4224/Moreau and Moreua Trouble

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Moreau and Moreua Trouble
Date of Scene: 08 April 2018
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Crusader and Kenan fight Grodd who tests a variant of the Moreau formula in the mall. None of the witnesses remember him and it wears off after a few hours. Grodd does not get a sample of Kenan's blood and SHIELD gains a rare chance to study 8 of Grodd's drones.
Cast of Characters: Gorilla Grodd, Super-Man, Crusader




Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd has been working on applying his treasures from his ventures into physical realms, the most valuable of which was Moreau's formula. As such, today he is at the mall, patiently waiting to find the right combination of people to affect with his 'surprise' package, and watching via remote drone.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan is at the mall, mostly he is here looking around. Shopping is a very different thing in the US than in most pof China. He is observing. His father was a supporter of Democratic change in China. He is trying to decide whether his father is right...or if the Ministry which created him and which supports the communist government is correct. Is this way better, or is it destined to fail?

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd is about to deploy the package when he spots Kenan. He recognizes this man and decides this might be something...more interesting. He recalls the drone and has another teleport to the location. It's a much different beast, cloaked and cunning. If Kenan is using his super senses he might hear it as it approaches, slowly from above and behind.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan has little reason to use his senses just now, his powers require a degree of concentration to use. When he is just being Kenan, it is good to let himself relax. Of course, he is aware of his surroundings in a general way...and in some specific ways as well. After all, he is here studying, ad perhaps doing a bit of girl watching, but after all he is only 18.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd the drone is relatively silent though not indetectable to the observing. He might be distracted by the extremely attractive set of svelt and curvey twins in front of him. Either way, Grodd goes for it, moving the device foward with a needle to try and get a sample of Kenan's blood. A hybridizaiton of Kryptonian and Human DNA is too good to pass up.

Super-Man has posed:
At the last second Kenan reacts, his first reflex in the case of trouble is to reach for his power and focus it into his belly, becomming Invulnerable. Of course, he might be a bit late, focusing his power does take time. The irony is that Kenan does not have any Kryptonian DNA, he is a strait metahuman with a mystic channeling ability (a strange combination to be certain, but he is hardly the only one). His blood is probably useless to Grodd...or at least not as useful as the Gorilla might think.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd manages to get a sample but much smaller than what he prefers. The needle immediately snaps and Grodd grunts. So much for that plan, but a little can still be useful, especially if he can transplant it into other animals to havest and clone later. He has the drone immediately with draw, though he also charges up the teleporter to send some expendable combat drones to protect it. The thing is still recharging though

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan feels the sting and curses himself, Biaxi and Clint have told him time and again to keep his guard up. It is just so diffult to always keep up his focus on the ideal of Superman without relaxing once in a while. Without that focus to channel energy, he is only human. He reacts fast...switching through his hearing to roughly find the drone, then his sight to locate it exactly, then to Freeze Breath to capture it to bring back to SHIELD...at least that is the plan.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
The location part is simple. The drone is fast but not that fast. The freezing is mostly successful but at the moment he does it, three more, sturdier drones teleport in, each at an angle to make freezing one at any time difficult. One of the heavier drones catches the iced one.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan briefly lanents the abscence of his containment suit, it was not appropriate for a day under cover, but helps protect him when he has to use different powers. Powers like Heat Vision, which flashes redly from his eyes literally as quick as a wink, spearing at the new drones.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
One of the drones has a primitive energy reflection shield but two more, including the one going for the sample incinerate. Grodd grunts and fries the circuitry remotely of the sampler drone which drops the drone in question. He recalls the demons tactics before and grabs a few things from his arsenal stepping on to the pad. If you want a job done right....do it yourself. The icey core of the sample is still there...and he means to have it.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan could fry the drone, but is more interested in finding out who sent it and why. He moves his power to his feet and slaps his hands together on opposite sides of the drone at just under the speed of sound...no point in causing a sonic boom indoors...the hurricane force pressure wave will probably knock the drone out without crushing it completely. Well, he is hoping so.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
So the good news is that his plan on the drone works. The bad news is that a lot of people around the mall shout in indignation clapping their ears and shrieking in pain. All the better for when they aren't aware of the giant Gorilla who teleports in, and opens the breifcase full of a dozen more drones with needles like the one that took blood from Kenan. These ones aren't here to draw blood....

Super-Man has posed:
OK, probably not the best plan Kenan has ever come up with. Still, he has the drone to take back to SHIELD...and quickly checks the area for more threats. He finds them, which is both good and bad news. Good news in that he has a chance to react, bad news because he recognizes Grodd and knows the Super Gorilla is probably out of his league. OK, time to practice is channel splitting, Speed and Invulnerability, two channels, unfortunately each a quarter the normal strength because he is not good at this power splitting stuff. He wants to gather up the drones before they can spread and do any damage.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
So the good news is that Kenan, with his speed grabs about four before they do anything at all. Grodd takes out a rifle and shoots at Kenan as he does so, missing the first time, but hitting a human that is covered in ice! Apparently Grodd got ideas from Kenan. The problem is that the other 8 drones are able to inject helpless (and deaf) mall customers and then move on to inject more. The eight of them begin to show animalistic qualities, all kinds and many mixtures as he tries random strains of Moreau's formula.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan realizes things are getting out of hand and decides it is time to call for help. He activates his SHIELD communicator and says, "Attention, Shield Agents, this is Agent in Training Kenan Kong. Gorilla Grodd is at the midtown mall using flying drones to inject people with chemicals causing atavistic behavior. Help is requested immediately." Hopefully someone is on hand who can authorize sending help fast.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
The drones were originally designed to collect data on the experiment of Moraeu's solution. It is MUCH faster than his, and doesn't use the same principal at all but right now he's going for the ice core and runs towards it, grinning and shooting a few more blasts of the Ice Rifle at Kenan just to keep him busy.

Super-Man has posed:
OK, so he would be getting iced up is his speed was not breaking the ice off as fast as it is forming. Unfortunately his current clothing is not iuntended to be frozen OR to deal with Hurricane level wind speeds. It will be in tatters before long. Perhaps it is time to change tactics. He rushes towards Grodd and switches all his energy to his hads foir long enough to land a blow that could bring down a skyscraper...from what he has heard Grodd ca take it. No matter the results, he switches back to invulnerability after.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd can take a lot but not that level of a punch. Fortunately, the force field that Kenan slams into that is something of a brick wall does quite nicely. He is stopped just shy of the target and sighs. This is not going as planned.

Super-Man has posed:
While Kenan has his dehenses lowered do he can attack Grodd, one of the drones targes HIM, and injects him with an atavistic transformation cocktail...which intreacts oddly with his metahuman metabolism...

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd grins and has NO idea what that will do. He doesn't care per se and uses his final gadget, a holo projector which leaves an image of Grodd and the forcefield up as he then leaps for the ice core with the sample of Kenan's blood.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Meanwhile, the people are all kinds of animals. Most are anthrogenic versions of one kind of animal or another like Rhinos or Elephants. Strangely, none are any kind of simeon like gorillas or apes or chimps. Quite a few dogs, and about a third are three or four animals. Most people are panicing and doing all kinds of crazy stuff gibbering, weeping or laughing hysterically. Two or three think they are super heroes now and try to (lamely) stop the drones.

Crusader has posed:
And suddenly, another hero is joining the scene. Having heard the call, the armored juggernaut known as Crusader arrives on the scene. In time to see Kenan getting injected and...Grodd leaping for some sort of large ice like structure.
    Useing his Cyberpathy, so long as the drones were not 'alien' advanced, he should be able to hack them. If he does manages...Grodd would suddenly find his drone turning agaist him, as any within Crusader range suddenly begin flying towards Grodd, as his voice booms out "That is quite enough Grodd"

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan has 8 powers...or rather 8 ways to use the energy he channels. As a result, his body mutates to represent his powers. His body becomes covered with scales like an armadillo. His legs elongate and the scales become spotted like a cheetah. His chest becomes massive and thickly muscled like an ox. His head and eyes becomes like that of a burrowing owl. His ears like those of a bat. His arms become flexible and long...and covered in slime. Those are the visible changes...

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd is not pleased at this turn of events but after the last fiasco, he should have expected it. This is why he works through channels after all. It was worth it. He has what he needs and starts the teleportation countdown but the shield is straining. The drones attack, and he activates their self destruct likely shorting them unless Crusader can override it. As it is, he is able to buy himself some time taking the power core from the ice rifle and enhancing the shield a bit longer as all eight bounce off it. He still hasn't left yet.

Crusader has posed:
Crusader, indeed was able to intercept the signal that would activate the self destruct sequence. The drones remain standing and attacking, bouncing off the forcefield. Their attacks were organized and precise...almost sentient. But that might be due to thier new controller.
    Crusader notice Kenan and his changes. That was ALOT of changes for one person, and looking around - it clear Grodd has changed alot of people. Whatever Grood used, they needed it to hopefully study and reverse the changes
    As such, Crusader doesn't act as a controller, but a part of the unit. He flies towards Grodd and his forcefield, slamming his super power fist into it, once...twice, and than a barrage of them, tryig t break it, or at the very least stop Grodd from being able to get away. Saddly, he couldn't hack and stop the teleportation device directly, no simply bring down the forcefield.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan moves towards Grodd, running with the speed of a Cheetah...and bounces off the force field since his strength is far lower than it was. He layes his strange arms on the field and they produce a shocking charge like an Electric eel. Then his mouth gapes opens and he spits a mist of venom like a spitting cobra. Perhaps bothing he has will work...but it is bound to be diverting.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd grunts with annoyance as the forcefield bounces and likely deflects Crusader before shorting. "You will regret that." He shrieks as Kenan hits him with the multiple attacks and channels his pain into a latent telepathic command to the crowd. Who suddenly all look at Kenan and Crusader. Grodd starts to fade...the process started but disrupted by the electrical attack. But as no less than fifty monstrous and animalistic humans charge the two heroes they might have other problems.

Crusader has posed:
Crusader skids back when he was deflected, but at least the barrier was down. And Grodd at the moment at least was staying put. "Super-man, whatever Grodd used, get it. Going to have to concentrate for this" considering Kenan extra powers as it were, were able to hurt Grodd and stop him from teleporting, let alone know what Grodd actually used, he seemed the best for the job
    Crusader though, looks to the oncomming stampede. He raises his hands and Ironicly, puts up a tangible electromagnetic forcefield of his own all around them. It primary purpose stop the stampede from reaching them - weather through a physical barrier or a shock to their system. The secondary effect if there lucky was to hopefully prevent an more teleportation. But with so many animalized people, he may not be able to hold it for long.

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan can not talk at the moment, but already has a number of drones collected from before. Now, trying to get the controiller for the drones from Grodd...well he can try that. not having human hands at the moment it may be difficult. Unfortuately it will take a bit for his attacks to recharge. Only one thing to do, he jumps into the ait ans spreads out his glider membranes, exlending his leap to come down on top of Grodd with all the mass and speed he can manage.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd is using his telekinetic strength and despite the muscles straining from the venom of the attack throws Kenan off with enough strength to throw a tank so the impact if he hits something is likely to be rather hard. Grodd takes the blow and grunts in pain but Kenan is getting a lot of force right back.

The people slam into the barrier though a few have the eel abilities that Kenan displayed and so might quickly disrupt it, their rage and anger and fury driving them with no sense of self preservation channeled from Grodd's pain into them telepathically.

Crusader has posed:
Crusader forcefield was flickering, fading due to the eletrical inference. And there was no garentee this would stop even if Grodd is knocked out, or teleported away. Best thing to do was cull the numbers with minimal damage. Crusader closes his eyes as he concentrates and the forcefield strengths for a moment...before unleashing a cascading arcs of lightnng to electricute the people attacking. The amount of power unleashed was within human survivability and should hopefully knock out if not disperse the many people attacking them

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan goes flying...though not under his own power he spreads his glider membrane to guide his angle to crash into a group of the tougher looking beastfolk still standing. Might as well put the inertia lf the throw to good use.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
Gorilla Grodd is about to fade but sends a telepathic jolt of pain straight into the minds of Crusader and Kenan, especially since he dropped the damn ice core. In the process, of course, he wipes the memory of himself from those he infected. Shield will know but sheild would know anyway.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
The people that get shocked are stunned and many go down but they're tougher than baseline humans and leap forward in spite of the attacks some attempting to tackle and/or eat Crusader. Not a good meal.

Crusader has posed:
Crusader grabs his head in pain and let out a startled roar. Some people have one mind to make painful - but Crusader mind is made up of multiple minds. Needless to say, it was very...very painful. And lord and behold, now he being tackled to the ground by a hoard of animal people! Granted...their biteing and attempts to eat are...more or less useless. It like trying to bite into a steel beam. But Crusader does let these beastman get some extra shocks to them!

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan is hit by the pain...fortunately is current abilities do not require concentration to keep active, or this might have interrupted them. He follows his atavistic instincts and curls into a ball with his hard scales defending him. The beast-folk hit him, but don not damage him much.

Gorilla Grodd has posed:
The people still awake stop and many spit out Crusader, not liking the taste at all. The initial shock wears off and panic sets in as they are worried that they will be stuck like this. MAny pick up phones and dial 911.

Crusader has posed:
Crusader stands up and dust himself off, having gathered the dna of alot of hybrid beastman just now. That was far more spit than he wished to get on him. But least people were dialing 911...but Grodd was gone. He sighs "That simian is a real pain in the tail" he walks over to Kenan making sure he was alright...before more or less acting as Crowd control trying to calm down the more panicked folks while the police arrive

Super-Man has posed:
Kenan signs and does what he can to help once the attacks on him stop. He kind of has to be careful, not having actual hands makes him kind of clumsy. He hopes this can be undone. Granted his current abilities are interesting, but this is just NOT him.