It's a F-ing BLIMP, gravity drive or no. You should be able to f-ing catch it even without shutting down the engine. If not, why'd you pick a name that implies flying well? Or does she mean hold the whole thing up? "
You shouldn't need to hold the thing up, just catch anything that falls out."
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We'll have to be careful because of the bomb vests. I was thinking of blasting a hole so the people fall out, then if they explode the blimp and anyone else will still be okay. Then our gravity controller can catch them in a power before they hit."
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I'll need more time to set up the cutting shots though. Once they start to go, your guitar thing could peel back the parts I cut..."
Megan waves a hand, creating several orbs that orbit near the bottom of the blimp. Each programmed to merge with any specialized cutting plasma patterns, to add extra juice to the planned attempt to breach the gondola.
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Apollo and I can be back before you count to 5, Nitro. And Hope can make ice."
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Trigger to combined attack with anything she uses.
Not a 1, so it should be able to help if she goes through with it.
Stealth check is
14
(No one beats 20 initiative? The totals overall seem pretty sorry. We have bonuses, right?
At least the baddies seem to be starting off with poor luck too.)
Star sets the shots up. The blimp is actually moving quite fast. It will be over land in a round or two. A blimp is a blimp, but a gravity drive is a gravity drive. It is headed towards the boardwalk, which is full of large hotels and casinos.
It does not seem that the crew can see Star. They just seem to be piloting the thing, reducing altitude gradually.
Nitro and Optic delay, waiting for a ride.
Wren braces himself and extends his ring. Thousands of energy strands pour out of it, filling the stadium. Most of the people are bound by the strands of cosmic energy, which turn into grey metal as the energy fades.
Hope creates a massive wall to keep in the rest.
Meanwhile, Star's second set of shots combine with her first set to cut the floor out of the blimp under the three terrorists.
Skylark arrives as well, and is easily able to seize control of the gravity drive. Using her mass sense, she realizes that the balloon portion is much heavier than it should be. She suspects that it does not contain helium like it should...thus the need for a gravity drive.
The bombers try to hold on, but after a few seconds, fall through the floor. Then something strange happens. They do not seem to take any particular action, but their vests detonate, and quite separately the baloon exploses in a massive fireball.
Skylark, Apollo, and Star are caught in the explosions. Skylark's force field protects her from the main blasts, but she gets hit by shrapnel from the bombers (2 injuries/bruises). Star is surprisingly unlucky, getting caught in the main explosion despite her amazing speed, and taking a shrapnel hit too (twice stunned, injured/bruised). She is blasted clear form the explosion, and barely manages to float to the water (hp to reroll the concentration check). Apollo fares exactly the same. The flaming blimp crashes into the river, its momentum carrying it almost to the shore. Its edge lands a mere 100 yards or so from the Southside Palace, the largest hotel and casino in Freedom City. Had Skylark not taken control of the gravity drive, it would have hit.
