Log:Chrissie, Scene 2

Chrissie 2007/10/05 	 Jennifer and Jessica Rebound Variable Psiforce Fist Spirit Sir Crimson Hga'urwk and robots 2

Colonial Heights High School

Alex enters the school, walking against the tide of the students who are leaving. He's got a cloth bag, in hand, holding a couple of books that he'd forgotten to return to the sci-fi club library.

The final bell of the day, and week, has gone, and the corridors are crowded with chattering students, rather happier than they usually are round here.

Jennifer notes once again the odd way in which in the crowds that fill the corridors at the end of the school day nobody happens to be without reasonable talking distance of either Jennifer or Jessica. A strange quirk in the laws of probability no doubt. She's spotted Chrissie but isn't going to ruin that girl's reputation by displaying any association.

Chrissie is among the cheerleaders chattering away madly. The main topic of conversation seems to be where Stephie had to run off too so quickly as soon as the bell rang. She seems to back at ease with the cheerleaders, anyway, if not the football players.

Alex spots the twins and decides to walk over. "Heya, Jenn. TGIF, right?"

Kim says, "Hey, there's that nerd Phil was dating. Didn't he graduate?"

Jessica and Jenn grin in delight at Alex's arrival. "Hey. What are you doing back here? Good to see you though. I''m fine. I'm going to head to the school library for a while after I've been to my lockers. Want to tag along and chat about old times?"

"Never mind him," says Tina, "What about that guy? He can't be new - I'd have noticed someone that big."

Unmasked but in-costume, Fist wanders in behind Alex, distracted by the many things on walls and worn by students.

The cheerleaders turn to where Tina indicates.

Alex smiles and nods. "Sure. I was going to swing by there anyways..." He gives a chuckle. "Old times were not that long ago."

Psiforce was nearby doing a few things, and just happens to be in the area, moving from roof to roof, one of which is the school.

Jennifer smiles, "Sometimes they seem like a centary ago. I miss you and Caleb and Augustin. I even miss the excitement. Maybe I'm just not ready to retire."

Alex nods. "Well the Life will always be there. You should give retirement its fair chance, to see if it's what you want or not."

"Cute, but kind of stiff-looking," observes another cheerleader.

Jennifer slips something out of her jacket pocket into an ear.

Psiforce just rests on the roof for a moment.

Fist touches something on her ear, looking toward Jennifer curiously.

Alex coughs into a balled up hand.

The cheerleaders discuss the guy lightly as they dump their books in their lockers and prepare to head out.

Fist's attention turns toward the corridor.

Alex cups his hand over his mouth, hiding how he's speaking to himself.

As the cheerleaders move outside, they happen (?) to be preceded by the one guy and followed by the other, whom they don't seem to have noticed.

Fist becomes quiet, and harder to track, though doing so inside a school is a little difficult. She follows the beforeentioned two big persons.

Psiforce relaxes on the roof still, he has been out and about a little more lately, working on developing and using the strength he has worked so hard to get.

Jennifer works her way towards the closest of the guys heading towards a random locker. She takes the opportunity to get a closer look and visually scan him for concealed weapons while on the way.

Jessica follows the cheerleaders out making no effort to sneak. She's a student leaving school, there's nothing more natural than for her to be going the way she is.

As people get outside, most of the students begin dispersing rather quickly. Others, the cheerleaders and some football players) included, are hanging out more in a group still chatting. The two guys are among the loiterers.

Psiforce watches from the roof.

Fist takes careful mental aim, pointing a chi-based telepathic query at one of the two men. A little intrusive, but the situation could be dire.

Spirit is overhead, flying in no real apparent pattern, his presence going unnoticed by most civilians on the street at this point, since it's become so common an occurrence.

Jennifer gets out a compact from her bag and opens it to use the mirror to check her hair, running a comb through it. She /accidentally reflects a flash of sunlight into one guy's eyes. Jessica watches the /other/ guy intently looking for a reaction. The kind of darting glance to cover the blind spot of the other guy that would be her response.

Fist looks alarmed, turning toward Jennifer with something very similar.

Jennifer nods almost imperceptibly.

Alex jogs to try and catch up with the cheerleaders. "Hey there..." he pauses for a moment, trying to remember a name. "... Kim ... How's it going?"

Spirit tilts his head as he notices something, and circles in lower, toward the high school...trusting in the fact that people probably aren't going to bother looking up. He stays well up, though...a good 40 meters or so.

Jessica and Jennifer start drifting over towards the cheerleaders and guys trying to appear casual about it.

Psiforce just watches the kids, wondering if he needs to help promote a school laws type thing.

Spirit arcs downward, disappearing behind the building as he dives.

One of the football players notices the twins' approach. "Hey, what are you freaks doing coming over here?" Other people in the group seem to notice that they're being surrounded by people not in their clique.

Jessica grins towards the inpolite footballer. "I'm coming over to chat to Alex. Now if you want to try and stop me that's up to you."

The football players shuffle unhappily. Since the news about Jennifer broke, they've been even more wary of her. But none wants to back down.

Jennifer shakes her head and pulls back on Jessica's arm as if trying to slow her progress. "Hey, sis, ease up. He's playing this weekend and I've got a tenspot on the game."

Jessica turns her head to say with a slightly raised voice, "You're my sister not my mother."

Jennifer thinks. o O (This should confuse the issue. Take attention away from Alex.)

The two guys seems to be a little distracted, or uncertain. They look about rather aimlessly.

Jennifer says with equally raised voice, "I'm your older sister."

The holograms over the two robots shimmer and disappear, and then they fire on Chrissie.

Fist leaps into the way of the shot, not noticing the twins' decision to act in the same manner.

Spirit's fists flare with energy, building briefly before releasing into the energy bubble holding him.

Spirit's energy burst slices through the field with a bright flash and a loud searing noise, and he looks at his assailant. "I guess you chose option one or two."

Hga'urwk and Spirit are against a shaded wall of the school, unnoticed till the big flash.

Fist dives between Chrissie and Jennifer, saving her from whatever stray blasts might emerge for no discernible reason.

Sir_Crimson comes flying toward the school on top of a great winged horse made up of crackling dark red energy. His loud booming voice questions, "What seems to be the trouble here?!"

Psiforce lifts into the air flying out a bit to see the other fight, really doubting he can do much against robots. He spies the bad guy by Dorian and looses a bit of psionic pain induction after focusing him mind on such.

Jennifer thinks. o O (Drat. If I'd known they were firing force bubbles I would have been hoping they got Chrissie. Extra protection for her if the fight gets nasty.)

Psiforce reaches the mind, but finds it a bit too alien to achieve his intent.

Psiforce blinks and swears a bit again. Robots, and...Aliens. Just what he needs. He hovers in the air confused.

Sir Crimson attracts the attention of the cheerleaders and football players, anyway - but they only pause a moment before they start to flee, Chrissie among them.

Fist dives forth, toward one non-real person while she emits her intentions to Jennifer and Alex. She leaps onto the thing, driving its upper body into the ground and landing beside it, before tossing the thing toward Jennifer as she runs alongside it.

Fist halts beside Jennifer as the robot lands at her feet.

Jennifer would wave but is a little bit entangled right now.

Jennifer tests the strength of the enclosing force bubble.

Jennifer and Jessica start pulling out bright metal sections from concealed pouches on the inside of their jackets. then they assemble the segments and within a second each is wielding a katana.

Jennifer and Jessica strike as one in perfectly matched moves, the blades sheering through the force bubbles.

Jennifer calls out, "Fist, are there any minds in those metal shells?"

Chrissie spots the alien engage with Spirit and changes the direction of her run, looking rather more scared.

Sir_Crimson's great red energy horse flaps it's way over to the conflict. Again he booms, "I demand to know what barbaric villains would dare cause such chaos in a place of learning?!"

Jessica laughs and looks up at the knightly figure mounted on a levitating steed above her, "Normally that would get the answer 'me' but not this time. Assuming you're on the good guy's team there's two robots and an alien trying to kidnap a cheerleader. Real 1950's pulp si-fi come to life."

Psiforce nods, "And none of them vulnerable." he mutters and is going to see if they are robots or guys in armor, hope, and tries a bolt of psychic pain at one of the robots.

Fist looks upward at the red-horse-rider, baffled momentarily.

Psiforce frowns and shakes his head, "Darnation." he swears a bit, "just my luck."

The robots stand, and surprisingly perhaps attack the twins.

Fist begins playing a game of remove-the-students, picking up and carting off bystanders and Chrissie, who seems to desire to be very far away from everything hostile here.

Sir_Crimson points his blade at the young lady who answered his question. Suddenly a streak of light shoots out producing a large shield of energy in front of her. "Away from that damsel metallic beast!"

One energy beam is completely lost in the wall, while the other strikes Jessica.

Jessica's Force Armor flares and crackles with energy discharges as the bolt from the robot is deflected.

Jessica glances up. She grinning widely with enjoyment, "Thanks Sir Knight. One out of two ain't bag at all."

Jennifer asks again, "Can anyone tell me if I can dice and slice these tin-cans without feeling guilty about it afterwards?

Those who make guy in the shadows seems to have downed Spirit with a lucky blow.

The alien looks about, realises his quarry has been removed from the scene, and decides to make a getway while people are distracted. He runs round the corner of the school.

Sir_Crimson returns the force shield back into a blade as he fluidly sets his dark red horse down. In a softer voice he remarks to Jennifer, "My dear I intend to save you both." The energy from the sword comes roaring out in the form of a great charging knight with lance in hand. It rushes at the android assaulting her.

The lance knocks the robot a clean 8 metres backward, to land in a rather awkward posture.

Jennifer laughs delightedly, "Nice shot." and brings the Katana up to the salute.

Psiforce frowns and decides to try something else. He focuses his mind again to try and through psychokinetic force at the other robot, not the one that the guy just hit, trying to hit it like a fist.

Jessica says, "I'm Jessica. That's my sister Jennifer you're protecting. Do you have a name?"

Psiforce frowns and well that might have worked if it didn't miss. He shakes his head a bit and sighs.

Jessica moves up to the robot attacking her. "If you're not dumb rogots just say the word or raise an arm and I won't slice you into itty-tiny bits.

The robots raise their arms! Though they're a bit slow about it.

Jessica laughs, "Just in time." The sword is swung across her back and she punches instead.

The robot sidesteps the blow!

Jennifer follows her sister's lead and moves to her own attacker also swunging the sword and striking with fist.

Maybe the robots aren't the brightest, but nor are they clunky....

Jennifer actually dents the robots armour, making it a bit more clumsy as a joint is no longer free to move properly. Probably her fist doesn't feel that good either though.

Jennifer and Jessica cannot resist the urge to show off a little. Turning their backs to the robots they disassemble the swords and slip the sections away into the concealed pouches inside their jackets while left feet lash back in reverse kicks.

The robot seemed more braced for it this time, and wasn't even budged.

Jessica and Jennifer chuckles, "Oh well. Now I know they can take it."]

Or can they? All of a sudden the robots turn tail and run toward the main gates of the school!

Sir_Crimson answers Jennifer's question first. No need to be rude, "I am Sir Crimson of Paris.(He has no French accent) Go after one I'll get the other one." The blade turns into a charging knight again and the lance heads right for the closest running android, "I believe you are trespassing!"!"

The blow just bounces off the running robot.

Jessica says, "Let them go Sir Crimson. Follow and see where they go to if you can. Do you have room for one of us at your back? But we're likely to do more collateral damage continuing to attack than it's worth risking. They used non-lethal attacks throughout so I'm not too worried about them anyway."

Psiforce tries the psychokinetic punch again, especially against the dented robot, hoping that maybe he can hit it. He shakes his head, "Try this." he breaks off though at Jessica's words.

The school grounds are pretty empty now - everyone seems to have fled one way or another.

Sir_Crimson lands his flying horse softly. "I believe I can carry one of you. Climb aboard M'lady. I warn you however you are under my protection so no getting into trouble."

The figure who was fighting Spirit seems to have slipped away too.

Jennifer leaps casually up onto the knight's steed. "No getting into trouble? That, as any of my friends would tell you, is an impossible request to comply with."

Sir_Crimson shakes his head as his helmet moves from side to side a little, "Aren't you a little young to be fighting robots in a schoolyard?"

Jennifer grins behind the knight's back. "Is there an age restriction? I've fought demons, robots, aliens, accountants going through my expense claims. Those were the worse by far."

The robots keep running, flat out.

They split up once out the gates.

Jennifer laughs out aloud. "Jessica and I have some mil-spec stealth cloaks that could make us close to unseeable. The horse is a bit too big to fit under the cloaks though." Meanwhile Jessica has grabbed a hoverboard discarded by a fleeing student and follows the robot that Sir Crimson doesn't.

Jennifer holds onto the knight as they ride, "So what brings you to Colonial Bay City, Sir Crimson?"

The robot the flying horse is following heads to the nearest MagLev station.