Danger Room
Suzu nodded in response "Modified Type-15 heavy combat unit, built out of concerns by Empress Mirai not wanting to risk lives on defense...... This one has more armor and powerful hydraulics then the standard ones though, after all it is a one off....." she trailed off and paused a bit when Alicia flew around and over before giving her a gentle wave, and listening to what she had to "What do you mean by that? .... Sorry, you would think after 100 years they would perfect Alphabet Translate"
S'more and Marshmallow
Felicity giggled and gave Ash a big smile. "Ehe, no problem! After all, taking care of the city starts with taking care of each other~"
Fluffy gently booped Ash's nose as she leaned down to see their face. "And taking care of yourself. Boop~"
edited 6th Dec '17 12:41:35 PM by Starbound2
The Blinder
DANGER ROOM, EON AND CRACKDOWN
Laz thought for a moment before he heard gunshots and saw Crackdown. Great music, but something about it...He walked over to Crackdown. "Excuse me, are those fake?" He asked, gesturing to the guns.
Good to be back
30% Petrify
Smoreboi/gurl
Ash let out an undignified squeak at the boop, batting Fluffy's hand away purely out of reflex. Judging by the sheer red on their face, it was leaving an impression. "S-stop doing that!"
For a moment they were silent before Ashley rose back to their feet and turned away. "...thank you for caring, but we're done here." A little more hunched over than usual, Ash sauntered away from both Fluffy and Solaris, pointedly avoiding eye contact not just with them, but with others.
Big Grah
Oh okay, Alicia had an in on someone else now. A sort of protege setup, except not really because aside from the language it was probably a pretty equal power situation they had.
"Basically, I like how the mech lets you throw your weight around and how you're doing crazy acting just like me." Alicia said with a snort. "Don't worry about it. We can definitely bounce off each other pretty good with it though."
Rise Above Fate
Danger room
Seemingly confused by the question, Danny responded "Well, uh, no. Not like I'm gonna be running around with fake guns, right?"
After a brief pause, Danny added "The bullets are rubber though! I'm not trying to kill anyone here."
The Blinder
CRACKDOWN AND LAZ
"May I see them?" Eon asked, if Crackdown said yes, Eon would hold the gun sideways and aim it into the air. "This is a cool gun." He was somehow trying to line up the sights gangster style.
Good to be back
Sumanai Man
Danger Room
Elena nodded, although there was still a frown on her face, at Ash's response.
"Very well. But if you ever feel uncomfortable, you can ask me for anything. Employee welfare is a thing we're concerned about." She said, trying to at least sound reassuring.
She found herself reaching out to pet the shorter superhero on the head, like she did with her little sister in the past...but managed to catch herself, pulling her arm back.
The group continued to practice entrances for the next hour or so (Elena was a complete perfectionist), until everyone was happy with theirs.
Still standing on the stage, Elena wiped her brow with her hand, letting out a small sigh. So far so good.
....And of course, that's when her enhanced senses heard Karen's chuckle and she caught the retired superheroine press something on the Quill wired to the Danger Room settings.
Immediately, the holographic crowd started to scream and run as Elena spotted a circle of about 30 or so figures started surrounding the stage.
Dressed in all-black military gear, humanoids wearing visored helmets and armed to the teeth with what appeared to be various firearms, including one with a very realistic-looking minigun.
Holograms? Robots? Elena wasn't sure.
Regardless the figure closest to the stage started firing its assault rifle, and Solaris instinctively flew between the shots and the (fake) innocents.
As the "bullets" hit her, all Elena could feel was the barest hint of a mild electric shock. And well, as she had enhanced durability, it was literally doing nothing to her.
She sighed. Of course there would be a combat test.
Nothing is what it seems. Master of Shipping and Sadism.
Bona-Fide Mastah
DANGER ROOM
...you know, after my KEU entrance exam, I should have saw this coming.
Yer thinkin' too hard~
Denki Girl leaps into action, literally, zipping and jumping at the Minigun mook and attempting to send an electric shock through it to either disarm the mook or at least wreck the gun, with a cry of, "Thunder Course!
30% Petrify
Fighting
Ash replied to Elena's reassurance with a non-commital grunt before shuffling back into a corner, idly listening to things happening around. They got to rehearse their entrances some more, though this time the little firestarter elected to keep their performances more measured, settling for simple pyrotechnics.
Then the party showed up; dressed in black and military garb. They started firing and that dumb Sun girl was already in the way. Ash presumed they were not going to get killed by these training dummies, but it probably would not be wise to get hit. And if they saw fit to ignore him, well... she would give them the time of day.
Ash flicked their wrist at the general gathering of the gunmooks, creating an exploding fireball right in the middle of the group. Then they made a finger gun with the same hand and "fired", sending an arrow of molten death right into the fireball to make it even more effective and, hopefully, wipe out most of the group before anyone got hurt.
Big Grah
After an hour of everyone practicing their routines, Soma nearly forgot there was supposed to be a surprise, until suddenly their practice was ended by an 'attack'. It really was kind of like back at KEU, except for the civilians, that at least one was already starting to shoot at.
Acting quickly, Emerald willed the large blob of gel he'd been using for his turn on stage to roll toward the scene, liquefying once it arrived to spread out while he used the last of his internal stores to add to the mass form a wall between the virtual civilians and gunmen to block any more gunfire from reaching them, saving just enough to put a thin 'riot shield' on his left arm to protect himself as he readied to try and help the others deal with the threat.
Assuming the others didn't take them all out first.
edited 8th Dec '17 6:05:35 PM by BlitzTrain
Hey, it's just like we're back at the Academy!
When a surprise was mentioned, Fluffy expected it was a combat scenario. However, she was sorely disappointed that rather than some grand hammy supervillain it was just a bunch of dudes with guns. Well, hopefully there was a boss fight at the end of this mook rush.
Regardless, Fluffy sprung forward and set herself between the crowd and the gunmen, taking the side opposite Elena to better cover all their bases. With both hands, Fluffy pushed forward with a shout, sending a massive blast of air to break a path in their circle. Then Fluffy's arm shot out, a watery whip lashing forth to disarm as many mooks as she possibly could.
As Emerald Dragon's gel formed a barrier to guard the civilians on one side, Fluffy saw an opportunity. "Gooey! Fluffy's made a path; can you protect the people while Fluffy leads them through?"
edited 9th Dec '17 11:31:11 PM by Starbound2
The Blinder
Eon
Lazarus shoved the gun into Crackdown and sprinted towards the minigunner, his golden honey-comb shield flickered in the air in front of him as the crimson streak attempted to grab one of the miinigun's barrels and use that to split the gun in half. If successful, he'd follow with a heavy elbow to the side of the head, followed by a leg sweep.
edited 10th Dec '17 11:57:22 PM by TroyandHawk
Good to be back
Combat mode, engage
Practice
Ann jumped into action when she saw their new arrivals, quite literally jumping off the stage and then grappling to the trees, throwing a handful of her shock discs at the goons off to one side to get their attention. "Come on boys, you could have just asked me out over Twitter, this is really unnecessary." She teased before disappearing behind a small thicket.
-dramatic music ensues-
Omega Overlord. Or superjwren329. Either or.
Danger Room, Showtime.
"...If you've got somethin' to say, spit it out or suck it up. Ain't gonna care if you're gonna chew me out for speaking my mind, so just..." Max rather bluntly remarked at Gamble, a bit apathetic and looking a little annoyed that he'd even suggested such a line considering...
The sounds of people moving and those 'guns' being fired snapped him back to attention. Now things were starting to get interesting. Of course, with the opposition holding onto firearms, real or not, the MIMIC simply cracked his knuckles and would simply have to be quick, even moreso as whoever he was going to 'copy', it could really suck for him...or these schmucks. Whatever.
Simply focusing on the slightly creepy 'pyromaniac' for a brief moment, that slightly unsettling chill as if being pricked by a needle likely brushed against Ash while one of the belts on his arms clicked and glowed.
Flexing his right hand before clenching it into a fist as that 'Gift' instantly triggered as Max was already walking to the opposition, that stoic expression changing into a slight smirk.
"...Yeah, this is gonna suck for YOU, chumps." Mimic remarked and suddenly bolted forward with startling speed as that sudden heat and sensation of his blood boiling giving the anti-hero a surprising amount of agility, weaving between those attackers and throwing quite speedy left and right hooks at the holographic(?) mooks, intent on sending these saps to the floor.
Hope you weren't expecting anything witty here. Maybe some day.
Paragon watched as the mysterious figures appeared, aiming their weapons toward the crowd and saw his fellow heroes go into combat. Seeing as the 'citizens' were all fakes there wasn't much he could do to actually help them, so combat was the only chance he could get to show himself off. "Well then," he cracked his knuckles and felt a surge of power rush through his as his body began production of his power. "Lets play."
He leapt into the air and laughed loudly, sending himself down with an axe kick and a smile, right into the center mass of the large group. If he was in the center of the group they couldn't easily fire their weapons, and he wasn't worried to much about losing at hand to hand. Even if they were better then him in style he outpaced almost everyone in strength, and that meant he only needed to land one punch.
Danger Zone!
"Oh for fuck's sake." Neil exclaimed as the gunmen showed up. He began to run forward, phasing through any bullets that came his way, though at least one caught him in his shoulder in between phasings. He winced in slight pain from the shock, but nothing he wasn't used to.
He then dived towards the one of the gunmen foot first with a flying kick to the face. As he landed, he would then trigger his rapid flicker and sliced his hand at the gun the man was carrying to slice through it and render it unusable.
Danger Zone:This Room Has To Be Ridiculously Hot
Inferno looked at the robots or holograms, whatever they were, it was an obvious combat test like they had at the first day in KEU. Only this time, he was actually trained, he reached with his finger to the sky, channeling his persona as much as he could. "Prepare to be beaten by the master of flames! –Mid sentence Guitaurus pointed his giant finger at his foes- I won't let you harm these innocent lovers of rock and roll no matter what you are!" He stopped his pose to begin strumming his guitar, picking up a tune in about 3 seconds, and soon flames flew from his guitar towards whatever was left after Ash's explosion if he tried something flashy after an explosion he might actually damage the building and will lose more points than he'll gain, instead he stylized by making a lot of controlled far away flames pick off survivors, each one was a different shape and form, almost like an artist painting with fire, some were animals, some looked like weapons, all of them of course were just flames, burning through the robots the same way.
Rise Above Fate
Danger Zone
After taking notice of the gunfire breaking out around him, Crackdown grinned beneath his mask; it was finally time for him to show off what he could do. Sure he wasn't the flashiest or most powerful guy around, but he was more than capable of taking out a few goons with paintguns. Lining up his first shots a two seperate goons, and mentally preparing a witty quip; Crackdown quickly found himself unable to fire his guns as three different electric shots hit him, dropping him to the floor and leaving him writhing in extreme pain screaming numerous obscenities at the top of his lungs. As he endured this hellish new world of pain, Daniel couldn't help but think to himself "Oh come on, they knew that shocks hurt me so much more than everyone else here and they pull this crap? Signing up for this was a mistake and a half"
Danger Room, 17th Floor, HTV HQ, 17th floor, August 25, 9:30 AM and counting
Bayard had been using his Quill to figure out a way to tastefully work gaming-related puns into his entrance when the gunfire erupted and the virtual crowd panicked and began to roil. He snapped his game face on, dropping amongst the crowd and directing those with families or in groups to safety. All the while, he was doing a mental inventory of his gear.
Offensively, he had a few non-lethal grenades, industrial strength pepper spray, and his extending baton. Gamble slipped a mini flashbang, cunningly shaped like a large 6-sided dice, from his webbing and primed it, all while doing his best to keep himself between the attackers and the civilians.
With grappling gun in one hand, Gamble leaped into action, firing it at a branch and getting himself airborne. He aimed and threw his flashbang at a knot of villains, hoping to disorient them and allow the others to get close.
"Well yeah I—oh jesus HURRK!" In short order Alicia was about to keep talking untransformed, started shifting back to human, got distracted by the new threat of danger room bullshit, and had to perform the sickening maneuver of reversing her transformation midway to shift back to dragon form. With the gunmen shielded from the civvies, Alicia at least didn't have to upset her stomach any more by moving into melee.
"You DARE to try to scratch up WHAT'S MINE?!" She roared, thoroughly enjoying herself as she belched out an enormous blast of fire straight down a line of soldiers not engaged with any of her unfortunate melee-range superfriends, trying to bank the fire off Soma's gel to make sure she also didn't roast any civvies.
What the—?!?
One second, Danielle was taking a quick break (after finally nailing a good speech), the next the stadium was under fire. By what wasn't a major concern for her at the moment, only that something needed to be done. And as Elena tanked the fake gunfire, she figured that there was a good chance she could too.
"Think you can handle the civilians, sweetie?" Asmodea said to Miss Machina as she spread out her wings and flew up into the air. "I'll deal with the shooters."
She flew until she was directly a patch of attackers not currently swarmed by her teammates, before beginning to charge up an electric attack. Once she was ready to let loose, she closed her wings, allowing herself to free-fall for several meters before essentially tanking a hit to the ground. She'd be fine (though probably shouldn't be doing that again for a while), but the shooters would probably be startled by the sudden impact, and/or shocked to unconsciousness by the electric blasts.
Classic
Danger Room
"No problem! Leave it to me!", Jules said as she pulled out some metal and used it to form her arms into her Rocket Knuckles, using her massive hands to start lifting up walls of debris to defend the holographic civilians. There was one part left open for them to "escape", however, Jules made sure of that.
"Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible." - Monty Oum, 1981-2015
Denki Girl, Eon & Machinegun Bot
Hearing Denki loudly proclaiming her attack the enemy holding the minigun quickly dodged out of the way of her shock, only to have its gun grabbed by Eon and successfully destroyed it, but by the time the hero tried to attack the robot's body the mook retaliated, blocking his elbow and directing a powerful hook to his right cheek.
Ash, Pantherea and Guitaurus
Ash's explosive fire destroyed left a pile of cinder on the floor, the military gear worn by the robots faded in the wind, revealing the thin shining metallic silhouette underneath, but their actual bodies seem to be fine except for a dozen who were enflamed the most, even after her massive attack. Ash was now standing right in the middle of enemy hordes, countless bullets were flying towards her, each hit may just cause a mild shock but if she's hit by all of them they can seriously harm her.
Ann's distraction was successful, driving the large forces surrounding Ash away from her and likely saving her from having to dodge a second barrage of airsoft electrocution bullets, 5 of them finished off by Guitarus flames. A dozen of them chased after Pantherea, with some shooting several bullets towards her as they moved.
Fluffy, Emerald Dragon, Miss Machina, Asmodea & the Panicking Civilians
Fluffy successfully managed to disarm most of the robots in the way of her whip, however they were still a threat, 4 of them moving in her direction, one of them threw a net towards her, and should she actually be captured she'd feel her physical strength slowly being sapped away, making struggling to get out of it more difficult in place while the rest of the robots kept moving closer.
The holographic civillians didn't seem to appreciate Soma's Fluffy's and Miss Machina's efforts to protect them as the chaotic mass showed only panic, running around in no particular direction, almost like they weren't trying to escape. It appears that if the heroes wanted to protect them someone would have to get off the fighting and guide the evacuation process themselves. Several robots moved in to attack Soma and Machina, but most were in range of Asmodea's electric blast and most of what little remained tried to shoot Soma, with one of them throwing the tranquilizing net in his direction.
Mimic & Paragon
Mimic managed to take out quite a few of the robots, but his decision to go into such close contact with a large amount of mooks was risky, several electrocution bullets hit him, and a one robot close to him tried to hit him with his gun while he was receiving mild shock. Fortunately for him, there was only one wave of ammunition aimed at him as Paragon landed dead In the center and took the attention of most of those, several robots threw out tranquilizing nets towards him, should they hit they'd slowly take away his strength, though considering who he was that wouldn't mean much.
Neil All Alone
Flicker managed to slice through the gunman easily, but he now had a second one throwing what seemed to be a net right at him, intending to capture the man, should it somehow capture him it would slowly take away his energy as he'd struggle to escape.
Crackdown & Gamble
After Crackdown fell from absorbing shock, it seems a group moved towards him to replace the robots he destroyed, luckily for him, before any of them got a chance to cause further harm Bayard's Flashbang blinded the group surrounding him leaving them open to attack from the hero, who because he was likely looking at the ground, was not affected by the blinding light.
Alicia Is Also Alone
Alicia's fire effectively burned through the robot's military gear and fried a few of them into dysfunction, but mostly just revealing their shiny metal exterior, a dozen moved in her direction, shooting bullets towards her.
Everyone
All the debuting superheroes would start to notice they were starting to get a bit sweaty, with all the fire being thrown around left and right, the closed room was starting to get uncomfortably hot.
Smoreboi/gurl
Elena showed up, offering to get him more water. "...thanks. I'll be fine." Ash assured, shaking their head as Fluffy shuffled in so much closer again.
"I said I'll be fine, jeez..." He grumbled, the burn scabs on her face having mostly sealed themselves by now. "I tried to make a stupid entrance. 'cause it's WWE, apparently."
"Well, I will know better by now. T-thank you for caring."
Big Grah