351/Wednesdays are the Worst

Wednesdays are the Worst
Date of Scene:	10 May 2017
Location:	Metropolis
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Emma Frost, Zhao Lin, Batwoman, Tachyon

---

Emma Frost has posed:
Wednesdays.

Wednesdays are the worst.

With that in mind, Emma is making her way out of her school and is on the sidewalk making her way towards her british racing green Bently. This is the perfect day to go for a pedicure. Emma's running away from the mid week slump.

While at the same time, across the street at the local Frost Bank office, a black suv rolls up outside and pulls into the only available parallel parking spot, and yet no one gets out. For now.

Zhao Lin has posed:
There are certain people in cities that no one ever pays attention to. They're everywhere, the homeless, the beggars, the vagrats. One such vagrant, clearly a mutant judging by his clearly feline features and full-body fur coat, lays in a pile of trash bags set near the curb for pickup.

Zhao Lin lurches up into a sitting position with a start, at the same time throwing his hands up to strike in front of him, both hands curled as though he were holding a pair of cups. He hesitates, then, blinking as he looks around him.

"This... is not New York," he mutters to himself, letting his hands fall to his lap. He sighs and leans over, rummaging through the bags of trash until he finds his gourd canteen. He pops the top open and tilts his head back, pouring a mouthful of the yellow-clear liquid into his maw. He swallows, closes the canteen again, and then hauls himself out of the trash to stand up with an unsteady sway.

"Excuse me, miss," he calls to Emma, pointing at her with outstretched arm and outstretched finger while the rest of his hand grips his canteen, "What city or, uh, coutry am I in?" He speaks with a heavily Chinese accent, and a bit of a drunken slur makes him a little difficult to understand. The black SUV, much like the beggar himself, is currently overlooked.

Batwoman has posed:
Kate eats up the distance between buildings with an easy, long-legged stride. She is at the Big Belly Burger currently, standing outside with a sandwich already in hand, paper tray held in her right to keep from spilling sauce and cheese everywhere. She seems to be pacing while she considers what she is going to eat.

At the moment the tall, slender woman with the bobbed red hair is wearing a leather jacket, matching biker gloves, black 'Tegan and Sara' band tee, blue jeans, and black boots that manage to be elegant and still functional, her nautical star tattoo visible on her left bicep. You probably don't want to be kicked by them. Kate leans in and takes a bite from her sandwich, scattering bits of bacon and cheese into the tray. She, at least, remains pristine. Her sunglasses remain on her forehead, too.

Tachyon has posed:
    Well the kids weren't the brightest, but they were eager! Dr. Stinson strides off the campus of the Academy of Tomorrow while casually checking the notes she had prepared for the lecture. Nodding slightly, she flips the twenty pages in a few seconds before tossing them into a convenient public waste receptacle. She hadn't lied to them, well, she had simplified some of it.
    Clad in a white lab coat over a simple black dress, she looks like the average intellectual. Bright but not exactly 'with it.' Checking the oversized watch on her wrist she nods. She's got at least seven minutes before she has to get back to work. Ooooh, a Big Belly Burger.
    There's a blur and suddenly she's at the counter, the door vibrating slightly as it slips closed. "Yes, I'd like a triple baconator with a jumbo fry and a monster slam soda please."

Emma Frost has posed:
Lots of things seem to be going on within the city. A speedster zooming into a burger joint for an artery clogger.

A red head is figuring out what else to eat, cause one burger doesn't cut it some times.

A hung-over master stumbles out of the trash towards a well off blonde.

Emma seems to keep walking past Zhao without much regard for the man, but she does drop an answer without much effort. "You're in Metropolis." The telepath says still on her way towards her car.

Three men wearing black high collared coats and blue jeans, quickly walking in and as they enter the threshhold for the door way the mean reach up and draw down balaclavas over their faces. Two of the men pull out six shooters and storm into the bank behind the obscured glass.

Batwoman has posed:
Kate started to step up to the counter when Tachyon came racing by at some intense multiple of the speed of sound. A brow arches and she pauses, pursing her lips. It quickly turns into a smile. "Hello, Meredith," the redhead calls, tilting her head slightly as she does so. A foot taps lightly against the ground, moving to some imagined beat.

"It's good to see you. Business?" The redhead discards the now empty tray of food into the nearby waste receptacle and rubs her hands together briefly. That would be when the commotion starts. She frowns, turning almost on a whim. Just in time to see guns and balaclavas. "That isn't going to end well..." Then Kate is off. She runs at normal speeds for a peak level human athlete. You know, 22-25 miles per hour. Fractions of what the woman standing near her can manage.

Can't very well retrieve a costume in plain sight, can she? Extra food has to wait.

Zhao Lin has posed:
Zhao Lin might have had something else to say to the woman who continued walked past him, such as "How do I get back to New York?" or "What's a Metropolis?", but there's commotion across the street. The three men do not go unnoticed by the humanoid snow leopard, who holds up a hand to Emma as he starts towards the bank. "Thank you, excuse me, miss." This time, excusing himself from her presence instead of into it.

Zhao Lin hurries across the street, in fact tumbling across the hood of a moving car, which causes it to screech to a halt in the middle of the road. Lin does not seem to pay any heed to the halted car or the driver who yells a few obsceneties at him. Instead, the drunken man stumbles past a man walking by, sweeping his hand over the fellow's head to procure his hat without him noticing. He makes his way up to the door of the bank, but stops beside it instead. Within a moment Zhao Lin slumps up against the wall, and sinks down to sit with the hat in his lap, as though he were still just a beggar looking for change. It's a very clever ruse, in fact, and he leans over just slightly to peek inside the bank at what might be going on therein.

Tachyon has posed:
    Noticing Kate, Meredith offers up a big wave. "Hi! Been a while, it's nice to see you here? Wow, better than a gown I have to say! I like the jacket, it's very... you." Dr. Stinson's speech starts quickly, but soon syncs back to what normal people would just call 'quick.'
    Foot tapping, the blonde waits for her food. There's an almost defeated, small 'okay' as Kate quite literally runs away. What to do, what to do. Still, another six and a half minutes to get back to work. After all, super scientific speedster that she is, she certainly wasn't perceptive enough to notice a walk up for a potential armed robbery across the street. Smart, not a detective.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma starts to respond to Zhao but stops as he runs away to go ... steal a guys hat and sit in front of the bank across the street. "Odd." She whispers to herself. Her blue eyes following the asian man curiously.

The three men storm inside the bank and quickly make their demands. The trio aren't totally amature about this. There was some thought and planning that went into this heist. Two are quickly making demands for money, and the third is keeping an eye out, keeping everyone else on the floor and subdued.

Batwoman has posed:
It isn't long before a frustrated Kate is coming back into view across the street from the burger place, near the bank. She is still in her regular clothes, in fact. She's scowling and looking around for a second befoe turning her gaze back to Meredith. "...Meredith! Bank robbery!" She calls, waving both arms and pointing toward the bank as she does. The leather wearing, lightly tattooed redhead is pretty animated even while scowling.

Zhao Lin has posed:
Zhao Lin sees an opening, while two of the men are distracted with the important part of the heist. Picking up the hat, he puts it on top of his head. His canteen gets another long drink from it, before he pushes himself unsteadily to his feet and actually wanders into the bank. He pretends not to see the people huddled against the wall, and stumbles right up towards the man holding the gun on them. "Excuse me, sir," Zhao Lin says as he takes the hat of his head and holds it out to him, "Spare a few coins?" It is, of course, all a trick to get himself close up to one of the bank robbers.

Tachyon has posed:
Meredith waits patiently for her burger. Ooooh, it's soo juicy! Picking up her tray she heads for a table happily, reminding herself to text Kate later and see if she said anything hurtful. Plopping down at the table she settles in for a glorious five minutes of eating a delicious, greasy, bacony burger. They're even playing that song Carry On by Fun on the radio. Yeah, other than that thing with Kate this could be a nice lunch break. She glances back towards where the red head ran off to, the girl's reaction still on her mind. Wait, what's she waving about? Slipping hands into a pocket she types a quick text message to the woman, trying to find out what she said. After a half moment for transmission, Kate's cell phone dings and a message pops, "Sorry if I said anything to offend you. What's up?"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma sighs softly as she watches Zhao step forward into the bank and piggy backing into his vision for a brief moment, the telepath winces as she realizes what's going on. Oh, this isn't good. The White queen pauses, and really listens to the minds of the area, seems there's plenty of heroes about to help and she really doesn't want to be put into harms way when she realizes one thing... <<Zhao, get out of there. There's more than Three of them.>> She projects mentally.

The three guys inside continue doing their specific jobs. The two continue filling recycleable grocery bags with money while the second stares at Zhao, stepping closer but drawing his gun back, close to his ribs, still aimed at the martial artist. "You bes' be gettin' outtah her bum." His thick New England accent growls at Lin.

Batwoman has posed:
Kate blinks a few times as the text message arrives. She lifts her phone out of her pocket quickly. Red brows furrow as she stares at the screen for the half second needed to read the message. She sends back a rapid fire response. "Not offended. Thank you. Bank robbery! Right now! Where I'm going!" Then she drops the phone bck into her bag and... Runs toward the bank. Meredith can see Kate sprinting along the path. Right? She's hoping at least.

Tachyon has posed:
One thing that's hard to realize sometimes is that speedsters move fast. Tachyon can move ten miles per second when she's trying to get somewhere, not when she wants to get somewhere quickly. Kate's phone instantly has a reply message. "Don't go there. Stay safe, I've got it under control, police have been notified." Before the red head has even received the message though the door of the Big Belly is vibrating madly in its frame, the glass wobbles and shatters. well at least Tachyon tried to close it carefully. Not so with the slowly opening sliding glass doors of the bank. There's simply a white streak that's hard for human eyes that move across the street in milliseconds. Then one of the glass doors shatters. Complimentary bank pens are placed in the barrels of drawn guns. They're lifted towards the ceiling anyway as hard strikes come down on arms. Each robber also gets another pair of punches to the stomach. Then the guy by the door simple gets a nice hard kick towards said door, with any luck sending him through the undamaged glass door in super stylish action hero fashion. There's a moment and Tachyon becomes perceptible as anything other than a white and red blur, in her costume and standing all dramatic. Her uplink finishes sending her report directly to police dispatch, including descriptions of the three robbers.

Zhao Lin has posed:
Well, telepathy isn't something Zhao Lin is accustomed to. Thankfully, his appearance as a drunk beggar makes it look normal(for him), when he suddenly swings around to look behind him, startled. He stumbles backwards, expecting to walk into the man behind him when there's a crash, then another crash, and Zhao Lin falls right backwards to the ground with a thud. "Oooh," he groans, rubbing the back of his head and sitting up, to look at the now shattered bank doors and the man laying in the street outside. He rubs the back of his head, then looks over his shoulder at the confused men robbing the back, then back to the hostages. "Psst," he hisses to get the attention of one of them, and then starts waving towards the door. "Go, now," he whispers, before twisting around to stand up, stumbling his way further into the bank. He furrows his brow as he sees the red-and-white-clad Tachyon, his tail twitching behind him. "Who are you?" he asks aloud, before looking around him, "How did you get in here?" He hadn't noticed her whipping around earlier, by habit of being in the middle of a fall.

Emma Frost has posed:
The two men that were in charge of gathering the money for the heist suddenly have their gun arms broken and then with two punches into the abdomen each are sent flying back into the floor and counter, both men throwing up blood and lunches from the blows. One man's head cracks against the marble counter and he slumps to the ground in a heap. The other lands on the floor and seems to be unable to even catch is breath from the punches. The man that was standing guard is sent through the glass door, breaking the bank open, literally and landing on the sidewalk, his face, hands and arms cut by the glass and pavement.

Batwoman has posed:
Kate stands not far from the bank, breathing heavily, her arms hanging at her side. Perspiration is streaming down the taller woman's forehead showing off the exertion needed to maintain a sprint at that speed. For a brief moment she's actually jealous of Tachyon and her speeding ways. Then again... She shakes her head as shecomes close so that she can lean forward slightly and look past the door. Then Kate sighs and withdraws her phone. Tachyon's phone is buzzing a moment later.

Tachyon has posed:
"Oh hi," Meredith smiles at Lin as she finally realizes he's not part of the plot. "Cannonball through the door," she explains as to how she got here. Indeed, the girl has several knicks and cuts on her arms and face which are only now recognizing that they should actually bleed. Small drips of blood start marring her fair features. Another blur of motion and the weapons are collected and deposited behind one of the counters. Stopping back in front of Lin her nose crinkles, "Are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital? These guys need to go to the hospital." And again, a few moments of hyper tapping and dispatch is updated that the robbers will need medical assistance. Another blur of motion and she's back, offering Lin a jumbo Big Belly fry pack, she slurps on her monster slam soda. If he takes it she's gone again in a blur, this time reappearing over the man outside, the bank's first aid kit open next to her. She has little cheap plastic band aids all over her own cuts and she's trying to make sure that the man isn't going to bleed to death. Tempered glass doesn't cut terrible bad when it breaks, but better safe than sorry.

Zhao Lin has posed:
Zhao Lin stares for a moment at Merideth, then in a blink she's gone and back again, offering him fries. He blinks a few times, then after a moment of consideration, reaches out and takes the package of fries. Well, food is food. He looks behind him when the blur goes that direction and Merideth is out dealing with the injured thug. He eats one of the fries while musing on the thought that was put in his head: More than three. He looks towards the back rooms and, after a swig from his gourd to wash down some of the fries, heads in that direction. He cracks the door open a little and peeks in, looking to see what might be going on back there.

Emma Frost has posed:
There's no crooks in the rooms, in fact it's just scared bank workers and a few people trying to get house loans and such. Everyone gasps at the sight of Lin but quickly calm down.

Outside, the suv quickly sets off, down the road and is careful to keep making turns into alleys and fleeing the scene, leaving the three crooks at the bank.

The sound of sirens echoes off the buildings as police, fire and EMTs charge towards the scene.

Zhao Lin has posed:
The sound of the SUV's tires screeching catch Lin's attention, and he twists around to see the vehicle speeding off from in front of the bank. He rushes outside as fast as he can, but he's far to slow and by the time he gets there it's already around the corner. Zhao Lin heaves a sigh and reaches down to pick up the hat he stole earlier, giving it a few taps to knock the broken glass from it. He puts it on his head and, with the sound of sirens growing nearer, starts towards a nearby alleyway so he can avoid the police. Being an illegal immigrant in the USA, well, they're not exactly the people he likes to interact with.

Batwoman has posed:
Now Kate's phone is buzzing. She shakes her head slowly, watching as people exit the bank. Blue eyes shift and she checks out the SUV as it leaves, looking for license plates, make, an idea of the model... Anything she can use to find the vehicle. Afterward the woman takes a deep breath and slowly exhales, looking up toward thee sky. She frowns. Rather than answer her message she drops the phone back into her pocket and moves to the front of the bank. Kate looks past it and inside at the people there. She walks over toward Meredith. "Some things aren't safe to do super fast. But this at least I can manage." So Kate will assist with rendering medical aid to the criminals. She might get a dab of blood on her leather.

Tachyon has posed:
After doing what she can to make sure the robber isn't going to bleed to death, or anything else to death, Tachyon makes sure he's not going to run off and doesn't have a weapon. After that she says loudly to the people in the area, "Please stay near the bank, the police will want to talk to you, Sir, Sir!" She sighs as Lin bolts. Grabbing the first aid box she moves into the building again to help Kate with the other two.

Zhao Lin has posed:
Zhao Lin only glances over his shoulder when Meredith calls after him, but he doesn't stop or turn around to reply. Instead, he ducks into the alleyway, disappearing out of sight. He doesn't have anything to say to the police, anyhow.

Batwoman has posed:
Kate clearly knows how to handle serious wounds and tends to the men efficiently and with exactly the minimum needed amount of concern for their pain as she does. There are a couple groans as a result but she makes sure that they will live and recover, which is the important part. "I have military training," Kate explains to Meredith companionably as she works. "I was being careful but I needed to make sure that these people were safe." She gives a slow shrug at this, tilting her head slightly as she does. "And then after this, burger. I'm sure work will understand the extra ten minutes on your lunch break under the circumstances." Kate flashes the blonde woman beside her a brief smile. "Of course, the cops are arriving now. Ready for our interview?"