Log:Talented Mr. Gimmick, Scene 1

Talented Mr. Gimmick 2006/12/09 	 Granite Lightning Plasma Sword Dancer Wasp 1

Jackie has been visiting the clinic and is now leaving. By the look on her face the visit had not gone to her liking.

Kihzra comes up the road, but not on the ground - rather leaping from roof to roof. She doesn't know this part of town (at roof level anyway) and at times is backtracking: she's trying to stay off the ground.

Tyler heads down the street without to much qualm, as if he belongs in such a place but it's certain that he doesn't from the get go. His fingers slipped lightly in his pockets as he moves down the street. He doesn't stare or look otherwise aghast at the conditions, maybe he's just passing through to the college and forgot his maglev money today.

Granite is standing on the ground on grass hill. Watching the people go by with his jacket and hat on. Almost as if he is trying to hide himself from prying eyes, as if he was watching for someone or something.

The relative calm of the day is broken by the unmistakable sound of gun shots coming from a few streets over.

Kihzra pauses, and avoids making her next jump. Investigate, or not? Still, it's a sign of trouble. There on the roof she puts her armour on, in case it ends up involving her.

Jackie stops for an instant to make sure of the direction the gun shots are coming from. Then she seems to shrink into herself and discarded clothing falls to the ground as the diminutive Wasp flies towards the sounds.

Granite grumbles then flips his hat off then jacket onto a nearby shrub dressed in his SG uniform to start running then sees Wasp. "Hey there, nothing like a gunshot to wake a super out of a morning surveillance."

Granite is standing on the ground on grass hill. Watching the people go by with his jacket and hat on. Almost as if he is trying to hide himself from prying eyes, as if he was watching for someone or something.

Wasp nods to Granite, "Can I give you a lift?" she asks the big rocky hero.

At the sound of gunshots, Tyler blinks and looks around then heads off into an alley to do the old switcheroo! He then flies up into the air at his best speed over towards the gunshots to try and make up time for having to you know, stash his close, pull on his mask.... etc.

Kihzra notes that these heroes - friends or at least friends of friends - seem to be interesting themselves in it, so she supposes she should too. Leaving her bag and clothes on the rooftop, she starts heading gunshotwards, again leaping from roof to roof.

Lightning was flying out on business when she heard the gunshots. Soaring down low, she spots Wasp picking up Granite, and the (nearly) naked Sword Dancer. She pops up a little higher again, looking for signs of comotion... people running, waving guns, or just plain screaming.

The scene appears to be a super-powered armored car robbery. Four masked men in makeshift costumes seemed to be the bandits, and they seem to be about to be successful. A bandit with power armor gauntlets is projecting a force bubble around two armored car security guards. Another stands beneath the armored car, with is floating 2 meters above the ground with four purple discs of glowing light attached. A third rides a floating platform. The forth wears a helmet and waves around a blaster pistol.

Description of the bandits: Four masked men in makeshift costumes. They appear to be relatively fit, and mostly clad in leather coats and pants -- motorcyle wears. However each one seems to be outfitted with some sort of technological device. One man rides on a small platform that floats off the ground and he wears a power armor breastplate. Another man carries some kind of purple blaster weapon. His identity is masked by a helmet. The third man wears high tech energy projecting guantlets. The final man is wearing the trunks of a purple power armor, complete with a high tech belt.

The security guards have their guns drawn and pointed at their enclosing bubble.

A shimmering field of energy with a slight crimson glow flickers into being around Plasma as he flies closer to the scene and pauses. He takes a quick look around, seeing if there is any other super support around as four on one is not the best of odds as well as taking stock of the situation in whole.

The bandit on the floating platform shouts to his comrades. "Incoming! Capes!"

Wasp sees the situation as she flies in and asks Granite, "Where do you want to be landed?"

Granite grins "Right on top of the one with the helmet." chuckling.

Wasp can remember back when she was more of a brick than the speedster she is now, and would have answered the same.Flying into the midst of the four she drops Granite beside rather than on top of the requested villain and continues to fly an evasive path around them as distraction, "Yes, Capes. So save yourselves a lot of trouble and make it easy for everyone. Give up now."

Sword Dancer closes to as near as she can to the presumed robbers while still being out of direct line of sight.

Plasma flies over through the air, a heat shimmer trailing behind him as he comes to a stop about twenty five feet away from the situation. Straight up that is. "She's right you know, give up now and at least you won't get abused before you're thrown in jail. The court might even go easy on you." He says easily to the 'villains', "So put the guards and the car down and lets do this the easy way."

Lightning dives on the goon with the gauntlets. "I'd say something clever," she announces, "But I haven't had my coffee!" She spreads her arms, and throws an arc between her hands, lashing out at the goon.

Lightning 's crackle of electricity spans between her outstretched hands, and then leaps to the goon, lighting him up for a moment, blue electricity coruscating over him as he falls to the street.

Wasp calls out, "let's be careful here. They have one set of equipment between the four of them, so don't assume they are decently defended."

The blaster wielding bandit says, "We can do it... let's take 'em out quick and get away with the loot..."

Gauntlet bandit raises his right hand and points it at Lighting. The power glove emits a purplish beam of light as he tries to project a bubble around Lightning.

Blaster bandit takes aim and fires at the Wasp.

The blast misses wide, smashing a store front window.

The belt wearing bandit touches a pack on the side of this belt. It produces a glowing disc in his hand, which he slaps onto a nearby compact car. Then he picks up the car with one hand and flings it at Plasma.

The man in the breastplate and on the flying platform stands fast for now, waiting by the armored car.

As the car comes flying at him, Plasma goes about to charge up one of his stronger bolts, preparing to blast the car before it gets to him. Unfortunately he's a little slow on the draw as the car was coming at him with some serious speed. *CRUNCH* "OOF" The car clobbers Plasma and sends him flying, the vehicle landing at least in a different place than Plasma does when he hits the ground, rolling with the impact and trying to come to his feet after the hit. He shakes his head briefly, "How's this going to look on my insurance report... work hazard? Workman's comp.. hmm." He seems alright however, all things considered as he just got hit by a car.

Granite lands with a loud thoom beside the creep with the gun. "Alright pinhead time for a morning wake up call.." Arching on his feet reaching out to disarm the guy before he can hurt someone else with that gun.

Wasp reevaluates the situation after seeing a car tossed rather casually by one of the villains. Swooping down on the villain with the belt she aims an uppercut at his chin.

Sword Dancer, by chance, has the same idea as Granite. Leaping from the roof, she dances her sword out to disarm the man with the gun before he can use it just as she lands.

Wasp is pleased to see the punch seemed effective and even more pleased to see it hasn't injured her target.

Sword Dancer flicks the gun back over her head to make it harder for the guy to retrieve - and all before he can even react to her!

Plasma rolls to his feet after getting clocked by the car and takes to the air again flying up and over to close the distance to be back where he was. Imagine that. Hopefully he won't get hit by a car again. Seeing Wasp tagging the guy who tagged him with a car he focuses his energy and lashes out with a beam of plasma energy towards the guy who threw a car at him.

The bolt of plasma blasts into the man from above, doing far less damage than one might suspect for a bolt of super-heated matter flying at speeds to slam into someone. Perhaps Plasma was holding back as well, or not using his deadliest attack even after getting hit with a car. The energy rocks the belt wielding goon and in combination with Wasp's punch he seems to be barely on his feet.

Lightning says, "Okay," as she spreads her hands, blue light coruscating over her body, "Now I really need coffee." "

The blaster guy, now without a blaster, turns and shouts to his comrades: "Let's get out of here!" And with that, he jumps onto the hood of the armored car.

Gauntlet guy gets up from the ground and tries to climb onto the floating truck.

Gauntlet bandit succeeds as does the Belt guy.

The bandit on the floating disc hovers behind the armored car and begins to push his shoulder into it, slowly urging the giant truck forward, and building speed. Soon, it's barrelling straight for the Wasp.

The unwieldy vehicles misses the Wasp by a large margin. Still it manages to get 5" away.

Granite grumbles "Blasted "Gimmick Wears." thats what these guys are wearing." Grabbing a piece of asphault to rip up then throw it at the guy pushing the truck. "Wasp!! Move!!" Then the chunk of roadway is flung in hopes of hitting the guy pushing the vehicle.

KER-RAAASH! The armored truck smashes through the roadway in a collision akin to hitting a brick wall. Blaster guy is flung from the hood of the car and he tumbles into the road. Gauntlet fall from teh hood, but manages to hold onto the passenger side of the car. Belt gut also manages to hold on. The man on the flying platform is topples and he skids down the street.

Belt guy falls off of the truck too, knocked out.

The impact from the chunk of road knocks the armored truck off course. It's momentum now carries it on a path towards a neighborhood nursing home.

[To Lightning] Sword Dancer says, "Vill make you free!"

Sword Dancer dashes rapidly over to Lightning and stabs with blinding speed into the bubble surrounding her! What if she misses? Well, that doesn't seem likely now, does it? She wheels back to face her opponents.

Plasma winces as the road smashes into the truck and seeing where it is going he does something, perhaps reckless but he's got to do -something-. He puts on the speed and flies over in front of the truck before it gets to far from him and grabs the front edge to begin flying -against- the truck. It might work, considering it's on some zero G platform or something...

Of course this thing is a lot more massive than Plasma is, as he puts a shoulder into the front grill a blast of super-heated air washes across the asphalt, heat wavers making things a little warped to look at as he starts to slow the vehicle down, "Hurry! Can't stop it on my own!" He grits out while pushing with all his might at the vehicle.

Lightning strikes the entangle again with her electric arc.

Wasp flies to Plasma's aid. "Hold on just a bit longer!" She flits past the armored truck and starts to push alongside Plasma.

Between Plasma and Wasp's efforts, the armored van slows to a crawl.

The flying platform bandit climbs back onto his platform.

The Gauntlet bandit starts pressing buttons and pointing at Wasp.

His gauntlet fizzles and sparks, and nothing happens.

Granite says, "Aww poor baby, Looks like someones toy got messed up..."

Sword Dancer stabs the annoying bubble once more, while staying on her guard.

Sword Dancer "pops" the bubble. "Qhah! Tjasivju."

Plasma pauses when the truck slows down so much, assuming Wasp can stop it since she did so much better than he did anyways he flies up into the air and then launches another bolt of plasma, this time towards the gauntlet one, Mr. Power Bubble needs to go down!

Plasma's blast hammers into the goon and the combination of heat and sizzle sends the man to the ground, smoking slightly but definately out of it for now at least.

Wasps stops the truck completely.

Granite flexes his leg muscles then launches into the air to tackle the guy on the platform. "This is going to go very good or very ugly."

Sword Dancer runs over and stabs the bubble to release the guards.

...in a couple of goes.

Plasma flies over towards the nearest down robber and goes about trying to figure out how to remove the high tech gadget from the individual before he wakes up. "Lets get these 'toys' away from them before they come to, I imagine they'll be much easier to handle since they won't have any powers... hopefully."

Granite lands headfirst in the grass beyond the platform spitting out dirt then turns around looking."Everyone alright?" he yells out. Standing up to brush dirt off his chest. Grabbing the one he KO'ed "Well this charlie might need a ambulance. Might of hit him too hard."

The released guards look to Sword Dancer. "Thanks. Those guys just got the jump on us."

Lightning sighs as she steps out of the ruins of the collapsed bubble. "Thanks, Dancer," she says, smiling gratefully.

Sword Dancer smiles. "Is good. Ve friends, yes?"

Granite grabs his pager on his SG belt tapping the ambulance button needed to call for medics if needed.

Sword Dancer concerns herself with gather up the downed people's equipment.

A hooded sweatshirt-wearing figure wanders onto the scene, moving quickly before arrival and then taking a bit more time as she looks around now that the conflict has ended. She seeks the injured, the fallen.

Plasma looks over towards Granite, "I'm fine, only got hit by a car." He says non-chalantly, like it happens every day. Of course, it just might. He looks over towards Lightning and Sword Dancer, "Anyone on the police band know when the officials are going to arrive?" He finishes securing the one goon then heads over towards the next.

Sword Dancer says, "Vot is blasted gimmick vears?"

The only people who seem to be hurt are the bandit, and even they are just knocked out.

Lightning shakes her head. "I don't have a police band radio." She smiles, and shrugs. "Has anyone called 911?"

Sword Dancer eyes the hooded figure. She looks *vaguely* familiar....

One of the guards says to Lightning: "We sent out a call as soon as we were attacked. Thanks for the assist, Lightning."

Wasp looks downward, as if focusing on listening to something. "Yes? How many. Right away..." She waves to the heroes and flies off into the sky.

Lightning smiles. "I didn't do much, boys, but you're welcome. You should really thank Plasma and Granite, I think."

Granite nods "Ok I used my pager to call for the ambulance which is panic button on Starguard uniform. Cops might have to use a phone." Giving a thumbs up at plasma "Glad to hear it."

Granite says, "Hey Lightning you did good on distracting one of them with a shot of voltage"

Lightning looks at her watch. "And I'm late for a meeting. You guys have this under control?"

Granite gives a thumbs up to Lightning as well.

Lightning smiles, waves, and takes to the sky.

Sword Dancer waves to Lightning.

With everyone being not hurt seriously, the figure takes a moment to look from one hero to the next, head tilted down forward, hands in the pouch pocket of her hoodie.

The guards turn to check out Granite and Plasma. "Thanks a lot." One of them says, "First time I've been robbed. First time seeing tech like that in person and not on the news."

Plasma drifts over towards Granite and hands him the devices he took off the goons he had secured himself, "Seems you're the most official like individual present all things considered. Keep these for evidence or whatnot." He smiles towards the guards, "It's amazing what science can do these days." He notes and then flies up into the air and away from the scene of the altercation.

Sword Dancer says, "Is evirr technorgy?"

Granite says, "A criminal syndicate that makes these things. Might be worth looking into on them."

Granite takes the things from plasma. "Im sure the lab boys will have fun with these. But you all can look at them at Starguard might dig up more clues." Turning to the guard "Yeah must of just hit the streets today and thank god might be the last we see of them."

The hooded girl makes her way toward the two heroically-inclined beings still present.

Sword Dancer snorts.

Sword Dancer says, "Ven bad fings is vere, normarry are more bad fings."

One of the guards asks Sword Dancer, "What's your name... haven't seen you before. Your a friend of Lightning's?"

Sword Dancer says, "Am Kihzra daughter of Pfarok and Jungre from city of Jhorbagh in land of Brun, descendant of Brun King and Sorcerer-Killer, and am corred Sword Dancer! Am friend of Rightning, yes. Vot is your name and ancestors?"

Granite raises a rocky eyebrow catching some of the conversation and trying to understand it is another.

"Uh.. I'm Greg, son of William and Phoebe, descendants of ah... George and, uh, Grandma." One guard says.

Sword Dancer nods solemnly.

Sword Dancer says, "Tjasivju."

The other guard says, "Martin." He looks around the area. "Hate working this area. Police response time is lousy out here." He kicks a pebble down the road and into the patch of torn-up ashphalt left by Granite's maneuver.

Stopping beside Granite, the hooded girl watches and listens to the introductions, a small smile finding its way onto her face when it's clear how far the blade-weilding heroine has come along in learning the local language.

Granite moves to start picking up the downed crims when the super paddy wagon wails it siren coming to the scene. The door opens in the back where he drops them one by one into the back. "Make sure they check them over with a scanner after they get them in stockade holding. Don't want one of these to be hiding a gimmic on him." He tells the police sgt. in charge.

Martin looks to Granite, who seems to be in charge. "Who are those jokers, anyway?"

Sword Dancer turns to the hooded girl. "Zha chyte tjasivju stjah, a shihmyhbenruh bvyno. Hi."

Sword Dancer is dressed pretty much as in summer - which is to say, in not much - apart from some new fur-lined boots.

Granite shakes his head "Dunno, they tried to rob the armored car there. Didn't ask for id. Lightning, wasp, plasma, and sword girl there helped out to take them down." Turning to look at Sword Dancer then blinks as he finds her body a bit appealing to him.

"Yes, sir," the police sergeant says to Granite. The bandits are just starting to regain consciousness as they are being hauled into the paddy wagon.

Head lifting, the girl in question replies with a nod. In that moment showing some of her hair, she seems to prefer to keep it unseen for the most part, head turning back down again a little.

Sword Dancer had noted then hair, and looks perhaps a little sad when the girl seems to be hiding it.

Sword Dancer says, "You don't speak, yes?"

Once the bandits are loaded into the wagon, the sergeatn closes the door and knocks on it. The wagon starts to pull away and the sergeant hops in his car. Soon he drives off as well.

Xing-Liu lifts a hand to cover her mouth for a moment in reply to the question, keeping the gesture somewhat subtle by 'muting' her motions to make her less noticable to those not looking right at her.

Granite moves to grab the equipment of the bandits moving back to Sword dancer with the girl with his arms full of gizmos and things to haul back to Starguard. "Ill catch ya later then."

Sword Dancer looks up at Granite. "Qhah, yes, tjasivju. Are very strong!"

Granite nods then bends down flexing his legs then leaps in the air to bounce and jump his way back to Starguard to check in the evidence.