EPIC M&M: Issue 2 (IC)

[Calinon]

Raisa
Raisa manages to cross the police line and get past the police officers, but once past them, she is accosted by several shop owners who's stores were ruined in Michelle's explosion.

"You! Yes, you!" shouts one woman. "You and your huligan friends destroyed half of my stock with that, that... explosion!" She grabs Raisa by the arm as another man runs up.

"Mine as well! Who will pay for the damages?"

Between the two of them they get quite effectively in her way. Other nearby onlookers, some being helped by paramedics but looking mostly unhurt, gather around the commotion. A pair of armored policemen nearby are escorting the remnants of the gang members away nearby, and one hurries towards the detective and Empath.

"I'm talking to you, girl," the man says, thrusting a finger up into her face, shaking it at her. "Don't think for a minute that EPIC insignia removes you from blame here!"

Vincent
Vince mistakes some students from another school as EPIC students, and manages to completely terrify them, and they run screaming away. He deduces he should probably go where the students are, that being in or outside the restaurant. You also see Raisa getting accosted by a group of people, and Carl heading towards her.

Michelle
The freezing cold people, now free of their bonds and confinement, happily follow you outside where you see Cosmo, blood on his lips, and Jackal, looking rather pale. The medic who had been tending Jackal checks out the staff.

You manage to overhear Johan as you exit saying he saw the imposter leaving, but don't see him in time to get a proper direction.

Neutron and X12 and Straightjacket
You can see a gathering of your classmates outside a restaurant at the end of a hallway, and see the food court nearby them. Neutron can see Empath talking to a man in a suit.

Stealer
You continue to drool quietly, still unconscious. On the bright side, you are being tended to! X12 should have you up and around soon.

Johan
Loki is unresponsive, but shortly after you ask for his help, Michelle, Dara and Tara come out of the restaurant. Your double sees Neutron flying down the hall towards you and the large form of Straighjacket lumbering along slightly behind him.

Cosmo shows some concern for Jackal but gets up when he hears you. His 'fangs' give him a rather evil look, like a vampire from the movies. "Which way?" He casually wipes his mouth with his forearm, ending up with a long smear of blood on his arm, but a relatively clean mouth. "I want to have a short chat with this jerk."

You notice Carl has produced some rope from somewhere and effectively bound and gagged Martin Raynes. He then heads off after Raisa.

You are all now in one area, feel free to do whatcha like. Except Raisa, who is out of sight of everyone but Empath and being accosted by small men and women.

 

[Mordane76]

OOC: Assuming I can see Kevin and his mangled corpse, or the gathering of EMTs, I will head there to offer my services.

 

[Deva]

"Huligan?!" Raisa snaps, trying to keep her temper in check. She yanks her arm away from the woman, slaps the mans hand away from her face, and scowls down at both shop owners, attempting to appear quite intimidating so they will back off. "Touch me again, Cuzão, and it won't matter that I'm wearing this insignia. We were only trying to help, and I'm sorry if your stores got caught in the crossfire, but it was an accident. Now get the hell out of my way before I forget my manners and there's another accident."

She'll push her way through the crowd, being careful not to actually hurt anyone, and make her way to the stairs back up to the third floor.

 

[Calinon]

Raisa
Neither shopkeeper gives way, and several other shopkeepers come out to add their support to their complaints.

"Your help will cost us tens of thousands of dollars in repairs! And there's no insurance for mutant attacks!" An employee of a nearby electronics store appears to be videotaping the incident.

As Raisa tries to push through the crowd, the shopkeeper who she slapped the hand of falls to the ground, shouting, "She is assaulting me! You all saw it! I'll sue!"

Initimidate works on the bystanders, but not on either shopkeeper who, you are quickly coming to understand, are seeing this as a way to reap some serious cash.

 

[Elementor]

Vincent
He deduces he should probably go where the students are, that being in or outside the restaurant.

Arriving at the restaurant, Vince quickly addresses the other students, "Guys, Empath wants us to pair up and go after that waiter guy. Johan, did you get a good look at him? Describe him for us so we all know what he looks like."

 

[Dalamar]

"There is no need to pair up, I saw where the head waiter was headed just a moment ago."
Johan starts heading to where he saw the head waiter head to p) and describes him with all the detail he caught and adding a mention of men that were with him.

 

[Mimic]

Michelle
You manage to overhear Johan as you exit saying he saw the imposter leaving, but don't see him in time to get a proper direction.

While the staff are getting looked at by the paramedic, Michelle will tell Dara to stick with them and get them to the police, she will them head over to Johan and get the information on the imposter.

Johan starts heading to where he saw the head waiter head to ( ) and describes him with all the detail he caught and adding a mention of men that were with him.

"If we are lucky we can catch them before they leave the mall. Vince, you are the fastest here, see if you can catch them, be carefull we don't know if they have any more guns or not. We will catch up to you as fast as we can."

Michelle will raise forty feet into the air and head off towards the imposter last known location

Powers: Forcefield (free action) Flight:-sprint (full action)

 

[buzzard]

John, after ambling down to the food court, finds a seat as he has no desire to aggravate his injured leg. Given that his injuries are trivial compared to what he sees when he gets down there, he just keeps a low profile.

buzzard

 

[Deva]

"Oh get over yourselves!" Raisa growls. She points to the people that had been stunned by the goons and are now being examined by the paramedics, specifically to the mother cradling her crying baby. " People were getting shot, including a baby! What were we suppose to do, just sit back and let them open fire on the rest of the mall? Well fine, next time we'll just do that and to hell with everyone else!"

She stands over the man crumpled on the floor and glowers at him with disgust, but speaks to everyone around her. "If you weren't such petty, self involved little people maybe you'd realize that there were lives affected by the entire situation and not just your wallets. People have been hurt, some are probably even dead. But that doesn't matter to you. No, all you see are shiny little dollar signs at the possible payout you're all drooling over from the minor damage that was done to your tacky, over priced shops.

"And you!" She turns her disdain filled glare to the employee with the video camera. Taking a few menacing steps toward him she stops and flips him the finger with both hands. "Va' se foder, seu filho da puta!" Raisa shakes her head and sneers, "Que se foda essa merda! Tô caindo fora!" (tanslations: not gonna bother because the language filter won't let it through. )

She will once more try to get through the crowd and to the stairs.

 

[Calinon]

Raisa
Both loud merchants suddenly start crying an apologizing. At first you think it's your threatening, but Empath bumps into your elbow. "You, boy, come here," she says to the kid with camera.

The clerk walks out with a fellow clerk, looking somewhat tentatively.

"How much of the conflict did you record?"

"I got the whole thing!" he blurts out. "It was so cool! Man, I wish I could do that stuff with the explosions and the punching and stuff!"

It becomes painfully apparent that his life lacks somewhat in excitement.

"Let us see what you have," Empath says with a smile, pointing to a large TV in the window. Go where you were off to Raisa, but hurry back please, cher." She heads into the store ahead of the clerks with a somewhat exaggerated walk, which pretty much keeps everyone's attention. The clerks follow.

"Dude, she is so totally hot!"

"I would learn mexican for her like right now."

"Dude, I mean Empath!"

"Huh, oh yeah, right," he says, grinning over his shoulder at Raisa, blushing, as he enters the store. Most of the crowd follows Empath into the store to watch the tape or at least disperse, letting Raisa alone.

Carl comes up beside Raisa as she walks. "You gotta learn to keep a low profile, you know that?"

Restaurant
X12 huffs up. "Gah!" he exclaims seeing Kevin, then approaches.

"Hey, aren't you that guy that can heal people with a touch?" the medic asks. "I saw a few stories about you on the news."

"Ouch," the female medic says, seeing John's wounded leg. "That looks painful. Let me bandage that for you. What made that burn?"

Dara is rooting through Jackals bag and comes out with the giant pink bunny. "Bunny!" she exclaims mentally. "Who's this for, huh? Huh!? Jackal's got a giiiiirlfriend!" Jackal growls weakly in response.

Michelle flies upwards, followed by Dara, while Cosmo runs after Johan and his two doubles, heading to the stairs and hopefully their quarry, as Vince runs ahead. Once upstairs, you see a group of gang members and a guy in a tuxedo a loooong way ahead, hurrying along the second floor, headed for the third floor stairs some hundred - hundred fifty yards ahead. They see you and run for the stairs.

Loki, you realize something odd. Kevin's double with the cannon is slowly crawling into the nearby hallway beside the restaurant, invisible, dragging his scary arse cannon with him.