7469/A Smash and Stab Interrupts a Stash and Grab

A Smash and Stab Interrupts a Stash and Grab
Date of Scene:	12 May 2019
Location:	Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Omnis, Huntress, Kaelyn Silverleaf, Black Alice

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Omnis has posed:
This area wasn't exactly known for being a bastion of goodness. People around here were used to violence, drugs, gangs, and the like. Tonight, though, some folks who had been moving some drugs through other parts of the Tri-State area were wanting to move their business into Brooklyn. The only problem with that was that there were already a few big players in the area. So, both the Brooklyn City Smash and the Upstate Stash (yes, those are their gang names, no neither of the leaders are creative) were setting up a meeting here in Williamsburg to come to a mutually beneficial agreement.

Well, that's what they wanted the other side to think. In reality, Big Boss Billy of the Smash had hired a pair of brothers to help him deal with these upstarts quietly. The pair were known for their use of a large hammer and a pick axe to deal with people. Both were much stronger than they had any right to be.

Meanwhile, Michael Meltdown of the Stash had hired his own goons! The pair of guys were also stronger than they had any business being and they were a pair of martial arts experts known to be quite good at breaking opponents through bone breaking holds. Even as the two groups approach, it is clear that the tensions are high.

Meanwhile! A brand new hero known as Omnes was already on the scene. Sorta. She had run here, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, lamp post to lamp post and had only just spotted one group heading this way and thought something had to be up.

She perches on a nearby fire escape, leaning out from it with one hand holding on to a railing and a foot keeping her up as she wonders just what is happening. Already, people are shutting doors, racing off the streets and generally getting out of dodge.

Huntress has posed:
New York wasn't her usual hunting ground, but when you dig deep enough, it really wasn't that different from Gotham City. Especially when you started poking into the seething rat nests that are the shadier, seedier parts of the urban sprawl.

Huntress didn't care so much about the turf wars. What she did care about was that the small street thugs got their product from bigger names, and where often hired out as dealers and hitmen when the crime families didn't want to risk their own blood. That was why she had come to New York, if she could find a lead on who was trying to force their way into a new market in this wretched corner of the megatropolis, she could follow it back to its source.

If she had to beat the info out of some lowlife locals to get a lead, that was perfectly fine with her. Taking some drugs and corruption off the street and cutting off another source of revenue to the bigger names behind the gangs? That was a bonus.

Padded boots made barely a sound as she wound through an ally, purple and black colors blending into the looming evening shadows. She didn't want to risk the rooftops of a less familiar city, even when the ground level was less of a direct route. But Huntress finally found herself a prime spot not far from where the gangs were suppose to meet, pressing her back up against the wall to keep a narrow profile. A quarrel was slid out of her arm quiver and into her mini-crossbow, only the faintest of clicks made as it locked into loaded position. Then she leaned over a little, just to peep around the corner.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
And then there's Kae, the tallish redhead is currently wandering out of an alley? In her hands is a large book. She casually unshoulders her backpack and slides the book away. Oddly the backpack doesn't change shape much.... She then slides her pack back on and puts hands in her pockets before beginning to wander up the sidewalk....

Black Alice has posed:
Back at the Sanctum there is a very bored teenager. Doing spells the long and boring way is, well long and boring.

Still the map she has out on a large table seems to be holding the ritual magic she slowly and painfully cast onto it from the book that iss near here.

Small dots scattered across it, showing the location of magical creatures and activity in the city right now, at least if not shielded.

"That was a tiring pain in the ass..." mutters Lori as she leans to squint at the map now and then blinks "Odd coloration..."

The Sphinx lounging near her watching her practice is silent as always.

"Well... lets see..." sure Black Alice could sling portal, but also work and tiring. Instead she steps back and reaches out borrowing Zachary Zatara's powers and muttering "elpoep esoth raen potfoor ot latroP" and steps through, appearing on a rooftop near Kaelyn and Kally now looking around as she releases the power.

The Sphinx looks on judgmentally, though invisibly to all but those magically inclined.

Omnis has posed:
The Smash and the Stash were now face to face. Already they start out simply enough, the two men up front staring at each other from about ten feet away with a few guys flanking them, obviously armed. And then behind each are their specially hired enforcers. They speak to each other about how things will and won't go till Big Boss Billy makes the first movie, "Listen, this has been my territory for years." Months. "And I'm not given it up easily to some bunch of punks. So, really, I think the real deal is...you all are gonna die! Get 'em!" And that's when a hammer and pickaxe come out along with guns.

Of course, on the other side, guns are already out and aimed by the time that speech finishes. At the same time, the two martial arts guys (both wearing gi) step out from behind the crowd and eye the pair with weapons. Then one shakey kid fires and the whole thing sparks off like a powder keg.

Kaelyn will likely hear the commotion and the bullets are already firing off like crazy, with a few aimed her way.

Of course, whether she can save herself or not, many around are not so lucky. Luckily for the people nearby trying to get inside, a loud thud can be heard as someone in a true to life super suit lands right in front of them and with arms up blocks a bullet that had come their way. The goggled super looks back and grins, "Fear not! I am here!" She then looks back toward the crowd, "Get to cover, I have to stop this." Strangely, the area around seems to have dropped in temperature considerably as a blue aura flows around this new arrival. Omnes has arrived! Not that anyone really cares given they are mostly firing at each other.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae blinks as the well shooting starts up.. She frowns and waves her hands, her wards flaring to life as bullets begin well bouncing off them. She glances around, and slides her way into a coverd location, now holding up her phone. She glances up, and releases a few small artificed insects which fly up and light in different places along the buildings, now watching the goings on... And of course they're sending that information to her phone, which Kae begins watching curiously.. "Soo how to help, how to help..." She mutters.

Huntress has posed:
The words, the insults, the trigger fingers just waiting to go off.

Huntress just shakes her head a bit. Really not that different from back home after all... Though she can't help but wonder how many of these gangbangers were kids just here because they never had a better oppritunity given to them? Not that there was much she could do about it, other than take a grim reminder of why her civilian job was a teacher. Now was not the time to be retrospective. She glances around the corner again, only to cuss under her breath as people scatter for cover. Suddenly letting the two gangs thin each other out isn't an option any more.

The best thing she can do? Keep her attention off of the bystanders fleeing the gang war erupting on their doorsteps.

Huntress bolts out of the alley, mini-crossbow in hand, shooting at the back of a thug's knee to knock him off balance. Just as she's coming up behind him to swing her other arm bent at the elbow to hook around his neck. Huntress catchs his body against her hip as she digs her heel and turns, the ends of her coat whipping behind her much like a cape would as she judo tosses him back into the crowd to try and bowl several more over.

"So is this a private party, or can anyone crash it?" She finally quips afterwards, sarcasm lacing her tone. "You know how boring it is to have to listen to you two sling petty insults at each other?"

Black Alice has posed:
Lori looks amused now and leans against the edge of the roof, resting her elbows to prop herself up on the half wall that surrounds the roof perimeter. "Well this is worthy of popcorn." she pauses and looks at the Sphinx "Though you would probably consider that an improper use of magic or some such shit wouldn't you." not for the first time she wishes she could throw a catnip mouse right in the face of the sphinx and distract the odd beast.

"Meh" and then straightens and smoke curls around herself suddenly leaving her in a monkish robe, though still black and gothy.

Black Alice raises her hands in front of herself and twists her hands this way and that, golden energy and symbols appearing in the air around her hands and then when she claps them together the scene below her, including the gang bangers and would be heroes is sealed off in the mirror dimension away from the fleeing bystanders.

Safer this way.

Though to those inside the radius it is .. very noticable... especially if they are magically inclined like Kaelyn.

The sphinx continues to look on like a judgy beast.

Omnis has posed:
Chaos reigns. None of these people were particularly powerful, good, or talented. These were street thugs with some money and some thug super villains. However, now there are a few less thugs as Helena races in, plugs one in the back of the knee, causing him to go down with a whine while another is flung into his friends. Among those going down? Big Boss Billy who yells out, "We got capes! Kill 'em!"

And just like that, the big throwdown between the villains is turned on Helena. The two martial artists in gi immediately rush at Helena and try to get on either side of her. One going low and the other going high as htey try to kick her in the face and legs simultaneously. They are good, well, decent. They work well together.

The guy with the hammer and the one with the pickaxe race over toward Kally. One attempting to smash Kally who raises up a hand and catches it in her palm before saying, "The name is Omnes and you should give up now!" And hten a pickaxe hits her side and she winces, "Rude."

Michael ends up scrambling back from this situation only to spot Kaelyn nearby and point a gun at her, "Hey! You, girl! Get over here, I need a hostage!"

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae blinks and tilts her head "Realy? MIrror Dimensioned? Well okie, guess I can do more then..." She mutters and after reaching into her pockets, She grabs what appears to be small-ish runed rod. She then pops up from her cover, left hand held out as she focusses her wards directly in front of her and launches a few arcane bolts at the gang bangers, these actually carrying some elemental magic, namely lightning, or electricity...

A couple are hit, and immediately shrouded in the energy, and well tazed at the same time, being dropped like a bad habbit as it were, before Kae ducks back down behind her cover, where she looks at her phone again, looking for locations of other criminals...

Kae then glances around again and waves her free hand in front ofher, opening up a portal. Quickly she steps through,a nd well appears near Alice... "Heya, whatcha think?" She then glances to the sphinx.. "Ooh you got one following you too..." She says and squints..

Kae then grabs what looks to be a cracker of sorts from her pocket, but it's faintly magical.. She tosses one to each of the sphinx... "Gotta feed your pets..."

Huntress has posed:
"Excuse me!" Huntress snaps as she kicks her leg out a little to make the loose tails of her costume overcoat flare. "Does this look like a cape to you?" Granted it does kind of flap about when she moves like one.

Then the two martial artists turn to rush her. "Uh oh." She got their attention maybe a little too well.

She bends backwards quite impressively to avoid the kick at her head, but the moment is ruined by the other guy swiping out her legs while she's doing so, and she hits the ground on her back with a grunt instead of getting into the backflip she had intended. She was a damn good hand-to-hand fighter, but these guys have her beat in strength with their chi powers.

But the Huntress didn't get her vigilante reputation by not knowing how to fight -smarter-.

A hand yanks a quarrel out, which she improvises by stabbing it into one of ki-fighter's foot and letting the head ignite. That's one hell of a hotfoot. Then rolls herself over the opposite direction, drawing a second quarrel and reloading her weapon as she does so. Fast enough that even as she's only on a knee she yanks it up with deft aim to fire it right into the second ki-fighter's face. Preferably someplace soft like the eyes or nose, as that one is just the standard piercing type.

Huntress is clearly done playing around though. It's not hard to see how she has the reputation of being one of Gotham's more ruthless crimefighters, even if she is technically one of the good guys.

Black Alice has posed:
Lori releases the practitioners magic after pulling them into the mirror dimension, her clothes sliding back to gothic brat. Though she is pretty amused that everyone is so busy trying to shoot each other and hasn't really realized they are boxed in like this right now.

"Oh hey.. I was practicing an overwatch city magic spell without cheating.. nice rod work." she looks at the Sphinx get fed. "I honestly didn't know they ate... maybe I should give it catnip afterall..." and then her attention is back below. "Well.. the goggles cape is using some sort of magic, not sure what. The other cape seems to like crossbows. As for the criminals and maybe metas... we could sleep spell them... or maybe banish them to hell..." wide range in Alice's go to there. "What do you think?"

While she waits for Kaelyn's answer she pulls on the fabric of magic again, pulling as smoke covers her. Her clothes become a bit more punky though still dark, her shirt actually changing to add a 13 on the heart there. She twists her hands and sends an eldritch blast, aiming to blow the guy with the pickaxe back into ..well the mirrored air with a loud crunch which should make it obvious to every gang member how screwed they are. "I really suggest you all put your hands over your heads now and give up... those of you that can stand." from buildings roof top.

Omnis has posed:
Michael, for his part, stares as Kaelyn fires off magic and then vanishes into a portal. He blinks several times and then looks around slowly. He realizes that they are trapped and then he realizes that things aren't going all that well. Even as Black Alice tells them to give up, he is dropping his gun and kinda curling up, "This city sucks..."

Over near Helena, the guy who tripped her is whipping his foot up to try to bring down an axe kick on her only to get a bolt right through his foot that then lights on fire. He falls back on his ass with a scream and whines, "Ow ow ow! That's cheating!" He declares even as his brother is distracted by this only to blink and whip his hand up in time to have a bolt go right through his hand. He stumbles back and stares at the bolt in his hand, "Hey!"

The guy with the pickaxe is sent flying back only to have Kally look back with a smile at Alice, "Thanks!" She then turns and punches the other guy right in the face. He stumbles back and falls to the ground with a thud. Within moments, everyone seems to be quite done with all of this. Many of the thugs that aren't hurt just putting hands on head and getting down on the ground.

Kally puts her hands on her hips and grins at Helena and then at Alice before saying, "Thanks for the help with this. I'm Omnes." She nods her head and then looks around slowly, "Umm, you can turn that uh...whatever that is off, right?"

Even as she asks, Big Boss Billy pushes his way up from the crowd of guys on top of him and then points at Black Alice angrily only to look around and then look down before he just slowly lays back down.

Huntress has posed:
Quick enough reflexes to intercept the shot but not catch it like you see them do in martial arts movies. She'll take it.

Huntress grabs the guy by the collar of his gi and yanks him close to get right up in his face. "If and when your boss comes to bail you out of jail, you can tell him that if he and whoever is funding his expansion effort that he's not safe just because he's taking his business outside of Gotham." She makes a gesture towards the other girls with a nod of her head. She doesn't want to point at kids with her weapon hand, even if it is unloaded now. "Besides, you see even this scum hole has it's own protectors." With that she lets go of him with a push back towards his surrendering buddies. "Next time, it won't just be your hand with a hole in it."

Meh. No real extension to the lead here, but at least she got that message across. She takes a few steps towards the other heroes, pulling a quarrel from her quiver and clipping it onto the grappling line before loading it. "They call me the Huntress. Not my typically turf, but as you can see, those idiots aren't exactly from around here either." She pulls a packet of zipties from her utility belt and tosses them to Omnes to tie Michael up until whatever police finally get their butts to this gristled end of the city. "Best you keep your eyes open for outside influences on the gangs here."

Once the boundry magic or whatever it is gets lowered Huntress holds her arm up to fire the bolt towards a rooftop until it anchors into a ledge, and as the line pulls taunt it trips the retraction device, zipping her up and away from the scene.

Not the most chatty type it seems, other than the few witty retorts she was tossing around during the fight. That's just a thing vigilantes do, you know.

Black Alice has posed:
"Man that would totally suck if I couldn't undo it wouldn't it." yeah there is a lot of snark in Black Alice though her clothing fades back to her usual look.

"Before I return us from the mirror dimension...." there is a pause and then her clothing shifts to a bit more formal, black suit, top hat. "peels ot og slanimirC" casting a sleep spell over the flattened and wounded criminals. The fact they are giving up down there should make it much easier for the spell to take hold on them and knock them all out at this point. "Black Alice." she notes down to Huntress and Omnes tipping the tophat, which fades back out of existence as fast as it came into being.

It makes it much easier to do the zipties without any danger really.

"Okay lets see..." her clothes slide back to black robes and she twists her hands very fast and there is a orange flare of energy and what is essentially a portal sweeps around everyone and leaves everyone back in the real world the mirror realm a thing of the past. "There we go..." and then Black Alice is back in her usual outfit. "That was a workout..." a glance to the Sphinx "Oh don't give me that look... christ."

When Huntress zips off, there is an arched eyebrow "I swear gothamites... hey... want to talk?" she calls down to Kally.

Omnis has posed:
A look around and she blinks as Helena races off and all the criminals are asleep. She shakes her head a little and then grabs the zip ties and walks to the criminals, "Talk?" She asks Black Alice, "I suppose." She then nods her head and then kneels down, "Not sure what about? Other than, hey good job and such." SHe grins, "I really liked that." She chuckles and nods her head, "Always wanted to do the super thing for real." SHe nods, "Kinda first time out doing it in my new costume." She gestures to the suit, "Made it myself!" And another criminal is zip tied.

Black Alice has posed:
"Interesting, first time out in your new costume." and Lori looks sidelong to the Sphinx and raises one eyebrw and then looks back down to Kally.

"I know some people who might want to meet you sometime. I can always find you later though I imagine if you have hero things to do.. and cops on their way and all." a shrg from Black Alice.

Omnis has posed:
A smile and she look back, "That might be good. While I'd love to talk to another heroine, I do need to get these guys tied up and hand them over to the police." She nods her head, "Probably not tons of time to talk." And indeed, cops sirens are on their way in the distance, "Either way, as I said, I'm Omnes!" She nods her head, "I'll be around."