Log:Beach Fight

2013/05/09 	 Ghost Titan Cobalt 1

Waves, typically gray and gentle, lap at the dark brown large-grained sand of Colonial Bay's northernmost beach, which runs northeast from the mall for over a mile and a half. At high tide the sea can come right up to the cycle path which runs along the edge of the boardwalk, but at low tide the sea is well out, even displaying a rocky bed where the sand has washed away. The scent of salt water wafts in from the east. During the day in season joyous sounds of the beach-goers lighten all but the darkest mood, but at night the silence of the dark and the call of the seagulls bring a quiet calm, almost chilling, but certainly relaxing.

For the first mile the boardwalk parallels the beach, affording not only views of sand, sea and island but also many other entertainments. Tourist shops, food stalls, icecream shops, a fresh seafood restaurant, rental shops for surfboards or bikes, and even a full amusement park can be found along its length. Each is in a "retro" design to give an old-fashioned seaside feel. Various entertainers amuse the crowds during the busy season, and during the off-season it remains the number-one place for joggers and those who simply wish to breathe the salty air. Benches and, near the food vendors, tables abound. Several ramps and stairways lead down to the beach.

Ghost nods, "Thank you." She doesn't say any more. Left unstated is her belief that having made the commitment Titan will do his utmost to keep her body safe while she is off on the astral. Because in truth, Titan is the only other person on the team she fully and unreservably trusts.

Titan tilts his head, "You know...we might be in a dangerous situation while I have to look after your physical body. But I won't go charging into combat with you on my back, or something like that."

Ghost nods, "I realise that. Both the possibility of being in dangerous situations and that you won't be so careless with my life. I'm not a street warrior. I'm support personnel. Ideally well back from the front lines."

Titan chuckles quietly, smiling. "That's the exact opposite of myself. I really should be in whatever front line there is."

Ghost says, "You would have made a terrific shadow merc, Titan. Nearly all the team are awesome in their abilities. We simply didn't have anything to compare back home. Our best mages, adapts, and cybermercs are outclassed by the least of the team members."

Cobalt is flying around Colonial Bay, seeing what has changed, which buildings have been knocked down by meta combat and the like, which have been replaced which are still in a state of repair. He is not exactly flying fast, to make sure he gets a good look at what's going on. It's almost like an old school patrol, like what used to be done a lot more commonly. Certain things do stand out of course. Titan tends to stand out. He just can't help it, big beautiful beefcake that he is. He draws the eye. Which in turn leads to Ghost being seen and that... that is something else entirely.

Flying in and down towards the sound Cobalt hits the ground with a thump but he absorbs the impact easily, walking the rest of the way towards Titan and Ghost. "I'd be careful with that one Titan." He offers conversationally, "Been a long time Ghost." His tone towards Ghost has an edge to it.

Ghost looks over at Cobalt, "You are mistaking me for someone else. I've never met you before." she tells him.

Titan looks up at Cobalt, "What are you talking about?" He hears the edge in the other man's voice though, and stands up, just in case.

"This little pipsqueek alien will spin you a sob story about how the Guild destroyed her people. How they plan to destroy earth and kidnap the children." Cobalt says seriously, "She'll walk you /right/ into the middle of UEMS ambushes designed to catch /her/ and let you take it in the face for her, because Ghost, is a Ghost... that's what she wants everyone to believe. Never actually there. I'm surprised to see you in the flesh." Cobalt says seriously, "Who'd you give the Guild for them to leave you alone? I know you were prepared to sacrifice me, almost got me to destroy a frikken space cruise ship telling me it was a slaver ship."

Ghost stands, her right hand lifting slightly. "You have me confused with someone else. Possibly the doppelganger of mine that I was told about. However, if you continue to use that tone with me, it's time for you to leave."

Titan says to Cobalt, "My understanding is...that this Ghost, is from another dimension. You're probably talking about the one from this dimension."

Tigress makes her way down onto the beach. She might just look a little out of place, but then given the city. THe large tigerwoman just strolls along, enjoying the day.

"Try and make me." Cobalt says softly, eyes glowing with blue energy briefly in a flare that seems to consume them. "Please. Last I looked, Alien, this is a free country, and this is a public place." He flicks a glance at Titan for half a second then looks back towards Ghost. "That's a likely story... she's good at spinning stories. Is there any proof she's not exactly who I say she is? Hiding in plain sight... makes sense. Especially with Transmat Troubles and whatnot." He smirks. "Tell you what, Ghost, give me the relative positioning of somewhere, /anywhere/ in space that can validate your story and I'll go check it out."

Ghost says with just a moment's hesitation, "NGS 138635428."

Some cats hate the water... some don't. Either way that is beside the point. Right now, Himinglaeva has been observing an underwater salvage operation down the coast. The lengths that these mortals go to, in order to survive under the water, amuses her. However, during the operation, she moved in and made things a bit easier when an accident caused a scuba tank malfunction. Delivering the almost drowned diver to his people, she scooted off... her whole.. passive observation was now a bust, so she was returning to Colonial Bay. Where... she starts walking towards the beach, from the surf... walking -on- the water of course. "Oh, look... a gathering!" she calls out gleefully.

Tigress turns and glances over at those off to one side and does recognize a few of them and she does stroll along that way.

Titan starts to say something, but then Ghost mentions coordinates. He looks back at her for a moment, and then back to Cobalt.

Cobalt pulls out his super duper Interface(tm) enhanced PDA and pulls up the galactic navigation program, which sucks up /sooo/ much battery juice, for reals, and enters those coordinates to see if it comes up with anything relative to earth technology anyways since Google clearly won't. "And what's supposed to be at these coordinates, assuming they'll lead to anything."

Ghost says, "You, if you go check it out as you said. And it's a long way from here which would suit me fine."

"That's it, I'm taking you to the Guild." Cobalt says and snaps the PDA closed and puts it away. "Titan, you can get out of my way, or I can knock you down first. Your choice."

Ghost opens fire. Responding to a clear and present threat.

Titan steps in between the two. "You can try." Or he starts to, at least.

And so, barefoot, Himinglaeva's feet transition from the surface of the water, to the sand. "Oh, it looks as if we are about to have a fun contest of might." she remarks, "Who are you blue warrior full of anger?!" she calls out... and then it all goes to hell.

Ghost activates her force armor suit, switches to Scrambler needles and fires at Cobalt.

Cobalt gets shot at by a gun! He doesn't care, he's immune to guns! Or so he thinks. Whent he gun comes out though it's clear that /this/ Ghost, is anti-Guild and that's enough for him as proof after everything that happened before. As he gets tagged and his synapses fried a bit he... roars. Yeah. Roars. Loud, shaking his head he drops down to a crouch and then his eyes flare as power blasts into existence around him and he closes the distance on Ghost, trying to grab her and... probably do unpleasant things with her after that!

(Titan leaps in between Cobalt and Ghost, gets grabbed and slammed for his effort.)

"Unfair!" calls the Norse Goddess as she drifts forward. "The bout was -clearly- between the two of them. You should not be interfering!" she announces... criticizing the now grabbed Titan. "You should allow the two of them to handle their differences between them!"

Ghost says, "Are you crazy?" to Himinglaeva. "Titan's a team member. Of course we help each other."

Titan gets slammed into the sand, landing with a thump. He doesn't seem all that worse for wear just yet. He calls out...in the general direction of Himinglaeva since his eyes are on Cobalt, "I don't let bullies do as they like!"

"And yet, you attacked this man, and you would accept the interference of another?" asks Himinglaeva. She shakes her head, "Such is not an honorable way of combat."

Ghost fires again, moving back first and circuling around to get a clear shot free of Titan's presence. She stays with Scrambler needles.

As the gun comes up, Himinglaeva lifts a hand and says, "No, this will not continue! Not two on one when you are the instigator!" towards Ghost. But when it's obvious she doesn't have time to -stop- it, she flows.. yes she literally flows, right in the way... the dart striking her skin and she inclines her head as it does, "What an odd... " and her voice trails off.

Cobalt shakes his head as he gets /some/ of his thought processes back and he growls, "I gave you a chance, give me something, /anything/ to prove your story Ghost. Nice to see your House of Cards crumbling so easily." He still has hold of Titan after slamming him into the ground and he keeps hold of him, keeping him pinned and he spins Titan around to put him in between himself and Ghost, "You shot first, so this is on you." And he starts to /squeeze/ "You might be tough Titan, but even you'll crumple and fold eventually. And she gets to watch. She's a downgrade though you know, Lorelei, much better catch."

Titan again doesn't really seem overly hurt by the squeeze. He starts to respond in a non-chalant manner. Until Cobalt mentions Lorelei. That causes him to growl, and instead just try to headbutt Cobalt as hard as he can.

WHACK. Titan's head smashes into Cobalt's face and his head snaps backwards. The blue skinned man shakes his head with a grunt, "Nice. I guess it's time to play dirty. She's an enemy you know, trying to make the Guild subjugate all of earth by making attacks against them."

Ghost has every confidence in Titan to contain the angry blue guy for a while, so she fires at Himinglava again.

Titan growls, "She's NOT an enemy! You're ready to turn her over to the Guild! You know...the ones who infiltrated the UEMS! And if you bring up Lorelei again, I'm going to break you."

"Supposedly." Cobalt says, "You know what I found out? I found out ghost sent me into a warehouse that was attacked by /mind/ controlled UEMS goons. Know what else I just found out? Ghost can fry your synapses with a gun. Do the math. This whole conspiravy theory nonsense is just nonsense. I've been away, has the Guild and the UEMS declared war on us in the last five months? Think that woulda been in the news paper."

Eyes narrowing, Himinglaeva looks at Ghost. "You.. attack the sea. The sea is -not- forgiving. You began this fight... you made the first attack. If -you- do not stop.. the sea shall put you down." And as she speaks, her body literally turns into water.... flowing even more now... this as the dart skims right past her flesh...

Ghost thinks. o O (Thank you, Anthony. I'm burning through my needles at an alarming rate.)

Ghost says, "I didn't start this fight, you watery moron. I just happened to fire first. To try and stop mister angry blue delusional guy from kidnapping me."

"You attacked." says Himinglaeva... with her reduced intellect of course, courtesy of the first dart. "You... attacked."

"Arresting a known criminal is not a kidnapping. I'm a hero." Cobalt snaps in response to that.

Cobalt shakes his head again and then goes to /throw/ Titan, as far as he can... out to see. How far is that? Well, it's quite far, especially since Cobalt gets a 'running' throw using his flight. He powers up into the air, "Your new girlfriend attacked /two/ heroes rather than prove she's who she says she is Titan. You're in the wrong here." And then he /flings/ Titan, out to sea. "See you when you swim back!"

(Ghost leaves via teleport or similar)

As Ghost fades out, Himinglaeva inclines her head and looks back, "Blue warrior, are you.." and she sees Titan tossed out to sea. "Oh... worry not. He will not interfere again... he is in my element." she states. "But, the honorless agressor has departed."

Cobalt flies back down to shore, and towards Himinglaeva, "Are you alright?" He asks, shaking his head as the final effects of the scrambler shot start to fade and he plucks the dart out of himself. "You didn't need to get involved. I could handle them... I'm Cobalt." He doesn't know if others are coming or whatnot so he thinks it's done.

"It matters not if you -could- handle them. All that matters is that the first one attacked you. That I could accept, but the second interfered, and the first continued to attack. This I could not abide. Such are the actions of cowards or villains...." She looks down at herself as she reverts to normal form. "I am fine."