EPIC M&M: Issue 1 (IC)

Titan
Camera's are flashing as Titan walks over to the MK192 pinned beneath the massive non-functional robot and rips its head off. "Titan eliminated indeed."

He comes into your car and looks around at the battlefield the Mag-Lev has become. He turns and glares at the reporters that are already trying to get into the car and none-to-gently knocks them back into their car with a blast of super-breath.

"Off limits," he growls, and surprisingly, the cameras stop flashing and the reporters stay back.

"We're nurses," a middle-aged woman says as she and a younger companion walk up to Titan. "We can help." Titan considers them both for a moment, then lets them into the train. The formerly stunned reporter that the steward shot is helped to his feet by another reporter.

Titan turns his attention back to your train. "Sanjay Mohan, come here," he shouts down the train, spotting Sanjay through the hole in the stairs. "I need a wall, steel, two inches thick, over this door." He starts to move down the train, but stops and puts his cape over Raisa as he does, patting her on the shoulder as he does.

As he moves by each student, he addresses them by name and gives them instruction or assurances.

"Michelle, Kevin, fly outside and guide Sanchez in for a safe docking. The train is a bit unstable so do what you can to steady it for the landing."

He pulls Straightjacket to his feet with immense strength. "Shrink down, John. You're taking up a bit much room. Help move the students back here. It's less damaged."

He passes Carl and looks at his gun. "We'll be having a chat about that later, Carl." You are beginning to understand he knows each of you by sight.

One of the nurses finds a medical kit under a seat and starts to treat the wounded. Of everyone, there are only a handful of critically injured students, and most of those have been stabilized by Johan, Loki and Anna. "Titan, we need to get these students to a hospital, and soon," the older nurse says quietly to him as he passes the stairwell. "Some are badly injured, and others," she says glancing at Dara who is sitting, knees clutched to her chest rocking a bit and crying, "are in shock."

"I know," Titan responds calmly. "Sanchez and Thunder are on their way. We'll air lift the kids to hospital when they dock. Do what you can until then." (Those within ten feet will hear him)

"Hey! You!" he shouts at Vincent as he's about to run up the shattered stairs. "Stay down here and help the others," he says commandingly.

Jackal
As Sanjay passes Jackal, he sees the boy, surprisingly, get up and follow X12 towards the cockpit. His pace at first is slow, but as he moves he gets quicker, and looks quite angry. He shoves anyone in his way to the side and enters the cockpit just behind X12. Just as X12 is about to pull the shard of metal from Cosmo's forearm, Jackal grabs his wrist and pulls him back towards the door. "You aren't going to touch him at all," he says coldly and his tone makes it obvious there will be no compromise. His touching your skin also tells you he's completely unharmed now. "Get out. Go help someone else." He pauses a moment, and you see he's really fighting his animal side. "Others are far worse off out there. I'll take care of my brother," he says a bit more gently, but still with a lot of anger under the surface.

Sense motive check of 19. You have a distinct feeling he'll try to tear you apart if you try to touch Cosmo to heal him.

Johan
You see Jackal walk off, but the cannon draws your attention. It appears to be a standard Tank Buster Electrostatic Pulse Cannon (Model D). High tech military weaponry for sure. The entire cannon barrel and a quarter of the power pack has been slashed through by Jackal's claws, rendering the cannon completely unsalvageable.

The Rest of the Students
The rest of the students who are not critically wounded are coming out of their various degrees of stun effects. They help those nearest them as best they can. Off to the North, you see a hoverjet rapidly approaching.
 

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Sanjay will continue to help free those that are pinned or buried and do what he can to assist the wounded (very little, unfortunately).
 

Calinon said:
Jackal
As Sanjay passes Jackal, he sees the boy, surprisingly, get up and follow X12 towards the cockpit. His pace at first is slow, but as he moves he gets quicker, and looks quite angry. He shoves anyone in his way to the side and enters the cockpit just behind X12. Just as X12 is about to pull the shard of metal from Cosmo's forearm, Jackal grabs his wrist and pulls him back towards the door. "You aren't going to touch him at all," he says coldly and his tone makes it obvious there will be no compromise. His touching your skin also tells you he's completely unharmed now. "Get out. Go help someone else." He pauses a moment, and you see he's really fighting his animal side. "Others are far worse off out there. I'll take care of my brother," he says a bit more gently, but still with a lot of anger under the surface.

Sense motive check of 19. You have a distinct feeling he'll try to tear you apart if you try to touch Cosmo to heal him.

"You're a medic too?" X12 asks sarcastically, but backs off. "You're welcome for pulling the sword out of your throat as well. But unless you've got some skin grafts for those burns in your back pocket, he isn't going to heal well on his own, or worse, infection will get him if the lack of proper body tissues to maintain his internal body temperature doesn't kill him first. And that puncture isn't gonna heal on it's own, either, but he's your brother -- you want my help later, find me if I'm not already knee deep in some else's bleeding wounds." With that, he turns on his heel and storms off out of the cockpit.

Once in the main cabin, X12 looks around for the next most critically injured person.
 

Calinon said:
Titan

He pulls Straightjacket to his feet with immense strength. "Shrink down, John. You're taking up a bit much room. Help move the students back here. It's less damaged."

"Umm, yessir, sure" John replies as he resumes normal size and moves to do what he can to aid the process.

buzzard
 

"Pity" says Johan as he sees the weapon isn't going to be usable anymore. He starts looking for his luggage since everything seems to be alright for the moment.
 

Watching Titan take out the armored robot pretty much by singlehandedly is awe inspiring to say the least. "Wow" is all Michelle utters as he quickly takes care of the smaller robot.

Calinon said:
"Michelle, Kevin, fly outside and guide Sanchez in for a safe docking. The train is a bit unstable so do what you can to steady it for the landing."
"They wanted our blood," Michelle blurts out "or something genetic from one of us. They had a case and they were testing our blood samples in it, during the fight I heard it state it found a match." "I almost had it, but couldn't keep it." she says sheepishly

Calinon said:
Off to the North, you see a hoverjet rapidly approaching.

Michelle will fly up into the sky using the whole in the roof that Titan made, once airborn she will attempt to stabilize the Mag-lev
 

Calinon said:
He starts to move down the train, but stops and puts his cape over Raisa as he does, patting her on the shoulder as he does.


Eyes wide as she looks down at the cape that is now draped over her, Raisa takes a quick second to glance around her - making sure no one is watching - and smells the fabric. Oh. My. God. I'm wearing HIS cape. Titan's Cape! Ohmygod! My friends are so totally not going to believe this! I can't wait to tell them!

Rising from the seat, keeping the cape right around her, she goes back to her original seat to find her backpack. Once she finds it, she takes a baggy sweater from inside and slips it over her head. She walks over to Titan, offering him his cape back. "Thanks, but I think it looks better on you." She looks around the devastation. " What can I do to help, Sir?" Ohmygod! Now I'm talking to him!!
 
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"Michelle, Kevin, fly outside and guide Sanchez in for a safe docking. The train is a bit unstable so do what you can to steady it for the landing."

"OK."

He starts to fly by the hole in the roof, just after Michelle. Once in the air.

"Whoa! I really need to buy one of those suits. I wonder how much it cost?"

He looks at the Mag-Lev.

"Well, I don't have any idea how to stabilize that. Michelle, you'll leaqd on that one."

He starts to looks at the function to see if there is an exoskelleton that give more strength to the suit.
 

Seeing that the rest of the injured are being taken care of, Randall will stay with Grandmother until she and Pooky regain consciousness.

"What have I gotten myself into" thinks Randall to himself. "All this violence and destruction is not what I was expecting when I decided to come the EPIC school." Mental images of the battle begin flowing though Randall's memory, the image of the Leader gunning down the pilot is especially vivid. Randall is feeling overwhelmed, and a little in shock despite being uninjured.
 

On the Roof of the Mag-Lev

Michelle and Kevin fly out of the Mag-Lev and see the damage caused on the roof. In addition to the hole made by Titan, two other perfect circles have been cut through the roof, undoubtedly where the mercenaries left through. Scuff marks indicate the helicopters touched down on the roof and slid around a fair bit, a testament to the piloting skill of those in control of them.

Michelle tries to envelop the Mag-Lev in a stabalizing magnetic field, but the train is simply too masive. She realizes the problem, as the entire train is no longer hovering, but resting on a three foot wide piece of track. Flying to look underneath, she sees clamping mechanisms underneath holding the train down, but the heavy braking has shattered two on the left side, leaving the train dangerously unstable, at least for landing a jet on its roof. She manages to project an energy field around each broken clamp, stabilizing the train.

Spot check: 14 vs dc10; Knowledge (metals): 24 vs dc15.

The hoverjet slows as it approaches, landing struts extending. A voice comes through Stealers' battlesuit earpiece as he flips through the menu system. "Glad you are alright, Anna. You'll need to guide us in carefully," a female voice says with an accent somewhat like Raisa and Vincent have. "We're barely going to fit as it is."

Stealer, you only get a few moments before the voice interrupts you, but it appears that it gives flight, has an ablative armor system, energy blasters, all around sight, radio headset, night vision and that's about as far as you get.

In The Mag-Lev

Titan nods to Michelle as she tells him about the blood sampling. "We know. We were stretched thin as reports came through from all over the world from similar situations or we would have been here sooner. This is the second worst situation so far. Now get up top and make sure the jet can land safely."

Sanjay doesn't hear Titan's orders, but Titan doesn't press the issue since the removal of rubble from trapped students is certainly still a concern. In a few minutes, Sanjay manages to get the front of the cab completely clear of debris, glass included.

John is in the process of moving the relatively uninjured majority of the students to the back. With Sanjay clearing the rubble, there is plenty of space to keep the injured students where they are.

Titan is somewhat surprised to find Raisa has followed him up, especially given he'd assessed her injuries as somewhat severe. "El señorita bueno, usted es alto," he says in Spanish. (Good lord woman, you are tall) He takes his cape back and kneels down to wrap it around Dara. She doesn't even seem to notice. "Dara," he says to her. When she doesn't respond, he gives her a small shake and she comes to her senses. Immediately, an intense scream rips through the mind of Raisa, Johan, John, Vince and others nearby. Even Titan winces and falls back onto his rear. The pain is akin to driving an icepick into your eyeball.

"Sorry," Dara mumbles. Titan flashes her a winning smile and those nearby sense her mood improve nearly immediately. "Eso es bien, Dara. I'm just glad you aren't hurt." He picks himself up and beckons Raisa to follow him. As he walks away, those watching Dara see her smell his cape and pull it tightly around herself. "I can't believe I have his cape," you "hear" in your mind.

He points to an empty seat. "Sit," he says. "Someone is hurt worse than she believes. You aren't indestructible you know," he says, pointing at a blood stain already appearing on the arm of her sweater.

X12 finds a student next to Rebound critically injured, though somewhat stabilized. Touching him, X12 is overcome by the injuries and passes out. The student's wounds vanish, though he remains unconscious. A minute later, X12 sits up. Titan grabs him by the arm and pulls him to his feet. "Glad I don't have to do that," Titan says with a smirk. He points at the door where the nurse is still working on the student Dara was saving earlier. "You need to help that nurse's patient."

X12 approaches and finds the student suffering from two gunshots, one to the neck and one in the stomach. Both are severe. You touch him and his wounds rapidly close. The bullets actually pop out of the wounds! The pain is as intense as it was when you got shot earlier, and as a blast of agony rips through your hip, you realize the student's hip had been broken as well. You pass out and are disabled. Your wounds are already closing, though.

He passes Neutron and gives him a smile. "Well done. Once you're finished, I need the stairs repaired. Some fool seems to have destroyed them," he jokes. He stops at Loki and pulls him up to his feet. "Hey kiddo. Saving the day again I see," he grins, looking down at the unconscious pair next to him. "Don't worry, they seem fine, but I need you to make me a wall so those reporters stay out," he says, pointing to the other end of the Mag-Lev car.

And indeed, the reporters are inching forward. Cameras are flashing, especially focusing on Vincent. Several people can be heard referring to him as a monster, and infact, several reporters seem to be discussing possible headlines. "Monster causes Mag-Lev wreck" and "Demonic boy terrorizes Mag-Lev passengers" and the like are being bantered around. Carl quickly puts his gun away in the light of the cameras.

Titan calls out, "Where are Cosmo and Jackal?" loud enough for everyone to hear.
 
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