523/Heroes United! Issue

Heroes United! Issue
Date of Scene:	21 May 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	In which a comic nerd turns out to be a mutant and has his Origin (NPC), there is a small clutter of felines, an amazonian-tall office girl is knocked out, a Sailor Moon fan recognizes a baddie, and glass-man talks a Nerd down.
Cast of Characters:	142, Jacky Diamond, 300, 87, Sister Reinhardt

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Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
There are some days when this town is just plain weird. Like tonight. Tonight, about five minutes ago, the feont windoe of a comic store explodes open and four humanoid crestures made of shadoes with gliwing red eyes leap out and snarl hiss at the people on the sidewalk. A high pitched laugh follows them as a lean blonde hair feminine looking man in a grey almost military uniform steps gracefully iut after. Inside, a young comic nerd, having been in an argument with another nerd, cowers from the affects of the first use if his mutabt powers: he can make graphics come to life.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
New Comics Day is always Thursday because they close Wednesday afternoon to sort subscriptions and put up the wall. Jacky Winters hasn't actually gotten comics since he moved back from Washington state, and he's wanting to catch up on the Ducks In Space. So it's SATURDAY, when he actually got time off, and he's made it to the comic store he used to go to, ready to spend money! But then someone //had// to have an Origin, didn't they? Jacky's not sure what they were fighting over -- it happened as he was coming in the door -- and he's sort of stunned, having been shoved aside by one of the creatures.

"Crud," is his only comment as he sprawls on the floor inside the door and under a collapsed display of Alien chibi statuettes.

Sassa (300) has posed:
    For Sassa, it's just another night. Just another night to walk the city, see what's what and where, and who's doing what. It, was, a decent enough Saturday afternoon for just such an outing. A nice time to talk a walk, explore the city more, et all, but it's always something cropping up lately.

    For Sassa, it's a matter of instantaneous reaction to a threat, one that sees her moving to put herself between any people and the creatures. Hands raise and emerald eyes locked, ready to fight them if need be. She's got no idea these are someone elses creation, at least not yet.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Thus far, an uneventful night. The Cheshire cat-turned-vigilante is sitting on a relatively low rooftop, feet dangling over the edge and kicking in the air to the rhythm of the song blasting through his (modified) headphones (because when you've got cat ears, standard earplugs don't do the trick):

~If we're all in the gutter
It doesn't change who we are-
'cause some of us in the gutter
Are looking up at the stars. So tell me:
Where have all the good guys gone?~


He feels it's ok to relax for a little. After all, it's not like anything much has ha-


And a window explodes. And, what's more, the Three Shadowlords from Ultima IV seem to have come out through the window* as well as some cosplayer from one of the more exotic but most decidedly yaoi-inclined manga.

The cheshire cat sighs and takes off his headphones, depositing his phone and them through a small rabbit hole he opens temporarily to put his stuff onto his night table. Because when you're clad in spandex, putting anything in your pocket makes you look as if you have a tumor.

He stands up and peers down to get a good grip of the situation before jumping in...

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
The far too pretty to be a real person turns his gaze toward Sassa as she jumps in to play the hero.

"A brave human," he says, voice pitched falsely high, in English. Which to the anime fans in the area fees so wrong. "Your bravery will not stop me from collecting your life force." And the two of the four shdow warrior cratures leap to attack, swiping out with wickedly sharp claws.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
Things. On top of him. Small horrible things. But they're in boxes, so he pulls his legs in and sits up letting them fall off. He closes his eyes so he can catch the vibe here better. There's terror, fear, fear, terror, resigned annoyance -- that's gotta be the New Yorker -- fear and fear. Oh, and heroic protectiveness over there and heroic meddlingness incoming. Hooray.

The "bishi" one has a voice that sets Jacky's every nerve on edge, for reasons he can't begin to explain. But he doesn't feel ... real? It's like he's all style and no substance. His minions, even less real. Weird. They punched hard enough.

Still. Jacky focuses (still partly buried) on the most terrorized and panicky, pushing out a sense of ... not calm, can't turn terror into calm that fast. Self-preservation. Yeah, that'll work. Get to safety, people. His esper powers are nowhere near as flashy as certain telepaths who make purple glowing blades, but they're usually good enough for rock and roll. OK, stop distracting yourself, Jacky. Focus.

Sassa (300) has posed:
    Sassa's not dressed like a super hero, not by any stretch of anyone's imagination. Certainly not the young man who made things come alive off the pages. No, she's wearing what accounts to /buisness casual/ dress, with a set of boots that push her to just around six feet tall. So, for all anyone can tell, she's just a regular six foot tall, emerald green eyed, auburn haired, ok..she looks like an amazon, but, that aside, she's not about to stand idle.

    "Try it tall dark and annoying.." she retorts, and with that retort, a rapid and imediate response of force. Twenty five tons of rapid, in your face, force, in the form of Sassa's fist planted in to, what ever the hell this thing is, face.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Shadow Creatures. Creatures of darkness.

The Cheshire cat watches the goings-on below, and now it seems that some sort of civilian has gotten involved. Or, maybe by the looks of it, it's someone super-powered... in business casual.

Is it the Amazing Nine-To-Fiver? Power-dressing Girl? No, she doesn't have any shoulerpards or a ruff. Nevertheless, it still isn't right for him to sit back and let someone have all the fun, now, is it? It's time for an intervention.

Suddenly, there are spotlights. They are a multicolored affair, describing several arcing beams of light in an embarrassment of richness of hue. They *pulse*, too, and move around. Focusing with high intensity on the shadowy creatures.

And... there are tiny hexagonal sparkles of light moving along the surfaces, not unlike the kind created by ... well. a disco ball.

Vorpal stands at the edge of the rooftop, arms akimbo and looking down with a wide grin, framed in haloes of light as some of the worst of EuroDisco starts blaring throughout the whole street, but without any visible speakers from which to emerge...

(for your listening pleasure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3LrX1yX0T8)

The Cheshire cat looks down towards the shadow creatures, his cheeky grin expanding, as if saying "Come and get me, boys."

And then... disco pose, with one hand in the air and hip jutting just *so*... because if you're going to go with something, you might as well commit to it. John Travolta would be proud. Or horrified.

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
The people in the comic shop slowly gathet themselves through their fear. The shop attendent comes to first and he begins shuffling to customers, motioning them toward the back exit.

The one customer, who is having his Origin, is not so easily swayed from his shock and terrorn but thatxs because his blood rolls with fresh power.

As the amazoian tall Business Casual Gal charges in to punch at Bishi Boss Boy, the two shadow warriors which had swiped forward at her close in, and continue seeking to claw her to ribbons. Bishi, for his part, blurs the moment Sassa connects just before he vanishes and reappears balanced effortlessly on the shop sign. A single gloved hand is pressed to the slightly reddened vheek.

"You dare...." he growls, voice actually pitching low toward a man's vocal range. The other shadow creatures close in with their peers, the four surroundinh Sassa...

and then Disco Cat.

Bishi Boss lifts his coal -lined eyes, and they narrow.

"Your energy will be added to those within!" he shoutsn back to hivh pitched. And he dramatically flings his hand out, throwing shards of silver glass like crystals at Vorpal.

"Mon Dieu, Chaton. You are shiny." Cue Chat's entrance landing down in front of Travolta Pose Vorpal, staff spinning to deflect a few crystals. He glances over a shoulder to grin.

"I feel as if I should be wearing a top hat while throwing roses..."

Sassa (300) has posed:
    Sassa can't fight these things, but she wont just up and run away either. That's not who she is. So stay and fight she will, until these things, whatever they are, manage to put her down.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
DISTRACTING! The outbreak of the untimely return of Disco stuns more than just the shadowy minions; Jacky's senses are all wide open! And just like when he was being trained years ago, this makes him more vulnerable to being stunned by sensory assaults. His reflex is still good though: he turns to diamond extremely quickly, which turns off the telepathic parts and makes him very hard to damage. It also makes him NOTICEABLE ... and the only guy left in the room is the terrified mutant whose power just animated these two jerks.

"Blurk," he says trying not to disgrace himself in front of the newly activated mutant. He clears away the fallen chibi-aliens and makes his way to the kid.

"Hey! Hey buddy," he says in a friendly voice (yes, the glass man is talking to you, kid.)

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Shiny? You're the one poured into a leather bodysuit, p'tit chat!" Vorpal smirks and reaches over quickly to frazzle Chat Noir's hair. "Thank you for the cover. This guy keeps telling me he wants to take my 'energy'... I think I'm going to let him."

He leans forward and whispers into Chat's ear. "I count on you to rescue me if this goes pear-shaped."

The Cheshire cat jumps off the building, suddenly, dropping into a Rabbit Hole and dropping onto the shop sign, showing the same preternatural ability to balance.

"I'm here, Lynn Minmai," Vorpal calls out and crouches, grinning. "You want my energy? Go ahead and take it!"

And he builds up a burst of chaos magic. If he knows one thing about chaos magic, it is that it tends to be unpredictable. There is a chance that, if this creature absorbs his energy, it may not know how to deal with it. Or even contain it.

It's only a theory, though. This could turn out... ugly for him.

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
The new mutant, who really needs a codename for this scene, looks up at Glass Man... and scoots back with a shout of fright. In his hand, a Sailor Moon manga.

"Oh my god! What do you want from me? What's happening?!" he screams in fear, backing up toward a rack of Evangelion and Bubble Crisis.

"I was talking aboit the light... you know what. furrget aboit it.," Chat retorts, thoihh the grin remains. When Vorpal lays out his plan, Chat gives a nod. "I'll deal with the shadow warriors," is added. Vorpal rabbits next to Bishi Boss and Chat Noir leaps into the middle of the shadow creaturrs who have dropped 9to5 but were stopped from dwlivering killong blows by Disco Cat's lightshow and groovy style. He wasted littlw time attacking them.

Meanwhile, on the comic book storw sign, Bishi Boss huffs at the name.

"Mangy cat! I am Zoicite, one of the Four Generals of the Dark Kingdom. You can not stop us!" he snarls as he poses with a hand extended in an effort to collect thw energy...

Which explodes in his gloved hand and sends him flailing backwards off thw signn toward the ground, with no way to stop his fall, glove and sleeve blackened from the explosion.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
'Oh shit, I'm diamond,' Jacky says to himself. He scrunches his face up to concentrate, and returns to flesh, braced for the emotional surge of panic from the kid.

"No, wait, my name is Jacky. I'm a mutant, and so are you," he says. Yeah, this close, he can TELL, it's like a sharp hot tingly feeling on the backs of the ears and the tip of the tongue, only not really any of those sensations, just //like// them.

"It's cool, you'll be OK, just breathe in and out slowly. Think of your favorite safest place in the world."

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Toldja. I'm just too hot to handle," Vorpal says, putting his hand on hips and grinning. He jumps from the sign and lands on his feet, because that's what cats do. "Round two, pretty boy! Or are you only capable of pouting and shouting?"

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
"No I'm not!" Comic Nerd says back, eyes wide as Jacky degems himself. (thats a word now) "how can I think of a safest place when-"

explosion and zoicite falls to thw floor, snarling up at Vorpal who leaps down into view. Comic Nerd gapes at rhw sight, acooting back againn hand landing on the cover of Bubblegum Crisis. It ripples a moment then the cover goes white.

Outside, as Chat is still dealing with creatures of shadoe that just dont seem to be solid enough for him to hit. They, howevern are plenty sokid enough to hit him.which he is trying to avoid aince no healing.
Zoicite aummons a crystal blade and leaps to his feet. "You'll find out wgat im capble of, flea bitten stray!" he shouts as he rushes in to slice at Vorpal.

And then, a woman in a bkue suit of power armor appears in the window, in the exact poae n jack would noten as the exact same bkue power suit from the comic book cover that is now blank. Priss, her lips pressing unto a line, flips her visor down and kevels her blaster hand at Vorpal.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
//Denial is just a river in Egypt, kid,// Jacky thinks, seeing the window and the comic. Not a mutant he says. Jacky pushes a bit on the 'believe me' when he retorts.

"Yes. You are. Look what you just did to that comic!"

Because it's all white, which is not the way it should be, and the kid should realize that. Jacky decides it's time to bring out the kid's one true fear.

"You have to calm down. If you mess this place up any more you'll get banned for life."

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Vorpal can't help but hear what's going on inside the store. I mean, those ears, c'mon. At the moment, he's fairly occupied, though, because Prettyboy McAnimeFace is rushing him with a weapon, and Prissy is aiming her -hand- at him out of the corner of his eye, and that can't be good.

He does a quick twirl and ends up in that Michael Jackson pose, with his legs crossed at the ankles, his head down and his arms extended to either side- and at the end of each hand, a Rabbit Hole appears immediately, causing the blast intended for Vorpal to pass into the hole and out the other side, towards the person rushing towards him.

"They always said I should think out of the box..." that's hard for cats. Cats never like being out of the box. Especially if by doing so it turns out you might have been dead all this time. "Hey, kitten!" the Cheshire calls out as he leaps sideways to take cover behind a car and avoiding direct hits from Priss, "Are you holding up ok?"

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
Comic Nerd gawks at the appearance of Priss in her blue Crisis suit. His brown eyes, full of fear and adrenaline, slide to Jacky and blink. He looks down at the comic. He gasps at rhe blank cover. He lifts the Sailor Moon manga to look at the page he had been holding it open by... blank. Realization seems to dawn on him as he watches Zoicite take the plasma blast to the chest and fly backwards into a car... and left a body shaped dent.

"B-b-banned?" he squeaks. "Oh god. ok. What do I do?"

Priss keeps firing at Vorpal, advancing step by step, while Chat dances between two shadow warriors, narrowly avoiding the rake of claws.

"Fur the moment. Im just wishing the Scouts were here. My claws arent doing anything!" Chat Noir replies, sounding harried and slightly breathless.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"OK, first thing. What does it feel like when you touched the page. Think about that. You're putting out energy. Pull it back in. Carefully."

Why, yes, Jacky may have had a few Moments or two when he was first coming into power. He may have been given some advice similar to this. Also he's kind of winging it. If necessary he can put the kid to sleep.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Well, you're stuck with Sailor Kitty, I'm afraid!" Vorpal quickly creates an illusion of himself, who runs out of the right side of the car, jumping and rolling along the ground to avoid Priss' blasts. At the same time, he goes invisible and jumps over the car to try and touch Priss with a hand crackling with chaos power. If he manages to touch her, he will discharge his Substitudinary Locomotion spell into the suit, to attempt to animate it and bring it to life... and thus no longer under Priss' control.

If he is successful, hewill become visible and point to the shadow creatures, giving direct commands to the suit (probably to Priss' annoyance): "Go and save my cat. He's still not housebroken!"

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    This is when Suzanne decides to round the corner and.....find people fighting shadow warriors. She turns towards a side alley and peeks around the corner. "Man, the timing I decide to head for the comic book shop. Ugh." She says to herself as she watches the battle......

Vorpal (87) has posed:
The command is a little TOO successful. Priss' hardsuit takes off like a bat out of hell, despite Priss' own protests, and basically manages to snatch Chat Noir by the waist as it runs away, a streak of blue and grey thanks to its strength augments.

"Hooooo-ly... he's going to be -pissed- when he comes back," Vorpal says, staring.

"Like.. l-like this?" Comic Nerd stammers as he focuses, trying to do as the other tells him. He begins to feel. "I.. I think I-"

Zoicite manages to emerge from the vehicle into which he had been blasted, looking like hell and completely not amused. "Vile beast, your end is coming!" he launches himself at Vorpal, who is too distracted to notice because he's busy seeing the unintentional effect of his handywork.

"Yes!" the Nerd cries, and Zoicite vanishes in mid-air before touching Vorpal.

"I think I did it! I think I did it!" The Nerd celebrates, but it is too soon. His enthusiasm leaks out of him and-

Outside, the shadow creatures that had, until recently, been chasing Chat Noir, glow for one second and become five feet taller in the blinking of an eye.

The Cheshire cat's eyes grow wide as plates, as the creatures begin to take steps towards him.

"....shitshitshitshit!" He takes off, with the shadow beings in pursuit. Just so happens to be running in the direction from which Suzanne is sauntering on.

"RUN!" If she doesn't bolt, Vorpal will try to grab her by the elbow and run like the Dickens with her in tow.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"No, you did really good," Jacky says. "Just focus on the calm, quiet, safe place."

He's not above a little mental shove, but the kid's not quite activated and if he does this wrong it could wedge him full-on all the time, or worse, break his power completely. So he ... can't even put him to sleep quite yet. Hey, are those other things endangering the hero-types who showed up? Yeah, one of them knocked Dressed for Success Woman unconscious but she's still alive ... the guy who looks like a cat is rapidly receding in the direction of Yonkers, and the cat who looks like a guy has grabbed another bystander and is fleeing ... the full energy manifestation from before but in smaller pieces. Not good.

"OK, you're still putting out a lot of energy. Think of the woman in armor. Pull the power away from her and put her back in the book, OK?"

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    Suzanne is grabbed and is tugged by Vorpal. She really has no idea what's going on, but....did that look like who she THINKS it looked like?

"uhm....." She finally manages to say when they stop. "....Was that Zoisite I just saw? The heck is HE doing here?" Must be a real fan for someone to know that effeminate person is a guy....

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Reality is in flux at this very moment," Vorpal says, the ground behind them trembling under shadowy stomps, "And right now we may run into our favorite slash least favorite characters. I'm Vorpal, and I'm totally real... and I'm trying NOT to get us killed!"

He's going to try and scoop her up. Not only is it a great crossfit exercise, but it's also the more heroic thing to do. Or at least he thinks so... "CAN YOU GET RID OF THESE THINGS ALREADY?"

"O-Ok..." the comic book nerd closes his eyes and tries again. The calm place. The peaceful place. Return to me.

And several blocks away, Priss vanishes into thin air, leaving Chat Noir... well, still carrying the momentum, but no longer being captive.

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
Crash clatter bang oof.

Right into a trash can folloeed by a mailbox. Chat groans and shoves himself to his feet. A quick shake of his head to clear it, he takes one moment to glance aroind, as if checking to make sure no one saw the guy dressed as a cst NOT lanf on his feet, before sprinting bavk toward the comic manga shop.

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"Very good. She's back on the page. Now, just breathe for a moment, let yourself feel the energy. You're golden so far," Jacky says, encouraging the kid to just hold that energy and not to send it out to make the other things even more deadly.

He reaches out with his senses -- yeah, OK, he pretends he's Luke Skywalker sometimes when he does this, and feels the faint vibrations of Chat Noir moving back this way. And the four menacing figures of the Shadowbeasties.

"When you're ready, start putting the shadows back in the book, one at a time."

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    Suzanne runs along with Vorpal. "I already know you're vorpal. But what's going on here? Other than the shadow beasts are coming after us, I caught a glimpse of Zoisite and..." She grumbles. "As much as I hate running away, I like hiding even worse." She says grabbing Vorpal. "But, that's what we've gotta do." Suddenly, Suzanne's own teleportation technique makes her disappear as well as Vorpal.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"I... I can't! They're so big..." The young nerd starts panicking a little, "I've made them so big, how can I...?" He looks at his Obi-Wan with big, nervous eyes. "What if I make them *bigger?*"

Vorpal pants. "It's a long story... someone just got an Origin Story... and we're up to our knees in... we need to get Chat, he got abducted by-"

And then Suzanne grabs him. "Hey- what? No, we can't leave the-"

And then there is no cat.

The shadow creatures stop in mid run and stand, puzzled, for a moment, before the start heading back. Back towards the store, their stomps causing the nearby buildings to shudder.

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
Chat Noir runs the last block, skidding to a stop. No Vorpal. Just... big.. giant...

"Oh, merde. When did they grow giant?" Chat asks no one. He wasnt doing damage when they were little, he only has one thing that could work... if they were all touching.... Normally, Chat woukdnt even consider using his poeer on an animate creature but as anine nerd and little bit of a Sailor Moon fan, he knows that the shadow warriors are just shadow. These arent the possessed humans from season one.

And so, the black cat sets to work, leaping at the large creatures, hoping to harry thwm togethet, and touving so he can pun-ish them!

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"Course you can. You brought them out, you can put them back. You're the motivation of your living illustrations, right?"

Jacky's encouragement might seem a bit desperately thin but that's because his weird danger sense is telling him that as long as the kid's afraid of what he summons, he won't be able to control it and it might decide to ... no, don't try to foresee the future, you fool, you might lock into a bad one!

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    "We can't leave the what?" Suzanne says from on top of a building. She watches the shadow creature walk it's way back to where it was going. "What did I stumble onto? And....if you're running away....who's trying to stop this?" She says as she takes deep breaths.....

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Last I heard," Vorpal gestures to his ear, to make his meaning clear, "There was a guy there who, to be fair, was in a bit of a bind. He could bring creatures forth from his mind."

He looks to the street, where the creatures move, surprisingly fleet, to the store.

"There's chat! We need to help him, before he's pounded into the floor!"

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
Chat Noir pauses onthr roof of a car, watching as the fiur shadow warriors continue toward him. his chest heaves as it takes those precious seconds to grededily gulp down a few lungfuls. He has to get those four behemoths to touch! He only has one charge, one shot! the time to think ends when one brings down a clawed hand ont the roof of the car, just aa Chat leaps away, hits the street inti a tumble, and is backnup a.moment later.

"I-i guess... yeah.. yeah I am,"the comic nerd says wih a determined nod. His eyes close, hand over the last empty panel in the Sailor Moon manga in his hands. And moment, and then two of the warriirs flicker drom existence. Comic Nerd slumps panting.. "Thats it.. I csnt... too big.."

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"Then let me help."

Jacky touches the kid on the forehead with three fingers. Kid brought them OUT. He can put them back. He reaches for his own energy, pushing it harder, the same place he draws on when he's transcending time and space, and spins it out in a feed to the young mutant, finding his previous 'recall' attempts and replaying them, but buttressed by his own will and using his energy...

Of course there's no guarantee this will work. If it does, then the Prof may have to spend some time helping the kid install blocks. But we can't leave those giant monsters in the street.

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    Seeing the remaining two behemoths make their way towards Chat, Suzanne gets an idea. She grabs Vorpal and teleports to a nearby roof, close to where Chat is. "I know you can do this, Chat! You've faced tougher than this!" Simple words can have a lot of meaning to a hero, especially when it's a stranger that has faith in them.

However, Suzanne was going to give Chat an opening. She takes a strange fighting stance and her hands glow red. She then brings them together and thrusts them forward to shoot a red 'comet' towards one of the large shadow creatures, hoping to simply knock it off balance.

"DO IT, CHAT! I BELIEVE IN YOU!"

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Vorpal blinks a couple of times. He looks at Suzanne, because of all battle strategies he was thinking, the last thing he could've come up with was to be... a cheerleader.

But it makes sense. The nature of the Miraculous was magical, that's what 'Yokai' said. If Tinkerbell could come back from the dead from the power of belief, who knew what a black cat could do.

He joins her in shouting "You show 'em who's boss, Chat! You're the number one cat around here!"

Okay, maybe he didn't believe *that* completely, but it would certainly provide a boost.

Adrien Agreste (142) has posed:
Chat Noir glances very very quickky toesrd to soubd of cheering. He hadnt felt this level of ranfom person cgeering for him since he left Paris. It brings a smile to his face. Srraightening up, Chat turns tonface off against the behemoths again, just as red blast hits one, knocks it into the other, and Chat makes his move.

"Cataclysm!" black smoke curls around his fingers as he leaps for the shadow wsrriors.

Meanwhile, inside thw comic shop, Comic Nerd inhales and closes his eyes to try again. With Jacky's help, he pulls thw shadows back into rhw manga a split second before Chat's hand can touch them. So it looks like he touches thwm and they vanish... and then it looms kike Chat loses his bakance (because thing he thought hw was goung to run into was suddenly gone) and ends up touching the car Zoicite went into earlier. The car rusts, aging into a worthless hunk of rotted car parts. Chat winces a bit, then gkances over a shoukder at his 'fan ckub'.

"Well... on that note, time meow fur this cat to scram," Chat syas as Comic Nerd passes out on Jacky. With a two finger salute, Chat sprits away.

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"Isn't he fantastic?" Vorpal says, clearly infatuated. "... and clusy as all hell. Seriously, how is he a cat?" He turns to look at Suzanne with a smirk, "We should go down and see what we can do to give aid and provide damage control..."

Jacky Diamond has posed:
The kid has passed out... and he's not going to know how to handle things. Jacky picks him up. Uff. OK. Kid, you are skinny-fat, you are going to hate me when you find out it's my fault they have you at that school. Yeah. Jacky's a bit tired, but maybe they'll feed him at the school... He focuses, reaches out with his power, and //fzzt// he's teleported, with his unconscious passenger.

And what happens at the school? Well, they gave Jacky a sandwich and a cookie. That was good.

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
Suzanne Reinhardt looks to Vorpal. "Sure." She says grabbing on to Vorpal and warping down to the ground. "So...what the heck happened?" She says as she walks towards where Chat was.....

Vorpal (87) has posed:
"This guy found out he could... bring comics to life." Vorpal says, as he starts walking towards the store. He reaches into a tiny Rabbit Hole to take out his phone and dial the police so they can close down the street while debris and damage are taken care of. "Crazy, right? Some guys just get all the good powers..."

He looks at Suzanne. "You said you knew who I was... have we met before?"

If they have, he's going to feel so embarrassed...

Jacky Diamond has posed:
When the other two get there, Jacky's reappeared in the comic store. Because his wallet and phone were buried under alien chibis. He's stacking them back up as the man-behind-the-counter goes over the store to look at damage and to lock up the registers.

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    "You had a news report about you." Suzanne then smiles as they enter the comic store. "Is this where it all started? Had to have been, especially with Zoisite out there....."

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Voral stops in his tracks and frowns. "...I ...what?" he quickly catches up and walks into the store. "No way! And I missed it? I could have put it in my scrapbook!" which was empty.

He stops and looks at Jack, tilting his head. "You must be the other voice I heard talking to the guy, I take it?"

Jacky Diamond has posed:
Jacky looks at the cheshire cat and then LOOKS at the cheshire cat.

"Oh. Heroic Meddlingness. Good to meet you," he says, offering a hand to shake. But not even beginning to try to read the guy's mind. The alarm bells are all over telling him not to do that. He looks at Suzanne as well, and would offer the same response except she wasn't on the map until after he was busy with the Illustrative Kid.

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
Suzanne Reinhardt only chuckles. "I might be mistaking you for someone else too." She then looks to Jacky. "Well....at least with meddling, no one was hurt, at least I hope not." She then looks to Vorpal. "And it seems Chat disappeared...."

Vorpal (87) has posed:
Vorpal blinks, and then his ears droop.

"Oh."

So maybe he's not famous after all. He allows himself to have a good sulk before looking up again. "Yeah. He disappears like that. I can never get him to stay." Whine whine whine. He goes up to Jack and shakes his hand. "And you are?"

Jacky Diamond has posed:
"The man who looked like a cat? He did something truly heinous to a car and ran off. Terrible feline things."

No, Jacky didn't actually //see// what he did, but his intuition says it was bad. At least it was a car that already got damaged. That part he remembers from the mass of tangled vibes that he was picking up on.

"Jack Winters. Or Jacky." He takes the proferred hand. And pauses. "You're actually a cat. That's ... how ... OK nevermind. You ever find yourself being turned away from a hospital, stop by the Winters-Daye Veterinary Clinic in Yonkers."

Yes. Drum up customers. So few of them can talk for themselves.

Sister Reinhardt has posed:
    "Mmm....as long as everyone's all right." Suzanne says softly. "I'd better get back to my run." She says with a laugh. "Sorry if I derailed your escape plan, Vorpal." She says waving. "I'm glad you're both okay though." She then turns and walks her way out of the shop.