Log:The Devil You Know, Scene 1

The Devil You Know 2012/06/10 	 Eve Flyne Snow 1

Eve is heading to work. She gets off the maglev and walks down York Blvd toward the 'Bosom Buddies'.

Flyne is just idling in downtown, sitting on an improvised seat.

A little blonde girl begins to cross York Boulevard during a lull in traffic. She seems oblivious to the truck barrelling down the street towards the intersection, about to mow her down.

Eve's reaction is instant - she jumps to try to grab the girl and get her out the way of an uncoming vehicle - or failing that, to take the brunt of the blow herself.

Flyne's reaction is also quite fast, but isn't as fast as Eve's. As Flyne starts to run over there, Eve has beaten him to the punch.

Eve grabs the kid and lands back on the sidewalk, rolling with her to make sure even that impact doesn't hurt.

The kid seems unhurt. She turns and looks over at Eve. "Thanks, Adam!" she says with a smile.

Eve blinks. "What - what did you call me?!"

Flyne heads over to where Eve landed, asks "Are you two OK?"

"Sorry -- Eve, is it now?" The girl says. "Sorry for the dramatics. I was just curious how you'd react."

Eve asks, "Who are you?! How do you know who I am?" She acknowledges Flybe with a slight glance but the girl otherwise has all her attemtion.

"You don't recognize me? Of course... our first encounter was rather short. And I looked different then," the girl says. "Masking your true form, that's one of the first tricks we learn."

Snow is sitting on a roof at the moment, she was sliding around and then spies the girl almost hit by a car. She makes a slide and swoops down to ground level the slide starting to melt even as she steps away from it. She doesn't get many looks after all heroes tend to be common.

Eve's mind races, and then her look of confusion is replaced by one more of horror. She goes quite pale. "You're... the demon?"

Flyne hmms, tilts his head a tad, and looks to the girl, and goes to ask something, but doesn't.

Flyne though does ask something different, but instead of directing it to the girl, he asks it in more a general fashion, "A shapeshifting demon?"

The girl nods to Eve, pigtails bobbing behind her head. "I'm a little disappointed, you haven't turned out quite as well as the others." She turns and looks over towards Flyne, scrutinizing the alien from head to toe.

Eve frowns. "What do you mean, not as well as the others? And - where are they? What did you do with them?!"

Flyne, in his human-like form, stares back at the girl, tilting his head a bit again.

Snow cocks her head to the side a bit and does head over, giving a bit of a wave.

Eveglances again at the humanlike Flyne, and at Snow, wondering if they're part of this....

Suddenly, gunshots erupt from the next block over. The girl says, "Ah. That would be my latest project. He wished to be unstoppable..."

Eve mutters, "Trouble!" And, for want of a better idea, attempts to grab the girl again before running in the direction of the gunshots. She doesn't want the demon to get away before answering the questions!

Flyne frowns, steps back, and closes his eyes. Shortly after, he shrinks and changes, growing a tail, antennae, a muzzle, and its other alien-like features as its human skin and hair turn to purple scales and its body's shape adjusts itself for a much, much smaller creature. "I'll go check out what's happening over there." Flyne states, as green claws and bulky leg muscles emerge from Flyne's alien form, and as it sheds the human clothing it was wearing.

The girl doesn't resist Eve's attempt. She gets grabbed and carried along to the site of the disturbance.

Eve repeats, "What did you do with them?" as she runs.

Snow blinks and then does create a slide and take off that way too, sliding up into the air, at least she makes sure not to leave the slides where cars can run into them.

Shortly after, Flyne starts leaping like a frog toward the area from which the gunshots were heard.

"Nothing that they didn't wish for," the girl says.

Eve says, "You mean like I did? this isn't what I meant, and you know it!"

The next block over, there a fight. Two armored car guards have their weapons drawn on a seven foot tall man. He's dressed in black fatigues, but it's been shot apart enough to reveal that his skin is completely metallic.

Eve says, "And did you twist thid guy's wish too?"

The armored car is next to the metal man, and the armored doors are ripped off and lying on the pavement.

Eve calls out to th metal man, "Stop what you're doing!" Of course, it would probably have more impact if (a) she were in costume and (b) she weren't carrying a kid.

As Flyne arrives at the scene, it looks toward the metalic man and the armored car. Once then, Flyne searches for any signs of magic using its special senses. Flyne remains silent for the moment.

Snow turns as she comes in from above and pauses hovering there on her icy slide and shakes her head, "Yeah what she said." okay its a bit corny but she really was not going to yell out 'Freeze'.

I can't find a character with that name.

The little girl says: "I'm a demon. He got exactly what he deserved from trusting me. And I think you'll be finding how unstoppable he is quite soon."

The metal guy glances over at Eve for a moment, before he turns his attention to Snow. He doesn't appear to be freezing anytime soon.

Eve says, "You're probably right. But don't think I'm letting to go till I get some answers!"

Eve :approaches the metal man. Holding the child against her side with right arms, she pulls out her pistol with her left hand, and points it at him.. "I'm not kidding. I'm guessing the demon tricked you in some way and your powers have some drawback. If you stop we can talk about it. If not - well, I'll have to stop you."

The girl shrinks and shifts forms into that of a crow. She tries to slip out of Eve's grasp and fly away.

The crow caws and flies far up into the air.

Eve points at the crow. "And there goes the demon now, if you care!"

Snow frowns a bit and shakes her head, "Are we going to talk this out or is it going to come down to a fight?" she calls out as she slide a bit closer but still stays up in the air."

Flynemutters something about the demon as its green claws and bulky leg muscles disolve, and wings grow upon its back in their place.

The Metal Man is slow and lumbering. The demon has already fled the scene by the time he has a change to react. He reached down and picks up the shorn off doors of the armored car. "This is all I got now. You back off.... or do I have to smash you?"

Eve says, "What? You're made of metal so you have to steal? Has does being a villain help you?"

The armored car guards open fire. Their bullets hits the metal man but bounce off harmlessly. The metal man flings the armored door at them.

Eve throws herself in the path of the door in an attempt to deflect it.

Eve collides with the door, deflecting it, but is sent skidding down the street some 6 metres, though with do damage to anything but her clothes. "You're paying for that."

Snow shakes her head, "Should have taken the opportunity to Freeze, let me help." she says and the frost forming around her hands blasts out towards the metal man to try and trap him in shackles of ice.

Snow actually missed and shakes her head, "Knew I should have practiced more."

Flyne shakes its head as its wings finish materializing. With that, Flyne turns to the Metal Guy, and shouts some wierd incantations, while preforming equally odd geastures. The marking on its right hand changes to match. In all, it formulates its Binding spell, and sends a blue/purple bolt of pulsing energy toward the Metal Man.

The mass of magic, upon striking its target, expands into a translucent glowing purple globe that covers its target, with translucent glowing blue bars extending along the aforementioned globe. Flyne then states, "You at least look human in shape. You needn't be a villain, nor act like one."

Eve rolls to her feet, and points her gun at the metal man again. "Stand down. There are three of us. Be sensible."

Flyne flies over to position itself between the metal man and the armored car dudes.

The armored car guard turn and flee. They'd be dead if it weren't for Eve, and they won't press their luck...

Slowly but assuredly, the metal man continues to step forward through Flyne magically bonds. "If there's one thing the demon did right.." he bends over to dig his hands into the pavement that Flyne is standing on. "... I'm unstoppable now." With that he tries to rip up the chunk of street.

Snow blinks as she sees the metal man do that and thinks quickly. She doesn't give any more waiting and the frost forms around her hand again and a frost ray flies from her hand to strike at the metal man. "No, I don't think so."

The Metal Man leans into the blast of ice, like someone leaning into a stiff breeze. His feet dig into the pavement a little, but he doesn't budge.

Flyne dives out of the way of the metal man ripping up the ground.

Snow blinks and shakes her head, "Well that didn't work as well. Guess I have no choice." she says and tries something else. Frost forms around her hands, ice and snow forming before turning into an icicle. Which she hurls at the metal man.

Eve fires her pistol at the metal man, aiming for something that looks like an even slightly vulnerable spot.

To be continued...