World of Heroes -- Reboot

Hitting the ground was painful but Charity got to her feet quickly. Looking over her shoulder, she checked on the other supers.
"You guys okay?"

Red Cap's swearing brought her attention back to the girl.

"You know, it's really not fair that you get to throw people around but when I shock you a little, I'm the bitch." Charity smirked, shifting her weight into a more steady stance and building another charge in her skin. She wasn't faster than Mrs Claus, but the least she could do was make sure if she did get hit it would hurt. And if she could land a hit with the panels, then that would be good too.

As Charity was getting another charge revved up, Red Cap had regained enough of her bearings — enough to come to the conclusion that if she touched Charity, she would get hurt. So, she promptly grabbed a small nearby tree, ripped straight out of the ground, and hurled it straight at Charity like a javelin. "See ya' on the other side, bitch!", she yelled, once again in that deeper, darker voice.

Shit!

Charity made a duck to the side. She'd give Sexy-Santa-Gone-Horribly-Wrong one thing - she was smart enough not to make the same mistake twice.

Thankfully, Charity had ducked at just the right time, and just at the right angle, so that the tree flew just past her. "Fine...," grumbled Red Cap. Putting her right hand to her side, she drew out her small knife once again. "Can't touch me if I'm not hitting you, 'least directly, huh?" She then lunged straight at Charity, with her knife at the forefront. Her voice now 'sweet' again, she screamed, "Nighty-nighty!"

edited 13th May '12 7:40:29 AM by kkhohoho

Dax was living large. One whole year in the distant past and he finally had an government paid apartment, a car, and even a driving license. Sure he didn't have much in the way in furniture (Who needs a couch anyway?), but as he was cruising the city in his car dressed in a blue pinstripe suit and tie Dax felt like a king. Now all he needed to find was some trouble and it would be a perfect day.

I love the past. Dax thought

edited 13th May '12 7:38:49 AM by zam

"What the hell is with your voice?!" Charity yelped as she dodged, missing the knife by barely a centimetre. This girl was too fast for her - unless she made the stupid mistake of trying to touch her she'd be screwed.

Great idea leaving the guns to get the grapple.

"How about some electrotherapy to get that brain in order!" Keeping her eyes trained on Scary-Santa, the electro hoped that the other supers were coming up with a plan to help her. She hadn't been stabbed in a long while - and it wasn't an experience she wanted to repeat.

Especially not with Miss "Sugar And Crazy-as-Coco-Puffs" here.

"Gonna regret this," Wildcard said as he approached the side of a building near the battle, "Hey Medium, think you can handle something extra-large?" he called out to Matthew. He jumped, but instead of vertically as usual, he launched himself horizontally by using the building as a springboard, using the angular momentum to bring his feet forward in the brief instant he was airborne. He zeroed in on a nearby fire hydrant.

edited 13th May '12 9:08:58 AM by nman

A laugh echoed through the crater. Slowly, Lucunditas got up, opening his jacket, revealing his bare chest. He looked at Isaac with a grin, standing up:

"You don't think I would call myself a superhero if I couldn't survive a fall?"

He was grinning, but he wasn't entirely OK. He felt pain in every single member of his body, and there was a bit of blood dripping from his mouth. Still, he wasn't the dead. Looks like that injection did make his body more resistant to fall damage. He then coughed, his hand slowly going to his pocket. If Isaac attacked him again, he wouldn't be able to resist, and would probably be captured by him. He needed to use the external help he got.

"S-so... tell me... Isy. Why do you want to kill me? Is it because of our little... chase... a few months ago?"

He pressed a red button on a small black box in his pocket, and hoped that they didn't take long. The fall had already injured him... and he knew he needed something else to defeat Isaac.

"Can't kill you now," Isaac stated, slightly impressed that Lucunditas was able to survive the fall, albeit with apparently great injury. "I'm a government employee."

With that, Isaac jumped up once more and began flying again, reverting his blade arm into a normal one for stability. Not leaving the unregistered superhuman behind, Isaac launched a tendril from his chest that would wrap around Lucunditas' body in the same way someone grasps a handful of sand. Isaac's intent was to carry the defenseless man under him to the MPD and let them handle him.

edited 13th May '12 11:23:19 AM by Insano

Lucunditas watched as Isaac jumped into the sky. He immediately jumped back, trying to dodge the tendrils, and raised his arms, screaming at his enemy:

"There's just one problem, Isy! We're on bad territory! For me, and for you!"

Once he said that, multiple black cars appeared, driving towards the crater. Once they reached the area where the two were fighting, gang members left their cars, all of them wearing black coats and fedoras. Carrying various types of weapons, they soon pointed all they had towards the two. A young, blonde man, also wearing a fedora, stepped out of one car, pulling out a megaphone:

"Heyo, supers! We're the Spanish Inquisition, and no one expects us! Guess what?! A lot of people want you guys dead! FIRE!"

Once he yelled that, one of the gang members threw a smoke grenade at Lucunditas, which immediately activated, clouding the entire area in smoke. The other gang members began to fire their submachine guns and pistols at Isaac, not even caring if they were going to hit the flying superhero. The blonde man entered the smoke cloud, approaching Lucunditas, and whispering:

"Hey, dude!

"Spanish Inquisition?... That was stupid, Lucas."

"Sure, whatever."

"But you didn't take too long to come, so thanks, anyway."

"Well, I was watching Nickelodeon, and I forgot to record what I was watching, so when we get back to headquarters you're going to get me the latest Korra episode. And it was during the best part too!"

"Lucas! Focus!"

"Oh, yeah."

He took Lucunditas by his arm until they left a bit of the smoke cloud. In front of them was another car belonging to the gang. Lucunditas entered it, and Lucas pulled up his megaphone:

"Crap! Code 240, folks! One of the supers got our car!"

As Lucunditas stepped on the pedal and began to drive away, the gang members near him pressed a small switch on their guns, and began to fire rubber bullets at him, while the others continued to fire real bullets at Isaac.

Spanish Inquisition? That joke's older than their mothers. Isaac thought as the obvious gang members opened fire. Isaac remained in the air, the bullets fired at him not really strong enough to do any damage to him. In any case, Isaac transformed his arms into shields to protect his head and torso.

Isaac was unable to spot Lucunditas' location until the blond man with the megaphone yelled that Lucunditas was driving away in one of their cars. The car itself was easy to spot, since it was being fired upon.

   "Thanks for the heads-up!"    Isaac yelled down at the blond man. Releasing another boost of blood, Isaac easily flew out of the gangsters' range in pursuit of Lucunditas. Isaac reverted his shields into arms as he got closer to the car, and transformed them into the whips that got both of them into this cat-and-mouse game, swinging the blades at Lucunditas' car.

And so, Lucunditas drove off into the distance, trying his best to get away from the shape-changing madman hunting him down, who also eventually started whipping at his car. But within mere minutes, as the car continued to lose it's pursuer, and as the pursuer intently tried to keep up with the car, they came by a rather interesting sight; a teenage girl in a Santa Claus outfit fighting off fellow superbeings — most of which Isacc had seen just this morning. And at that moment, one of them — Wildcard — had just cracked open a fire-hydrant...

edited 13th May '12 2:02:02 PM by kkhohoho

Once Isaac flew towards the car, the gang members stopped shooting, and retreated back into their cars. Lucas simply watched the entire chase, with a look on his face that could only be described into a single phrase:

"Oh, Jack's going to kill me."

He hopped into the back of his car, motioning for one of the gang members to start driving. Isaac's whips managed to hit the back of Lucunditas' car, and the fleeing superhero attempted to shake Isaac off his tail. As Lucas' car followed them, a small hole opened on top of the car, and Lucas appeared, holding what looked like a mix of a rocket launcher and a machine gun:

"Alright, time to use the BFGWSFTP!"

Lucunditas looked at the girl wearing the Santa Claus costume, and then at the rearview mirror. He immediately let go of the vehicle's controls and kicked the door open, trying to jump out of the car just as Lucas fired a rocket at Isaac.

Isaac had almost torn off the top of Lucunditas' car when the rogue superhuman kicked open his door. Isaac was about to use his other hand to strike Lucunditas when he heard a familiar whistle getting louder and louder as it approached him.

Having done this several times before in more hostile situations, Isaac moved his attention from Lucunditas to the incoming rocket, spinning his body two revolutions. The first revolution was spent catching the rocket, and the last of the second one had Isaac throwing the rocket back at its launcher.

edited 13th May '12 6:31:27 PM by Insano

Dax just found the the trouble he was looking for, some dudes were duking it out near a park while some some chick in a Santa suit was making mischief with some other dudes including Wildcard.

I'll take care of that later. Dax thought. Meanwhile.

"Hey! You two slagheads!" Dax shouted out the window of his car."Who should I thrash first?!"

edited 13th May '12 3:38:00 PM by zam

As Lucas drove away he heard a small beep in his head, "You find something Ibbie?", "No...but it appears that someone has found us out. I dont know how, but whoever they are they must have broken through my defenses. However they left us a message.", she said a slight tinge of anger in her voice. She repeated the message to Lucas, his expression changing when he heard about the jail break.

"So...what do you think?", "Depends. Theres several scenarios that could occur. One is that if the guy is telling us the truth, we go in and help, and he lets us escape the Feds. Another is that he is tellng the truth about the break in, but afterwards tries to capture us. If not then this could all be a trap. Either way it involves getting close to a government facility designed to contain...us. For now we have a few hours to tell Strix and the others about it and then think it over. In the meantime try and see if you can get floorplans, blueprints, news images, tourist photos or something that can tell us about the facility.", he said as he drove, passing near the park.

Charity could hear a lot of stuff going on around her. However, it was the loud cracking sound, followed by what was probably water that was worrying her. Not as much as Satan Claus over there but it was unnerving.

Affording a side glance, she saw that Wildcard had ripped open a fire hydrant.

This knowledge did not soother her nerves.

"Hey kid!" Wildcard yelled to Charity as the water started to rain, "Fry that bitch!" With that, he leaped up onto an awning and then jumped across to a fire escape - both to try not to get completely drenched, as well as to no longer be electrically connected to the others.

However, as soon as Isaac touched the rocket, Lucas grinned, pressing a button on the rocket launcher. Before Isaac could throw it back, the rocket exploded in Isaac's hands. Lucunditas, however, didn't wait to see if the rocket had injured or, hopefully, destroyed Isaac, and he proceeded to touch the car's doors, his entire body becoming metal, and he jumped out of the car, curled up in a ball, hoping that Isaac would just ignore him.

"Damn looks like those guys didn't hear me now i'll have to fight the Santa chick and.."

Dax turned to the brawl at the street. "This day may get interesting yet." With that Dax steered his car towards the street.

Second times the charm.

"Hey you slagheads!"

edited 13th May '12 6:20:21 PM by zam

Aldawolf looks at the commotion fight below, seeing all the newcomers. Thinking it is now a good time to intervene, he drops down from the rooftop above, falling towards the ground. Before hitting the ground, a green beam shoots out from his palms and feet, slowing his fall. He gently lands on the ground below, a green aura surrounding his hands. He points one of his palms at the Santa freak, his eyes glowing green from the energy. He holds out a palm, pointed towards the Santa chick. "Eat this, you bitch!" He let's loose a ball of plasma, hurling towards the Santa figure.

When the water started coming down Charity shot Santa's Little Psycho the nastiest grin she could muster as she ducked down, putting the plates of her gloves onto the now wet floor, and letting the water -and Evil Santa- form part of her circuit.

As the water flew out of the hydrant, a strong ,"FU—" from Red Cap was quickly stifled by the blast of water from the hydrant. Quickly, she put her hands to her face, wiping the water away from her eyes whilst grumbling various obscene curses — only to see a bright green ball of energy fire at her when her eyesight was clear. And by the time she was able to see once more, there was no time to dodge. At the same time, Charity decided to blast the now-wet Red Cap with her own bolt of electricity.

"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKGGGGGGYYYYYYOOOOOUUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!"

There was no contest. The sheer jolt from the water-amplified electricity was already damaging enough as is, but the green ball of energy only further added to the assault. When all was said and one, Red Cap found herself bruised, battered, and burned, straight on the payment, with her now frayed suit looker worse for wear itself.

After a time, she spoke again in a horse whisper, her voice that of her child-like self. "I... only-wonly... wanted to find's... my sweet... widdle... Anima...", and with her last word, her voice changed once more, to spit out one final, "''Bastard's..."

And with that, Red Cap, while not dead, immediately drifted into unconsciousness...

edited 13th May '12 6:48:22 PM by kkhohoho

Matthew landed on the other side of the street. He had no desire to get wet, or electrocuted. He hadn't seen any obvious weaknesses, so he could only hope this impromptu plan of the other supers worked. He just wished it didn't involve so much collateral damage. The liaison agents were not going to be happy about this one.

"Do you think this will stop her?" Kara asked.

"We'll see," Matthew answered, watching the girl in red closely as the attacks converged on her. Thankfully, they seemed to do the trick, and the girl collapsed to the ground.

Walking up to the girl's unconscious body, Matthew produced a pair of handcuffs and cuffed the girl. "Good work," he told the other supers.

edited 13th May '12 6:41:15 PM by TotemicHero

Wildcard bounced off of the fire escape and landed next to Matthew, and poked the unconscious girl with his cane. "Hey, uhhh, you sensing anything? She was yelling some pretty crazy shit at you about possession, and I'd hate for her to turn into some crazy ghost monster while we're hauling her ass back."