4380/The Trouble With Ninjas

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The Trouble With Ninjas
Date of Scene: 03 May 2018
Location: North Hempstead
Synopsis: Red Hood's attempt to get some chicken is thwarted by ninjas, an ex, and a couple of teen heroes.
Cast of Characters: Red Hood, Slipstream, Wonder Girl




Red Hood has posed:
THEN:

If you leave this place now; you will not be prepared for all you face Jason Todd.

Yeah - well in my business we call that a chance you have to take. Jason pulled his gear and his parka together and prepared to take the first steps from the warmth of the All-Caste back into the chill of the Himalayans. "Not to mention - the world isn't going to wait for me."

'There is more to you than your anger, pup. You need to learn to harness it. You will come back when you're ready.' the older female figure responded.

"Sure, I will." It was a lie at the time.

CURRENTLY:

"I only came here for the chicken combo, there isn't a Los Pollos Hermanos in Gotham!" the grouch comes from a figure in a Red Hood and leather that is currently being pursued across the rooftops of North Hempstead by a group of mysterious figures, and a white haired girl that has taken the lead. "What do you have against chicken anyway?"

One of the ninjas charges at him, and Red Hood pulls out his pistols, firing at him as he leaps from the rooftop and starts to plummet to the ground below. Maybe they'll be like lemmings and follow after me?

Slipstream has posed:
Someone once told him that Los Pollos was the best chicken in the state. If only he could remember who that was. Either way, he took a chance on it and found himself walking out the store's doors after a couple of chicken biscuits and a large strawberry fresca. Drake is dressed in a pair of loose fitted black jeans with tears and holes along the thighs and knees, along with a black shirt with a gleaming gold Overwatch logo on the chest, and the words: Heroes Never Die, on the back in bright white font.

There is a visible pause in the young Avenger's posture as he hears the gunshots echoing above him, his eyes quickly tracking the action. One of the guys is wearing what apperas to be a vigilante costume from Hot Topic and the other is a group of somethings giving chase. Those don't appear to be /his/ ninjas, but from what he's learned living here in New York that ninjas are up to no good. He blinks out of sight for a moment, reappearing in a blue blur as he continues to follow the scene up above. It is when Jason falls though that causes his eyes to widen in panic. He steps forward, disappears, then reappears as he catches Jason in mid-air with a loud 'oof', followed by a,

"Cheers love, the calvary's here!"

He blinks ahead another thirty feet and puts him down, giving him a quick dusting off before he says, "Hey man, I'm Slip Stream, you're one of the good guys, right? I'm assuming you are because ninjas are chasing you but you also got a gun, so I'm kinda torn right now if I am supposed to knock you out also. Oh! Hey, I'm an Avenger too. So, word up?" He glances over his shoulder and upwards to the roof. ".. superhero team up?"

Wonder Girl has posed:
Believe it or not, Los Pollos Hermanos is one of Cassandra Sandsmark's favorite resteraunts. So she was actually sitting near the window of the same, her fork dipping into the chicken combo that she was currently chowing down on. She had her cell phone open, propped up on the bottle of ketchup in front of herself. She was video chatting with someone. It was another girl on the screen that was likewise munching down and chatting away.

Although a gunshot rings out. "Holy...! Stacy, I'm gonna call you back. It sounds like there's trouble outside."

Standing up straight, Cassie tucks cell phone into her back pocket, and starts running for the door, grasping the last bit of burrito from her plate to push into her mouth - setting the tray where it belongs... and ~BAM~.

~Wonder Girl~ is on the case!

So. First thing to do? Figure out where the gunshots were coming from. So Cassie takes to the skies, lasso fluttering at her hip in the wind, narrowing her eyes as she sweeps her gaze... oh, how about that running guy in the Red Hood? He looked pretty supervillain-like. And so Cassie dips down, starting to fly that way... when Drake appears. Wonder Girl stops mid-air, assessing the situation as she unfastens her lasso from her hip. Oh. Ninjas.

Don't blame her please, they blend. Ninjas were never up to any good. "Hey, so... whoever is the bad guy here...? Your troubles just got seriously more... ah... troubled."

Red Hood has posed:
Falling from the building, Hood reaches into his jacket to find a grapple gun. Just as he finds himself caught and ooofs. Though, good luck finding the gratitude from him. And it all starts with the delivery of the 'line'.

Really? "Cheers love? Did you just rip off.. look. If you're one of those Rule 63 guys, more power to you. Not my thing." comes the snort from Red Hood. What, he's a ninteen year old under that hood, of course he plays video games. And eats pizza. And acts his age //sometimes//. But this? This is serious business. As he's set back on the rooftop. "Superhero? Nope, none here."

And then there's the younger version of Wonder Woman arriving on the scene. The Black Robin can't help but to seem amused by the whole idea. "Oh lord, did I just stumble on the Junior Avenger's Cookie Drive? I'll have two boxes of Samoas, Tagalongs, and if you don't have any Thin Mints, I'm going to be disappointed."

But then his attention is turned to the advancing ninjas. "They're called the Untitled. Original, right? They aren't exactly typical - watch out for the white-haired girl in the middle. She's Essence, we have a history."

With that, he's running towards the edge of the building to leap up, and fires his grapple gun to catch a line and pull himself back into the fray as he slams feet first into the first of the ninjas. The ninja goes flailing towards the ground and when he hits, he dissipates into the shadows.

The remaining ninjas continue to fan out on the attack, several of them moving towards the bigger threat - Cassie. They intend to swarm her over in sheer numbers. Instead of the whole attack one at a time thing that more classic villains like to do.

Slipstream has posed:
"Rule sixty-three? Bro, I'm like .. officially sanctioned by Blizzard. I'm on billboards... " Drake trails off for a moment as his lips curve upwards in amusement. "The Untilted? It sounds as if the big boss lost his train of thought when he was putting together his team of bad guys together. Who's the leader, Dr. Evil?"

Tilting his head upwards to Cassie, he lifts a hand and gives her a wave. "BIG FAN." He calls up to her as he cups his mouth with his hand. As the Red Hood grapples upwards to the roof, he blinks out of sight, then reappears behind the group of ninjas from a quick zip up the fire escape. ".. Okay, you've done this before, Drake. Just keep ahead of them." He mumbles to himself before he moves forward to engage as well, his body blinking in and out as he looks to slam a foot or a fist into the back of the ninjas to take them by surprise. Most of his technique is clumsy, but he moves so swift that the naked eye won't follow. He provides the role of flanker and rogue, to draw attention away from the front line and the heavy up in the sky. His attack is almost tactical as he creates a division to allow Jason room to work.

Wonder Girl has posed:
Cassie dangles there in the air for a few moments further, her eyes narrowing a bit. And hey hey hey. Stow that 'younger version of Wonder Woman' stuff. Cassie was fresh, hip, new, and her own woman. Wonder Woman /wishes/ she was Cassie Sandsmark!

Well, probably not, but we'll go with it for now. "Naw, what you did, was interrupt my chicken feast," she says. "So you're gonna have to..." There was something about Red Hood that had Cassie's lips curled up into a brief smile, before her previous reluctance in engaging one side or the other vanishes.

Cassie drives her fist into the waiting palm of her other hand, her expression growing serious as she realizes that they - they were going to focus on her. "Okay, so this is how it's going to go." Planting her feet on the ground proper, she lashes out with her lasso, aiming for one of the ninjas... and her features kinda get wobbly as the lasso ends up snagging an antenna instead, missing with an agile duck of the ninja.

"So what's going on here then? This isn't a 'trick superheroes' to beat up your girlfriend thing, is it?" A beat, and Cassie uses what little time she has left to look at Essence. "Did he dump you or something?" she asks, bringing up her bracelet to fend off a sudden sword strike to her side, ducking and rolling - and not quite retrieving her lasso yet as the ninjas force her into defense.

Drake's wave was responded to with a wave and salute of her own. "I think they're going for the mysterious unknown sort of angle," she says, grunting as a kick lands at her thigh. She stays on the defensive, for now.

Red Hood has posed:
"If you make a chicken pun, I'll shoot you myself." Red Hood responds cooly to Wonder Girl. "So don't cluck it up." Did he? Oh, he just did. And Cassie is to Wonder Woman as Jason is to Batman. Sorta. Okay. Not at all. Under his helmet, Jason offers a small smirk. After sparing a moment longer upon the blonde, it's her question that draws his ire, however. The humor disappears.

"It's complicated!" It comes in unison from both the Hood and Essence. And while Cassie's lasso misses the mark, one of them starts to run along the taunt line towards her, drawing back a sword to strike. And it's here, close to her, that Cassie can see - it looks like a shadow copy of Essence herself as it strikes.

But explanations are going to have to wait for a moment. With Drake going on the flank, a pair of ninja moves towards the Overwatch wearing hero. Though as Drake starts blinking around, Essence watches his pattern. She scoffs slightly as she rolls away from the strike of the Red Hood against the building.

"You may not be predictable.. but.."

After a couple of blinks, Essence swings into the space she believes that Drake will appear next based on his jumping around, seeing where he gets comfortable with his places he's blinking to and from and then //strikes//.

"I don't know, Wonder Girl, do you have breakups like this?" comes the dry question from Red Hood as he rolls and tries to pop up after his missed strike. Pistols are pulled and prepared to fire - but he sees what's about to happen - but too late to warn Drake. Hopefully Drake's quicker than he hopes.

Slipstream has posed:
With each blink, Drake seems to be glowing a bit brighter, in and out, in and out. It's as if he is chargnig up for something that he is building within himself. With that final blink in front of Essence, the young Overwatch hero slams his fists out, followed by a ripple of the air as a loud 'BOOM' is heard as they connect with each other.

Drake flies backwards as the rooftop beneath him shatters with a number of wide cracks., with the force of the tiny mini sonic boom looking to throw Essence back in a final blow of pure force upon impact. The bracelet strapped to his left wrist starts to sound a loud alarm, followed by a glowing orange LED across the faceplate as the young hero's nose begins to bleed and he doubles over in pain as he lets out a wheezing gasp. ".. Snowball..

The sound of a loud robotic 'doot-da-doo!' is heard as a golden floating orb with a faceplate and a cute led n.n across it is seen rising up and into view, followed by a small canon like device from the bottom of it taking aim at the remaining ninjas. If any goes naer Drake, she will look to cover them in liquid ice

Wonder Girl has posed:
So Cassie had the PERFECT PLAN.

You know - she was going to release the slack on the lasso a bit, and with a cute little flip to one side, entangle the ninja in her lasso, then shock him to death, both dodging and reducing the numbers of nin who were bothering her. So that was the plan. Here's how it actually went down.

Cassie loosens the slack - the sword-wielding nin chooses that moment to lunge forward, so when Cassie was mid flip to one side... the sword penetrates her shoulder, causing her to cry out, her hand releasing the end of the lasso. It didn't cut deep, but it still cut - so there must be some dark techno-magic to the swords. To add insult to injury...

The roof decided to collapse beneath her. Falling into the top floor of an office, a manager-type person - who was on the phone to call the police, no doubt because of all the ruckus up above, gasps at her and the ninja that fall with her in horror, Cassie's favorite 'W' shirt stained red with blood at her shoulder.

The ninja don't let up, either. Coughing as she pulls herself to her feet, she helps herself to the manager's desk - tossing it end over end at one of the nin - trying to stay inbetween the ninjas and the guy. He was heavyset, bearded, and wearing a suit. And screaming. "They're trying to take the building down! I only wrecked /one room/ during my last breakup!" she calls over to Red Hood. But she sounded a little strained. And there were like five ninjas trying to press their advantage on her.

Red Hood has posed:
"Tee. Em. Eye." Red Hood responds to Cassie as she makes it known that she destroyed a room in her last breakup. "Though you have my interest!" is quickly added to the comment as the roof comes crashing down around them from the force of Drake's attack. Fortunately for them, they weren't on the roof of the Los Pollos Hermanos, or Drake would have just ruined a treasure. Instead, the abandoned convienece store next-door is just straight out of luck as it collapses in on itself.

Essence is thrown back against the wall from the force of the explosion - an explosion that in most cases would have probably killed the person that it was aimed at. If only Essence was a normal person. As the woman starts to dissipate back into the shadows with the rest of her forces, her next words carry with them a tone of warning.

'You are the last Jason. It is to you that the legacy falls. And with it - the Untitled shall continue to hunt.

"Yeah. Well. Ain't that peachy." Red Hood is muttering as he pushes himself up from the wreckage of the roof. "So if you two were on like some kind of date whatever, sorry for mucking it up." he offers with a grunt as he dusts off a little. "I'll just be on my way."

Slipstream has posed:
"Ow." Drake mutters from the floor as he starts to push himself upwards, coughing loudly at the dust. He gives a bit of a wobble back and forth, wiping at his face to come away with blood before he tries to hush his bracelet. "Shhh. Tony will get mad if I die in a 7-11. He'll say something really snarky at the funeral."

Snowball flashes a bright light down into the hole at them, causing Drake to blink a few times. "Oh, hey. No, we weren't on a date. I don't think I'd be lucky enough to score one with Wonder Girl. Even if we both really like the chicken." He coughs out as he gives a rub of his ribs. "My bad on the boom. I'm still figuring it out. I build up kinetic energy as I speed about and I gotta let it go so I figured aiming it at your buddy would probably shut the whole thing down. Didn't know the roof would cave."

Straightening up, he gives a quick smile to Cassie and says, "Drake Winters. I'm called Slip Stream. Avenger in training and team fuck up more times than not. Nice to meet you. Um... you must be..." He pauses at the sight of the Red Hood. "... I have no clue who you are..."

Wonder Girl has posed:
And in the space of a moment, Cassie was alone, lifting up her hand, and still trying to guard the suited man who was behind her. A beat, and she glances back to him. He glances back. "Probably should find someplace other than an abandoned convenience store to do your thing, guy," she says. Agreeing, the man flees.

And Cassie rolls her neck to a series of pops, pursing her lips as she leaps out of the hole she had fallen into, working her shoulder. Bringing up a hand to touch it, she winces. "Ow," she whines. It was very pitiful.

"I don't think I'm going to take life advice from a guy in a hood waving pistols around, /Rob/..." Eyes glance to Drake. "...erino." A beat. Grunting a little bit, she looks between him and Drake. "It probably just caved because these ninjas... are they gone?" she looks over her shoulder briefly, frowning. "... were jumping on it." Certainly not because she was jumping on it. She was light, and trim.

"Cassie," she says, casually to Drake. "Wonder Girl, princess of power and all that," she says, miming a flex of one of her arms. She did have muscle, but it was the the sleek feminine sort. Ahem. "Yeah. Who /are/ you?" she asks to Red Hood. "...and you owe us an explanation of what that was all about!" She didn't sound like she was gonna take no for an answer.

Red Hood has posed:
Reaching inside of his coat, Red Hood pulls out a small pack. "Rob? That's his name? Oh, you kids need work." Says the kid that's all grown up, right? Tossing the pack towards Drake, he snorts. "Wound sealant - foam adhesive, place against her injury, it'll seal it up nicely. Might even leave a cute scar." And then Cassie speaks up.

Explanations? She wanted an explanation. "Sure, it's all right here." Red Hood tosses a small device into Cassie's hands. It's cylindrical and long, and when she looks at it, it has written on the side of it in white against the green paint this anctient text:

                          M-29 Multi-Bang With Flash                          
                              Product of U.S.A.                                

He knows she can easily tank the multiple small explosions and flash bright of lights inside the building - and by the time it's cleared, Red Hood has grapple gunned away.

Typical Bat.

Slipstream has posed:
"That?s really cool of you to blame the ninjas for me busting a roof up." Drake says as he gives her an amused grin as the bracelet stops whining at him and goes back to a code yellow after a few pulses. He ambles over to the pair of them with a bit of a limp in his step, then gives his left foot a shaking off. "You?re hurt?" He asks Cassie with a frown on his face. "Aw, man. I?m sorry if I caused that." He says with remorse in his voice, wrinkling his nose up. "Oh, hey, that looks like a..." He says a the sight of the flash grenade lobbed over into Cassie?s hand. The bright flash of light and the earpopping noise causes him to wince, followed by a thump as he hits the ground. ".. ow... geezus. What a dick." He says a bit too loudly over the sound of his ringing ears. Once the lights clear as he blinks a few time stupidly, he sighs. ".. He?s gone. Shocked I say, shocked. Uh ..." He pauses as he gives a glance to Wonder Girl. "Princess of Power? Like She-Ra? I love the 80?s by the way. Except you got a lasso instead of a sword. We should peace out of here before the cops start getting nosy. I don?t know if they?ll wanna hear about ninjas. Wanna get a refill on the chicken? My treat."

Wonder Girl has posed:
Catching the small device, Cassie flips it over in her hand, glancing at the writing. She had like one second - one second to look up and flash a look of utter contempt at Red Hood's direction, before...
FLASH!

It explodes in her hands, and Cassie brings her hands up to cover her eyes, throwing the casing away. Launching herself up into the air - sorta, it was at a weird angle so she ends up kinda careening against one of the vent covers, she blinks her eyes rapidly, flying in an upwards direction for safety.

And to see if she can't spy Red Hood running away once her eyes clear. But they wouldn't clear nearly fast enough. Gritting her teeth together, she glances off to the distance, then back down to the surface. "No, I'm not that hurt," she says. A beat. "But still - I probably should head back and pow-wow about all this," she says, pointing in the direction of that wonderful T in the distance - the marvel of modern engineering that it was.

"But hey, it was good to meet you, Slipstream - come by the tower sometime, I bet the guys there would love you!" she says, bringing up her hand to give a salute. And then she was off, flying away towards that T in the distance.