"Good, I'll take point!" Rocket replied to the kid. "Follow me and keep close!" The raccoon jogged ahead, making sure to let the family be able to follow him while going slow enough to not leave them behind.
Rocket was the first to round the corner. "Alright, is the corner you house - "
Rocket was interrupted by the sound of machine gun fire and the pinging of ricocheting bullets. The bounty hunter stumbled to a stop and ran back around the corner. "Back up back up back up back up BACK UP!!!" he yelled to the family as he ran back around the corner.
"DIE YOU FUCKING MUTANT SCUM!!!" Rocket managed to hear in the pause between rifle fire. "AFTER WE GUN DOWN THOSE FLYING RATS WE'LL BE COMING AFTER YOU FUCKERS AND ANY MUTANT LOVING FAGGOTS HELPING YOU ALL!!!"
The flarkin' cherry on top, Rocket thought. "Hey nitwits, I got civilians here!" Rocket responded back. "Just let me bring them back home safely, alright?!"
"FUCK YOU MUTIE!!" was the response. "ONLY MUTIES HANG OUT WITH THEIR OWN KIND!! THEY PROBABLY DRANK THE WATER AND READY TO BLOW OUR BRAINS OUT!!"
"For the love of Gideon, these people are regular humans here! Will you cool it with the raging speciesism for TWO SECONDS and let me get a mother and kids to safety?! And for future reference, I'm an ALIEN, not a mutant!!"
"BULLSHIT, YA DAMN MIDGET FREAK!! EVEN IF YOU ARE, SAME FUCKING DIFF!! I'LL SHOOT YOU AND ANY MUTIE LOVERS YOU HAVE!!!" This was followed by more gunshots, followed by sound of some kind of vehicle moving, like a jeep.....
"Aw crap," Rocket said. "Quick, hide somewhere!" he told the mother and kids before running across the street in a mad dash firing upon what looked like several men armed with assault rifles of various makes and models flanking a jeep with some kind of machine gun turret jury rigged on it in the distance.
The raccoon managed to get safely across while managing to cap one or two in the knees, but barely avoided getting shot.
Gideon damned psychos! Rocket mentally cursed. Gotta get rid of them now before they cause some real damage, he thought. The bounty hunter had no idea how many there actually were and how many civilians are nearby that could get caught int he collateral. He instead decided to opt for purely grenades instead......unless he was lucky enough for someone to help in thinning out the number of armed thugs.....
edited 21st Sep '12 2:43:43 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!As they rounded a corner, Sandman heard a snide voice say "Well, well, well..."
Standing in the hallway were three men, in 30's gangster suits and hats. One wore a red suit, was short, thin, and had a pencil moustache. One was wearing a blue suit and stetson, had a mexican moustache, and swung a rope at his side. The third was huge and muscular, in a yellow suit, with a handlebar moustache, and was presently cracking his knuckles.
"Looks like we got ourselves some visitors, boys," said the small one.
"Shhhh, it's okay," said Jean, "We're going to make it through this."
Spidey zipped over to Power Girl. "We most certainly WOAH. ...uuh, Spider-Man, at your service!" The guy seemed a little nervous. His head was tilted to face directly at Power Girl, though with his lenses on she might not be able to see where his eyes were pointed.
And a Strange Figure Emerges.Rogue looked slightly calmer and glanced over at who had joined them... From the white clothes, perfect figure and blond hair, it was obviously the glory hound of glory hounds, Power Girl. While she had respect for Spider-Man due to J. Jonah Jameson's libel and despite some minor respect for Power Girl's helping the innocent, Power Girl always seemed to have the mutant power of "being perfect," not like the mutants livin' in Mutant Town. However, this was not the time to let petty differences with the blond bombshell get in the way of saving the city from imploding on itself.
"Joker incited a city-wide riot, and has supposedly made a 'cure' for mutants, though it's more likely to cure mutants of their sanity, and we think he may be plannin' to get it into the water supply." Rogue rambled to the heroine, going from frightened to exasperated. "...Yes, we're the good guys."
edited 21st Sep '12 2:38:34 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyThe Riddler climbed into the tank and spoke to his henchmen.
"Drive around and kill everything you see. Humans, mutants, doesn't matter. I need to show that I, the Riddler am a force to be reckoned with!"
He turned to the strange looking individual sat in the corner.
"Chameleon, I assume?"
edited 21st Sep '12 2:39:55 PM by PurpleDalek
The Chameleon adjusted his voice changer to match Nygma's tones. "And you must be the Riddler."
The big Enforcer staggered about for a moment, before tipping over backwards.
"Aw, man, I wanted to beat up on that guy!" said Sunspot.
"No one gets to see the Big Man, not no way, not no how!" The middle Enforcers cracked his whip, and used it to yank the dart shooter out of Sandman's hands.
And a Strange Figure Emerges."Focus, Spider," Power Girl said, lightly slapping the fellow vigilante's cheek in a show of camaraderie. "Can't have you excusing yourself to the bathroom now of all times, can we?"
She glanced at Rogue, managing to catch most of the girl's frantic words. "I heard the psycho's broadcast," she replied, motioning to the henchwoman trapped in the garbage can she carried under her arm. "This gal tried to shoot me with... something earlier." She reached at the side of her belt and pulled out the dart gun and syringe she had stashed there, showing them to the gathered. "Seems a little too convenient a coincidence for my tastes. And if my hunch about this is right, he's got more goons wandering around, shooting as many unwilling mutants as they can for massive damage to the city."
edited 21st Sep '12 3:17:43 PM by Demovere
"Wrong state, Aardvark Face," growled Montana. He whirled his whip around, and lashed out at Sandman.
As if to drive the point home for Power Girl and company, there was the sound of screaming and crashing in the general vicinity of District X.
As Rocket Raccoon watched, an open top truck rolled past, with about three dicks with guns riding in the back. Behind the car, there followed a loose gathering of men and women, colloquially referred to as an 'angry mob'.
And a Strange Figure Emerges.The Sandman stepped back and raised her forearm, allowing the whip to crack across it.
Stung like hell of course but compared to The Scorpion's poisoned whip it was nothing. If she was fast enough she'd be able to wrap the whip around her wrist and give it a good hard tug. A risky move, but easily the quickest way to make this fight even.
She tried it.
"Even playing field now, boy. Best surrender now, you don't know whom you are crossing."
"Then th-that's..." Rogue stammered, coming face-to-face with the supposed cure, but since she did want a cure, she had to ask just to fulfill her curiousity. "Did the broadcast say anything 'bout its effects?"
Rogue then heard the screams, "I guess we're 'bout to find out."
Wizard Needs Food BadlyPower Girl also whipped her head towards the general direction of the sounds of chaos, before turning back to Rogue. She noticed the young mutant stammer, but chalked it up to being in... well, a warzone. "Just that it apparently boosts the X-Gene - which means super superpowered folks. Miss Bullseye here tried to hit me with the stuff, but, well, I'm pretty thick-skinned." She followed that little joke with a half-hearted grin that vanished just as quickly. "I don't suppose anyone here has someplace we can drop this gal off for questioning? And maybe make something to counteract this Booster stuff?"
"That's horrible!" Rogue yelled out to Power Girl, looking extremely frightened. After all, she wanted her own powers to be cured, not supercharged!
"Umm," Rogue then used the communicator to contact the others, trying, but failing not to sound frightened. "Guys, we have a sample of the supposed mutant cure, but it instead supercharges mutant powers!"
"Also, any mutant out there, if ya see someone with a dart gun, run as fast as ya can!" Rogue told those with a communicator. "Those darts are full of the stuff, but thankfully Power Girl was just too thick-skinned and got us the sample."
"S-Sandman made this bag of crystals that can neutralize the Joker gas," Rogue looked at Power Girl, showing the bag. "I-If anyone can do it, she can."
"M-Maybe we oughta retreat back to base," Rogue looked at Jean Grey again, wanting a plan and very worried about those screams they were hearing from District X. "A-All of us are mutants and i-if we get hit with one of those darts, w-we're done for."
Wizard Needs Food Badly"Can I handle the Joker? No. Can he handle the Joker? let's say I'm not too worried." An idea struck him. "In fact, if you can turn the lights back off. I'll be fine with the emergency lights and it'll give Creeper a psychological advantage if anyone shows up. If they don't? Well, maybe I'll send him out there. I don't think he can make things any worse and he might actually help."
Trump delenda estMegan was about to respond to Jean when Rogue showed up, along with a man dressed in bright red and blue and a woman wearing not much. She slowly lowered down and hovered above the ground as they took care of the bat monsters. "Sorry Ms. Grey. I've never been in a fight before." She said, a bit embarrassed by her cowardice earlier.
Some where in the skyline stood New York's biggest prison, it housed those ranging from the accidentally lethal to the downright deranged; and now there came from its eastern wall a flash and a rumble...then the wall came crumbling down.
12 men retreated to the shadows over the dead bodies of the prison guards, behind them came row upon row of inmates, their cell doors had for some inexplainable reason swung open at the same time.
They were greeted by an army van and men in combat suits, around them they could hear the chaos that now riegned in the city.
One of the men jumped down from the vans, he was holding a shotgun.
"My dear brothers in oppression, welcome to our world".
Now Bane's man started distributing weapons amoung the inmates.
(I will have to thump this post probably so uh...be slow to react to this)
edited 21st Sep '12 7:29:26 PM by biomechtraveler
Man-Bat smiled, and rubbed his cheek. "Of course. Hiram it is."
Man-Bat took flight towards Hiram, which was nearby in Queens, ecstatic as he saw dozens and dozens of lesser Minion-Bats wreaking havoc and dying in mass numbers. Even the weak and crazed Minion-Bats would have their place in wartime. Eventually, he reached the abandoned Hiram Penitentiary, now unusable after a patient riot wracked the halls after Milo's death. Man-Bat kicked down the reinforced metal doors with ease, and went inside to his old lab. He wondered if Joker stole everything in the lab and moved it to his own base, or simply created an exact replica.
The Minion-Bat engaging Megan and Jean had panicked when Karma made his ally attack him. He accidentally pulled the trigger, filling the other two Minion-Bats with bullets, only narrowly missing everybody else.
The Minion-Bats that Blue Beetle attacked nearly died from Blue Beetle's attack, despite looking incredibly tough.
edited 21st Sep '12 7:19:24 PM by TailsDoll
"@[=g3,8d]&fbb=-q]/hk%fg""Great, Rocket, I am in fact thrilled to hear that. It means that hopefully I can find the guy and shove my size nine metal boot straight up his ass. I've got that sensor of your's integrated into my armor, JARVIS is working on it as we speak." He let go of his communicator at that to turn his attention elsewhere, keeping to the air above the city, stopping short, just staring in horror at the unfolding chaos beneath him. "Jesus Christ, JARVIS, where do we even start?"
There is still work to be done on the water detection device, but I believe it will be a matter of moments. For now, to be safe, you should remain airborne and use your weaponry to disperse the crowds. I have set your repulsors at a mere 10% which should not significantly wound any normal human beings, and for more fierce targets, you should employ the gatling gun.
"Right." Tony watched his displays light up, showing him the layout of the city, chewing his lip as he glanced over everything. "Okay. Put us over the biggest crowd and lemme get at it."
Right away sir.
Tony watched the rioting below as they beelined for the biggest crowd, and he readied himself as they plunged down down into the thick of it, already calling out.
"All right, people, for your own safety, you need to go back home! Innocent people are going to get hurt!" He started blasting at the ground under various people's feet, just trying to get them off balance, or at least bring some sense to them.
edited 21st Sep '12 9:17:20 PM by MystyGlyttyr
Easing back into life one step at a time"Watch it!!" Power Girl said, dashing in front of Rogue and Megan and blocking several of the stray shots one of the Minion-Bats had fired; the bullets stung somewhat as they hit her and lost momentum, but she was otherwise unharmed. She soon noticed that the creature seemed to be writhing in pain now; glancing back, she saw one of the other Minion-Bats she had clocked in the face earlier stagger around the corner, gasping for air, before collapsing to the ground, blood trickling from its maw.
"...They aren't very durable, are they?" she mused out loud as the turned back to the rest of the group. "Anyways, we won't do any good standing here; who can take Witness of the Moment here with them back to your... base, or whatever..." Empty dart gun in her free hand, she lightly tapped the Jenna-filled garbage can still carried under her arm for emphasis. "...And who can risk the gene booster and try to keep this damn warzone from spilling over into the rest of the city?"
edited 21st Sep '12 9:05:55 PM by Demovere
The Joker had, indeed, created an exact replica, as Langstorm's old lab was still there. She-Bat quickly got to work on putting everything they would need inside crates they could carry. "Take only what is necessary. We can't afford to lose time with stupid things such as pictures or video cameras. Only what is essential to making our enlightenment permanent."
Megan jumped in surprised at the ringing of gun fire as one of the man bats gunned down the other two. She didn't even notice that some bullets ricocheted towards her when the woman in white jumped in the way. Megan was a bit awe struck that someone was able to just have bullets bounce off of her like that. The winged girl barely even registered that she was talking at first. She slowly raised her hand and said "I have a way to help anyone that wants to get back to the...ummm base."
"Ahh!" Rogue flinched at the unexpected firing of the bullets from the Minion-Bats... which didn't touch any of them because of Power Girl's timely intervention. "Uh, thanks."
Power Girl then commented on the Minion-Bats' durability. Rogue had first-hand experience how powerful Man-Bat was, and was surprised that these Minion-Bats appeared to be weaker than even humans.
"Y-Yeah, I don't think their powers are workin' right," Rogue noted to Power Girl about the situation. "A-And we don't really need to interrogate her since we got a telepath and a memory absorber here."
Rogue looked at Jean Grey, as since she was the telepath, Rogue wanted to offer the job of reading this woman's mind to her, "But holdin' her in custody until we can give her to the police might be best."
edited 21st Sep '12 9:43:32 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly

As soon as the Blue Beetle realized he just go a couple of kids killed, he began to see red. Instead of carrying through with the punch he had planned to give in the first place, Jaime transformed both hands into large cannons and opened fire on the three Man Bats. While not powerful or deadly enough to kill, this attack had enough force to break bones and slam whoever is hit by them into a wall or the ground hard. Normally, this is the kind of attack he would avoid, but Jaime figures that these guys should be strong enough to handle it without being damaged too badly, or killed. Plus, he is really angry.
Tv Tropes Powers. Activate!!!!!