6899/NYC Convoy Caper!

NYC Convoy Caper!
Date of Scene:	15 March 2019
Location:	New York City
Synopsis:	Impulse, Spider Woman, Animal Man, and Arella stop an attack on an Alchemax convoy.
Cast of Characters:	Impulse, Animal Man, Ghost Spider, Arella Despana

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Impulse has posed:
It's 2 in the morning, and the streets are rather empty. Well as empty as NYC gets in the middle of the night. Two heavily armored SUV's are lead and tail car as three Alchemax armored cars ride between the two. The first SUV has crossed the Intersection when all hell breaks loose, suppressed gunfire cracks out in the nighttime as armor piercing bullets rip into the reinforced tires of both SUV's the leading SUV losing control turning sideways and rolling over. The driver in the back is able to keep better control bringing his car to a stop as half a dozen armed guards rush out of the SUV taking defensive positions looking for their assailants.

Coming out of the woodwork the better part of 18 armed and armored men dressed in black from head to toe, helmets protecting their heads make their apperance gunfire starting to wash over the men who quickly duck behind the suicide doors of the SUV's returning fire the sound of loud booming comes from a near by alleyway as The Rhino makes /his/ presence known. "I'll get the first truck opened up, get the trailer in position." he says over the ear bud radio tucked in his ear.

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker may not be the Batman, but he is a man who communes with bats. A nest of them had taken up residence in the belfry of an old chapel. The priest had asked Buddy's help in removing them peaceably. He had gotten caught up chatting with them, however, when the sound of the boom reaches him.

"Excuse me a moment, Francois," he says to a grey-furred bat.

He drops down and glides with the bat's own grace, guided in the darkness by sonar until the Animal Man lands on the roof above and peers down to see just what sort of mischief is afoot tonight.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen Stacy is sitting on the side of a building nearby, her mask half up on her face as she enjoys a PB&J sandwich. She takes another bite and a deep breath afterwards before she swallows, "Kind of a boring night tonight. Think I'll make it an...."

And then the gunfire goes off and that causes her head to snap immediately towards the direction of the sound. "Well, well, well, the night has taken a better turn. Let's...get...dangerous." She throws the sandwich to a nearby crow and pulls down her mask.

She leaps off the side of the building, diving down the side of the building before extending a hand and shooting out line of webbing, swinging towards the direction of the gunfire.

Arella Despana has posed:
Arella Despana had been following the convoy for some time - this felt alot like something she had been doing a few nights previous. What was it with convoys? There had also been trouble centered on that convoy as well. The Svartalfar or Dark Elf woman had climbed up several stories to obtain some elevation on the matter. Bright green eyes survey the ruckus. As soon as the battle begins Arella activates her signature cybernetic biomechanical armor.

She turns somewhat incredulously to Buddy Baker as the man lands near her on the very same roof. Arella is quite obviously not human with her over large eyes, white hair, large pointed ears and blue grey skin. "Ugh!" she mutters. "Another metahuman or super. They are multiplying." One might add that her own people were not multiplying but had recently headed in the opposite direction and were practically extinct.

Impulse has posed:
The armed men are mainly keeping the guards of the convoy occupied as Rhino starts sprinting.. Really more of a jog, shoulder checking the rear SUV slamming it into the passenger side guards and knocking it out of the way as he moves in to shoulder check the thick steel plate door in the back of the third Armored Car, steel plates bending and shrieking as rivets pop out his beefy armored fist coming down to slam into the metal to try and break it apart..

Impulse had been out looking for change. You'ed be amazed how much loose coinage gets left around on a daily basis in the state, and by doing a day of running around and checking coin returns he was funding his one man urban renewal and outreach program in Gotham. Then the gunshots went off, and Gideon was able to give him a direction to run. "Ohh.. That's a big guy! Big big guy... and bullets.. " There's a bright crackle of blood red and bright gold lightning as Bart moves faster than the SUV is sliding grabbing one, then two, then a third armed guard before they're crushed by the SUV who's momentum isn't stopped one bit til it slams into the glass front of the building it was driving along, tempered glass exploding into and around the building to rain down like tiny clear pebbles "uhh.. Gideon.. How do I fight a seven foot tall grey unicorn man?" he asks his companion AI..

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker sees the Rhino, recognizes him from his long career of criminality. Sadly, he does not feel a twinge of actual rhinocerity in him, the genuine African tug of the horned titan of the plains. Pity that.

The flickering motion of the boy hero and the muttered imprecations of the elf all make him smile as he releases his clasp on the roof, dropping and gliding until he stands in front of Rhino and his cadre, speaking to Impulse but keeping his eyes focused on the mammoth criminal.

"Very carefully is, I think, th eusual punchline."

Arella Despana has posed:
Arella does not join the 'heros' or 'villains' on the ground for the moment merely measuring the situation from the roof. It takes her a few seconds to pick the safest vector for herself. She clambers down to the scene of the attack nimbly - but not as quickly as Buddy or Gwen. She doesn't have their advantages.

Arella frees a trapped guard from some debris that has landed - a result of the attack. It is hard to se whether it is altruism that motivates her because she pushes past the addled man to the back of one of the trucks. In and out - she would get the information she was after - and then be gone. The attack and robbery a convenient cover. But little did she know even good plans can go awry.

Impulse has posed:
Impulse blinks. "youknowhowtofightagreyunicorn?" comes the rapid paced words of the teen one of the other guards getting clipped by a round from the assaulting guards. "Ohh crap! Bulletsarebad!" he says vanishing with a crack of thunder and a woosh of air the teen seeming to be everywhere at once around the guards plucking bullets out of the air grabbing the wounded guard. There's a buzz of words even faster than what he was saying to Buddy as he asks Gideon for the nearest ER. "Back in a few seconds!" he calls out lifting the big guy up.."ooph.. You're a BIG BOI!" he grunts before vanishing with the guard.

Rhino hasn't noticed the arrival of the Metas the armed assailants on a different frequency his fist still slamming into the back of the third armored car to get a good grip and start tearing the door out of it's mounting.

The truck Arella is at is your standard armored car, 2 inches of steel plating all around the box bed a two inch thick bullet proof glass window in the back that's been blacked out. Before she can start doing anything with the door or truck though, small bits of particulate matter start raining down on her light at first, but quickly growing into a torrent as Sandman makes his appearance, his upper half forming into his humanoid appearance. "Sorry Lady, we're being paid a rather obscene amount of money for what's in the box. You're going to need to take a nap." he says as his right arm swells up to the size of a pony keg to come hammering down at the elf lady..

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker rears back and, rather than answering, exhales, spitting a cloud of venom into the face of the Rhino, acidic enough to sting the exposed human parts of the walking monstrosity.

"He's claiming to be a Rhino, but I'm not seeing a great deal of resemblance myself. I don't even think he has a tail. Shame," he says, attempting to duck low between Rhino's legs and manifesting the strength of Triceratops to start to heft the hopefully blinded villain over his head.

Arella Despana has posed:
Arella Despana is if anything highly adaptable. The idea of a foe with no discernable shape who is insidously strong and malleable - well there are such things in the outer dark and she has travelled the galaxy. Time to try something evenly unusual. Arella's armor lights up a bright purple and she dodges the mallet like limb. Any contact with her slowly drains life force and strength. Would this work on this sand creature? Arella did not know. If not it was back to the drawing board. A scimitar appears in Arella's left hand and a flail in her right. She is very fast and agile. "You are welcome to what's in the box I merely need some information and then I will be on my way. Or we can make things complicated?"

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen Stacy swings in and attaches herself to the side of the building, watching Rhino do...basically what Rhino does. She sighs and shakes her head, "And here I thought Rhino's were going extinct. I'm going to have a long talk with PETA about this."

Spider-Gwen leaps off the side of the building and lands on top of a nearby car, crouching down in classic "spider" mode, shouting out to Rhino, "Hey there! Nice onesie!" She hopes to distract him towards her, and only then does she notice the others nearby.

Impulse has posed:
Rhino is already a little preoccupied, his eyes closed from the acid blinding him causing his eyes to water, he throws the ripped off door at Spider Gwen freeing his hands as he bellows "You make Beeg mistake tovarich" as while not able to see, he doesn't really /need/ to see the man grabbing and starting to lift his incredible weight off the ground. "I fight She-Hulk, you are leetle bug, less than nothing!" he says bringing his hands down in a double handed hammer blow to try and slam into Buddy.

"Lady.." Sandman says his body becoming more formless as he starts to swirl in a cyclone of 'sand' "They pay me to get the stuff, Don't even know who hired me, so lets get complicated." he says as several 'fists' rush out of the cyclone to try and slam into Arella.

Animal Man has posed:
"Bug, huh? Well, let me tell you something, mister. Insects possess many extraordinary capabilities, and many of them have proportional strength that could far exceed even beefy superhumans. Why do you think that Spider-Man guy doesn't break whenever you fight him?"

Animal Man leaps forward, springing and slaps a hand at Rhino's face, this time coated with the hallucinogenic properties of a certain breed of South American arrow frog. Enough to make even a big guy like him see rainbows for a while.

"Also, I have some ethical problems with PETA, although I admire their overall mission."

Impulse has posed:
The two remaining armed guards have hunkered down in the wreckage of their SUV, the armed thugs turning their weapons to start shooting at both Buddy and Spider Woman, steel jacketed rounds cutting gouges in the pavement and buildings as the fully automatic fire starts to rain down on the metas, the rounds bouncing off Rhino's thick hide..

Arella Despana has posed:
Arella had had enough, "You are a blunt instrument," she says disparagingly to the sand creature, "You could have had your payday and parted company with mme amicably. Now we are at cross purposes. Trillions of sentients are dead for less than standing in my way. Prepare for a taste of that." In an inspired moment Arella flips over to a nearby fire hydrant slashing one of the outlet caps and directiong the explosive flow of water at the Sandman. It happens in an instant Arella talking as she moves. She was not usually this chatty in combat. Despite her reputation as being one of the friendlier members of her kind.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen Stacy spies the door flying at her and flips off the car, shooting a web as the door flies by. She lands and spins the door around, slingshotting it at the armed thugs who are pretty much shooting everything in sight. "Ding dong!"

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker grins and points at Gwen, "Spider! Nice! Let me play, too!' he says. He raises a hand and sprays webbing of his own, organic and perhaps a not as strong as Gwen's, but nonetheless proliferate, helping to bog them down as he prepares another surprise for Rhino when the big guy manages to get to his feet again - and he inevitably will, he's one of THOSE guys.

Impulse has posed:
Impulse returns coming to a stop next to Spider Gwen in time to witness the redirection of the door and a group of five armed thugs go down with the sound of crashing steel. "ohh, Ow! That's gonna leave a mark!" he grimaces turning to look at Spider Gwen. "Hi! Are you a spider person? Gideon tells me you might know how to take out Mr. Unicorn over there.. That true?" he asks "Nevermindyoudoyou" he says as he starts to move to deal with the armed thugs pieces of sub machine guns flying in all directions as he starts to quickly dismantle their weapons with swipes of his hands.

"GottathinkgrandpaforteachingmethistrickGideion!" can be heard as he crosses the block, turning to blink at the scene between the second and third armored vehicle as the water starts to splash over Sandman causing him to have to pull his 'body' back in to assume a fully human looking form. "I'm a little harder to kill than that.." he says even though his main advantage has been taken away..

Rhino at this point is clawing at his face with one hand, and wildly swinging his other hand around his eyes clear enough to see both Spider Gwen, and Buddy though what he's seeing is anybodys guess. Giving an Inarticulate bellow of rage and fear..

Arella Despana has posed:
The Svartalfar is not discouraged by the only partial success of her strategy and resolves on exposing the sand creature to more of a bad thing. Her flail shoots out wrapping around the creatures more solid form and she gives it a fierce tug with her preternatural strength. He did not need to remain solid for long and would find himself recieving an even more powerful blast of water to the face and body.

Ghost Spider has posed:
White eyes from the spider-costume looks at Impulse, watching him run off to take care of the weapons. Spider-Woman's eyes turn back towards Rhino, giving a wave. "Hey, Rarity, what's your problem here? People just trying to have a good time...deliver things...and you're causing a rucus." She shoots out a web lining at Rhino's legs and gives a yank with all of her strength, "Upsy-daisy, pretty lady."

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker almost feels sorry for Rhino at this point, ducking away from the big man's swings with a lazy acrobatic ease, a gazelle's agility making it a matter of simplicity to duck away from the lumbering blows.

"Is it just me or is there a little dude just flickering around here really fast?" he says, even as he begins to spin a different kind of silk, spinning and wrapping around the Rhino in an attempt to put him, whether he likes it or not, into a state of graceful somnomulence. Or, more simply, to wrap him up in a coccoon in the hope that he'll be something nicer when it hatches. Not likely, but a chrysalis is a chrysalis.

Impulse has posed:
Impulse doesn't take long, the men are disarmed, their pants pulled around their ankles for good measure tripping them up and slowing them down. "So.. You two are good guys, you took out The Unicorn there.." he says pointing to the struggling bundle of web covered Rhino, even as the chemicals in the silk and on his body start to take effect.. "Who over there should I be helpping?" he asks pointing to where Arella is fighting Sandman, the man getting wrapped up by the flail his body elongating from the pressure one of his arms unable to keep connected to his body as it falls to the ground fully sodden it's form turning into a lump of undifferentated 'sand'

Arella Despana has posed:
Arella continues the treatment of the poor sand creature until he is incapacitated perhaps only temporarily. She does not care too much about the others and what they are doing. She has her own agenda. Maybe they will help her maybe not. She frees up a hand and conducts some form of scan of the nearby Truck she had fought Sandman over eariler. The device she has is a conventional tablet that appears to have a 'growth' where she has modified it with Svartalfar technology.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen Stacy watches Rhino get webbed up and tilts her head a little bit, "So...that's what it looks like." She watches Buddy finish his work before pointing towards Impulse, "Yeah, it's him, and apparently Mountain Dew really does work. Caffeine is a helluva thing."

A glance towards Sandman, or what's left of him, means that most of the threat here is gone. A curiousity about what they were trying to steal hits Gwen and she starts towards the armored truck and the guards, "You guys alright?"

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker cocks his head, "Alright is such a broad term. I'm contending with my place in the overall scheme of linked sentient beings, struggling with my responsibilities to the animal kingdom vis a vis my dedication to protecting humanity, especially through my alliances in the Justice League. At the same time, I could really use a veggie burger and some asparagus right about now and it's very, very late."

"Oh. Hi. I'm Animal Man."

Impulse has posed:
Impulse nods "Help him! Got ya!" Impulse says taking Gwen's words as advice. There's another crack of thunder and blood red and bright golden lightning is arching back to first stuff a loose piece of armored SUV in the streaming fire hydrant, the teen starting to swirl around Sandman the air warming up and causing the water to steam off the criminal. "Ma'am.. I'm going to need you to put down your.." he's fast enough to keep the back and forth drying the still concious but unable to move Sandman while looking at the piece of tech. "LexCorp 9 Tablet and step away from the super secret armored car."

Arella Despana has posed:
"No," replies the Svartalfar collecting her tablet. She was done here. "You may want to choose who you help more cautiously. The creature you are assisting is here to rob the vehicle. I am just here for information. And now I am done." Arella makes her way away from the scene. Her armor powering down. She does not see the heros as a threat. She drops a call to emergency services assuming that it would not be redundant as she leaves. "Hello 911... multiple vehicles involved in a large scale attempted robbery... alot of injured people." She cites an address that she gains off her tablet.

Ghost Spider has posed:
Gwen Stacy looks at Buddy and says, "I'm Spider-Woman..." and she points behind her at the speeding Impulse and says, "Wanna tell your friend to stop helping Sandman gain his form back." She turns her eyes towards Arella, watching the Dark Elf walk off with her tablet, curiousity in her mind and a name permanently tattoo'd to the inside of her brain. Nothing to act on right now, and the only Spider-Senses aren't going off at the moment but...Lita Lestrange bears watching.

Animal Man has posed:
Buddy Baker nods, "Kind of a notorious convict there, kiddo. Even I know that and I'm pretty unplugged these days," he says. He, also, gives a long look to Arella, the inhuman nature of the woman giving her a strange ripple in the Red, not belonging but slowly becoming attuned to the Earth's biosphere. "You didn't bring any animals from wherever you're from, did you?" he asks.

Impulse has posed:
Impulse is spinning around Sandman when Buddy comes over and says that.. "What?.. He.. Is.?" the teen says frowning at the vanishing in the distance his eyes looking at the quickly reforming Sandman.. "Well.." he says vanishing down the street and returning almost immediately the teen skitting to a halt as his lightning aura doesn't a 170cm tall, and two foot wide line of crimson and gold lightning continueing on to slam into Sandman knocking him out for good.

Arella Despana has posed:
"No," Arella simply replies again to Buddy Bakers question. "I have only my shabby self left - I believe Alpha Force has what is left of my ship as much good as it will do them. Like I said I must go," sirens would be heard in the distance by now. The Dark Elf again begins to make her exit.