Epic M&M: Issue 3 (IC)

[Elementor]

Barely able to move at all much less walk, Vince croaks out a weak, "Today is a bad day to be the good guy. Can someone grab my wing please?" while gesturing towards the poolside apendage.

"Thank you X.....thank you so much." he says as he pats the unconscious boy on the head.

 

[Agamon]

Sanjay creates the medical supplies for Mendez to the best of his ability and watches helplessly as X12 heals Vincent. He lets out a sigh of relief when the process is over, but jumps a bit when X12's head hits the ground. "Geez, X," he mumbles, moving him so he's laying down in a more comfortable position and creating a pillow underneath his head, "you're a friggin' Mother Theresa. How much of this can you handle?"

Looking over to the unconcious Jackal, he says, "So what exactly is going on? Is everyone going crazy? First Dara's all over Carl, and now Jackal's all, 'grrr, kill!' Who needs a Red Rose Syndicate, we can just fight amongst ourselves?"

 

[Deva]

Raisa watches the others move about the War Room, disappearing inside their alcoves and immerging moments later in their Epic uniforms. Her arms cross over her chest and she moves hesitantly toward the darkened alcove bearing her name. She stands outside the small room, chewing on her lower lip.

"Hope you like ethics classes, because you'll be doing a heck of a lot of them before I let either of you put on an EPIC uniform."

She takes a quick glance at the others than shakes her head. Mendez is going to have kittens! With a smile she goes inside to suit up.

 

[Mule]

"Randall, I could use your help here with Jun Po."

Randall will help Mendez with Jun Po.

X12's hands suddenly pulse blue light that blasts into Vince's body so violently that it comes out his mouth and eyes.

"Holy cow!" Randall stops what he's doing as his jaw drops in awe.

 

[Calinon]

Sergeant Ryan, this is Michelle of the epic institute, what is your situation? How many mutants are there and how many injured do you have?

"What? Who the... where's Thunder? Or Titan!? Hell, where's pudge?" A police car sails through the visual range of the communicator he's in. "Crap, just get someone down here! This is what we're up against," he says, and turns his visual recorder to the battle.

It appears Sergeant Ryan is on something high. Probably two hundred yards away, a circle of wrecked and overturned cars lays, partially blocking the police from getting to a trio of armored cars. Several officers are firing rounds through gaps. Inside the ring, a woman stands, tendrils of force deflecting them away from the cars, or back at the officers. A huge, furry form emerges from behind the first two armored cars, stepping to the side of one and picking it wholly up, repositioning it and setting it down right behind the first. Two blasts shoot him, but he doesn't even flinch. Another man flies about, a field of force brimming about him. He isn't directly attacking anyone, but seems to be summoning small creatures out of mid air that are swooping up as a horde towards the circling helicopters. Blasts fired at him thrum harmlessly off his force shield.

Anna examines the map. "We can get there pretty quick in the van, and avoid being seen from the air, if we take this route. I'm pretty sure Rebound can handle the drive. He's been practicing."

"Crikey! I get to drive for real? Right on!" he exclaims.

An explosion sounds out as a tanker truck explodes from a pair of deflected blasts, knocking out communications.

Ten minute ride there, top speed. I'll give the same warning to anyone feeling cocky and wanting to bolt ahead. Bad idea to split up the party.

"So what exactly is going on? Is everyone going crazy? First Dara's all over Carl, and now Jackal's all, 'grrr, kill!' Who needs a Red Rose Syndicate, we can just fight amongst ourselves?"

Cosmo speaks. "Well, remember I said he was getting kind of... scary? When we first got selected for this, he was in nearly perfect control of his werewolf form. He didn't even change height. Nearly never went berserk. When we got attacked on the train and he transformed, he was about seven feet tall. I didn't think of it much at first. I thought maybe he was just getting stronger." He pauses and looks at the unconscious and pinned boy.

"Maybe you didn't see him at the mall. He didn't wait to see what was up. He just changed. He was nearly ten feet tall when he ripped through the brick wall of the restaurant. Ten feet! Then he hit me. He never hit me; not ever. Never in our whole lives, even in werewolf form. Even if I got him really pissed off.

"I thought he had a hold of it again today. He never even went after goat-boy when he started teasing him about the... well, doesn't matter," he says, keeping something to himself. "I thought the growling and popping of the glass was it, and thought he was going to go blow off steam outside. Never thought he'd do something... evil. I mean really evil." His eyes are locked on Vince's severed wing.

"Fifteen feet tall at least. Man, he can't just do that on a whim. And lose control like that? I could see him trying to hurt someone; heck, I want to punch Vince out all the time. But this goes way beyond... anything. I'm scared of him. He's out of control, and if he keeps getting exponentially stronger like this. Look what he did to Vince and Jun Po," he says in a whisper, trying not to cry. "If we hadn't gotten here when we did..."

"He could kill Titan by tomorrow. We... we have him stopped now. Maybe we should just... just," he tries to finish the sentence but can't. "Vince, I'm sorry for what he did. I should have seen it coming and gone after him when he left mad. But it's not his fault. He's not a killer, not like this. It's this beast in him; he's out of control. And I don't know how to stop it," he says, looking over at his brother with a tear falling down his cheek.

 

[Elementor]

Vince begins to reach out to pat Cosmo's hand reassuringly but something....

heck, I want to punch Vince out all the time.

...stops him.

 

[Mimic]

"Rebound get the van ready, Anna can you download the map into a pda like we did last time? Also see if you can leave a message in case someone comes by they will know where we are. The rest of you get in the van." Michelle tells the group as she sprints towards her alcove.

"Oh my God, where's Thunder? Or Mendez? Man, even Trailblazer would be good. I don't want to be the leader. What if they don't listen to me? What if I screw up and someone gets hurt?" She thinks nervously to herself as she changes into her epic uniform, she pauses for a monent before exiting to compose herself.

 

[Calinon]

"Rebound get the van ready, Anna can you download the map into a pda like we did last time? Also see if you can leave a message in case someone comes by they will know where we are. The rest of you get in the van." Michelle tells the group as she sprints towards her alcove.

Rebound bounces his way outside to the van. Two small wires shoot out of Anna's arm and into the computer as she uses her gadgets to make an instant datalink, downloading the map into her suit computer. "All done," she says. As everyone suits up, Anna records a short message in the computer.

"NYPD called for help on the I-75, and nobody else is around, so we're heading to help."

You all pile out with your gear, including a gun and bat for Carl, and jump into the van. Similar to the one Mendez drove last night, it lurches off at breakneck speed as Rebound hits the gas. "Wow, a hover van!" he exclaims. "Never used one of these before!" The gates don't open as expected and the van crashes through them, leaving them a wreck of twisted metal hanging from the nearby trees.

"That was so cool!" exclaims Anna, who somehow managed to capture shotgun. She's already downloaded the map into the van computer to help guide the trip.

The trip is short, just under ten minutes, and with siren blaring and lights flashing, people move out of the way of the EPIC van. You fly up the emergency vehicle lane on the right side of the freeway. The ring of cars is evident ahead. You are forced to stop some quarter mile away due to debris and destroyed cars strewn about. Time to hoof it!

As you are about to get out, Johan spots and points out who he thinks might be Kevin, running alone towards the battle. People are still running from their vehicles, towards and past you. A cop car flies over the roof of a SWAT truck, right where Kevin is. In the sky, a helicopter gets hit by something, and one of its main rotors bends just as its tail rotors slow, and it starts spinning rapidly to the ground, right towards a mass of fleeing citizens.

Kevin
There is no 'perimeter' set up by the cops yet. You find Sergeant Ryan beside the NYPD Swat Truck and head for him.

"Hey, get out of here! This is an unsafe area!" he bellows at you as something slams into the other side of the truck, sounding like some sort of energy blasts.

"Hi, I am Kevin York, member of EPIC. I was near when you made the call, so I arrived first, can you lead me to the officer responsible of this site please."

"York? That kid that can copy other people's memories and stuff? Heard you got killed or something yesterday," he says, ducking reflexively as a blast soars overhead at a helicopter. "I need the real EPIC, kid, not some untrained solo wannabe. And stealing someone's memory isn't going to help us here. Crap! Get down!"

He shoves you down to the ground as a police cruiser soars overhead to land with a crash among other vehicles behind you. In the sky, a helicopter groans as an energy blast slows its tail rotor, then a swarm of tiny air elementals rip bend one of the main rotors. It starts to spin towards the ground, out of control, right towards a huge group of fleeing citizens!

"But if you can do anything useful, have at it. We already have three officers down. Damnit, where's EPIC!?"

Well, he's heard of you, and didn't throw you out, but his knowledge of your powers is limited to the knowledge that you got booted from school for stealing knowledge.

 

[Mimic]

Anna, Tara and Carl try and take out the flyer, the rest will harrass the ones on the ground. Don't go toe to toe, we don't know what they can do. Johan get one of your dupes to inform sergent Ryan that we are here to assist and get your other ones to make sure the area is clear of civilians.

Seeing the helicopter Michelle will lift of the ground and fly towards it, once in range she attempt to use her magnetic powers to stop its fall.

powers: forcefield (free action) flight (half action) energy control: magnetics (half action)

ooc: If she has to she will do a double move and use a heroic surge

 

[Velmont]

"Killed? Almost, but I'm fresh for your help now! And I don't steal memory, I copy knowledge and mutant powers, which is a bit more usefull than you may think. EPIC is on his way, and the best thing I have to do first is to learn everything I can about the situation. Who are they? How much? What power? And by the same time, if you want a better coordination between EPIC and the police, let me mimic your knowledge, so I can learn everything about police procedure and tactics. Don't fear, I won't know anything about your personnal life. And for your wounded, if they can hold a few minutes, they will be safe. X can heal them all..."

OOC: Kevin will try a diplomacy roll to calm a bit the sergeant and to let hem think that it will go better as soon as EPIC come here.

Kevin put his head out of cover, and take a look at the action, to see how it is going. He try to see where is every person (police, mutant, civilians, air elementals, woundeds, ect...) and what abilities every mutant have. If the sergeant accept, he will mimic his powers/skills/feats.

OOC: I suppose that after a coma, I have lost Mia and Murphy's powers and feats?