Log:Saturday Night Fights - Builder Escape, Scene 1

Saturday Night Fights - Builder Escape 2014/05/10

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Not to long ago there was a story in the paper of an inventor using a heavily armored suit and a collection of spider style robots of unusual size to attempt to rob an art gallery in Colonial Bay. The inventor was captured and his spider bots destroyed. Without access to his suit the inventor, who only answered to the name 'Builder' and refused to give his real name, was determined to be only human and held in Colonial Bay rather than one of the two mega-security prisons while awaiting trial.

Of course the crime itself was rather low key, with only minor property damage done to the face of the art gallery as the defenses were not breached before heroes arrived. All in all, 'Builder' was just another low rent villain in the minds of many and as his court date approached nobody paid that much attention to it...

At least until the alarms at the Courthouse went off on Friday morning, precisely at 9 AM.

Porter hates the courthouse. He's very familiar with it, too, from the number of subpeonas and lawsuits he's received over the years. That's actually why he's outside the courthouse. He's on his way in to take care of another payment. Who knew that street lights were so expensive? Or that there are so many of them in just one city block? Then the alarms go off, and he sighs. "Of course."

Pelana is familiar with courthouses as well, in a wholly different fashion. It's nice to show up to one not in handcuffs, and not in prison orange. Flying around when the alarm sounds, Pelana takes a circle about the courthouse, keeping an aerial view for whatever might try to escape, at least until she hears something that might encourage her to land.

Ken Rios was just headed to the courthouse to get some papers notarized. He had some good luck with a sponsor recently. The notorization would allow him to race a bit with a sponsor. But now? Well... there's the alarms. He blinks a few times, then sighs and drives his car around a bit out of the way before getting out and locking it. With the full security system before moving off to an alleyway.

A few seconds later, a flying robot comes out of the alleyway. Choukaizer is headed for the courthouse, arms by his side as he keeps his elevation way above the level of any people on the street.

Well, when crimes involved super high tech stuff, Allison definitely was interested. She investigated on her own but.. she's not a trained investigator. Her idea of investigating is like... Google. Well that and beggin Julius to look into things for her. It's a good thing he has access to federal law enforcement databases!

However, even that showed little that could help out. Ally made sure that her EM-Pulse cannons were in working condition though, just in case... and she was returning from the award ceremony for her fifth PhD... kinda walking with that swagger that comes from pride in your accomplishments. You know.. the... Yeah, that's right. I'm a badass... swagger... across the street from said courthouse when she was interrupted by Julius's vpoice in her head,  And she just stops... frozen.

<> she instructs her AI as she steps into an alley and starts oozing nanobots. It really is kinda gross... but soon she'll be armored, just in case.

Snow heard the alarms as she was on an ice ramp passing over the court house, with Alanna, taking her for a ride on her ice ramps. She slides around to the front, which puts both her and Alanna in front of the main doors, but across the street, so about 15m from the doors. The air around Rae frosts over as it solidifies into her icy armor.

Alanna covers her ears, wincing. Alarms don't agree so well with her sensitive hearing it seems. "What's going on? A break in? Or... out?" she asks, looking around as various people arrive, giving Snow space as she dons her armour

Julius is easily able to pick up the dockets from the web, public record and all that so Allison is quickly informed that the minor super villain known as 'Builder' was to be arraigned today. It's also easy to cross reference the stuff in the paper about his capture and the manner of robots he used along with visual references that are easily cross referenced because there are a number of them already present.

Out in front of the Courthouse climbing down along the front of it are six metallic spiders designed like a black widow in proportions but made entirely of metal and are the size a great dane though that does not seem to limit their ability to stick to walls. Leading the six spiders is a /much/ larger spider bot though this one is shaped like a scorpion and is the size of a large truck. The courthouse steps are not much appreciative of that as the bots take up position in front of the Courthouse, trapping those inside, inside, and placing themselves in position to stop others from going in.

At the moment there is no combat, though bystanders are of course starting to leave. Alarms. Robots. Heroes arriving. The people are not fools.

Alanna glances at the congregating heroes. "... Alright. What's the plan?" she asks. "I'll wager..." she says, pointed at the larger robot. "That that one's most 'important' Though to what extent..." she shrugs.

Snow looks around for a moment as the spider bots arrive, "Anyone confirm those are completely robots?" she asks from where she is, her options become a bit more limited if they are more vehicles of somekind than robots. She nods as she seems bystanders moving away, "Please move to a safe distance." she seems to be considering something at the moment.

"Get clear or back up!" Porter waves at the bystanders running, or people he might see still inside. All to get them to stay clear of the giant robots. Not that they really needed anyone to tell them that. Then he tosses out a coffee cup salute at Rae, Interface and anybody else he recognizes. Then he's waving at the robots. "Go spin your cables somewhere else!" Too bad they don't make cans of bug spray that big.

Pelana lands not too far away from Porter, whom she recognizes at least. "Wonder how hardened they are against electrical shock, you'd figure that'd be the first thing but some of these mad inventors really are mad, y'know?"

Choukaizer drops down to land at the foot of the courthouse steps. The heroic robot starts to walk towards the robot spiders, moving at a slow pace and apparently looking to see what they will do if anything.

"Builder... and robot spiders. Yeah, no such thing as coincidence these days." Mutters Allison mostly to herself as she finishes oozing her armor into place. Thursters fire and Interface is up and running, or flying. <> she asks her companion even as she is making her way towards the front doors. <> she sends, as a pair of micro sized miniguns deploy along the backs of both arms.

The giant scorpion robot centers it's many many eyes on Choukaizer or at least a portion of them as the others seem to keep watch on everything around it. Dropping low to the steps the scorpions claws open up and slam shut with nasty CLANGS and it's tail starts to glow green at the tip, some sort of energy build up. Clearly a threatening posture.

Meanwhile most of the people are getting clear rather quickly, what police on duty helping to get the civilians out of harms way.

Julius intones, << According to police reports the spiders had grappling cables they used to entangle opponents, electric shocks in their mandibles, and their legs were deadly spears. The larger construct is new. I am unable to find any data at this time. >>

Alanna sighs. "So much for a plan then." she grumbles. "Hey! Metal Man! You've got their undivided attention right now! You sure that's a good idea?"

Pelana hmphs, "That robot isn't the only one that can be threatenin'. Pity all I'd make is a larger target, but..." To test her hypothesis, the dragoness stands to brace herself, concentrates... and red lightning arcs out of her mouth towards the nearest robot.

"If anyone can make shields or walls or anything to contain the situation and keep these things from reaching the civilians... please do so!" calls out Interface. <> "These things are armed with entangling cables, electroshocks, and their legs are -very- sharp... that's the small ones. I have no idea what armament the big one has!" she adds. "If you have access to radio communications, please inform me so we can keep in contact!" She's pointing both arms at the larger robot as she heads to basically play matador, right between it and the front doors of the courthouse..... And then Pelana sneezes a lightning bolt and the sad thing is, Ally's first thought is.. . . o o O O (No, in Braveheart, it was lightning bolts from the arse!)

Snow blinks and shakes her head a bit as she sees the lightning arc at the robot. She gets herself ready. Whether combat could have been avoided at this point is unknown but then there are innocents to save.

"Well, they're big and ugly..." Porter states the obvious, then gets a little optimistic. "Maybe that means they're dumb, too..." And then Pelana is hocking an electric loogaloo at one.

Stopping where he is, the 'Metal Man' looks at the scorpion. Then turns it's head to look over a shoulder towards Alanna. "It is. I'd consider alternatives, however."

His head turns back and he looks at the large scorpion robot. Then he smiles and braces his arms as he calls out, "Chou Release: Metal Blaster!" The star on it's chest slides open and impossibly, a ball of metal flings itself at cannon speeds towards the scorpion robot.

The star closes afterwards, but the robot does look towards the scorpion. "I trust I have your attention? Care to let the courthouse go, or do we have to see who is the tougher robot?"

The scorpion nimbly dodges the lightning, sidestepping it and the cannon ball fired from the humanoid robot clang-booms off it's armor with nary a scratch. It appears to be of quite tough construction!

Alanna watches the attacks both miss and bounce off harmlessly. Hrm. "... Oh, frak it." she growls, sprinting forward at the Scorpion, fist raised and slams into it with her full strength.

Or miss entirely. That works too

The humanoid robot calls out as it spots Alanna moving, "Wait! Don't get close!"

"Don't have much of an option!" Alanna yells back

Snow frowns and then something goes through her as she watches Alanna go in like that. "Don't think so." she says and is going to try and keep the big one from being able to do too much, "Chill out, and freeze why don't ya." she calls out as frost hurls from her hand to make it suddenly a lot colder around the larger robot.

The scorpion gets blasted by the chilling beam from Snow and it frosts over, the beam punching through it's hard carapace as it's own movements cause it's frame to start to buckle and shatter, creating a pit of frozen destruction in the scorpions body!

 begins Julius in Interface's mind.  "Damn.." she mutters. This distracts her as she was about to do something just as Snow attacked. She shrugs and says, <> she says to Julius as she looks over her shoulder at the spiders blocking the door. "Guys! I think this is a distraction. We need to clear the door, and either ignore these guys, or let someone play matador with them. But I think the real threat is inside, not out here!" But she points her miniguns at the scorpion and lets fly... blue-ish pulse beams flaring from the guns as they fire.

The scorpion's armor gets pitted by Interface's shots, there's a few electrical sparks but not any really appreciably damage. It'd take a lot more of those.

Porter considers the situation. He really doesn't like bugs. Then again, most bugs don't like other bugs. Could be the big one is hungry? Maybe the cannonball knocked something loose? Or the cold shorted the IFF? Who knows?

Choukaizer turns as it seems the other heroes like tackling the big spider. He probably gives a mental shrug or something like it somewhere in his head. Instead, he turns to the spiders to the left of the giant scorpion. Bringing his arms up, he gives a bit of a grin as his stance shifts to compensate for what is about to happen.

"Kaizer Release: MAGNUM PUNCH!" The result of this command? Those two spiders that are in range of a pair of flying rocket fist forearm missiles are about to have a close encounter with one whether they like it or not.

Pelana sees that her lightning didn't have much of an effect, so instead she goes with plan A: punch it hard. She runs up to the scorpion, winds up, and slams her fist into its side!

the carapace but it doesn't really move so much as simply turn. The green glowing energy around the tail grows brighter and then a bolt of neon green lightning blasts towards Snow! *ZARK!* Meanwhile the robot apparently has some pretty special programming as it's tail seems to act independently of it's body, the claws snap out in a quick one-two scissor motion at Pelana!
 * CLANG* The scorpion gets banged by Pelana's fist and there is a dent left in

Meanwhile the two spiders guarding the ones at the door fire twin cables from their spinnerets, one cable heading for Interface, and the other towards Choukaizer trying to wrap them up in steel mesh cable webbing!

Alanna shrieks as the scorpion fires at Snow, jumping up, springing off it's carapace, swinging around by it's tail and slamming a punch into the center of it's mass

only barely beneath the stress of Alanna's punch!
 * CLANG* The scorpion is hit... but it looks like the armor is holding though

Snow was knocked down by the blast and it did hurt. She pushes herself up with her iceramp and moves a bit closer and then throws another deep freeze at the Scorpion.

Porter frowns. "These things are really damned tough!" The big one looks like it might fall apart soon, but there's still a pile more. He looks around and picks... the metal guy. "Hey! Get your big metall balls ready... for that one!" He points at the spider thing that's guarding the linebackers. Then he looks at it. And hopes. Maybe all the excitement will overheat it and force it to vent? All the noise will trigger some kind of voice-activated system?

The spider that Porter seems to jynx gets... really jynxed. All it's armor plates suddenly spring open and closed appararently at random as if a maintenance protocol went berserk!

Seeing the spiderbot flip out, Interface narrows her eyes. <> she instructs as she turns and points her fists at the bot that was just jinxed. Her miniguns retract as she moves, but an odd almost 50's sci-fi beam emitter emerges... and energy builds, builds, before gravity is twisted and tweaked in a straight line about 5cm wide. . . streaking towards that bot.

The armored plates snapping open and closed on the spider jynxed by Porter are apparently less than useless in this state. The relatively tough bot gets caught by Interface's beam at precisely the worse time and it crumples, collapsing in on itself, twisting about spider legs go flying and then the implosion explodes. BOOM. Robot spider guts everywhere!

The humanoid robot, Choukaizer, happens to look at the cables at first as he braces to keep from being knocked over from their impact. It takes him a moment before the turbines on his shoulders begin to whirl. Then, in a show of strength, the cables snap before he crouches a bit and blasts forward on green jets to land a short distance from the robot spiders that shot the cables at him. A bit of a cocky grin is on his face as he takes what looks more like a brawler's stance. "Steel cables? Well, you things are robot spiders... let's dance." He makes an inviting 'come and get me' gesture with a hand at the remaining spider in front of that door.

The tail swivels and reorients on Snow again, another build up of green energy and then there is another *ZARK* of neon green lightning flashing through the air towards the ice clad woman!

Alanna shrieks in rage, winding her fist back as far as it will go, eyeing the scorpion with rage in her eyes.

Pelana sees no reason to not go with what's been a winning plan so far. Sure, she's only dented the casing, but OF COURSE if you build some kind of crime robot it's going to take a punch or two. It just means you need MORE punch. She slams her fists into the side, over and over, trying to concentrate on the same area to penetrate the plating.

The scorpion takes a beating, at the end of those blows it's armor has been torn asunder and it's been slammed back into the pillars supporting the front collumns of the courthouse with an incredible smash and crumple. It collapses to the ground and then starts to pick itself up again with straining creaks of metal and gears, grinding of metal on metal sounds and the scorpion makes a horrible clicking sound before it starts to back up to the front doors and the five remaining spiders head in with the huge mass of the scorpion still blocking directly in front of the front doors. Almost as an afterthought one claw moves to try and slam into Chou and send him flying away if it can!

Porter grumbles. "Just blow up already or something!" This thing just will not die...deactivate.. whatever. On the other hand... all those beam holes. Fist holes. Frozen stuff. Can't be good for the circuitry. The power system. Not at all. All it takes is one coupling to cross-feed, or a piece of armor spall to fall in the wrong spot...

Turning at the sound behind him, Choukaizer looks at the big claw coming it's way. Then there's one hell of a loud *CLANG* as the claw meets the metal of his chest plate. At first, nothing seems to happen, then Choukaizer takes a step back. And glares at the scorpion robot. "I was having a chat with your friends, ugly! Don't you know it's rude to interupt a conversation?" The robot otherwise looks mostly unharmed. Just forced into taking that one step looks to have seriously ticked it off.

The scorpion seems to have been on it's last legs and Porters exclamation seems to take the wind out of it's sails. It twitches, sparks, and hits the ground with a shudder but... it does not appear to be all dead. Not all dead anyways. The tail... that wicked segmented tail swivels around and fires a blast of green neon lightning right at Choukaizer as he is the nearest target!

Choukaizer brings up an arm and takes the shot, the lightning looking to do practically nothing as he calls to the others, "The spiders went inside! Whatever they are after is in there!"

Alanna blinks as the scorpion is... not in front of her anymore. "Oh for pete's sake!" she exclaims in frustration. "... Fine!" she snarls, taking off after the spiders that have gone inside...

As Alanna goes sprinting at the back of the spider bot and slams into it there is a crushing of metal, a screaming of torn bolts, and the bot half crumples with sparks flying form it's extremely dented abdomen... in the shape of an Alanna Cross.

Porter is glad that the Scorpion is... mostly dead. So long as there isn't a Miracle Max's around, things'll be good. "We need to get inside!" All thos spiders scurring. All those legs. How do they keep them all straight.. or from criss-crossing and tangling on each other. Especially the one that just got dented.

The dented robot is having a bad day, even before it can start recovering from the hit from Alanna now it's gyro seems to have gotten messed up and it's spider legs are getting crossed. How embarassing.

Looking at the spiders, Interface catches one on her HUD (which is really inside her eyes, but that's beside the point)... that just stops all of a sudden. She grins and her miniguns reform. It's like liquid oozing out and becoming metal all of a sudden. Like that crap in Man of Steel... She opens fire at the suddenly exposed target... blazing away.

The spider bot gets riddled with holes! But though it is raining sparks and making the most horrendous sounds... it is still, technically, mobile. Even if it can't at this very moment move.

Meanwhile the tail re-orients and this time it targets on Interface! Green energy builds up and then fires with another zrrrrrk! of neon green electricity at the flying armored woman!

Nobody really tried to attack Interface since the bungled entangle, and then she grins behind her faceplate as the miniguns chew into the spider.  ZOT! comes the lightning blast and she is sent flying... skidding along the ground as Julius adds, <...out...>

Pelana moves to the still-twitching tail, attempting to batter it into non-functionality, or, failing that, rip it off.

The tail it seems was not nearly so armored as the rest of the body, probably due to it's flexibility and speed. Pelana smashes it and crumples it down like one might collapse a beer can and with a few sparks and twitches, the green energy glow at the tip... dies.

Snow uses her ice ramp, though its more of a slide to slide into the building. She covers a bit of distant and then throws out a blast of deep freezing cold at one of the spiders.

Grrr... thrusters fire and Interface rights herself at the same time as she heads down the hall. Her reaction thrusters vent a bit of plasma, but it dissipates before it can damage anything. She blasts past the spiders overhead, and comes to land a few meters ahead of them... facing them. "Alright you arachnid simulations... step into -my- parlor... to paraphrase.." She remarks, rolling her neck.

With the scorpion tail finally not pulling a nuisance, Choukaizer resets his sights on the next threat. Namely... spiders. With an open hallway. You know that idea of the flying brick going THROUGH a hallway? Well... those still catching up experience a brief heat wash as a green flame trail comes from a robot suddenly going right past them and barrelling into a spider quite hard with a pair of fists. He looks up towards Interface, his hands pulling back from the spider now sporting some nice big dents. "Hi, Interface. Miss me?" The robot says cheekily, then looks to the spiders.

Out of the four mobile spider-bots, only three are undamaged but they do not slow or falter. Well the one that Choukaizer just smashed into and sent flying that one has quite a lead on it's fellows since it slid all the way past Interface! They move in tandem though. Two spiders snapping steel cable nets at Interface, and two at Choukaizer even though they're moving past Interface at a good clip, walking on the walls to go around her if necessary!

Alanna groans on the floor from the impact, returning to her senses... The spiders were still on the move! She blinks, then flips to her feet, swearing and running off after them!

everyone... but Alanna, who is 3m behind them"

Snow swears a bit as the spiders keep getting further. She slides down the hall more ater them and then forms ice in one of her hands into a small soccerball shaped object which she hurls into the middle of the spiders where it explodes.

The explosion of ice and cold is enough to take down the allready crumpled one that Choukaizer had nearly flatted, the other three mobile spiders take some damage, frost cracking their armor a little but they seem fully functional still. Or at least, fully mobile still.

Porter flashes Interface a grin as she tags the one that just happened to get tangled up. But there's still more spiders. Quite a few. Without a leader, right? Hey... don't bugs require a queen or something? If there isn't one, doesn't another step up? How do they choose? Or, maybe the loss of a network node thing causes command sequencing error... things? So the spider in the leader of the scurry train should establish dominance, then?

Alanna sprints up behind the group, slamming her fist as hard as she can into the robot. The metal bends under the impact, and there's a grinding of internal components, though the spider seems un-hindered as yet

The spider is caught flush by that cold beam and it freezes over with a screaming of gyro's and gears and then it clunks once before hitting the ground and breaking apart like an ice cube falling to the ground. Smash. Another one down, two to go.

Porter hasn't really moved much the entire... incident. Now there are only two. These things have hard shells. They usually have to be cracked to get to the nuts (and bolts) inside. But all that rattling around still has to take it's toll on the insides.

Apparently the one that Alanna smashed with her fist took more damage than she thought. It sounds like a sledgehammer is hitting it from within and there are dents forming /outwards/ in it's carapace before the robotic spider suddenly ceases and hits the ground with a crash. One to go.

Choukaizer sighs a bit. "You would think they'd learn after the first one didn't work." The turbines spin again in his shoulders before he breaks these new cables around him. Then he hits his rockets to fly to the remaining undamaged robo-spider. Brings back a hand. Then takes a quick jab at it. A jab that even if it misses at least makes a hole in whatever it does hit if anything.

Interface flies off ahead of the group and plants herself in front of the nearest security door to one of the safe rooms built into the Courthouse that was added after who knows which villain attacked the Courthouse to try and free a fellow criminal. As she stands there blocking the door a field of energy snaps into being around her, blocking her and the door from any surviving spiders of which there is one left.

The spider looks confused as much as a robot can look confused and then it turns and starts back down the hall, towards the heroes after it got panged by Choukaizer's punch. Instead of going for a hero though it instead lifts it's sharply pointed legs and goes to stab the last still functioning spider that is twitching on the ground with it's legs tangled together!

Alanna sprints forward, flipping over the last mobile spider and repeatedly punches it on the floor, practically tearing the metal apart with her bare hands

Grumbling a bit, Choukaizer smacks the last spider over it's eyes with one fast, smashing the thing entirely before he looks around, "Everyone still alive and in one piece?"

With the last of the robots destroyed or disabled, the alarm eventually stops after the building has been secured and there is no more indication of anymore robots and the police take over the crime scene.

When the safe room doors are opened and people are escorted out, the 'Builder' is being lead by two guards and there are two others also covering the criminal. Strangely enough the 'Builder' ends up going very pale when he sees the spider-bots remains and the short little fat man's eyes roll up in his head and he faints dead away. The only thing stopping him from hitting the ground are the guards he is chained to.