EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Calinon]

Initiatives
Jackal 29 (1); Speed Demon 29 (2); Loki 26; Metal Mistress 23; Amazon 16; Empath 15 (1); Multibrain 15 (2); Cosmo 14, Stealer 12; Tara 11 (1); Carl 6; Dara 2; Police 1 (just to be simple)

Near the Restaurant
Vince's taunt seems to barely register to Jackal as he rushes up. He remains focussed on his first target, eyes glowing red, frothing at the mouth. Everyone else is pretty much rushing over as well as Empath, with eerie calm, steps right up in front of Jackal, reaches up and touches the side of his beastial face. She says nothing but Jackal starts to slump forward a bit, eventually leaning heavily against her. "Mon mot! You are a heavy one," Empath says as he slowly transforms back to human form. She releases her mental hold over Jackal and he slumps to the ground, shoulders shaking, clothes torn to shreds by his transformation.

Kevin concentrates and teleports to his texan double. The double grumbles and Kevin actually feels resistance to his teleportation, but it manages to succeed. He turns and fires at the cannon wieldling duplicate, missing badly. His duplicate turns on him. "I knew you were nothin' but trouble! Well screw you! I'll be the original now!" He fires, striking Kevin in the chest. Kevin screams and flies back into a pillar as the ray burns into and starts passing through his chest.

Kevin misses with an 8. His double turns and hits with a 15. Kevin fails his save with an 11. Hero point used to re-roll and it becomes a 12. Kevin slams into a nearby pillar, taking a lethal hit, becoming disabled and is pinned by the cannon as it continues to burn into him.

With Jackal not a threat, Vincent turns instead to the double, charging at him and delivering another Mach One Punch. He slams the double in the head, and it spins around as it collapses to the ground. Kevin groans as his head snaps to the side as well. The beam ceases and the double bleeds quietly on the ground from the mouth, then vanishes.

Vincent hits with a 19. Kevin's double fails his save with an 8 and is disabled. Kevin suffers the damage as well, getting knocked out and suffering a stun hit.

Empath taps her EPIC symbol on her chest. A moment later, you hear Trailblazer say over the radio, "News just came on, Angel. Need help?"

"Oui, mon ami," she responds simply as she kneels down next to Cosmo.

A rush of wind carries dust and a bit of rubble past you as Trailblazer slides to a halt near the food court. "Got here as fast as I could, partners. The others had to go to Hawaii; sudden eruption of the volcano there. You want to handle the press and folks, or me, Angel?"

A beep goes off and Empath looks at her pager. "It seems there is further trouble at the Theatre. Can you," she starts, and Trailblazer is gone.

Martin Raynes is approaching, shouting at Empath loudly. "Where's my wife!? You EPIC morons botched everthing!" he screams into her face.

"All of you, make sure not to move Cosmo or Kevin, but get the rest of the students into the restaurant. And find the manager. I am curious to know what he has to say," Empath instructs.

"Are you even listening to me, you bi..."

Empath suddenly slams the edge of her hand into Martin Raynes' throat, eliciting a gasping gurgle from the man as he clutches his throat. She grabs him by the coat and hurls him face first into a nearby wall. He collapses to the ground.

"No, not really," she says. "Carl, if he tries to leave, break his legs. I need to handle the police and press before I can question this fool. Someone help Jackal,"she says, looking at the now sobbing teen sympathetically.

She heads off to the food court to head off the SWAT team as the rest of the EPIC students in the area file past her and towards the restaurant, giving little gasps or shrieks as they pass the horribly wounded thugs, Cosmo and Kevin. Everyone except Loki is with you, as he is still tending to the thug with the severed hand.

Theatre
Trailblazer suddenly appears between you and the cameraman. "Good job, boys!" he exclaims. "Damn bugger surely would have detonated the bomb if you hadn't stopped him! I sure hope there isn't a secondary trigger somewhere in the theatres," he adds.

People scream and run, someone pulls the fire escape, the other theatres can be heard emptying out fire exits. Trailblazer seems to shimmer a moment, and John feels something pressed covertly into his hands, and it appears to be several holo recording chips and some sort of video feed cord from a camera. "Get rid of 'em, kid," Trailblazer whispers to John with a grin.

Trailblazer uses inuendo to get you all to go along with his story and succeeds along with apparently taking chips and cords from cameras sneakily.

"Sorry, you'll have to wait outside while I search for other explosive devices," Trailblazer says to the reporters, shoving them out the theatre doors. He brings in the medics and a pair of cops, then locks the theatre doors. The medics start checking on Split.

"All of you," Trailblazer says to the other EPIC students. "Back into the theatre for now. Stay out of the way. Alright, what the hell happened, partners?" he asks you three before the police can start with their own questions.

Condition Summary
Multibrain: 2S, 1HP used
Stealer: 6L, 1S, Disabled, Knocked Out, 3HP used (Owned!)
Murphy: 3S, 2VP used
Vincent: 1HP used
Jackal: 2HP used
Straightjacket: 1L, 1HP
Speed Demon: 2HP
Tara: 2HP
Metal Mistress: 1HP
Cosmo: 2L, 1HP, KO
Empath: 1L, 1HP

 

[Mordane76]

"I saw them in the theater acting suspicous, they walked out, we followed them," X12 says. "Didn't even recognize them until we got out into the light. One of the copies pulled out a rifle and took a shot at Neutron. Other guy pulled out another one of those energy cannons, which Neutron disabled, but not before Straightjacket took a shot from the cannon. These Splits had the ability to become invisible, something I don't remember from the Mag-Lev; made trying to contain them far more difficult. Plus, they don't seem like the taken-for-prisoner types; they employed lethal force before we did."

 

[buzzard]

People scream and run, someone pulls the fire escape, the other theatres can be heard emptying out fire exits. Trailblazer seems to shimmer a moment, and John feels something pressed covertly into his hands, and it appears to be several holo recording chips and some sort of video feed cord from a camera. "Get rid of 'em, kid," Trailblazer whispers to John with a grin.

"Guys, my leg is starting to smart A LOT. I'm going into the restroom to try to clean it up a bit and I really gotta take a leak" says John as he stretches towards the nearest restroom. He checks to make sure it is empty, and uses his super strength from growth to crush all the video equipment handed to him into powder, which he flushes down one of the toilets.

buzzard

 

[Mimic]

Michelle will gently land beside Jackel and attempt to help him up and into the restaurant. Once he is sitted and resting she will attempt to locate the manager and the head chef.

 

[Mule]

Seeing the handless gangmember start to slip into shock OOC: I sure as hell would! Randall stays with him. In order to try to get the poor kid to stay coherant, Randall will talk with him. "I'm Loki, what's you're name? How old are you? Do you live close by?" and similar easy questions. Randall will then try to get a little more information from him, "What's the name of your gang? What were you doing in the mall? Why were those "cops" shooting at your friends?"

If Randall sees any paramedics, he will wave them over. "This guy's hurt! Over here!"

 

[Dalamar]

Johan isn't exactly thrilled when Kevin gets hit by the beam. When the action calms down with Empath heading to handle the PR, he goes to check on Kevin.

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay shakes his head. "Those damn reporters are annoying." He shrugs at Trailblazer, scratching the back of his neck, more out of nervous habit than anything, as his skin doesn't itch. "It was that jerk that attacked us on the train, the guy that can replicate his body, like Johan. I'm pretty sure that the guy out there is one of the copies," he adds, not actually sure if that's true or not.

 

[Calinon]

Theatre
Trailblazer nods at X12 and Sanjay. "Might be we underestimated his powers. If he's at all like Johan, his duplicates would gain his powers, so since this dude can become invisible, they probably all can. Y'all look like you handled the problem fine enough; no real damage here, 'cept to toasty there. Might be you nailed the real one there; I didn't get to talk to Angel much to find out what went down in the Food Court. Just the two here, huh?"

The police officers are making notes about the conversation.

"Don't worry much about the reporters. They aint gettin' pictures today," he says as John comes out of the bathroom. "Someone just flushed their recording chips."

One of the cops laughs. "You know they're gonna slam you in the papers over that, cowboy."

"Color me unconcerned, partner," Trailblazer quips back.

The two paramedics lift Split onto a stretcher. "We have to get him to hospital."

"We'll send M-Tac down to watch him, TB," one of the cops says to Trailblazer.

M-Tac is a special mutant tactical unit funded by the federal government designed to contain problem mutants. It's a well known organization who's methods are... somewhat less than gentle.

"Good enough," he replies. "Ok gang, I'll load up our compadre's and head down to the Food Court. You three should get down there and tell Angel what happened. Kevin and Cosmo looked really badly hurt, X. You might wanna hustle and see if you can help 'em. If you got anything else to add about this fight, tell it to officer Johnson here before you go."

Food Court
A number of paramedics rush over to Loki, going past the SWAT members who are already relaxing seeing Empath walking towards them. The kid is not lucid, mumbling incoherently, but still conscious thanks to Loki.

"Holy <censored>! His hand is gone," says one stunned medic.

"Lets get him stable before we move him," his partner states as they start to work on the boy. "Just leave it to us now, son," he says to Loki.

Paramedics rush about, tending the worst of the wounded, while police escort the unhurt out quickly. Sheets are laid over the boy who Vince knocked out of the food court, and two emergency workers are performing CPR on the one who tried to run.

Johan gets to Kevin before any EMS people do. He can actually see ribs, scorched flesh. A few of the ribs look actually shattered. He's barely breathing. It makes for an interesting look at the human anatomy, but the smell of scorched flesh is overpowering, enough so to make you nautious. A number of medics rush over soon, and start to work on Kevin, running an IV immediatetly.

"What's his name?" one asks you in a calm voice as he checks his pulse.

Another medic is tending to Cosmo. She quickly checks his pulse and shouts out, "I need an IV run here!" She rips open his shirt and you hear her mumble something about internal bleeding. Cosmo's chest is covered in one huge blue and purple bruise. "I need to know how he was hurt? Someone?"

Jackal doesn't object to Michelle leading him into the restaurant. He sits quietly against the wall looking devastated, tears still falling from his eyes. "I lost my bags," he says very quietly. "I have to get them," he says, starting to stand up.

 

[Elementor]

Another medic is tending to Cosmo. She quickly checks his pulse and shouts out, "I need an IV run here!" She rips open his shirt and you hear her mumble something about internal bleeding. Cosmo's chest is covered in one huge blue and purple bruise. "I need to know how he was hurt? Someone?"

Vince stays by Cosmo as he really does not want to head anywhere near the food court right now. "He was physically lifted and slammed back first into that pillar." Vince gestures to the nearby damaged pillar. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

 

[Mule]

Randall steps back from the carnage, and steadily walks away. He notices the sheets being draped over the one gangmember, but doesn't break his stride. In fact, he speeds up, heading towards the restaurant, not saying a word to anyone.