6363/Big Belly Takedown

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Big Belly Takedown
Date of Scene: 04 February 2019
Location: Gotham City
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Red Hood, Spoiler




Red Hood has posed:
The popularity of Big Belly Burgers is known far and wide in the tri-state and tri-city area. The one in Gotham is one of the older locations - and when it was first built, it was a pretty popular place. Now, that Old Gotham is more rundown, it's not exactly the best of locations. Standing in line, waiting to pick up his order of two belly busters, fries, and a shake, Jason Todd is glancing at his phone impatiently as he presses off on the messages.

"Fine, Babs, see if I check to see if you ever want some fresh grease ever again." he grumps, though the smirk on his face shows that it doesn't really mean it as the phone picks up. 'This is Barbara Gordon, you know what to do at the tone.' Beep.

"Hey Babs, it's Jason. Someone's got a late night, was gonna see if you wanted a Belly Buster, but you're not home. More for me. Later tater!"

He clicks off his phone and taps his foot.

Spoiler has posed:
Stephanie Brown doesn't tend to wander out at night on her own very often. That is, in civilian attire. Usually she's on patrol or training. But tonight? She's got a test coming up later in the week and she needed to just get out of her place for a while. To clear her mind and refocus before she went completely stircrazy.

The blonde coed found herself in line at the Big Belly Burger. It wasn't all that far from Gotham U and for late night fare, there was little better to suit the craving. But in that line is where she heard someone mention a rather unique name around Gotham. Babs.

Keen eyes try to casually sweep over the others in line to see who was talking.

Red Hood has posed:
The brunette only stands out because the small shock of white in his hair. Jason would otherwise be not that noticable unless someone has been in Wayne Manor and happened to see the few (very few) pictures that Bruce has of his second adopted son.

As he waits in line, a van pulls up outside. Coming out of it, a couple of men come into the shop, brandishing pistols. "This is a holdup!" one of the men calls out, firing several shots into the cieling, causing civilians to run in panic, as another moan moves to block the door. "You want out of here, empty your purses and wallets."

Feeling the adrenaline rush, Jason turns his attention towards the door as he moves to put on a pair of sunglasses. "Dammit." he hisses beneath his breath. "Couldn't they have waited until /after/ I got my food?"

One of the men starts to work up the line, shaking people down as he approaches the blonde coed. "What about you sweetheart, bet you got trust fund money in that purse of yours."

Spoiler has posed:
Well this certainly wasn't how the evening was supposed to go, thought Steph.

The blonde turned with everyone else simply because of the situation. Her instincts and training with Red Robin, Batgirl and Batwoman had been truly paying off. She wasn't jumping to sarcasm and snark first, anymore. She was assessing the situation WHILE prepping the stark. Because, above all? Snark.

"Figures. now I'm never gonna get studying finished tonight."

RWaiting for the robber to work up to her in line, she waited. Trying to look nervous while being alertly confident is difficult but she gambled they wouldn't really be paying attention to how she knit her brows or worried her lip. She had made some 'adjustments' to her purse, just for such occasions as she would be without her armor. Like now. The purse had a chain strap that could be removed. And the bottom of the purse had several pounds of lead stitched into the inside fabric to give it more impact if used as a weapon.

As the robber came up to her, she shook as if nervous and dropped her purse. "Sorry! Sorry! Ju..just let me get it..!" She bent down grabbing the chain strap in the center as she rose, and swung it upward toward his chin.

Red Hood has posed:
Snark? Then she hasn't trained at all with Red Hood.

"Trust fund baby? Where the hell you think you're at? The Iceberg Lounge is down the ways." Jason gestures 'off-that-away', trying to draw the attention away from the blonde, when she moves down, there's a glance.

<Have I seen that backside before?> comes his own thought, when she suddenly comes in with an uppercut, smashing her purse into the first robber's jaw. He's rocked back hard with the heavy weights in the purse of the young heroine in training. When the second man sees the attack on his friend, he's moving over towards her, bringing his rifle around. "You bitch!" he hisses at her.

That's when he finds a knife stuck in the side of his rifle, through his hand. As he screams in pain, Jason's already moving forward, pulling up his hoodie to hide his face as he drags the man behind the counter. "Back in a moment!"

Spoiler has posed:
Stephanie Brown knew to do the same thing. As she delivered the Haymaker Of Dooom!(tm) to the guy's jaw, she dropped to the floor and rolled forward. As she did, she tugged her own hoodie up, then the turtleneck of her shirt up and over the bridge of her nose to leave only her eyes and a shock of blonde bangs sticking out. As she rose, her hand was inside her purse, pulling out the source of that weight - three sections of collapsible staff joined by the very chain used as a strap. Her purse gets quickly slid under the back-most booth with a kick from her foot while the segmented staff is prepared. "Looks like you guys chose poorly." The end of the staff spins around above her right hand as she quickly moves toward the closest robber.

Red Hood has posed:
"I just wanted a damn burger. Maybe two. And now the police are going to come, and they're gonna shut the place down and it's going to be all 'You need to stay and give a statement'. Bah." Jason grumbles, apparently taking out his frustrations on robber two, as he kicks him in the side once he has him down.

That's when he sees Stephanie go incognito in the very way that Bats are trained to do. "Summabitch. Of course the cute one would be.." he rumbles to himself.

But there's something else getting his attention as the driver of the van, noticing the fight inside, is preparing to drive off. "You got that one?!" he calls over to Stephanie, as he steps on his robber's face to use him as a boost to help him over the bar to head for the door.

Spoiler has posed:
The girl in the eggplant hoodie nods, "On it." And with that she sweeps her segmented staff down at the feet of the guy she already knocked down to start this little party since he'd decided he was good to stand up again. It was another poor choice as he went down backwards with a hefty thump of skull to fast food joint graded title. His mind went for walkabout then and he didn't try to get up again.

Sprinting toward the side exit - marked "emergency exit - DO NOT USE UNLESS EMERGENCY". She blew through the door, setting off its alarm. GCPD and FD would both be rolling up on the place soon, now. She sprinted across the parking lot, eyes never leaving that van. Trying to determine how many more were inside since the side cargo door was open but only the driver was visible up front.

Red Hood has posed:
Reaching over the counter, Jason grabs a couple of bags. "To go." he comments to the surprised server as he slaps a twenty on the counter, and he goes running out of the door to follow after the others. The van makes a turn at the corner, trying it's best to get away from the two vigilantes.

Once outside, Jason cuts down a side alley, aiming to try to come up on the flank while Stephanie comes in from behind.

The van turns the corner and comes into traffic before he tries to pull off the road and onto the sidewalk, knocking over several parking meters before hitting a street light.

The driver stumbles out of the driver's side, swinging a gun towards Stephanie and firing off several wild shots at her, sending the few people out in the street screaming for cover.

Spoiler has posed:
Stephanie Brown sighed. "Always with the guns. /always/. You know - if you're going to USE a gun? Learn how first!" And with that she flings two round chromed balls at the driver. One hits him in the left shoulder, the other just in front of his right foot. They seem to have missed or done little to stop the man. However they break open on impact and instantly begin to release what looks very much like Elephant Toothpaste - in a lovely shade of purple. The sticky foamy substance pours over his left arm and shoulder and across his chest, soon immobilizing his left arm entirely. The one on the ground splatters all ove rhis right foot and leg, spreading to his left. And as the mass of purple foam rises, he'll find he cannot use his legs either.

Red Hood has posed:
Pinned down to the ground, the driver is disarmed as Jason finds his way and leaps over the side, just to find that Stephanie beat him to it. "Spoilsport." he says in a mild tease as he looks to the girl in purple. Then he tosses her the bag. "Heard you had a test soon." he offers to her.

"Want to go out to dinner afterwards? Someplace we won't be shot at. Maybe."

Yes. He just asked her out.

Spoiler has posed:
Stephanie Brown catches the sack of presumed burgers and fries and maybe even an order of rings if she's lucky. A laugh. "Something like that. Just call me... the Ruiner" she quips. Then a pause and a nod. "Something like that." And then she turns to glance down the street, "Sounds like they're playing our tune."

Off in the distance sirens can be heard as they get closer. Looking back to the other, she smirks behind her improvised mask. "Sure. has to be better than hanging out here to give statements that ask too many questions, right?" And with that she pauses, "meet you at the corner of Gargoyle and High?" She doens't wait for a reply as she has to quickly double back to acquire her purse. She needs to carry a backpack all the time now, really. Leaving things behind is bad form - and bad Juju.

Red Hood has posed:
Women. Jason watches Stephanie head off for a moment, before he glances down to the guy that's struggling. "What do you think? I got a chance?"

"Eff you."

"That's the hope!" Jason offers with a smirk before giving the guy a smirk and he heads off on his own way. He travels much lighter than Stephanie does - but then again, he's had years of experience at it.