10494/A little trouble

A little trouble
Date of Scene:	20 December 2019
Location:	Jamaica, Queens
Synopsis:	Nadia and Selene stop mutant hating goons from attacking Megan.
Cast of Characters:	Selene (Underworld), Pixie, Wasp (Pym)

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Selene (Underworld) has posed:
"Come on. C'mon"

The chatter that's coming from the group dressed in leather and walking with the evening crowd's is insistent. The leader, tall, black short hair, is looking like she'd rather be anywhere else than here, now. On a cold December night truddging through snow. "You had to bring me out here for what?"

Selene's bundled up warm tonight, her voice a rich, exotic mix of accents. Naturally. She's armed to the teeth. Lesss naturally....she's overseeing her Death Dealers doing....Christmas shopping? Yes. yes indeed. Selene drew the short straw. So she's here. Now. With her Death Dealers shopping, and Selene forced into the chaperone/mature adult/peacekeepr. "Okay, what else doi we need?" she asks, looking around the streets for any dirty lycans who want to spoil this party. Selene's on alert....but the sight of her hand trained Death Dealers with sparkly, shiny gifts makes even her giggle just a bit. And they are shiny, glittery gifts for her servants. Alright, the shiny, glittery's more the wrapping paper because Selene's so wanting to get her servants something they won't forget....and to stick it to the Elders, but. Selene can't help but giggle at the silliness of it all.

Pixie has posed:
Amid the busy Christmas shoppers in a nearby alleyway, a girl with bright pink hair and glittery faerie wings is being harassed by a group of gangsters who laugh and push her and rough her up in all sorts of ways, some of them grabbing her shopping bags and shuffling through them, while others pull at her hair and wings. The girl seems exhausted and quite upset as they laugh at her. "C'mon, ya stinkin' mutie! Whatcha doin' out here, all alone? Little brat, hand over those goodies or we'll rip off your wings!"

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Nadia doesn't look like the sort of girl who should be roaming the city by herself at this hour. Petite build, well dressed in van Dyne fashion house clothing, and with a slightly bemused look on her face. Almost as if she has no real idea why the city is covered in glittering lights and decorations.

Still she doesn't seem at all concerned by the bustling crowds and slips through them with remarkable ease desite her slight build. She does however seem concerned by how rude people are being to the stranger with wings and, raising her voice to be heard above the crowd, proclaims in a faintly Russian accent "You must be deeply insecure about yourself to pick on a young woman. Perhaps it is a sign of.. what is the word... impotence?"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene is about to speak when she spies the alley. They're not werewolves, but...one of the Death Dealers steps into the alley to see if the winged woman is alright. Selene herself stands in the alley mouth, the shopping bags in hand. Sure, smack a gangster over the head with glitter wrapped gifts. Why not? Selene's staring down the gangsters, as if daring them to try it again. Selene's just leaning on the wall. They're not lycans. No. But they were picking on somebody. Selene's got her rule about keeping her war from innocentts. But she sees this woman as a helpless victim. So she's watching, waiting for the right moment to act

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn squeaks as she gets grabbed by the scruff of her neck, too flustered to even attempt a teleport. "Lemme gooo!!" she wriggles her legs but the five, big burly men brandishing weapons of all sorts are pretty strong, and they totally outnumber her five to one. They may be mere humans, but they're pointing their guns and knives and ball and chain thingies at her, merely laughing at her words.

"Dumb mutie, what'd you expect, coming here? We'll skin ya alive, once we're done rifling through your gifts!"

The other guy who is doing just that, laughs as he pulls out various items, toys, sweaters, chocolates, doodads that he has no idea what they are (some sort of weird ornaments that light up).

As the two women dare to poke their heads in the alley and interrupt them, the gangsters just smirk and wave their guns at them. "Nothin' to see here, ladies, move along and you wont get hurt. We're just teaching this filthy mutie a lesson!"

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Nadia Pym steps more fully into the alleyway and sighs. "If you won't put her down then I regret to inform you that I am now placing you all under citizens arrest," she proclaims. No hint or irony or humour in her tone. "Robbery is a crime. So if you put your weapons down and surrender peacefully I won't have to hurt you."

All the while she's talking she casually walks closer, rolling her shoulders and tucking her hands into the pockets of her insect wing logo bomber jacket. When her hands come back out her pockets moments later she's wearing a pair of black gloves.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene just watches, arms folded but she's keeping out of the way. "I'd listen" she purrs softly, then flashes her smile, fangs and all. "I'd listen, gentlemen. You wouldn't want to get hurt would you?" she asks. Oh she's not going to kill them. Well, not without a valid reason, that is...

Pixie has posed:
Three of the gangsters pause, glaring at the two defiant women in the alleyway entry, one brandishing a gun, the other a spiked ball on the end of a chain. "Ooh, citizen arrest? Really? Ooh, I'm sooo scared! Get 'im, boys!" A third joins them, brandishing a large pipe as the three approach the women, teeth gleaming greedily, "Ooh, we'll shred you to bits, then have a little fun with you girls after, won't we boys?" the first guy with the gun starts firing rounds at the two women as the other two approach from the sides, trying to block off their escape.

Meanwhile, the pink-haired girl continues to shriek as the two remaining men pin her against the wall, one of them holding a knife at her throat. "Arrgh, this is so not faiiir!"

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Even as the thug with the gun raises his weapon Nadia is... pointing at him? And then the next moment there's an odd noise and he's tiny. Reduced to the size of an action figure and firing bullets that will struggle to break the skin, let alone hurt anything bigger than a mouse.

"I /tried/ to warn you," she says wearily, rolling her eyes. "Now, perhaps you want to reconsider surrendering? Or would you all like to end up like that?" She mimes a finger gun motion at the next one of the thugs.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene's a blur right now after a moment's concentration. While Nadia's doing her thing, Selene's got her throwing stars out, stacked in a palm, for both hands. She's moving in a blur, slinging throwing stars at them. Naturally she's not e?xpecting to hit the tiny guy, but, but....she'll not throw at the tiny guy. Mostly since she could just pick him up and put him on a shelf. He's.....cute. Yes. Selene just thought he was adorable this small.

Pixie has posed:
Pew pew pew! The big burly man suddenly turns into a little burly mouse man, his bullets uselessly pewing at the ground in front of the two women. "Whaaa?" he squeaks, sounding more like a mouse than a bit scary man at this point.

The two remaining men growl and lunge at Selene, but she's too fast for them, their swings going wide, hitting nothing but thin air. One of the men gets hit in the air with a shooting star, hard enough that he drops his pipe, the other growls, turning around to swing his ball and chain at her but he's too slow, and he too, gets hit with a couple more stars.

"The hell are these freaks!?"

But pink-haired girl is still being held hostage against the wall, "Make another move and this girl bites the dust!" The one holding a knife to her neck threatens, but both men look a little nervous now; Nervous enough that they loosen their grip on the girl, enough so that her wings flutter rapidly as one of them grabs her by the neck..

And then suddenly, glittering pink dust is flying everywhere, blanketing the entire alleyway like a pink glittering snowstorm flurry..

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
And now the walls seem like they're melting. Great! Thankfully back in the Red Room they taught classes on situations like these. Generally by dosing the students with a cocktail of experimental drugs and sending them into some deathtrap-esque situation. So Nadia maintains her cool and forces herself to smile. "If you do hurt her," she says slowly so as not to slur her words. "I will permenantly shrink you and your friend to a subatomic size and leave you there. Trapped in the space between molecules forever. Don't worry though, you won't starve or suffocate. You'll just exist until your mind shatters... I suppose eventually the entire universe will end and you /might/ die then. It's a shame you won't be able to tell me the result of the experiment..."

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene isn't stupid enough to get caught up in the snowstorm of glitter. The Death Dealers have run and hid for the moment, and Selene's atop a dumpster sitting there, watching it all. She's curious what it is. Not willing to try however as Selene's sat on the dumpster. It's strange. Selene though has her weapons back in her coat, watching everything. Tiny gang members. Pink hair woman. Woman who apparently shrunk gang members. Okay, it's an odd evening.

Pixie has posed:
As the snowflurry of pink glitter begins to fly in all directions, it seems that the two women are immune or otherwise unaffected by them. Unfortunately, the four remaining gangsters are not. As they inhale the sparkly substance, suddenly the world transforms around them, the three women appearing as something huge, hideous and frightening by the looks on their faces.

"Aaaaah! Demons!" they shriek and suddenly they turn and flee the alleyway as fast as their little legs can take em. Unfortunately mouseman is still tiny and he simply hides behind a trashcan, watching.

"Phew!" the pink-haired girl sinks to the ground, smoothing out her hair, no longer fluttering those deadly wings of hers as the dust slowly begins to settle. At least it's a clear day and not much wind to send more dust flying in their faces. "Thanks for saving me, those guys were total jerks! Eeek! My gifts!" she pouts a little, looking quite saddenned at the sorry state of her pillaged shopping bags.

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
"Your gifts... Yes they seem to be melting into the floor," Nadia says solemnly, trying really hard not keep her focus. "That seems very... bad." She blinks a few times. "Is there an antidote for whatever this is? I would very much like everything to stop being... Odd." She shakes her head. "You.. you haven't turned into a penguin have you?"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene hops down off the dumpster and nods. "Are you okay?" she asks gently to the pink haired girl. "Is there anything we can do to help you?" Selene adds, the Death Dealers re-emerging now they don't want to hallucinate.

Pixie has posed:
Megan Gwynn siiiighs as she busies herself with picking up what remains of her shopping. "Darnit, those meanies are so...Mean!" with a sigh of relief though, she realizes that at least some of her presents are undamaged. "Ooh, it's okay, I guess not a lot of people around here like, uh, mutants..Heey, do you think it'd be okay if I hung out with you guys for a bit til I return home? I wouldn't run into any more mutant hating meanies..."

She blinks slowly at Nadia's comment, but honestly, she's used to hearing odd things when her fairy dust s tarts to fly. "Penguin? Teehee, nope! I'm just like, normal. Don't worry, it wears off after a while.." She does peer towards mouseman who has finally fled the scene. "Umm, he'll be okay right? What did you do to him? He's all..Tiny..And..Cute!!"

Wasp (Pym) has posed:
Nadia Pym shrugs. "I don't mind at all," she offers. "I'm Nadia by the way. Nadia Pym. I'm a scientist and... Well it's very complicated but you could say I built a size change ray. Like a shrink ray only it makes stuff giant too."

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene's just sitting there listening, wondering idly if she can get a srhink ray. "Can we get one?" one of the Death Dealers asks as Selene raises her head. "I'm suree we can figure out a way, I doubt we can just buy one" Selene says gently. "And no. You can't use it in the house" Selene adds, getting to her feet as she trails after the Death Dealers out the alley.