4477/Get your mad on!

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Get your mad on!
Date of Scene: 18 May 2018
Location: Gotham City
Synopsis: Breath, Stardust, Captain Marvel, and the Shadow happen across a peaceful, happy barbecue.. and a sniper with berzerker darts.
Cast of Characters: Breath, Captain Marvel (Danvers), Stardust, Shadow




Breath has posed:
Things seem peaceful enough. People mill about in a small park, barbecuing some hamburgers and hot dogs and celebrating something or other. Everything is cheerful and mellow. Some guys wander through the park. It all seems pretty peaceful. Then a few people, one at a time, swat at themselves and come up holding small somethings. They look at them a bit confused.

Breath is in the neighborhood, having checked up on somebody, in costume. Now she's wandering back, taking her time because she's expecting a call. She has a phone in hand, anyways, and looks around.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Somewhere up above, a flash of a glittering a star shinning particularly bright can be spotted. Possibly nothing unusual. At least in the vicinity of Gotham where Captain Marvel isn't seen as often as New York, due to various Avengers and Alpha Flight related facilities.

Breath has posed:
The people who swatted at themselves start raising their voices more. Body language angry. The people around them hold their hands up, trying to calm their friends down.

It doesn't seem like it helps. It looks like a completely one sided fight from several people.

Breath looks up at the noise and wanders that way on foot, looking around cautiously. She doesn't want to make things worse, and she's not sure what's happening. She waves in a friendly way to the people on the edge of the barbecue and walks toward them, hoping somebody recognizes her by reputation and doesn't make things worse.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
How would someone like Captain Marvel just so happen to find her way into a situation like this before it escalates? That's what the Kree in her is for, forget sixth, they're all about the seventh sense. Like a blurry streak from above, one moment she's not there, the next there's a sonic boom high above in her wake, before she slows down to descend between the wouldbe troublemaker. "Hello gentlemen," she greets, the eerie glow in her eyes and hair might suggest it's not the best idea to test her. "Nobody would be thinking of starting trouble here, would they?" If she spotted Breath, she hasn't shown any sign of it, her attention jump from one wouldbe fellon to the next.

Breath has posed:
One of the guys spins to face Marvel, breathing hard and grinding his teeth. "I don't want to start nothing! Everybody else is suddenly all up in my face!" He clenches and unclenches his fist. One hand sort of carelessly holds a tiny object about the size of a paper clip, with plastic feathering on one end. A dart, maybe?

Breath heys at one of the guys on the edge. She's not that far from Cap, and noticed the loud entrance. She waves a bit toward C.M. To someone on the edge, she lightly comments, "Hey, so like, did something weird just happen? Is everything okay?"

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Marvel nods at Breath, a slight inclination of her head to acknowledge her, before grinning at the man who professes to not starting anything. "That's fine...if everyone's cool, then there's no reason for trouble...right?" She does take note of the dart-like object in his hand, and her hands begin to glow intensely, preparing for anything that might go amiss. The guy might have the intelligence to reconsider since she made a statement of an entrance, but she knows what she felt, there could potentially still be something going amiss.

Breath has posed:
The guy.. and the other two troublemakers scattered around the barbecue.. keep looking more and more agitated. One of them raises her fist at one of the children near her, yelling "I am going to bash your face in and keep on bashing if you don't get out! of! my! face!" She also has one of those things in her hand, literally trembling in rage. Everybody around backs away, grabbing the kid and pulling her away worriedly.

Breath frowns and looks around. "This looks really weird. Try to clear people out for now, I think peeps are, yanno. Altered here."

Stardust has posed:
Stardust does not require any more than the regular five senses to have her attention drawn to the scene, because she's already in the vicinity and watching events from a vantage point on a nearby building. She's totally not following Breath or keeping track of her team mate's movements though. Nope, she just happened to be in the neighborhood and was just about to wait until Breath was somewhere slightly less public before dropping in to say hi and have a word.

A few raised voices and a little bit of crowd violence? Well, it doesn't look like anything major, and it would be interesting to see Breath in action. Stardust knows that Breath has been training for crowd control lately, and here's the perfect example, with back-up in quick reach. Well that's the logic right until another costumed flier appears on the scene. Stardust does not know who Captain Marvel is, nor does she have super-hearing to hear what she says to the crowd, but there's a super-powered individual on the scene now, so backup for Breath can't wait, just in case.

There are no sonic booms as Stardust drops down onto the scene, just a regular, slower speed woosh of air that accompanies her arrival on the far side of the troublesome group from the Captain, hovering ten feet above the ground. "Any problems here?" she asks pleasantly, flashing a quick wink to Breath.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Captain Marvel acknowledges Colette with a minute gesture, same as she did Breath, "not yet," she answers the question before putting on some super speed for use, zipping after the woman who was getting aggressive with the kid, trying to snatch the device out of her hand, performing a field test of whether the device has any affect on the woman. She expects her own energy absorption to handle any potential emissions from the device. She specifically looks to see if the woman calms at all by having the device removed from her person.

Breath has posed:
The device is a small, .177 airgun tranquilizer dart with a depleted reservoir. They got dosed with something, apparently.. Of course, low caliber air guns are pretty easy to conceal, and whoever shot it is probably gone by now..

She screeches at having the dart grabbed out of her hand and tries to swing at Marvel! She screams and chases her, bloodthirsty and enraged!

The other troublemakers scream about the fight upsetting them, and look on the verge of attacking themselves...

Breath blinks. "Oh yeah. Totally altered. Get people out of here." She raises her voice, still not able to yell as loud as most, "Hey! If you aren't pissed off, back way off!" She grimaces because this could go weird.

Shadow has posed:
    Natasha curses inwardly as she exits the utterly nondescript cab, already in costume - such as it is - and shrouded from vision. Dealing with a bunch of 'zerked warehouse goons was one thing -- they might just have been duped, but they'd hardly been blameless to begin with -- but a park full of civilians and children has the potential to becoming infinitely more ugly.

    As she takes in the scene, she notices the unmistakable form of one of Alpha Flight's most iconic superheroes. That could be good news - or terribly bad, if she reacts wrong.

    She moves toward the hero, shadow flitting and flickering in the twilight, until she lets herself fade back into visibility besides Captain Marvel.

    "They have been hit with a drug called 'Zerk'. As far as I've been able to learn its only use is to drive subjects into a berserker rage, immune to fear or pain or reason. Their agitation will escalate into anger and violence and they /will not stop/ until someone makes them," she informs the assembled superheroes without so much as a cursory introduction.

Stardust has posed:
"OKAY ANGRY FOLKS!" Stardust has her hands cupped to her mouth and is bellowing. She's got a surprisingly good bellow. Strong projection, carries well, plenty of lung volume there apparently, even if she's no Breath. "Whoever's feeling angry, form an orderly line and we'll give you something to punch. Ain't gonna get a better offer! Come on people, get moving! We haven't got all day!"

Stardust swoops in and around the angry elements of the crowd, acting something like a sheepdog in using her presence to attempt to corral and herd the more violently inclined seeming people. "Come on, come on, punches are this way. Form an orderly line, you heard. Move it or you'll miss out!"

  She's acting as if she means it. Which she probably doesn't, but at least the distraction should give a bit of cover to those who are trying to get the hell out of Dodge.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Marvel lets the woman strike her, a brilliant white glow resonating where she's hit, as she calmly looks at the woman, and offers, "you don't want to fight me." But fortunately, Natasha arrives on scene to provide important intel, which leads Marvel to shift around the aggressive woman and grabbing her in a sleeper hold. If she can take her out peacefully, the effect of the compound she was injected with might phase away by the time she comes to. Sounds like Natasha knows about it, having called the drug by name, so maybe she'll know the best approach to treat it.

Breath has posed:
The nearest troublemaker screams, "SHUT! UP!", grabs a plastic spork, and runs screaming at Colette to try to skewer her with it in a blind rage!

The wonman attacking C.M. is an untrained, portly woman with no athletic prowess. She is easily put in a hold, and flails about, screaming bloody murder! because the hold takes a couple seconds to really kick in, and she's, well.. not herself right now.

The last one happened to be closest to Breath, and screams some sort of incoherent omnislur as he charges at her with a cheap steak knife!

Breath grimaces. "Crap." and blows at the guy with a brief puff of air that roars like a windstorm and takes the guy completely off his feet, knocking him on his back. "Guys? Like, I don't really wanna hurt these people.. like at all.."

Shadow has posed:
"From what I've learned, the effects do not last longer than ten minutes at the most, at which point exhaustion and low blood sugar kick in and renders the victim unconcsious," the Shadow continues, sweeping a howling boy's legs out from under him and holding him down while she presses two fingers to his carotid until he drops into unconsciousness. "If you are in contact with emergency services, let them know they'll be needed, but *not* to approach until this rage has worn itself out."

Stardust has posed:
Stardust is totally in awe of Captain Marvel's move. A sleeper hold! oO("A Sleeper Hold! They are real. They're a thing. They exist outside Hollywood. I never knew that! Cool. I have to learn how to do that,") she thinks to herself.

While she's thinking and admiring, she is stabbed repeatedly with a spork. She holds up a hand to her attacker, and hisses "Stop that, I'm trying to watch this." She's stabbed a few more times as she watches the Captain's assailant lose consciousness, and thoughtfully attempts to recreate the movement as if she was practising her moves in a dojo. As the stabbing with a now rather shattered plastic fork gets more insistent, she snakes a hand out, grabs her attacker by the arm, and lifts him off the ground, letting him dangle as she drifts over to give Breath some assistance. "Yeah, it's a pain in the butt having to fight people you don't want to damage," she says with a grimace, her assailant swinging wildly and yelling beneath her. "We could really use Raven right about now."

  Stardust peers down at her captive and puts a finger to her lips. "Shhh! Weren't you complaining about the nose a moment ago? Now who's the noisy one?" she tells the assailant with a dissaproving frown. She swoops low to grab Breath's victim by a foot, and lifts him up into the air too, and gives the pair of them a shake. "Stop it, both of you, or I'll put you in a sleeper hold." She pauses thoughtfully a moment. "With my invisible third arm, which I totally have one of," she adds, meanwhile trying to think up some sensible alternative to holding these two people up in the air for the next... ten minutes? Well, that could be worse.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Very few would imagine the kind of martial arts knowledge that Captain Marvel has, but then again, most who have heard of her only know her as a superhero. The expectation is generally that there isn't much more than the powers to them, which often times turns out wrong. She proceeds to move from one threat to the next, expertly applying sleeper holds to knock threats out one by one.

Spotting Stardust mimicing her maneuver, Marvel flashes an approving smile, before offering a tip, "cross the elbows and lock down your finger, makes it much more effective."

Breath has posed:
Two police cars come zooming up, with lights flashing, and out come four police officers. They start walking toward the scene. "We got a call of a disturbance in the area. What's going on?" One of the officers jerks a little, and lightly swats at the back of his neck.

Breath looks over, though a little late to see the mosquito bite. She frowns and kind of edges off to the side to let somebody better with police deal with this.. she still has a bad taste in her mouth from that one cop where she used to live in New York. "Awesome. Somebody else must have already called? I know I didn't..."

Shadow has posed:
    The Shadow curses. "... And whoever is behind this likes to make use of mosquitoes as an injection vector. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to have to assault an officer of the law now," she snarls. "This may mean that whoever is responsible for this is still in the area. Find them -- before this gets worse."

    With that, the dark-clad figure melts back into the shadows, flitting away in the approximate direction of the increasingly agitated police officer...

Stardust has posed:
So that's how it's done! Stardust flashes a smile of thanks to Marvel before giving the move a try... only to remember she's holding two people in the air and has her hands full. She rises up twenty feet, drawing cries half of rage and half of fear from her two captives, and looks around for inspiration on how to get her hands free. Spotting a basketball court nearby, she takes her two captives over there and dumps one in each hoop, before returning to the fray.

Grabbing the nearest vict... temporarily deranged innocent in need of succor, Stardust attempts the sleeper hold move, following Marvel's instructions, but being very cautious with the amount of pressure she applies. Don't want to break anything. As her test subject struggles magnificently in her grasp, she calls out to the police officers. "There's an anger-inducing substance around, stay back! Secure the perimeter or whatev... mosquitoes?" She turns to look thoughtfully at the Shadow, blinks a couple of times, then turns to Breath. "Uh, Breathy? Think you could blow hard against the ground and knock any flying critters in the vicinity up a few thousand feet?"

Breath has posed:
Breath blinks, "Um? Sure?" She lightly blows around the area, making the grass sway alarmingly but nothing much seems to happen.

The officer is now looking at a tiny airgun dart in his hand. "Okay, who the HELL is the wise guy who wants to start something with a COP?"

The other officers look around at the scene in confusion, since they are walking into this blind. They reach for their tasers nervously.

Captain Marvel (Danvers) has posed:
Part of the problem in being well known about the universe, is that often one finds themselves drawn into all kinds of drama they want no part of. In Captain Marvel's case, more often than not, it tends to be Kree based drama. As she's contacted for just such a thing, Marvel groans and mutters "hala," under her breath, before looking up from Breath to Stardust, and the Shadow, calling out, "you guys look like you've got this, thanks for the good work," and without much further explanation, she lets go of the latest berzerked person she held in a sleeper hold, and takes off vertically towards space.

Shadow has posed:
    "You have just been injected with a drug that sends its victims into an uncontrolled berserker rage. It will last about ten minutes, then you will collapse from exhaustion and insulin shock." The Shadow is not known for being tactful - and there's likely no time for tact anyway.

    Blazing blue eyes focus on the dart. "Airgun. The sniper must still be close. My apologies, I have no time to do this gently."

    With that somewhat cryptic final word, the Shadow strikes the cop in the solar plexus, knocking the wind out of them before slamming them into unconsciousness with a palm strike to the temple.

    Before his colleagues can react, the Shadow fades out of view again, searching for the sniper.

Stardust has posed:
"Wait, is it darts or mosquitoes?" Stardust asks, though the words may be lost in the temporary minor hurricane of Breath's blowing. "I'm confused now." Well if it's darts, then there's someone firing a dart gun, as the Shadow has observed. And, Stardust reasons, if there's someone firing a dart gun, they are a. not that far away, b. in a clear line of sight, and c. probably hiding a bit. High ground, or ducked behind something. Nothing like a bird's eye view to find out.

Moving rather less quickly than Captain Marvel, Stardust soars fifty feet into the air. Then drops back down again, to release her test subject, who she'd momentarily forgotten about. He has finally succumbed and is snoring in her arms. Once the sleeping test subject is safely deposited on the ground, she shoots straight back up again to check the possible sightlines and good sniping positions, to see if she can see anyone who might be the shooter. If nothing else, it'll be okay to actually punch that one.

Breath has posed:
From the air, it's pretty easy to see the legs sticking out of the flower bush. They're covered in grass, hard to notice from ground level but from overhead?

The police pull their tasers on The Shadow, who proceeds to vanish from sight. A taser dart does go zinging through the air where they were at an instant before. I mean, they did just watch another officer get attacked. That's not really something that puts them in a happy place.

Breath looks around. "Sniper? Uugh.." She looks over at the bushes, since that looks like a possible spot to hide - albeit a large area - and dives to the side. Was that a barrel she saw? Hard to tell from here... and as the token squishy sitting duck, she's pretty sure she's the one taking fire next..

Shadow has posed:
    The Shadow moves about the park, flickering in and out of view, distracting berserkers into lashing out at empty air, tripping them to the ground, and generally keeping them from injuring themselves or anyone else while the drug courses through their system.

Stardust has posed:
There appears to be a flower bush with feet. That's suspicious right there. Can't let a flower bush get away with growing feet. Such is how the banter would go were there anyone else hovering fifty feet up in the air for Stardust to banter too. She likes her banter. Banter is vital to superheroing. But alas, there is nobody to banter too, so Stardust must satisfy herself with a silent approach.

Which is probably a better idea anyway. Surprise attack from above! Dive out of the sun! Neeeeaaaaaaoh!

She's only making airplane noises in her head. She does however have witnesses in her head, and they're not amused. They are however getting used to this. Front or rear? barrel or legs? Barrel.

While the legs are a tempting target, Stardust doesn't want to risk anyone else getting shot. The inescapable logic is to put herself between the barrel and anyone else, what with the whole bullets bounce off thing, and then start grabbing things. Like said barrel, which can be quickly bent enough out of shape to render the dart gun useless. Followed by whoever it is who is holding the thing, who'll have to struggle out of the bushes to escape, while Stardust is quite prepared to just ram an arm into the bushes and yank the perp right out - unless someone else grabs him first, while she's busy dismantling thing gun.

Breath has posed:
The sniper pulls the trigger as his line of sight suddenly fills with hyperactive girl! Obviously, it doesn't DO anything useful other than get caught in her costume, somewhere vaguely but not accurately or specifically embarrasing.

Everything else goes... pretty much exactly according to plan, really. And the Shadow is fresh out of zerks to harass now, so...

Shadow has posed:
    The Shadow looks up at Colette as she apprehends the sniper. "Well done. I'm sure the officers of the law can be trusted to take them into custody," she compliments the airborne heroine even as she trips one last 'Zerker to the ground and holds him down. "This should not last much longer - and would have been much, much worse if you hadn't been here."

Stardust has posed:
Stardust takes shooter and bent gun, held barrel first, over to the cops. She warns them them with a cheery "Here's your shooter, I got him for you," to try to avoid nervous cops with itchy trigger fingers. Not that she's worried about being tased, but it's kind of embarrassing for all concerned when it happens. She drops the gun on the ground and dangles the shooter by a leg for the police to cuff.

"You might want this for evidence," Stardust says, plucking the stray dart from her costume and handing it over. She seems to have avoided embarrassment, or maybe it's just the mask covering it up. "Handle with care. Makes you go crazy for ten minutes or so. Statement? Nope, sorry, I didn't see anything. I was looking the other way."

It's probably not worth the cops pursuing that. There's probably standing orders not to push the caped vigilante types on things like that, and besides the cops were there themselves, they're not going to need extra witnesses to pin this one. Also she can fly. Chasing people who can fly is not much fun. Either way, Stardust leaves the cops to handle the perp and makes her way back over to the other two. "You too, shadowy person who's probably called 'The Mysterious Shadow' or 'Shade' or 'The Dark' or something. Nice to see people not living up to the stereotype and thinking 'oh, I'm all shadowy, I should be an angsty villain type.' Heya Breath, how goes? Maybe we should split before people with paperwork show up."

Breath has posed:
Breath nods, "Sounds like an awesome idea. Really don't feel like playing find-the-bad-cop tonight. Catch you at the tower." Two thumbs up. Then she pulls a tube from around her neck and inflates her glider wings with a puff - it's a more durable and refined version than before - and takes a couple running steps before jumping into the air whooooshing a jet blast of air down into the ground, leaving paper plates flying every which way as she picks up speed to get altitude.

Shadow has posed:
    The Shadow chuckles at the flying girl's sass, declining to dignify it with an answer. She looks around, noting the situation stabilizing, and decides it's time for her to go as well, melting back into the twilight.

    A minute later, no one really pays attention or cares when an unremarkable cab drives away, clearly in search of a fare...