7595/A Bank On Every Corner

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A Bank On Every Corner
Date of Scene: 23 May 2019
Location: East Side, Manhattan
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Josef Forster, Supergirl




Josef Forster has posed:
Ah, what a glorious day for some banking in the Big Apple! Perched right on the corner of X and Y sits Bank of NY #38474. Josef is standing in line, with only two people ahead of him, neither old people with nothing but time to yack at the teller....And then the front door explodes, showering the room with glass and gravel, and mere seconds later, mean with shotguns and pistols, led by a buff and gruff guy in a dirty yellow spandex outfit. Everyone's favorite small-time supervillain, The Shocker! "Everybody on the ground, this is a robbery!" He calls out as he starts aiming his concussive gauntlets around, filling the room with the shrieks of the city's bank dwellers as they hit the deck. Josef groans irritably as he makes no great haste in kneeling down for the standard robbery procedure, check to be cashed still held between his hands even behind his head.

Supergirl has posed:
Immediately, one of the tellers has hit the little button for the silent alarm. This will give about a four minute response time, if the villains planned for that. Unless they aren't lucky in which case the police will get there sooner. Best case? They are on something else in the area so it'll be six minutes.

Most of the people are immediately on the floor. Some kneel, others lay out prone. Women clutch their children close, trying to keep them safe by shielding them while following instructions.

And somewhere out there in the sky, a floating figure hears the words and her head snaps in that direction. A moment later, a blue and red streak is on the way toward the bank.

Josef Forster has posed:
Two of the goons keep the crowd in check while two others work the floor. Shocker ignores them entirely and blasts through the teller door, him and the rest of the thugs heading right for the vault. The crowd offers little in the way of resistence, most of them know the drill by now, this being New York City and all, and valuables are handed over readily...And then floor worker number two comes to Josef and snatches the check from his hand, "What have we here?...Woah, nice, a big earner. Thanks for the donation." The thug snides out. Josef glances back at him, "Yeah, sorry, I'mma need that back actually. So uh..." The thug punches him in the back of the head for his back talk...And immediately regrets it, dropping over in spasms and screaming about his hand being broken. The other three goons look at Josef, who's already looking back at them with the most 'oh shit' look possible, "....Uhhh...I didn't do it." He says in a pointless attempt at dissuading them from trying to shoot him. As the trio raise their guns in unison, the sound of the vault exploding throws off their aim and attention for just a moment...

Supergirl has posed:
As the thug falls to the floor screaming, the bank patrons are exchanging confused looks now. They all look at Josef instead of the bad guys. There is...hope there. That someone might be able to do something? Not that they have any actual idea.

As the vault is blown open, access is given to the pallet of money within. Not only the money but the personal safe deposit boxes as well. "Grab everything you can in the duffles. Get box 317." Those words from Shocker.

Then the door to the bank opens an in walks a young blonde woman wearing a blue costume with a red cape. There is a large familiar S symbol on her chest. "Excuse me. I don't think that's yours."

Josef Forster has posed:
Josef Forster looks over as Supergirl struts in, "Oh my god, are you Batman!?" As the trio of remaining floormen start turning to shoot, because oh shit it's Supergirl we're all going to die and or go to prison, one of the gunners actually stops and looks back at Josef, tilting his head with confusion, "What the f-" He's cut off by Josef having closed the distance in the time they'd been looking towards Supergirl, and flicking him in the forehead, resulting in him being sent into, and thankfully for all involved, bouncing off of the window, which made it through stressed but unbroken. At which point, all hell breaks loose, the flipper tensed and fired buckshot right into the ceiling, spooking the other two, one of whom dropped his gun and shot himself in the knee, and the last guy remaining decides YOLO and starts trying to mow down The Girl of Steel. The remaining people not kissing the floor promptly do so as the shoosting begin, and a guy from the back comes to see what the problem is, so Shocker doesn't get mad at their ineptitude.....Shocker will be very mad at their ineptitude.

Supergirl has posed:
"Batman?" Supergirl actually looks down at her own chest. No bat symbol. Then she looks back to Josef. "Does that look like a bat to you?" Nevermind that she is nothing even Close to being a man either. As he flicks the distracted guy away, she actually smiles. "Nice!"

Then the hail of bullets comes her way. "AARGH!" She screams and falls over, cape fluttering down around her. The man who was shooting at her freezes, looking at his gun then at her. "I got her! I actually got her!" He runs over to nudge her with a toe. At which point she grabs his ankle and flings him into a wall before climbing to her feet. Another incorrigible grin. "I always wanted to do that."

In the vault, Shocker has gotten the duffle of bills and the box from 317, which is also tucked into the duffle. He comes out, raising his gauntlets and aiming them at the two heroes. One for each of them! "You may be bullet proof but I'm bettin' this'll hurt like hell so back off and let me get out that door!"

Josef Forster has posed:
As Supergirl feints the would-be Darwin Award winner, Josef scoops up the pistol of Skyrim's latest guard while he writhes on the ground screaming in pain, "Dont'cha just love stupid people?" He remarks to Supergirl as he crushes the pistol into unusable plastic and slag like crumpling a napkin while the crowds of bank patrons flee out onto the streets to safety to watch a good old fashioned super battle. As Shocker comes out, making threats, Josef looks over at him, "....Ya know, if you were someone important, I might just do that, but you're Shocker, and I have dignity." He retorts with a smart ass grin.

Supergirl has posed:
"The Shocker? I don't know him. Should I be worried?" Supergirl asks. She looks at Shocker then back over at Josef, since he seems to know what they are dealing with.

That's the moment she learns the answer to that question. Shocker put his gauntlet on full power and Blasts Supergirl right in the center of that S on her chest. She flies backwards, slamming into and partially through the bank wall.

Then the second blast goes off aimed at Josef!

Josef Forster has posed:
Josef, having lived in New York for a fair bit now, was already prepared to dodge Shocker's blast and rolled easily out of the way, casually chiming at Supergirl, apparently having assumed she'd do the same, "Are you kidding? He's The Shocker, New York's biggest loser. Even /I/ could take him." At which point he untucks from his roll and slides to his feet to see that Supergirl is now imbedded in the wall, "....Hmm...Perhaps errors have been ma-OH CRAP!" And now the mouthy dock worker is dodging up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, and start to avoiding ending up the same. He quickly falls into rhythm with this, and the taunts resume, "What's the matter, shocky? Gettin old? All those bruises startin to throw off your aim? I mean, c'mon, I'm not even wearin tights!" He says as he decides to be a cocky idiot by dodging one of Shocker's blasts by just leaning back a bit. Shocker stops firing at this, letting Josef get another jab in, "What's wrong, gotta reload?" Shocker, actually sounding somewhat amused, simply says, "No." And gestures with his head behind Josef. Josef glances back and has just enough time to get out "Aw shi-" Before being crushed by an enormous slab of wall, opening it up to the light outside.

Supergirl has posed:
The wall wasn't comfortable, for the record. It was quite unpleasant. And now she had cement dust all over her. Supergirl managed to climb out of the wall, brushing dust off herself and shake her head to get send dust flying around her. She frowns darkly and looks at the Shocker, taking his popshots at Josef. "That was just rude." She floats into the air, about to be rude right back.

When the wall collapses onto the other hero. "No!" She darts forward as she glances to the wall, trying to see why it fell. Has someone else joined this party? No. It seems the wall just collapsed due to all of the blasts by Shocker missing Josef. And hitting the wall behind him. A nice tactic that.

"Alright, enough. Be a good villain...wait, that doesn't work does it? Stop now and I won't have to hurt you. That's much better."

Josef Forster has posed:
Shocker retorts to Supergirl's demand with a verbal smirk, "No, I dont think I'm gonna do that." He then turns his gauntlet towards the crowd outside, "Unless you wanna see a lotta people die, Supergirl, you're gonna let me and my boys walk outta here scott free." He says with an audible and visible charge up of the gauntlet for emphasis. Shockers remaining goons from the vault start peeking around the remnants of the teller door, following suit with aiming at the outside crowd, one of them starting to edge his way along the far wall towards the exit, keeping his attention on Supergirl in case of being about to be despined.

Supergirl has posed:
That phrase 'faster than a speeding bullet' wasn't a lie. Supergirl was extremely fast. Not faster than Flash himself though. She probably could stop all the bullets and the blast but she couldn't guarantee it. And she wasn't going to gamble with lives at stake.

"Calm down. Leave them out of this," she says. "You can go. I won't try to stop you as long as you don't hurt anyone. Someone gets hurt, I will take you down."

Josef Forster has posed:
At Supergirl's standing down, the guy who's been trying to make it clear decides to do the stupid thing and starts taunting, "Yeah, that's right, Supergirl, run on back to Metropolis 'for the boss here has ta lay you out!" He says with a nervous laugh. As he does, the nearby slab suddenly raises up, Josef clearly visible underneath it, coughing and spluttering as he lifts the massive concrete off like it's an inconviently placed pillow. The goons immediately panic, with the taunter starting to flee, the other goons turning their guns on him and thus away from the hostages who remain largely blissfully ignorant they even were hostages, and Shocker himself finaly loosing his patience and shouting out as he lifts his other arm for a shot at Josef, "Doesn't anythin' ever die in this town!?" At which point the slab drops in the front, and Josef kicks it at the would be firing squad. And thus, the opening is made.

Supergirl has posed:
Thanks to the unknown hero, Supergirl has her chance. She taps into that speed, a streak of blue and red a she moves from one firing villain to the next. Their weapons are yanked out of their hands and crushed as she runs to the next.

In what seems like an instant, she is instead standing where she is blocking the people outside from Shocker's line of fire. He wasn't touched. A clattering announces all the guns hitting the floor next to each thug, all crushed and useless now.

Josef Forster has posed:
Shocker's blasts are thrown off point by the kick, only managing to chip the slab as it's kicked towards him and his goons. Shocker himself manages a clean dodge out of the way....The rest are lucky as much of the teller wall was left as there was, or they'd have been crushed into a fine red paste. As Shocker rolls to his feet, Josef is already there, arms crossed right in front of him. There's an awkward pause as Shocker is clearly debating what to do. The stupid decision wins out and he raises his gauntlets for a blast, only to have his hands be grabbed and summarily crushed, the gauntlets sparking as their destroyed and Shocker recoiling in pain. This is short lived as Josef finishes the job with a whip kick through the window that had narrowly survived the first flicked goon...And it was just two days from window retirement. Closing off for the cool shot end of the fight, Josef reaches up without looking to grab his check as it floats by through the air...promptly missing it as it floats right past and makes him look like a fool in front of everyone....You win this round, check...

Supergirl has posed:
As the villains are defeated, Supergirl looks toward the outside to be sure no one was hurt by the flying villain. She summarily moves to grab Shocker and holds him until the police officers who have arrived outside move up to take him into custody. Others rush in to grab the thugs while a medical team comes in to assess if they need to go to the hospital instead of the jail.

Supergirl walks over to Josef, picking up his check and offering it to him. "Thanks for the help, Josef Forster. I couldn't have done it without you."

Josef Forster has posed:
Josef takes the check and nods to Supergirl, "Happy to help, Batman." He says in a deadpan before letting out the tiniest snicker. The goons are rounded up, one officer walking over to Shocker on the ground, putting his hands on his hips and shaking his head down at him, "Damnit, Herman, you were just three days from being allowed pudding in the cafeteria again." Shocker groans up at him, "I hate you so much, Jeff..." The goon that escaped didn't make it far. He made it one block, took his mask off, and ducked into a bar, money bag in hand, to work off the stress of the day. He was picked up not five minutes after he got there. And the mysterious check would indeed be cashed, it's contents going to Josef's favorite orphanage. Truely a cause worth fighting for....And luckily, the bank has Super Hero insurance, because this is New York City and EVERY building has Super Hero insurance.