EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Calinon]

Restaurant
Kevin activates his duplication powers and another of him steps out, this one wielding a Katana. He drops into a guard position, sword aglow, looking around. Seeing there is not immediate threat, he relaxes and sheathes his sword.

"It seems there is no danger, companions," he says with an oriental accent. "Where are the rest of us?" he asks Kevin directly. He looks to each of you and gets a suspicious look. "What is going on?"

Upstairs
The thugs make their way out of the mall and out of sight quickly.

"Approach no further," the man says to everyone warningly as Michelle starts to approach. "You have made no promises as to my freedom should I accompany you back to the restaurant. You have already said two EPIC members are present, and you admittedly have no sway over the police. My situation indeed does not seem win-win," he says.

"However, with the exception of perhaps erroneously believing I cannot see your forcefield, something that would undoubtedly turn my blade as it did my bodyguard's fist, you seem to be honest enough." He casually removes his blade from the woman's throat and releases her. "My appologies, madam. I feared for my life. They may have been violent hulligans."

Despite the leap in logic, she seems to accept his smooth explanation with a shaky nod.

"My involvement was miniscule, and with the exception of this incident, something that can easily be chalked up to fear for my life, there is nothing I have done that is illegal," he says, his attention back to you. "Now that my men are safe, I shall accompany you to the restaurant and answer your questions," he finishes smoothly.

"You may address me as Mister Tan," he says in way of an introduction.

 

[Mule]

Comming to the sudden realization that Kevin has mimicked that wacko mutant's powers from the Mag-Lev, Randall smacks himself on the forehead. "I should have realized," he groans. "I saw your duplicate get ino a taxi, I got the plate numbers if we need to track him down," he says to Kevin.

"So here my idea; I will duplicate again, and will dismiss my power. The new Kevin may be dangerous, so if after loosing Split's power, if the new Kevin is still there, he will need to be take out of combat if he want to make trouble. If he dissapear, well, we can suppose the cannon boy have gone too. You are following me?"

"Good thinking."

Kevin activates his duplication powers and another of him steps out, this one wielding a Katana.

"Well, he's not invisible..."

 

[Velmont]

"It seems there is no danger, companions," he says with an oriental accent. "Where are the rest of us?" he asks Kevin directly. He looks to each of you and gets a suspicious look. "What is going on?"

"We are only three, and the other one have gone mad, and he is wild with a cannon in the city, so we got a problem on the harms, but we may be able to fix it."

At that moment, Kevin stop to mimic Split powers and look at KK (Katana Kevin).

 

[Calinon]

Restaurant
Kevin shimmers and a ghostly image of Split exits his body and quickly disapates like smoke.

"Infidel! Traitorous dog!" shouts his sword wielding double as he reaches for his sword. "No, I will not go!" he shouts, and seems to fight his destruction, finally vanishing with a scream. His words echo in the hall drawing many surprised looks from nearby police. Loki can definitely confirm he didn't just turn visible.

Kevin doubles over in pain, grasping his chest. His breath is short and ragged, like someone just punched him in the stomach. He seems to recover when his double vanishes, only to fall to the ground with a cry a moment later, in obvious pain.

Kevin
Being kicked in the chest by a horse would probably feel the same as what you just experienced. When the sword wielding double tried to not disappear, it felt like something had hold of your heart and was trying to tear it out. When he vanished, so did the feeling, only to be replaced by piercing agony. You feel like someone just raked claws along your heart, and your pulse races wildly as you struggle for breath.

 

[Mimic]

"Well, mister Tan if you come this way, the sooner you start your questioning the sooner it will be over." Michelle tells the man with a touch of sarcasm in her voice.

"What a arrogent sob." she thinks to herself as she follows behind him.

 

[Elementor]

Vince lets Mr Tan and Michele walk by and then follows a few steps behind. The 360 degree vision will be in full effect and Vince will maintain his superspeed to be ready to defend Michele or even possibly Mr Tan if the need arises.

 

[Velmont]

Kevin let out a shout of pain and some tears. He roll on the floor, and make sign to go away, wanting to have as much air to breath as possible.

 

[Calinon]

Kevin soon recovers from his pain and catches his breath. Raisa and Carl haven't returned yet, but Empath has, accompanied by a police detective, several armored officers, and what appears to be the bank manager. As Michelle, Johan, Vincent, Tara and Neutron come down with Mister Tan, who introduces himself smoothly, Empath gets John to pick up Mr. Raynes and ushers everyone into the restaurant. She sits Tan, Raynes and the bank manager as far from the door as possible, and away from each other, each under police guard.

Her communicator beeps.

"Are you certain?" she says into the headset. Trailblazer appears moments later with a woosh.

"I don't think they are making it up, Angela. Sanchez is bringing the jet to get us. Bus'll be here for the kids in a minute."

"There is a riot in progress at a maximum security prison near Edmonton. We have to go there. Detective, I promised you our help and you will still have it. Our students are more than capable of handling this situation with your assistance," she says as she heads for the door. "Do what the detective needs," she says to all of you as she leaves.

After a minute of somewhat stunned silence, the bus driver appears. "Hey gang. Who's coming back to the school with me?" A quick minute later, he's leading the other students, and helping Jackal, to the bus, leaving the rest of you with the detective and suspects.

Detective Mendez clears his throat to get your attention. He stands about 6'1" and weights around 280 pounds. He's dressed in a nice suit, is clean shaven and has well kept hair. "I'm Raul Mendez," he says. "Empath says you are the best of the young EPIC members, and I have learned to trust her judgement.

"Here's what we think has happened. Mrs. Raynes was kidnapped, possibly by the Red Rose Syndicate, an oriental mafia organization here in New York. Instead of paying a ransome or getting the police involved, he hired some mercenary and all this mess went down. The bank manager let him use the bank as a staging area.

"We'll start with all of you before we jump into questioning those guys," he says, jerking a thumb over his shoulder at the three suspects. "Anyone have anything specific they can add to help clear up this mess?"

Johan, you distinctly remember the Mia Toan throwing a card on the floor for Kevin during the restaurant battle. Everyone else... you're on your own for memory

EPIC present: Loki, Speed Demon, Metal Mistress, Multibrain, Straightjacket, Neutron, Dara, Tara, Cosmo, Neutron, X12.

NPC's present: Detective Mendez, Martin Raynes, Mister Tan, bank manager (John McKay)

Raisa and Carl
Once you have your bags, Carl drags you into the expensive shop and buys you some rather, nay exceedingly, fine and pricy clothes. He gets you to put on an outfit, a woman's powersuit, before you leave. When you exit the change room, he's on a cell phone talking.

"Change of plans. Mr. Mancini says Tommy G might be planning to leave town. He wants me to get to the bottom of this today. You can stay if you want, but I gotta go downtown now."

When you exit the store, he doesn't head to the restaurant, but instead the other way, towards an exit. "Better this way, anyhow. Keep Michelle out of it," he says, checking his electronic pad.

"Looks like we start with Matterson's Meats down on Renault. You coming?"

EPIC elsewhere: Raisa and Carl

 

[Mimic]

"Nothing specific but here is what I saw." Michelle pipes up. " Myself and two other students, Raisa and Carl were on the third floor about to into a clothing store. Davinci's, I think, when we heard weapons fire. We checked it out and it appeared that three police officers were engaged in a fire fight with some sort of gang. We went to help and encountered more members of this gang, we subdued them but in the process some of the stores got, ahh, damaged." Michelle says sheepishly, glancing down at the ground before continuing.

"By the time we finally got to the food court the fight with the gang members was pretty much over and thats when the "cops" started to fire on us. That's when the mercenary showed up, I don't know his name but he was the same guy that attacked us on the Mag-lev. He took off once Empath showed up telling Mr. Raynes that it was our fault everything went wrong, as if, and he told Mr. Raynes that if he could hire him out again but it would cost more." She points towards where Mr. Raynes is sitting as she says the last part.

"Once the Merc was gone, I and a couple of the other students checked out the kitchen and found the real staff tied and gagged in the walk-in-freezer, the door was welded shut, I had to rip it off it's hinges. Then Empath asked us to find and bring back the fake waiter, Mister Tan over there," she adds pointing to where he is sitting."Luckily Johan had seen him leave and a bunch of us went after him, they say us coming and attempted to out run us, when that didn't work a small fight broke out, with them throwing the first punch. Not that it mattered we had the upper hand, once it was clear his buddies were no match for us he grabbed a women and threatened to kill her, once we let his buddies go, he let the woman go and followed us back." Once Michelle finishes with her rather long winded speech, she breathes a small sigh of relief and looks around at the students.

"Where are Raisa and Carl anyways?"

 

[Deva]

She didn't protest too hard when Carl bought her the suit. She had never worn something designer before - not that what her mother made for her wasn't any good - but to be able to say that she was wearing an authentic vintage style Chanel silk suit nearly blew her mind. True, it wasn't a Chen design, but still..

She had stayed in the change room for a few minutes just staring at herself in the mirror. The black, pin-striped suit was the finest piece of clothing she had ever put on. The neck line plunged dangerously low, the first button of the jacket fastening more than two inches below her bust line. The pants fit snugly, accentuating the curves of her leg muscles, yet the fabric was flexable enough to allow for complete mobility. The boots, god she loved the boots! Knee high leather, and though the stilleto heals added a few more inches to her already impressive hight, with the entire ensemble it was stylish and classy yet daring enough for her. And considering Carl had picked it out... That boy had taste!

With her scool uniform, and the other bags she had retrieved, now in one bag from the store, she runs her fingers quickly through her hair before pulling it back into a sleek pony-tail while Carl is on the phone. Raisa shakes her head when he offers her the chance to back out. "Not a chance. I said I was in this with you, and I don't welch on a friend."

When you exit the store, he doesn't head to the restaurant, but instead the other way, towards an exit. "Better this way, anyhow. Keep Michelle out of it," he says, checking his electronic pad.

"Looks like we start with Matterson's Meats down on Renault. You coming?"

She glances briefly toward the direction of the restaurant then follows. "Right behind you."