Log:Sugar and Spice, Scene 2

Sugar and Spice 2006/06/01 	 Da Bomb Haze Kibin Phillippa Stephie Tara|Photon Teen Spirit 2

Rachel sighs some glancing at her PDA before taking another bite of Icecream dipped pizza

Stephie is just "hanging out" with various people from school, while she gets the chance - her life has become rather busy lately.

Rachel notices stephie some and looks back down at her food after realizing stephie is with friends

Kibin enters from New Technologies Ltd..

Kibin comes in here to buy video games. Yup, nothing odd about that

The scene here is one typical of the mall in the mid afternoon, throngs of people eating in the food court, window shopping, or just hanging out and people-watching. Things seem to have calmed down from the chaos bank on Valentine's Day. There's a bit of commotion by the comic book store: Adam Bankwright, the author of the Teflon Jon comic book is signing copies of his latest graphic novel. A life sized statue of Jon is on display in front of the store.

Rachel notices Philippa and feels a real strong urge to hide as she KNOWS the cheer leader would just love a chance to make Flare feel even more depressed

Kibin is walking over to the New Technologies Ltd. store. Ooo, shiney holographic stuff.

Rachel stands slowly trying to not attract notice of the highschool mob as she makes her way to hide among the comic geeks with her Box o Pizza

Caleb enters from Beach Street. Caleb waves

Stephie is mostly people-watching (and being seen) with the cheerleaders at the moment, naturally at a distance from the geeks round the comic store.

Rachel was moping till she say the cheer leaders at which point she picked up her moping food and went to hide among the geeks

Stephie completely fails to notice Rachel.

Caleb has been at the mall all day... it's public, relatively easy to hide in, and it's not like he's allowed in school this week anyway. He has purchased a whole bunch of junk, none of which he actually wants or needs... it keeps him from thinking too much. He's currently sitting quietly in a corner, hoping not to be noticed.

Philippa notices Flare despite her best efforts to hide amonst the comics fans. Philippa points Flare out for ridicule. Giggling ensues.

Ivy enters from Beach Street.

Rachel looks totaly discusted and glares at them with puffy red eyes from crying

Ivy is going to try to return her ruined dress to the dress store that Stephie and her went to by the dress.

Stephie feels a bit sorry for Rachel, but is sure she lacks the influence among the cheerleaders to do anything about it...

Kibin stays outside the display and looks at the ads. More pretty holograms, and probally video games!

Ivy carries her hoverboard with her.

The Public Address system crackles to life: "Attention shoppers! Big Savings are waiting *crackle* *fizzit* Alright!" A girl's voice interrupts, "Attention everyone: Please Report to the Dance Floor! *giggle*" A high energy dance song starts pumping through the mall's speakers.

Caleb looks up at the speaker system, puzzled.

Philippa looks up too. "Huh?"

Rachel curses remembering that media as she creates a image in her ears of a roaring fire

Ivy blinks. "Uh?" She waits to get her money back first!

Kibin looks up at the speakers, also. Kibin is confused also.

Suddenly group of figures burst into the mall from a service entrance. Their are over at the side of the mall by the Jewelry Store near the far corner from the entrance - by the dress store.

Stephie says, "What's that? Dance floor?"

Ivy is angry that she can't return her ruined dress! She tells the store people to just keep it as she quickly gets on her new hover board to check out what the dance craze is about! Ivy hovers towards the Jewelery store.

Caleb watches the odd figures and remembers the article as well. . o O (Heh. Robbing jewelery stores, now.) He tries to find a hidden spot to change in... not that he cares much about the theft, but it gives him a sorely needed excuse to beat someone up.

Rachel flys over to check out what is going on as this looks bad

Stephie says, "What's going on?" Stephie heads toward the figures to get a better look, perhaps with the other cheereleaders.

Caleb finds a nice isolated-looking slot, and summons the darkforce...

Ivy decides to go change in the same spot that Caleb is changing at..

Stephie isn't being stealthy, but rather just a memeber of a curious crowd....

Midnight looks up and notices Ivy. . o O (Oh, crap.)

Ivy looks up as some dark force thing envelopes someone right next to her as she's putting on her purple suit. "Crap!"

Haze thinks. o O (Is that Caleb?)

Midnight thinks. o O (Ivy? WTF?)

Haze acts like she's in a western movie faceoff with Midnight.. "ca... cale?"

Midnight sighs. This is _not_ what he needed right now.

Haze shakes her head. Her horrible day just got worse..

Stephie suddenly realises she probably *should* be changing into costume. But she's surrounded by people now!

Philippa follows with Stephie to get a closer look.

Rachel gasp some as she sees something in the crowd and she almost flys into the people she was getting closer to look at

Midnight glares at Ivy/Haze. "We talk about it later," and phases through the floor...

Haze tells Midnight, "Wait!" She hazes after him!

Kibin goes sneaking through the crowds...

Teen Spirit 1 seems to be commanding the others. She pulls out her gun. "Dance Craze the guards! Bomb, get ready. I've got crowd control!"

Kibin goes sneaking towards the crowds towards Teen Spirit...

Midnight makes his way toward the spot underneath where the Teen Spirits are (yay, bump of direction)!

Haze tries to follow Midnight through the ground.

Teen Spirit 3 points at Kibin. "We've got company!"

Stephie approaches Teen Spirit 1 just as part of the crowd.

Kibin hmmmmphs, so much for the stealthy approach...

The other Teen Spirits raise their guns in the air and fire a shot. "Back off!"

Haze continues to follow Caleb.. . o O (How does he know where he's going? Dang.. He has the same powers as me and then some!)

Kibin steps back reflexivly, and then asks them, "What are you doing?"

Stephie has reconnected.

Teen Spirit 2 says: "Change of plan girls! Go to Plan B!"

Rachel Can't hear jack as she flys closer and lands near them saying a bit loudly "I suggest you stop"

Tara enters from Beach Street.

Rachel does a flare move as she walks up to Teen spirit 1 and just swings at her testing her ability to get out of the way and take a hit

Haze gets lost underground and can't find where she's going..

Rachel fists swings connecting with the girl's Stomach and lifting her some as flare says still loudly "Leave or I will break you"

Tara steps out of the comic shop and notices the confrontation. Grinning like the Cheshire Cat she brings her ever present camera up to eyeline and starts shooting pics.

Haze loses track of midnight as she has no bump of direction. She decides the best thing to do is climb up to see where all the action is!

Haze comes right up in the middle of a crowd of people! "EEp!" She apologizes, "Excuse me.. Pardon me.." She'll try to head towards the real action the next phase she gets.

Midnight has made his way to the spot underneath where he thinks the battle is, and attempts to phase up into it, remaining in shadow form.

Kibin doesn't think that they will simply stand down. Also Rachel already joined the fray, so... Kibin runs to the person that shot the energy weapon, and goes to try to take her down, with three rapid slashes. Kibin misses all three slashes. He needs to work on aim.

Teen Spirit 3 takes aim at the dinosaur. "You know what to do girls." Teen Spirit 4 also takes aim trying to hit the dinosaur in precisely the same spot.

Energy beams lance out at Kibin from the bandits weapons. Only one of them connects, however.

Kibin gets zapped by one of the energy beams, which seem to penetrate his tough scales more than regular physical damage...

Dance Craze shouts, "Everybody dance now!" She start to jump and spin, beginning a choreographed dance routine... the moves are so cool so hip.. it's hard not to dance along.

Stephie dances, to as not to stand out in the crowd....

Tara is so thrilled by the photo opportunity that's presented itself out of nowhere she feesl like dancing. There's even music thanks to the Mall's PA loudspeakers. Copying the jumps and spins of Dance Craze she trusts in the image stablisation of her cmaera as she continues snapping photos while cheerfully dancing.

Da Bomb says, "Hello, tall, dark, and dangerous." She snaps her fingers and a spark of energy floats towards Midnight from her hand.

Bomb attacks Kibin instead. But Midnight is still tall dark and dangerous.

The little spark flits over to Kibin, where it explodes with amazing force. Kibin is sent tumbling backward though the crowd.

Stephie wonders: what can she do without giving herself away? But maybe she can be distracting, as she has been as Stephie lately. She dances forward in the crowd and tries catching the villains' eyes....//hald move & 1d6 INT Drain, halved vs women, return per minute, 4" Radius selective, invisible, based on ECV (8), vs Teen Spirit 1 and any of the other opponents in range.

Kibin lands on his feet, and catches his breath in the crowd of mostly dancing people. Kibin takes a Recovery.

Bomb laughs. "I'm gonna re-extinct the dinosaur!"

Haze runs through all the people, still in her haze effect. "Excuse me.. Pardon me.."

By now, people are running out of the mall, scared. Not twice in the same week. Some of the bystanders are caught up in the dance routine, which is reminiscnet of an old Micheal Jackson video.

Midnight glares at Da Bomb. He contemplates witty banter. Rebound really likes witty banter. He thinks it's cool. But Midnight _really_ isn't in the mood to be witty. Even less so than he was five minutes ago, and that's saying something. He goes solid and prepares to blast Da Bomb into next Tuesday.

Philippa calls to Stephie, "What, are you crazy? Let's get out of here!"

The cheerful smile is slipping off Tara's face as she misses shot after shot, unable to compose the scene as she wishes while dancing. It looks like the classic Irish temper is going to be breaking out any minute!

Stephie keeps up with the distracting dance. "I can't help it, something's making me dance!" she lies to Philippa, as she does the same trick again. Stephie is getting the hanf of this a little more, it seems....

Dance Craze focuses her attention on Midnight. "Woo!!" She spins, stops, then begins to moonwalk.

Midnight executes a quite snappy moonwalk, adding a little spin maneuver and jazz hands. . o O (Oh, god. Just shoot me now.)

Teen Spirit turns towards Kibin, seeing that the dinosaur is still up. All four of them raise their guns at the same time and take aim. It's much like the agents at the end of Matrix I, the way they move together.

Kibin does a few cheesy looking bullettime dodges for the energy weapons. And spends too much time dodging to actually do anything.

Teen Spirit 4 says. "Darn it! Hold still..." Teen Spirit 3 completes her sentence. "You stupid dinosaur."

Haze thinks she should try to knock out the leader and continues running over to use her semi-haze attack! Haze frowns as she misses Da Bomb with her attack. That moonwalking Midnight distracted her!

Kibin runs over to Da Bomb, and tries to knock her out, pushing his attack as he does so. THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO NOT THROW BOMBS AT ME!

Haze smiles. "Good Job Kibin!"

Kibin smashes Da Bomb through the air with his tail, knocking her out.

Stephie keeps on dancing, and keeps on trying the same, though she's beginning to doubt she's achieving much....

Kibin hmmmmphs. "That'll teach you to not throw bombs at me."

Teen Spirit 2 shakes her head as if trying to clear it. "Dance Craze, Bomb's down. Skip Plan C -- we're onto Plan D."

All of the Teen Spirit's take aim at a different dancing bystander. "Alright. Nobody move, or the shoppers get it!"

Dance Craze moonwalks over to where the unconscious Bomb lies. She starts to pick her up.

Philippa was about to try and pull Stephie out of the formation of dancing people but she finds herself amongst them when the gun-toting robbers train their guns on the crowd. She freezes.

Haze thinks. o O (They are going to shoot Phil! I must be wrong!)

Tara dances on with grace and style.

Haze looks over to Kibin. "What do we do Kibin?" Naturally she thinks that a veteran SG officer like Kibin would know!

Kibin freezes too, not wanting anyone to get shot. His tail still moves back and forth behind him to keep balance. "Not move, so that noone gets shot?" Kibin says to Haze.

Tara dances on with grace and style.

Stephie dances on with distractingness and Invisible Power Effects! :)

Dance Craze picks up the her fallen teammate and head for the service entrance as fast as she can. (Full Move, NCM)

The gun toting teens continue to hold the crowd hostage. "No one follow them. Or the crowd gets it."

Kibin hmmmphs. There goes his plan of following them.

Haze continues holding and waiting..

Kibin asks the Teen Craze people, "How long are you going to keep us here?"

Teens Spirit says, "Until me team people... Until my teammates are free."

Kibin asks, "What teammates?"

Teen Spirit 3 lowers her gun for a moment, to shake her head. "What's happening to me?" Teen Spirit 4 says, "Maybe it's left over spores from Valentine's day?"

Stephie dances along with Tara, and a lot of other people, still. It helps disguise even more what she's doing.

Haze thinks. o O (Spores? They were there?) Haze glances to see if she can still see what Phil, Dance cRaze and da bomb are doing.

Kibin sighs, and continues staying there. Tail is twitching, indicating that he wants to move already, though.

Teen Spirit covers the crowd while Number 3 re-covers her target.

Phil is still standing frozen. Dance Craze is hauling tail -- she's obscured by the double doors to the service area.

Teen Spirit 2 drops her gun and puts her hand on her helmet. "Me no feel so good."

Stephie tries not to show her surprise. This is somewhat more effective than she thought...

Teen Spirit 4 starts giggling for no apparent reason. "I'm sorry guys... there's nothing funny -- teehee -- about this!" Her gun arm is unsteady as she tries to keep her aim through the giggle fit.

Kibin continues to wait. Ooo, the waiting.

Stephie starts giggling too, the better to encourage contagious giggling.

Teen Spirit 3 starts laughing too!

Kibin is confused by the giggling, but continues on waiting, seeing as how some of them are still able to shoot the hostages...

Teen Spirit 2 begins to dance, imitating the moving hostages. "Woooo!" She sounds drunk.

Haze asks Kibin, "Now?"

Kibin says to Haze, "I think we should wait and see what eventually happens..."

Haze nods to Kibin and waits.

Teen Spirit says to Haze. "Me not know how you do this... Me leave..."

Haze says to Teen Spirit, "Wait! Who are you and what are you doing?" Haze thinks. o O (What is going on? I hope midnight is ok..)

One by one, the Teen Spirits vanish, leaving not a trace.

There is a blaster pistol left unattended on the ground.

Kibin goes forward, and picks up the blaster pistol, looking at it. Hmmmm...

Haze runs around looking for traces of the villains.

Stephie pretends to break out of the dance as some other people are doing.

Tara continues dancing

Haze frowns at Kibin, "They got away, Kibin!!"

Philippa runs up to Stephie, "Oh my God, are you ok?"

Stephie nods. "I'm ok now. What was that? Who were they?"

Police and paramedics begin to arrive on the scene.

Haze continues running around searching for clues.

Kibin sniffs the pistol, seeing if he can get a scent.

Phil says, "I don't know but I saw them on Barbara Wawa the other week. They robbed a bank!"

Kibin hmmmms. He then sniffs the air, to find out where they came from.

Stephie says, "They did? I wonder how come they knew about the spores... It was like they'd been to the dance or something." She adds as an afterthought, "Or the mall, I guess."

Haze finally goes over to Tara. "Hey snap out of it. You ok?" Haze tries to help Tara to stop dancing.

Tara gives Have a look of mingled thanks and frustration. "I can't!" She moans, beginning to feel her feet aching.

Haze tries to get a hold of Tara. "I don't know what to do!"

Haze shakes Tara.

Tara is no stringer than any moderately athletic young girl and Haze can hold and shake her but Tara just keeps on dancing regardless.

Haze frowns. "Oh.. I'm so sorry!! Please forgive me.." She tries slapping Tara to see if that helps. It seems to help in the movies.

Stephie looks worriedly at Tara.... probably nothing she can do to help.
 * maybe* if she'd been male...

this to Tara.
 * SLAP* *SLAP*, Haze flinches with each attack, feeling really bad for doing

Kibin hmmmms, and follows the trail through the service exit.

Haze begs, "Please snap out of it.."

Tara also flinches with each slap, quite understandable as it's her being slapped. But her feet and limbs dance on without cessation.

Stephie aburptly says, "I need to get back home... I'm under curfew now that mom heard I went to the dance with Alex."

Haze frowns some more and tells Tara that she'll be right back! She goes to the closes source of water and gets a bowl or bag of water to splash on Tara!

Philippa aburptly says, "I need to get back home... I'm under curfew now that mom heard I went to the dance with Alex."

Stephie says, "I need to go too...."

Haze gets water to splash on Tara. Oh boy! *SPLASH!*

Tara dances with wet hair plastered to her face, and even worse, with her cream blouse partially soaked, and rather more clinging than it ought.

Philippa hurredly runs out to the parking lot.

Stephie follows Phil.

Tara finally breaks out of the mind control, and with the breakout comes knowledge of what happened. "Those bog-snotting low down poltoons! I'll tear their hair out and kick their shins black and blue!"

Philippa is running out of the mall like Cinderella during the midnight chimes.

Stephie runs too, figuring if she's moving that fast she won't be looking back.

Haze smiles as Tara gets out of the dance... She's scared though that Tara is going to be mad at her. The purple clothed heroine cringes at the curses from the irish lady.

Tara slings the camera over her shoulder and runs to where Dance Craze was standing, punching at the empty air in her rage. "Nobody... NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!"

Haze decides to take this time to Haze away.. She needs to find Midnight anyways.. Haze thinks. o O (Wow.. she's mad..)

Kibin comes back to the mall, over to Haze. "Apparently they got away in a car."

Haze nods to Kibin as she backs away from the angry Tara. "uh huh.."

Outside, Philippa runs to a black sedan hovercar with tinted windows. A chauffeur waits outside.

Tara calms down enough the start shooting photos again as she makes her way over to Haze. "Hey there, hold up. It's thanking you I'll be wanting to do."

Kibin takes a few more breaths, still recovering from that bomb. Stupid energy weapon thingies.

Haze nods nervously to Tara. "Oh.. Ok.. Um sorry about the water and slapping.. I was just trying to help.." Tara can see that Haze is sincere in her apology.

The driver of the hovercar opens the door for Philippa and she hurries to jump inside.

Haze asks Kibin, "So what happened to them? How did they dissapear like that?"

Kibin hmmms, remembering something. "Ah, just a second..." Kibin starts sniffing, and following the SECOND trail. Oh yeah...

Just before the driver of the hovercar closes the door, Stephie can glimpse the other person in the rear seat. It's Althea Vogt-Caveney, and she's looking right back at Stephie. The door shuts.

Tara nods smiling cheerfully at Haze. "Sure and I can see that was the case. Thankful I am too for me feet were starting to ache something fierce." She takes a quick photo of Haze and Kibin. "T'was good."

Stephie thinks. o O (Well, that's either perfectly normal or highly suspicious...)

Kibin is still sniffing to follow the trail when Tara took the picture.

Haze nods. "Do you need a towl or anything?" Haze says this to Tara.

The driver hops into the car and soon Althea and Philippa are airborne.

Tara shakes her head. "It will dry soon enough." Her strong accent is rapidly fading as Tara calms down. "Who were those people?"

Haze shakes her head. "I don't know.. They robbed a bank a week ago or something.."

Kibin comes back over to Haze and Tara. "Why do they always have to go away in a car..." he mutters."

Haze tells Kibin, "Its faster that way! Did you find anything out, Kibin?"

Kibin says to Haze, "The scent seems to jump around a lot, like if they had some form of teleporting power."

Tara chuckles. "Because it's faster than wlking maybe? Kibin it is, isn't it? My Da's told me about you."

Haze nods to Kibin. "Oh ok.." Haze doesn't really know what to make of the news.

Stephie frowns in thought and begins to head home herself. Are the cheerleaders involved in all this? What about Althea? Is Becky's fall connected? Perhaps she should go visit her....

Kibin sighs. "Okay, does everyone know about me now?"

Haze says, "You are an SG Gamma member, right Kibin? The team is in the news a lot.."

Tara says, "Me Da's Ian Kingley. He works at Starguard."

Kibin says to Haze, "Well, it's still a bit odd everyone seeming to know me..."

Haze says, "Well, we know of you, Kibin.. We don't know you personally."

Stephie hurries home, deep in thought.

Kibin says, "STill odd."

Tara leans over to lightly tap on Kibin's scales with a knuckle unless he dodges out of the way. "Well it's not too hard to recognise you now, is it my laddo?"

Kibin says, "Half a year ago, only a few people knew who I was." Kibin fails to dodge this time. "No, I guess it isn't that hard to reconize me now."

Haze nods to Kibin. "You don't like the spotlight, huh?"

Kibin says to Haze, "Mostly not used to it."

Tara grins at Kibin and Haze. "My Da calls me Tara, my friends call me trouble. Its good to meet you."

Kibin says to Tara, "Good to meet you then, Tara."

Haze smiles to Tara. "Nice meeting you Tara. Call me Haze!"

Tara asks in obvious curiosity, "What's it like being a hero? Fun?"

Haze shakes her head. "Its tough! I so new to it."

Tara says, "Maybe it's more fun being a villain?"

Kibin says to Tara, "Being a hero is different, that's for sure."

Haze sighs. "Maybe.. But it's not the right thing to do! Why are you asking that? Villains are bad and not something to strive for." Haze thinks. o O (Don't tell me she's planning to be a bad girl because of this!!) Haze looks worredly at Tara.

Tara says rather enigmatically, "If you're already half way to having the name why not have the fun and profit as well?" She grins. "I'll best be getting home and changing into something dry. See you around"

Haze shakes her head at Tara as she departs. "Oh no.. That's not good.." But she's off to check some things out.. She can sneak back to school to check..

Kibin hmmmms. "I should probally get back to shopping now..."