Coco Adel - City Hall
"I hope that potted plant of your can pierce armor!" Coco stated as she leaped towards the bouncing grenades. She wasn't sure just how tough or fast the gardener or the blonde woman were, and she would prefer not to find out by subjecting them to grenades. That meant there was only one safe place to store those grenades: the wardrobe of her mind.Diving towards them, Coco threw her body onto the grenades to try and shield them from her comrades. Very much the picture of a hero in an old wartime movie, if it weren't for her preferring to store the grenades away rather than let them detonate under her.
Shalltear Bloodfallen - With Monica and Crenshaw
Shalltear followed along with Monica. She was a bit out of her element with urban fighting tactics and she knew she wasn't completely familiar with combat in this setting so she took her lead for now. Evaluating her companions she was fairly certain that she herself was the most powerful one of their group. They came across a couple more people, these were from that military base judging by their uniforms. It vaguely reminded Shalltear of Pandora's Actor..
These people probably considered them civilians. "There is another man and a large insectoid in the area. There was a need to contain this enemy incursion so some of us have come to assist. If our ranged weapons are ineffective you all should allow me to take the lead in the fight." She opened her mouth up wide to clearly display her enlarged vampire fangs. "As you can see I am a vampire and I possess superior strength compared to a human "
edited 27th Aug '17 6:06:48 PM by StephanReiken
Just another guy
Alya I City Hall 12th Floor I Initiating Evasive Maneu- Nope
Despite her familiar's first successful strike, they soon found themselves under hail of enemy gunfire. Being small of size and flying, they managed to dodge some of the hailing gunfire, but not all. And there's only so much these crystalized birds could endure before they would inevitably be destroyed under concentrated fire.
As evidenced by the various cracks appearing in one of them, threatening to fall apart, with the other one moderately damaged but not as worse. And with the element of surprise lost and the Clowns being very careful after the initial hit, the familiars have little luck trying to land another hit towards them. No good. At this rate, it might be best if she were to withdraw them for the moment and plan her next course of ac-
It was then that the door within the room the Clown were in burst open, and from it, came three people... with one of them just so happening to be the mayor. And the lady that's been hit on by Johnny.
Wait, why are they here?!
There was no time to waste, for at that moment, the Clowns attention were on the newcomers, if only for a very brief moment. She has no idea why they were here, but if they were here as civilians, at the very least, this would serve to distract the Clowns to but them time and give them a chance to escape or, on the off-chance that they're here for the same purpose as her, attack the Clowns simultaneously. And thus, both familiars shot themselves towards the two Clowns respectively once more.
The familiar that had targeted Wario was the one that was almost reaching its limits from the previous hail of gunfire and thus, regardless whether or not it hit its intended target(or it was intercepted by something else like, say, another volley of gunfire or makeshift cover), it would shatter immediately afterwards.
edited 28th Aug '17 5:11:29 AM by JustSomeGuy732
"A post per day keeps the GMs away!"
Railroad Tracks Near Army Base
The raven sent out by Tira would not immediately find where the two small men had gone. However, after some flying, it would see one of them appear inside one of the broken windows of the houses nearby (specifically, along the east face of the house just south from the one across from Garrus). The adversary seemed to be holding a somewhat rusty shovel, and he began to climb his way out. Although he briefly glanced at the bird circling above, he did not seem to react much to its presence. Once out, he would press himself against the wall, looking out for any signs of soldiers or vigilantes.
The bird would not find the other man’s whereabouts.
Southwest District: Monica, Crenshaw and Shalltear
The apparent squad leader simply listened as Shalltear spoke, seemingly unimpressed by her mentioning of being a vampire.
“If you’re sure you can take one or more of those jokers exploding in your face, lead the way.”
The soldiers nearby would continue occupying some of the buildings nearby, and some of them could be seen opening windows and looking out from them with their weapons at the ready.
The squad leader then turned to Crenshaw and Monica. “And what about you two?”
"Uhuh, they've been shooting at me for a while now. Thanks for the heads up though, honey." With that said, the man stopped focusing his attention on the phone call only to find that the so-called Toad was an obstinate chap. Seeing that his move had been somewhat successful in that the clown had been thrown off (though he was still clutched by the thing), the man decisively tried to will himself unstuck from the bike so that he wouldn't cause the vehicle to topple and harm the dame helping him out.
"Don't worry babe, if I wasn't good then I wouldn't have this clown hunting job, yanno?" Giving the professional stuntswoman a thumbs up even as he leaped up in an arc with the clown still latched onto his arm. An ordinary man would have simply not been able to use said appendage at all and would have had it either broken or dislodged from the sheer mass attached and trying to mess it up. Johnny though was made of sterner stuff, the stuff that dreams were made of.
"Alright you son of a banana cream pie eater... YOU'RE GOING DOWN, CLOWN!" Grunting with effort as his tendons popped out and squirmed all over like wriggling worms while he was straining to not buckle under the creepy thing, Johnny then flung his arm downwards as he descended to try to smash the things's head towards the nearest fire hydrant that had so conveniently popped up nearby, his jump angled towards the thing in an effort to cause great damage to the noggin or spine, whichever one came first.
edited 28th Aug '17 7:29:21 AM by Makaioh
Jaroline/Nepbike-Outside City Hall
Playing Around
Nepbike, noticing Johnny's desire to get off, undid her grip on him, and he jumped off to tackle the Toad on their tale.
"Arlight, what now!?" exclaimed Nepbike
"We run!"
"What!?"
"In circles!"
"... What!?"
Jaroline drove around the place, trying to distract the clowns
"Weewoo! Weewoo!"
Come on...
2 Spooky 4 U
Garrus examined the abandoned weapons and found nothing odd about them. Normal everyday Earth guns. Why would a Clown just leave these here? The same scum that create highly advance machines just for killing, want to perform genocide on all humans, and love to cause pain wouldn't take such deadly and loud tools? Even if they are sneaking and trying not to be found, it doesn't make sense. These two are peculiar for sure.
Done with this task Garrus spared a look at the capsule and then he took a knee. Looking through the Viper's scope and forward the houses, he explained to Tira his findings, "Whatever we are dealing it, it's clear that these two aren't very Clown like. Leaving the rifle? Ok, sure. The rocket launcher though? That's too much of a fun toy for any Clown to not bring."
edited 28th Aug '17 8:07:48 PM by LightToAll
Invalidating Coco's brave but entirely pointless sacrifice, Bethany branched off a vine from the main stem, and with the larger one tried to grab Coco and fling her backwards as far away from the inevitable blast as possible. The smaller vine would, at the same time, try to smack the grenades back in Clownio's direction.
As Garrus spoke, Tira's bird returned to her, and she walked over to Garrus.
He says he saw one of the weird guys over on the east side of the house to the south. Should probably look over there for-Ohhhh
Tira's eyes had suddenly caught sight of the rocket launcher.
We shoulden't just leave the guns here, and I've always wanted to try out one of these boom guns. Please please let me take it with me and use it on these guys? Please?
City Hall, 12th Floor
One of the grenades did get thrown back, though the other one was absorbed by Coco as was originally intended. The grenade bounced off the walls of the stairwell, before flying back towards Wario and Waluigi.
“Waah?!?”
“WAAAAAAH!”
The two Clowns instinctively attempted to dive down the stairway, though the Wario-Clown slammed right into the railing. Without much room to maneuver, the Wario-Clown would also be hit by Ayla’s familiar.
-KABOOOM!-
The explosion rang throughout the stairwell. The platform connecting to the twelfth floor began to crumble, and its rubble then began to fall near Coco and Yuuka’s position. When the rubble landed (assuming they were around to see it), Coco and Yuuka would see what remained of the Wario-Clown’s rubbery body and streamer insides. The arms and legs would twitch for a few seconds, but it was largely incapacitated.
The other woman briefly ran up after the explosion subsided, only to immediately turn back around and retreat.
The Waluigi-Clown, who had managed to elude Ayla’s other familiar, tumbled down the stairs, though once he got to the section midway between the eleventh and twelfth floors (and within view of Coco and Yuuka), he would quickly recover.
When he got up, he would aim his assault rifle at Coco and Yuuka, and then exclaim “Waluigi is number one!” before laughing and opening fire.
Near City Hall, Ground Level
“OW-WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW…!!” the Toad-Clown gibbered and screamed as it felt the brunt of the pain from hitting the fire hydrant, garbled by the pressurized water rushing into its face.
However, it would then scream “HWAAAAA-HAAAA-HAAAA-WHAAAAAA!!!” suddenly gain a burst of energy, and then attempt to press Johnny’s face into the water flow.
There was a slight dent where the Clown’s head hit the fire hydrant, and minor scratches here and there, but otherwise the Toad-Clown was largely intact.
“Was that even your best shot? I CAN’T EVEN FEEL ANYTHING! WHEEEE-HEEE-HEEE-HEEEEEW!!!”
Briefly letting to of Johnny Bravo for a moment (assuming he was still holding onto him), the Toad-Clown would spin around as if to perform some sort of awkward back-kick, but it would then spring itself up into the air. It would then lift its right leg out forward, and when the Toad-Clown began to approach the ground once more, it would bring its right leg down and attempt to drive its heel into whatever side of Johnny Bravo was currently facing up.
“I’M THE BEST!!!”
Unfortunately for Jaroline and Nepbike, their driving did not seem to distract any Clowns nearby, as the Toad-Clown was already being fully distracted by Johnny Bravo, and there did not appear to be any other Clowns within sight.
The sound of an explosion could be heard from within the City Hall building, presumably on the side where the main stairwell was.
Railroad Tracks Near Army Base
Aside from brief glimpses of the houses’ interiors, Garrus would not glean much about the un-Clownish adversaries’ positions from his scope.
"Say wha- ngharrrrrggggh!" Being forced into a fire hydrant's line of fire was not something Johnny wanted to happen even on a good day, not least of which due to the fact that the sheer water volume would mess up his fabulous do. Feeling the hairstyle wilt, the previously pompadoured man's countenance quickly grew grim even as he was sputtering and spitting out water, muscular frame now clad in wt clothes that showed off his bodybuilder musculature in its entirety.
"You -cough- don't mess... with the hair, honky!" Laying down in a heap to both regain energy and to wait for the Toad clown's guard to be dropped, Johnny then used his amazing core body strength to curl up so that his back was now hugging the ground and then slammed both feet towards the clown's unmentionables area with guiltless impunity as the thing let itself be wide open trying to perform the drop kick.
edited 29th Aug '17 9:14:36 AM by Makaioh
2 Spooky 4 U
Garrus removed himself from the scope, looked at Tira, and told her "Hmmmmm, tempting but no. Asides, using the explosive weapon near a cluster of houses ins't exactly the best choice. You know, just a hunch" and then the Viper was swapped for the Phaeston. While picking up the discarded rifle he went on with "Still, it's true that we should take these. Can use the rocket launcher for the truck" and then he offered the gun to Tira. "For some reason I have this idea that giving you a assault weapon is a bad move but I can only carry so much and I would prefer the person guarding my back to be armed with something more than a oversized ring.......You do know how to use one of these, right?"
Stop Killing My Titles
Space Bug
The clowns were definitely inside, or they have just left. Of course, a clown wouldn't be itself if it didn't leave without a parting gift. In that case, the parting gift was a grenade at the doorstep.
With an angry hiss, The Swarmlord kicked the explosive deeper inside the house as the remaining two Rippers clambered back on its back. Once the grenade exploded -presumably - the leading Tyranid would send the three Rippers inside before slowly stepping in, blades at the ready. This time the mission directive was to localize Clowns and and alert it and Superman of their presence.
Space Girl
"We're tagging along to plug a Clown or two." Monica replied with a nod. "How are you guys holding up at the base? We've heard some nasty stuff is going on there."
"Oh yeah, I don't know if you know this, but they've got non-Clown allies with them. I bet we'll know them once we see 'em." She mentioned the info acquired from the Ripper.
grah
East Central Residential -> Downtown
By this point, the Clown truck would enter the northern corner of the downtown area, and continue making its way lakeside, blasting buildings with its exhaust cannons.
Near City Hall, Ground Level
“AAAUGH-WHEEEEE-HEEEE!!!”
The muscle-Toad stumbled backwards as it was kicked right in the gonads, but otherwise the blow did not seem to inconvenience it. The Clown quickly got back on its feet.
“BET YOU CAN’T CATCH ME!!”
After speaking, the Toad-Clown turned its attention to the motorcycle that seemed to be running around in circles. However, much like the Toad-Clown’s durability and strength, the Toad-Clown also seemed to be able to run with surprising speed, much faster than what most people should have been capable of. Not only this, but the Clown’s feet also seemed to slide on the ground as they moved except when they were used to help propel the Clown further ahead. The Toad-Clowns’ arms were stretched out towards the bike as it chased her.
Southwest Residential: Monica, Crenshaw, and Shalltear
“It’s a mess, but we’re handling things. They can only do so much when there’s only like ten or twelve of them. Luckily we don’t have too many casualties on our side. Can’t say the same about the rest of town.
“So, I take it they’re supers like you, or something else?”
Southwest Residential: Swarmlord and Clark
After a few bounces, the grenade would explode, buckling the walls near where it landed.
The Rippers, once sent in, would not find too much that was notable inside the house. However, on the west side, one (or more) of the Rippers would find a window that had broken open, with its shattered glass resting outside. From that position, they might be able to see the blinds within the northeastern window of the house across the street occasionally part, with a Clown’s eyes and the barrel of a gun sticking out. There was a door on the east side of that house looked like it had been busted open.
Most of the rooms within this house were readily accessible and open, and it looked like someone was currently living here. The only doors that weren’t open were what was presumably a basement door and various closets/pantries.
South Central Residential
“Hey look, Mario! A golf course!”
“Who cares about that right now, Luigi? We’ve got memes to make and shenanigans to set in motion.”
“But Mario, we could be playing golf right now! Just like the old president! We could invite all our Clown friends over and just golf all day every day! A real vacation, Mario!”
“Luigi, we don’t have any Clown friends. It’s just you and me, Luigi.”
“But we can use humans as the ball, Mario! We can just club their body parts all over the field and no one will know the difference! It’s much better than dying to a bunch of anime characters.”
“You know what, fuck it Luigi, we’re gonna go golfing.”
“You mean it Mario? This is like a dream come true!”
“Just make sure to do as I say, Luigi. We don’t wanna get caught pulling this kind of shit out on the open. I’ve got a plan…”
City Hall 11th Floor(ish) - Coco Adel
"Nice moves, Green Thumb," Coco said to Bethany with a nod as she dusted herself off and recovered from being unceremoniously yanked back. The girl's plant had gotten some drywall on her during said yanking. The clowns were going to pay.And now she had to repay the favor, unceremoniously throwing herself through the 11th floor doorway when the clown appeared and opened fire on them, grabbing Bethany in a veritable vise grip on the way to drag her along.
"Think you can seal him in there with that when I throw this thing in? Thanks, you get on that then alright? You're the best!" she said more than asked the girl.
Not quite sure how much time had been left on the grenade before she stored it away, she made the motions as though she were rapidly throwing something quickly through the doors and into the stairwell - and at the last moment, 'pulled' out the grenade.
Jaroline/Nepbike-Outside City Hall
Taunted
"I don't think that worked." Nepbike said after Jaroline's bout of siren noises.
The Toad clown started to chase her.
"... No, it did."
"..."
"... Step on it!"
And so they did, increasing their velocity
If you're going to do anything, Johnny, do it now... Jaroline thought.
Tira took the offered gun, nodding rapidly as she did so.
Uh huh! I watched a few people in movies use these thingys sometimes, and saw a few clowns using them too! All you really have to do is point and pull the button or whatever, right?
She then demonstrated her proficiency in guns by holding the gun in such a way that it was pointing directly at Garrus's head.
"CLOWNS CAN SMELL FEAR! YOU'RE JUST EGGING HIM ON!" Yelling towards the biker duo, the wet man staggered back to his feet before running off towards the two. "Do one of them fancy bike tricks where you spin around to hit something with the front wheel!" Having seen the proficiency of the riding skills shown prior, Johnny tried his best to give the duo a tip on how to potentially help with this sticky situation while moving like at Usain Bolt-esque speeds towards the wacky events.
She was about to repay Coco's compliment before she was unceremoniously dragged ahead of a burst of machine gun fire. To be honest, Bethany didn't even notice it, she was ready to believe that there was only one clown here. Coco's "request" didn't really get processed so much as reacted to, with a solid "Eh? What do you-"
Oh shit, live grenade, live grenade! Reacting as fast as she could, Beth's ivy pulled off a large piece of rubble and tried to provide the most effective barrier possible between them and explosions.
Shalltear - With Monica and troops
Shalltear shrugged, "I cannot take damage so carelessly but I will be able to handle it. As for the others, I do not know. Only that they felt they could handle this situation well enough that it warranted their involvement. Shall we proceed now?" Shalltear spoke and started to take the lead towards the nearest commotion they could hear.
Nepbike/Jaroline-Outside City Hall
Make or Break
"Eh? Well, Watch this!"
Jaroline flopped down on her back, putting her feet on the handlebars, and grabbing her knife, flicking on a switch causing it to vibrate. Nepbike made sure everything stuck.
"Look, No hands!"
"Jaroline, Why-"
The two whispered to each other a bit while driving, the foot on the accelerator bar used to accelerate it by sticking
"Alright, Now!"
The Bike's back Wheel stuck, Causing the Bike to Start Flipping, Jaroline holding the knife out to try to cut down the center of the Toad Clown.
City Hall, Stairway, 11th Floor
The large chunk of stone had managed to block most of the grenade’s blast, though it crumbled in the process.
“AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
The blast from the explosion seemed to throw the Waluigi-Clown back while searing through his outfit. His left arm and leg had also been blown off, along with other parts of his body. The stairs just before him began to crumble down to the floors below.
The gun still remained in his grip, though it ran out of bullets.
The Waluigi-Clown groaned, and struggled to crawl its way forward.
The still unnamed woman was nowhere to be seen, most likely because of the mayhem in the stairwell.
Near City Hall, Ground Level
“WHAAA…?!?”
The Toad-Clown tilted its head a bit when it saw Jaroline perform some sort of odd maneuver on her bike (which for some reason was giving off some strange Clown vibes).
“That sure is one crazy driver! Even I think it’s crazy, and I’m a crazy crack Clown who’s dressed up like Toad! YAA-HOOO-HOOO-HOOOEY!”
In spite of this revelation, the Toad-Clown made no effort to avoid whatever Jaroline had planned.
When Nepbike finally stopped and began to spin on its hind wheel, the Clown was still running at full speed.
“OOOOWWWWWCH!”
The vibrating knife drove straight into where the muscle-Clown’s skull would be, though it would encounter quite a bit of resistance. The Toad-Clown’s outer membrane felt much thicker and harder than most Clown membranes. Even with the initial foothold, the knife would have some difficulty cutting and chewing through the membrane.
Furthermore, the inside of the Clown seemed to be filled with a compressed, white, powdery substance, whose residue sifted into the air as the wound became exposed. It had both a sweet scent and taste, to those who were nearby to detect it.
“YEEE-HEEE-HAAA-HOOOO-HOOOO!!!”
After feeling the knife plunge into it, the Toad-Clown would then attempt to grab hold of the wrist of whichever arm was holding the knife (if both arms were used, the Toad-Clown would attempt to grab both with one hand) with its right hand.
With the Toad-Clown’s left arm, it would attempt to grab hold of the spinning Nepbike herself, managing to push back against its torque. If Jaroline managed to withdraw her hand(s) before the Clown could grab her wrist(s), the Clown would also attempt to grab onto Nepbike with its right hand, where it would then attempt to lift Nepbike off the ground. If the knife was still in the Toad-Clown’s head, it would attempt to pull said knife out and crush it in its hand, before doing the above maneuver.
Assuming the Clown managed to grab hold of Jaroline’s wrist(s), it would then squeeze tight before ripping the knife out from its head with a sudden, forward swing. The Toad-Clown would follow this up with a punch, either aimed at Jaroline if she was within reach or at Nepbike otherwise.
During all this, the Toad-Clown would briefly glance back at Johnny Bravo, positioning itself to the side of Nepbike as it attempted to lift her up or as it swung at Jaroline/Nepbike.
edited 31st Aug '17 8:21:43 PM by CathariSarad
Jaroline/Nepbike-Outside City Hall
Didn't Think This Through
"Gotcha! Wait..."
Jaroline did get the knife into the Clown, but the seller saying that the knife cuts clown skin like a sack of potatoes was a... error of fact, to say the least.
"Grrr..."
She tried to keep driving the knife down regardless, using Nepbike to force herself down.
What is this stuff? Sugar? Or-
Unfortunately, that idea was cut off by the clown grabbing her wrist, squeezing it, producing a cracking noise.
"Ah!"
The clown grabbed Nepbike, and pushed away, pulling the knife out of him.
"Ep! Jaroline, are you okay!?"
"Yeah, never-"
It then threw a punch in her direction.
... Ah, crap.
Southwest Residential, Shalltear and soldiers
Other than the explosion that came from where Swarmlord and Clark Kent currently were, the nearest site of gunfire seemed to be coming from the southeast. This position was just a bit south from where Shalltear, Monica, and Swarmlord might have observed activity as they passed through the district.
As the soldiers followed, they would take cover behind the buildings and cars that lay throughout the area.
There seemed to be another group of soldiers towards the northeast. The adversary Shalltear was pursuing seemed to be engaged with this group, regularly harassing it with gunfire. Although the adversary could not be seen, it seemed to be taking cover along the southeast corner of the house, just out of Shalltear’s sight.
As Shalltear led the group forward, another shot fired from some house south of her position, near the end of the block Shalltear may have begun to cross. The bullet seemed to come from some sort of rifle, and it was likely of higher caliber than whatever the other adversary was using. The bullet would be aimed towards Shalltear, or one of the other soldiers if they were within sight.
Should Shalltear have looked in the general direction of the house the bullet came from, she would see a broken window, and what appeared to be a small man with a long, white beard, carrying the rifle in question.
Tira had quietly gotten out of the car and followed Garrus as he made his way forward, coming to a halt as they neared the discarded weapons. Allowing the alien to handle the actual scene, Tira raised her arm up, summoning the raven who had followed them nearby. She then issued a simple order.
Find them.
With that said, the raven took off, flying small circles around the area that gradually grew larger each time it went around, as it attempted to locate the enemy it had saw before.