Arclight's threat, but now he certainly has the watery woman's attention. "How about this idea: let me go, and I won't harm you."

Arclight smirks behind his bandana at the watery woman, "Don't think that's an option sweetheart." He lets the others deal with flaming guy.

"Well then, kiddo," Deluge says, "I hope that you can swim." Spang! The top of the water hydrant behind her shoots up into the air and torrent of water issues forth. The spray of water bends, impossibly until it merges with Deluges form, feeding it. She grows in size until she's nearly 4" tall.

She reaches down for Arclight, trying to grab him in a watery grip.

As the watery woman grows and starts to reach for him Arclight frowns, "Bad choice." A sphere snaps into existence in his hand and he wings it at the large woman's chest. As the sphere hits the crimson globe explodes expelling it's kinetic force backwards into her chest with an impressive boom and blastwave.

Water sprinkle down from the explosive burst to Deluge's chest, but she doesn't budge for her spot, or seem hurt from the attack. She continues to reach for Arclight.

The explosion did unbalance Deluge a little and her giant hand misses Arclight, to the right.

Inferno regains his feet and trains his flamethrowing gauntlets on Fuzzt and unleashes a jet of fire from point blank range.

Inferno misses, firing before he'd completely gotten up onto his feet. The blast misses and crashes into a clothing store display window, setting all of the mannequins on fire.

Fuzzt looks behind him with one eyeball, the other looking back at Inferno. "Bad choice," mirroring what was said earlier and he does the same thing all over, but this time going vertically tight into Inferno.

Fuzzt turns into a sheet with a hole in it to avoid the shot, but then he compresses into a ball.. a moment before exploding with a few appendages up under Inferno's belly and under his chin.

Deluge looks past Arclight, to Inferno, who lies on his back and is moving slowly right now. She returns her gaze to Arclight. "Let's continue this another time..." And with that, she flows down a drainage gate, disappearing from view. "Until next time..." her voice can be heard as she drifts underneath the streets.

Julia opens the high window in the changing area and flies out towards the ongoing conflict surrounded by a golden aura. Sizing up the situation as best she can she continues to fly attempting to slam into the airborne tumbling Inferno as he spins around from Fuzzt's strike.

Golden slams into Inferno and feels the impact herself. "Ouch!" Seeing how FAR he goes down the street she gapes in astonishment. . o O(O'heavens. I didn't mean to hit him that hard. I really don't knot my own strength yet.)

Fuzzt turns into a ball and bounces over onto the downed inferno... and wraps him up in what looks like a little boy's bunny suit, complete with the ears. It's his cutesay way of keeping the bad guy restrained and ready for the police. And like that he's going to stay until they come to collect him.

Teflon arrives on the scene. To a discerning eye, it really only looks like Donald, wearing a mask. Thankfully for him, most of the people who would recognize him, his high school peers, are safely away from the scene.

Golden turns to look at the burning store. Her glance passes over Teflon, moves on... swings back suddenly. . o O(Oh!) But other matters are more important at this moment.

A couple of police officers arrive quickly, the ones who were already on the scene. They gather around Fuzzt.

Except for the few other highschool students on the scene as well, in their own rather lame costumes, or really good ones in Serafina's case and Golden's too. Arclight blinks as the woman doesn't even feel the force of the explosion but he steps to the side, avoiding the swipe grab at him by Deluge. When she bails down into the drain he frowns, "That's not good. Going to have to use Plasma on her..." He says to himself but then blinks as it seems everything is calming down, starting to make his way out from the scne before someone recognizes him.

Jolt figures Fuzzt has Inferno covered and it looks like Arclight might need some help as Deluge seems starts getting violent. Well she was planning on letting Deluge go anyways "Damnit Why couldnt she have stuck around to put the fire out" the electric heroine grumbles "Alright anyone here got some abilities to put out fires?" she asks those assembled "Also we'll need people clearing the cars off the road so the fire trucks can get through"

Teflon says, "Oh! I can help with the cars..."

Golden flies back and helps with the cars beside Teflon, in her case simply picking them up and carrying them.

Fuzzt makes a bunny ear wave at the policeman and then he just.. melts away from inferno, turnining into several snake like appendages that recombine a short distance away. And leaves Inferno stark naked except for his gauntlets and whatever else he needs for his abilities. Hearing Jolt talk about moving cars around, he looks at one of them and goes 'OH, that's what those are', and crawls under one truck, lifting it up (casual strength of 30), and stacking it so neatly off onto the side... continuing like that down the street.

Jolt isnt wasting any time herself as she starts pushing the cars involved in the traffic jam to the other side of the street using magnetic forces "Hrm... actually" she gets a better idea and seeing the bus is empty she tries to pick it up with magnetic force and 'park' it on one of the rooftops nearby.

Arclight can't help with cars or fires so instead decides he needs to get out of dodge. Heading away from the scene before he draws the attention of the cops. Once safely away he takes his hair down and takes the bandana off, unbuttoning his coat again and resuming his guise of bad boy teenager.

Teflon steps begin a car and pushes on it until it slides away easily as if resting on ice. He continues to push cars to the sides of the road in this manner.

Fuzzt meeeps and looks back at Chimera, pausing with a truck over his head like it were no more then a newspaper... The pair of eyes look back to her, one cocked to a side as he looks back to her with curiosity. Then he looks up at the truck and puts it off to the side, one eye keeping an eye on his work and moving cars out of the way one at a time, while keeping his attention on her. Big, white puffball moving cars around and at the same time wondering how he got to be the center of attention here...

Jolt is quite good at this as the bus hovers overhead and is parked on a nearby roof perfectly. Well thats half of her plan the other half after taking a quick breather is to go fly up into the air and find the nearest fire truck which is no doubt coming to this particular fire and get it back there.

Fuzzt shakes his attention away from Chimera then and seeing the fire getting nasty, and the fire hydrant... "arn't they suppose to... OH!" and then he rolls right on over to the firehydrant, the broken one that Deluge did the disfavor of breaking. Latching onto it, he seals it up and then has a hose form out of his body, making it easy for anyone to pick up and use. A living firehose... go figure.

Fuzzt says, "err.. what was it that they say in that one show?" the end of the hose says, "Man up?!" and the hose lifts like a snake, crawling over to the store and then he unloads his liquidy load, making a mist like he sees so often done by firefighters on TV and the news, then starts hitting the storefront to douse the fire."

Jolt figures the cars either get out of the way or she manages to use magnetic force to 'fly' a firetruck over the traffic jams.

Fuzzt is spraying down the fire, even making a second smaller firehose to go after smaller fires from both sides. He's quite willing to let other more experienced hands guide his work, probably the firemen if and when they get here would be the best choice. (think it be fair to just say Jolt pulls it off and gets the truck here?)

Golden sees all is getting under control and sneaks off to return to the changing rooms. Stepping out back to her friends she models the dress she put on, "What do you long? It's not too short is it?"

With things well under control Erik decides he should try and find the rest of the students so that the school doesn't think he was trying to skip out or anything. The bus is still standing, so that's where he heads, to the bus with it's new missing front paint job. Climbing into the back of it Erik shuts the emergency exit and settles in to wait.

Fuzzt finishes with the fire and keeps a look out, just in case it decides to start up again. HEck.. those hoses even crawl into the ashes a bit and douse a few hot spots here and there that he finds. After he's done ensuring the fire's out he's kind of at a loss now... he can't quite let the hydrant go completely otherwise it'll swamp the street now. .oO(Hmmm... Wonder if Deluge wants a drink..) and sticks his 'noses' into the sewer and unloads the water at high speed...

Fuzzt blinks.. a pair of eyes appearing in the middle of the firehose as he looks at her. "Fuzzt. Name is Fuzzt..." though he says that quietly, the ears and the white fur on Chimera throwing him for a bit. Is she half Dallian? The hose finally deflates as the last of the water is now in the sewers, and he detaches from the broken fire hydrant, reforming into a ball shape again, and feeling a little sore. "Fuzzbutt?"

Fuzzt looks Chimera over for a moment.. remembers the comic he picked up a while ago and read, and changes as well.. turning more towards a male version of chimera, complete with fur, ears, and bunny tail. And this time he includes the clothes so he doesn't look totally out of place, just silly with a copy of Chimera's clothing on himself.

Fuzzt watches her... cocks his head to one side and tries to make out what she is saying. In fact repeating it as he tries to figure out what language she's using now. "uuuuhhh. What does that mean?" confused... one ear flopping over as he's a little out of his league, or feels that way if they're starting to come up with strange reactions to him. Wait.. he cocks his head to one side, then says, "Why are you making funny eyes at me?" curious and naive at the same time.