Mutants & Masterminds: San Angelo

[Toric_Arthendain]

Trouble at Helix

A short time after Shade arrives at the statue, a taxi pulls up out near the curb letting Kiro disembark before tearing off with a squeal of tires.

After Kiro has joined the other four at the statue, Ringmaster receives a transmission from Tyke.

"Boss, there's something goin' down at Helix! It's all over the news. Police have cordoned off the building. Something's happening inside. The newsmedia isn't sure what is going on but speculation is a hostage situation or possibly someone rampaging through the building. Since it's Sunday, there aren't too many workers there but there are some. A couple have gotten out and reported hearing sounds of growling. One person seems to have reported that rooms were being trashed. As far as I can tell, police are trying to decide whether to enter the building."

OOC: Set Harth, if you are still planning on playing and are ready, assume that O.R.C.A. has heard the same news reports of something going on at Helix Technologies. Also, in the interests of keeping things moving, rather than having to wait for Ringmaster to tell everyone what is going on, we'll assume that he informs everyone of the situation as soon as he hears from Tyke.

 

[Samnell]

"I don't know where that is, so I can't get there the quick way. Anybody have a ride?" Shade asks shyly.

 

[bkmanis]

“I can carry one person, let’s go.” Centurion says taking the closest person that needs a lift. He then flies off to Helix.

 

[Samnell]

"Ok," Shade answers. He takes an eager step towards Centurion. "I never flied before."

 

[maddmic]

The Ringmaster motions with his hand. In front of him appears a large firework looking rocket, complete with stick in the ground and all. On this rocket are 3 saddles complete with harnesses. The Ringmaster jumps into the front one and motions for Kiro and Spyder to get on. "C'mon boys, hop on. We need to get to Helix quickly." Once the other two are onboard, he looks over his shoulder and in a calm voice says, "Hang on you two." With that the rocket screams forward towards Helix sounding like a large bottle rocket and trailing what looks like the typical sparks. During the extremely short flight, the Ringmaster connects to Tyke again via telepathic link. 'We're on our way to Helix. I'll keep in touch should we need backup.'


OOC:
On the way to Helix, Ringmaster will bring his Force Field up, as well as prepare himself for battle.

 

[Set Harth]

[OOC Entering from Stage-Left O.R.C.A.]

It was a Sunny Sunday morning in Arroyo Verde, a burb of San Angelo, where Military Industrialist Erik Olson is driving his van to a business meeting at Helix Technologies. Whistling an old sea chanty Erik becomes concerned when he hears sirens from a rapidly approaching squad car in his rear-view mirror.

Erik quickly pulls over to the curb out of the Police's way. "I wonder whats up," thinks Erik. He reachs over and turns on his police scanner, quickly finding the proper frequency.

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Spyder, clinging to the side of the flying 'rocket' smiling and waits until they get to Helix. He looks over at Kiro and yells over the roar of the rocket "This is great! I love this super-hero business!"

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Spyder, Shade, Kiro, Centurion and Ringmaster arrive at Helix Technologies just a few seconds later. The building is nearly completely surrounded by San Angelo police cruisers. There appear to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 or 30 cruisers located around the building. Police officers stand behind the cars, using them as cover. Several have weapons drawn and pointed at the building, including a few with high powered rifles. As you watch, a couple of vans with the letters PART on the sides, enter the parking lot with a squeal of tires. There appears to be no activity happening around the immediate vicinity of the building (i.e. nothing out of the ordinary, except for all the police presence). The PART squad members, totalling nine, exit one of the vans through doors in the back. They are followed by another squad member moments later, possibly Lieutenant House, the PART commander. They appear to be dressed in combat armor and are armed with what appear to be high powered weapons.

(OOC: PART stands for Paranormal Alert Response Team, an elite squad that is called in to handle incidents that involve superpowered suspects. They are known to employ special devices made by high-tech labs. Most PART squad members have other jobs within the San Angelo Police Department which PART is actually a division of. They usually dispatch two vans to any situation, one carrying squad members and one used to transport any captured supers. The Lieutenant in charge of PART, Jerry House, usually accompanies any team that is dispatched. They carry a variety of regular and high-tech equipment and usually wear kevlar vests and black fatigues.)

O.R.C.A. sits for a moment near the side of the road listening to the police scanner. As far as he can tell, the police believe that one or several persons are inside the Helix Technologies building on some sort of a rampage. They have had reports from a few escaping employees that they heard bestial growling. The police seem unsure whether to believe that some sort of beast or beasts are actually inside and are unsure how to proceed. They have dispatched a PART squad to the site. Erik is just a few minutes away from the Helix building. While listening, he sees something passing overhead. Looking up, he believes he sees several people flying in the direction of the Helix building. One of the individuals seems to be carrying another and three more look to be riding on a large bottle rocket, complete with some sort of seats attached to it.

 

[Samnell]

"That was SO cool!" Sam enthuses as he parts from Centurion. "We have to fly more often." Looking around he sees all the police. The heat starts to get to him and he shifts into shadow form while standing in the light, so instead of disappearing he just seems to turn black and translucent. He sighs quietly in relief.

"That's better. I'm going to go on ahead and see what's going on inside." If no one objects, he looks for a shadowy spot along the side of the building or better yet a shadowy window and uses Centurion's shadow to get him there.

 

[Set Harth]

O.R.C.A. sits for a moment near the side of the road listening to the police scanner. As far as he can tell, the police believe that one or several persons are inside the Helix Technologies building on some sort of a rampage. They have had reports from a few escaping employees that they heard bestial growling. The police seem unsure whether to believe that some sort of beast or beasts are actually inside and are unsure how to proceed. They have dispatched a PART squad to the site. Erik is just a few minutes away from the Helix building. While listening, he sees something passing overhead. Looking up, he believes he sees several people flying in the direction of the Helix building. One of the individuals seems to be carrying another and three more look to be riding on a large bottle rocket, complete with some sort of seats attached to it.

"Hmm, other superheroes responding to the call. Well since my meeting seems to be canceled" Erick chuckles to himself. "I'll just go give those boys a hand."

Swiviling away from the dashboard Erik turns to van's cabin. He rolls his wheelchair forward to the largest cabinet mounted inside.

"Voice Print Recognize. Cmdr. Erik Olson, password Omega Beta Charlie."

Warm female voice responds "Voice Print Confirmed, Access Granted"

The cabinet door slides open to reveal an imposing armored form, patterned in black and white to resemble a killer whale. Erick reaches in and press a code upon the keypad embeded in one of the suits gauntlets. With slight wurring noise the armour shell's front half telescopes away allowing Erik to clamber inside. A second keycode closes the armor sealing him in. Pushing his wheelchair out of the way, since it is no longer needed, Erik opens the vans roof and uses his magnetic replusers to fly out of the van and then head onward to the Helix Tech Campus.