The Good, The Bad and The Spandex

Taken by surprise by the 'flying car' War Crime is indeed knocked off his target. He's even somewhat hurt, but his fury carries him on. He snarls, as he considers what to do next-

-and then he arrived.

It was a presence that could not be ignored. Physically, he was most people's idea of perfection: long brown hair, muscular build, and barely-there clothes. But even if he wasn't your type, he had an aura- both literal and invisible- that sort of made you feel- awe in his vicinity.

Even War Crime actually hesitated at the sight, and cursed under his breath.

Fear not, citizens! GOD-King is here!!" he boasted, standing there amid the debris, as if all of this was just his personal stage. "From far away, I felt the threat that menaced you. And I traveled far and long! But I'm here now- and I WILL save you!!"

"You! Old foe! I see you are still up to your old tricks. Well then. Let's put an end to them, once and for all!"

And with that, he charged... at Dragoknight?

And Then There's This Jackass

Maria hauls herself to her feet, ready to keep fighting War Crime... and then Mister Loud puts in an appearance.

"Did... did he just call himself God-King? I mean, that takes some balls."

Her brow furrows.

"Wonder what his pedigree is."

She then watches as he lunges for Drago-knight, who she honestly missed entering the battle, what with her being occupied by War Crime.

"Er. Who's the good guy here?"

She mentally shrugs, then squares back up with the stunned War Crime. Seeing him taken aback, she uses the opportunity and slashes at him again, her sword whistling through the air as she attacks.

Downtown—SAY HEY KID

"Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph..." Death Grip grumbled and sighted down his rifle at the flying douchebag. He'd seen people like God-King before, and the janky electronics stuck in his spine were at least impeding it for the time being. They'd probably only delay the effect, unfortunately, unless Death Grip started getting way more focused and self-interested.

"Look, it's like this..." Der Greivier hovered in a cone in front of him, staying defensive and socking any civilians that got too close. "I think the douchebag that's flyin' around and givin' orders's prolly our target, even if he isn't War Crime. Reverb, I'm thinking me and Doppelganger're gonna have some juice for ya!" He opened fire in a series of short controlled bursts aimed at War Crime's center mass—had to test it out, after all, and hopefully Reverb would catch on and suck in the gunshots.

Eris

Downtown.

The witch seized the chance. The lessened grip, the sludge and the water made her slippery. She pushed herself out. It was at this point that Simon would probably regret his choice. She wouldn't miss that expression from his face. Who could blame him? Running away away at this point would be so easy. But she didn't."

The first thing she did was to heal herself from the bite and her other wounds with a golden light that covered her body. The second was to cast the spell. She snapped her fingers. The heroes would now be able to notice that the pigs became human again.

She was a deity of her word.

"All of them are boring humans now," She told Simon. "But I'm not responsible for that one. She was like that long before I arrived," she pointed her head at Pollutrix.

The heroes would notice that a large group of civilians was grouped together. They didn't seem to be afraid at all. All of them now wearing costumes, dancing in a perfectly synchronized choreography. It was at this time that Michael Jackson's Thriller could be heard.

“Aren't they great? Consider that my, first, Halloween gift," she gave a wide grin looking at the dancers from the sky.

edited 26th Oct '16 6:46:21 PM by FallenLegend

Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.

Downtown Doppelganger's face lights up, then there is suddenly a block of 20 or so Doppelgangers standing outside the car, dual wielding A Ks

"WE'RE GOING LOUD!"

Suddenly, 40 rifles, accompanied by 21 screaming Irishmen, begin firing roughly in the direction of Death Grip's target, full auto.

"Get out of my head. Either that or pay rent."

Downtown Easton

As soon as the car stopped, Lodestone looked at some cop-wannabe and then turned his attention to someone called God-King, he thought to himself At least he'll work as bait, the stupid bugger. Then, he looked as his compatriots opened fire at the target in their general direction, aimed his gauss cannon, and fired it with a booming noise as a large magnetically-accelerated projectile exiting the barrel, THOOM.

"I treasure every day with you, darling." "No need to be so sappy, love." "You know that's how she is, Nia." - AU!Pyra, Nia, Mythra

Under Pressure Gunfire

Whether or not her attack on War Crime hits, Maria is suddenly fired on, what with being between him and the Clown Squad

"GOOD LORD! STOP SHOOTING ME!"

She dive-rolls for cover behind the nearest car.

edited 26th Oct '16 7:06:59 PM by BluBeriPi

Sky

Simon almost panicked when Dark Witch slipped free. But then, to his amazement, she did turn the pigs back into people!

And then made them dance.

He harrumphed. She was still a threat. To her people were toys, and for all he knew killing them all would be her next game.

So once again, he tackled her. "Rebecca! Back me up!!" he shouted at Pollutrix.

Ground

"GODDAMIT WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!" Jones shouted at the villains. "You can't shoot like that you might hit an innocent!!" and he gestured at the rest of the TALOS agents to aim at the criminals, though not to open fire yet.

Downtown - Collateral Damage

To Pollutrix's surprise, Eris actually did turn the pigs back despite escaping Simon's grasp. And the freaking bitch was still insulting her. Great. At least the people were back to normal.

Or, wait, they were dressed pretty weird. Had they been in costumes before? It wasn't Halloween yet! And then they started dancing. Why weren't they running? And then the music started and Rebecca finally understood that this was Eris's doing. That's when Simon suddenly tackled the witch and called for backup.

"Okay, Simon, you might want to get clear! This isn't gonna be pretty!"

Pollutrix was done playing around. Using her powers, she reached out to the sewer line under the street, bringing sewage up with enough force to burst through the street directly underneath Eris and create a massive geyser.

edited 26th Oct '16 8:56:42 PM by PossiblyQuiteInsane

Downtown

"Angelos, now is NOT the- Oh damnit!"

And the two engaged in battle, with chaos and violence and deary me erupting all around them. What happened? Rocket goddamn fists happened, that's what. Dragoknight had rocket elbows and rocket heels and his fists and feet exploded and he laid a rapid fire combo. With fire. And explosions.

Downtown - Shoot First

Reverb shrugged to Agent Jones prior to the guns coming out, "Helping?" She offered before the arrival of another, dazzling opponent. His appearance was impressive, if completely bizarre and screamingly homoerotic. Every word was laced with so much hammy bravado she wanted to laugh at him, dangerous or no. In fact, she would almost definitely have done so if it wasn't for a sudden, alien sensation that this 'God-King' was 'the good guy' of the situation. Gian's yelling was enough to snap her out of this for a moment and absorbed the sound of the bullets.

Sally inexplicably felt like she was about to do something very wrong but that wasn't going to stop her. She'd spent most of her adult life do things she knew were wrong, after all. Reverb released the biggest shock-wave she could muster, boosting it with the sounds she had absorbed and directing the blast straight at God-King.

edited 26th Oct '16 8:40:07 PM by Lt.BGob

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Downtown - Confused Robot

Scythe was, to put it lightly, confused.

This wasn't an emotion he felt very often, honestly. He had felt sadness and disappointment, happiness and joy, but he had only been confused a few times before. It took a lot to befuddle him. He had been, after all, made to deal with the unexpected.

Granted, that programming hadn't covered what one should do when a random stranger dropped out of the sky and got into a fight with the human you had just been ordering to stop a few seconds ago.

The man in brass armor had calmed the rioting crowd, which had been a good thing. But before Sy could say anything, someone calling himself God King had appeared. And then there was gunfire. Lots and lots of gunfire.

Scythe was familiar with that, of course. Ignoring the now battling Armored Man and God King, he dashed towards the row of identical humans. If they kept on firing, they would hurt or even kill someone. That was not good.

Wooze looks at Glass with a 'please take her away' look

Downtown: cluster, err, cluck

War crime was still human enough to realize that fighting Arthuria, God-King AND Dragoknight at the same time would be a very bad idea, even for him.

So he 'strategically retreated' by flying up, up and away.

"NO!" Agent Jones snapped. "He's getting away!!"

"Damn you, this is your fault!!" he yelled at the Black Flamingo criminals. But instead of opening fire on them, he used his comm: "Jones here! War crime is escaping! All TALOS units track him NOW!!"

Meanwhile, God-King was struck by Reverb's sonic blast. *Whunf* he went for a moment. "Who dares?" he said, turning around, strangely calmer than you'd expect. "Oh. A woman? Wait your turn, wench" he said, in a condescending tone, and went back to wrestling with Dragoknight.

Dragoknight shoved God-King back, a shape like a water pot forming over his hands. He pointed them at the ground, licking flames from the rim.

"Oh, I do not have time for you, Stanley!" Green fire shot at the ground, enveloping them both in a thick plume of inferno. It did not spread much further then them however, such was Dragoknight's control over his fire.

Dragoknight shot of the ball of flame, something like a cross between a jet and dragonfly wings coming out of his back, along with something like a jet engine propelling him forward. He took to the skies, chasing after War Crime.

edited 27th Oct '16 3:20:43 PM by God_of_Awesome

Downtown - Anti-air tactics

There were a lot of people in the air now, and Doppelganger's clones were running out of bullets. He didn't know who ear crime was, so he tried a new tactic.

All the clones disappeared, and were replaced, and then some. 50 clones in a block, all guns pointed at a spot in the air in front of the group. A hundred rifles fired at anything disobeying gravity.

Meanwhile, Doppelganger's ears were ringing. As it turns out, guns are LOUD. He found a bag of ballistic earplugs on the floor of the car, and stuck them in.

edited 27th Oct '16 12:48:02 PM by Fireybanana42

"Get out of my head. Either that or pay rent."

"Stanley??" God-King snapped, "How dare you call me-"

But then Dragoknight took off. The green fireblast didn't harm the self-styled 'perfect man' much, but he was still pissed. "Come back here, you COWARD!" he shouted at his flying foe, misunderstanding his motives.

Agent Jones, on the other hand, was happy someone was giving chase to War Crime.

And then Doppelganger started shooting *again*.

"What!? Goddamit STOP SHOOTING you ***holes!!" Seriously didn't these people know that bullets fall down and ricochet? "TALOS open fire !!"

And the agents did, shooting not only at the doubles but also at Death Grip, Reverb and the other villains. At least they were using stun bullets.

Meanwhile above, Simon got hit by the bullet shower. "Ouch!" was his reaction. Once again, he was happy his current demon form was so tough. He recognized the shooter as the Duplicator he had encountered the other day. Was this an act of revenge, or just mistaking him for an actual monster?

Fortunately, he saw some people (TALOS) dealing with them, so he went back to struggling with Dark Witch.

edited 27th Oct '16 1:20:12 PM by Sijo

Thoroughly Confused

"Er. Hmm. Screw it."

Seeing DK and WC fly away, Maria gives up on taking to the air. She shrugs, then, decides to banter with God King from a safe distance.

"Ayy, sleaze bag! What's your schtick?"

Downtown

Lodestone was aiming for another round at the target, whoever it was, until he looked at anyone who wasn't a drunken Irishman screaming and shooting and would have spoken to them if they were shooting the right target but said drunken screaming Irishmen made it hard to get his word out. He would hardly notice the TALOS agents trying to stop them by force when he began to fire off a few more rounds, aiming at the one retreating.

"I treasure every day with you, darling." "No need to be so sappy, love." "You know that's how she is, Nia." - AU!Pyra, Nia, Mythra

Eris

‘’’Downtown—Chaos abounds’’’

The witch casted a circular shield made of shadow to protect herself from the sudden barrage of bullets. Many of the civilians under her spell weren't so lucky... Falling down at the kiss of lead.

However Simons' tackle shook her; it broke her shadow spell. His strength pushed her just below the Geisher. The big explosion pushed her up on the air, until she fell down again. Her stomach was facing the ground below. Most of her hair covered her face.

Chaos flourished. Even if her body was still in pain, her laughter would be heard to anyone around. The heroes had caused a bigger commotion than herself.

“I can feel it. There is chaos in your heart”–She showed a slashing smile –“You know, Maybe you aren’t so bad after all,” she told Pollutrix.

As she tried to stand up, she used the water from the urban made géiser to form several ice spears, more than 40, for each hero. Their pointy ends coming towards Pollutrix and Simon, like a speeding arrow.

Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.

As War Crime and Dragoknight flew away, Doppelganger and Lodestone kept shooting, to no effect except hurting a few of the dancing civilians. In turn, TALOS' shower (of stun bullets) kept popping Doppelganger's doubles (who had acted like a living wall so far) like soap bubbles- soon they would reach the villains themselves!

Meanwhile, Simon, deciding that Dark Witch had to be stopped once and for all, hit her with all his demonic strength, hoping to knock her out.

Finally, God-King looked at Arthuria condescendingly, and then ignored her.

edited 28th Oct '16 1:02:35 PM by Sijo

Downtown Dance

"Yeah, well, nice to meet you too."

Giving up on God King as a thoroughly lost cause, Maria moves her attention to the firing clown squad.

"Dang. Honestly, not helping all that much, are they?"

Making a decision, She circles around in back of them, and tries to get anyone's attention.

Downtown - More than meets the Eye

Scythe dodges to the side, a few rubber bullets slamming into him, although they don't really do any damage to him. He notices the red-headed girl with the sword behind the clown car and focuses on her, his head tilting inquisitively.

The robot starts to move towards her, retracting his blade arm so as not to seem like a threat. As far as he could tell, she had been fighting what some of the people had referred to as a villain- and with a name like War Crime, he must not have been a good guy.

He, naturally, ignored the Talos agents and God King, and pretty much everyone else, including Doppleganger's clones (now that they were being popped, of course.)

Wooze looks at Glass with a 'please take her away' look

Downtown - Chaos Reigns

Pollutrix watched with joy as her geyser threw Eris into the air and she quickly fell to the ground. Disappointingly, the witch stopped in mid-air before hitting the concrete. Then Eris started laughing and said something about Pollutrix having chaos in her heart, whatever that meant.

Although, looking around and seeing the large crater in the street which was still spewing sewage into the air and making a huge mess of the block, Rebecca had to admit that she had caused more property damage then the actual supervillains. Oops. Wait a minute, she recognized this place... she lived on this block! Her apartment was in that building right there! Crap! She hoped she hadn't accidentally damaged her own home.

Stopping the geyser, Pollutrix looked back at Eris to see spears of ice being shot at her and Simon. But she could feel that this wasn't ordinary ice, it was frozen sewage. And frozen sewage was still sewage. Pollutrix effortlessly redirected the ice into the identical assholes who were filling the sky with lead. She didn't need the possibility of her apartment getting shot up, she already had enough to deal with.

edited 28th Oct '16 3:19:51 PM by PossiblyQuiteInsane

Downtown

Doppelganger hadn't really hit anything in a productive way, and he was getting shot, so he decided it was time to go. He deepened the mob of clones in the direction of the agents, making a wall between them and the villain squad. To Death Grip and Reverb he said, via clone.

"Oi, this shite is getting out of hand, I think it's time we get goin'. "

"Get out of my head. Either that or pay rent."

Downtown - Questions Later

"WENCH!?" Reverb managed to exchange through laughter, clearly astonished and offended. She was also clearly disappointed that the combination of her friends' bullets and her own shock-wave had only served to mildly annoy the semi-naked God-King. She turned to Gian, "Well that didn't help and now I want to murder him more than ever..." She sighed, glaring at Agent Jones and his cronies, "Hey! They're not destroying the city anymore, assholes!" Heroic types and, it seemed, government agents really lacked perspective on such matters. "Oh great... MORE BULLETS REALLY HELP, GUYS!" She yelled at the TALOS agents, frustrated with the whole situation, "Last time I try and do something good..."

Fortunately they were only stun bullets and Doppelganer's doubles were absorbing most of them, "Yeah, let's get in the car..." She agreed with the Irish criminal. Sally had an idea to stem the tide, absorbing any further sounds from Agent Jones and then mimicking his voice - the merc projected her imitation to the TALOS lackeys from what would sound like Jone's position, " CEASE FIRE! CEASE FIRE!" The voice demanded. Reverb spotted the red haired woman with the impressive sword trying to get their attention, "Who the hell are you?"

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”