7863/Sentinels: Sentinels

Sentinels: Sentinels
Date of Scene:	13 June 2019
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Hulk and Spider-Man brawl with some Sentinels, in the defense of an Avenger facility.
Cast of Characters:	Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk
Tinyplot:	Sentinels

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Iron Man has posed:
Through the Avengers communicator, a call went out for anyone available in northern New York state to respond to defend an Avengers facility. A quick glance at the information will provide that a squadron of Sentinels is en route to a location where tests and study is being done on Sentinel-related assets, including an adult male ... 'guy' who is definitely some kind of powerful Sentinel.

Those who are available get an additional tidbit over their communicators from Iron Man: "Hey guys. I've managed to reroute four of them, but we still have two sentinels that are coming in hot on that facility. Vision and Spider-woman are inside, subduing our 'friend' in there, and we need to give them more time. I'm not even remotely nearby, but I've got security and some of my suits mobilized if you need help...."

Spider-Man has posed:
Pete just so happened to be swinging through Brooklyn when the call came across his brand new communicator. He'd literally checked it every five minutes for the last week waiting for someone to call him and kept starting to say something to anyone listening, then stopping like he was calling a middle school crush. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN:

Dialing the number and hanging up.

So when the call cam over the line he was so excited he damn near dropped it, fumbling it into the air in an awkward juggle, catching it in an out stretched hand after landing on the side of a wall with his foot, "Hey! This is Spider-Man. I'm in the area, or I can be anyways. I'll mosey on over... over." Clipping it to his belt, Spidey does swing into action. Even hums the song someone wrote about him, "Spider man, spider man... friendly neighborhood spider mam!"

Hulk has posed:
One Bruce Banner has been mostly AWOL for the last month, doing... stuff... but has returned in the last week from doing whatever it was he was doing...

And no sooner had he settled in then a call had gone out.

Well, he can be pretty much anywhere on the continental Americas within an hour.

"Aren't the Sentinels supposed to be government controlled?" Bruce asked over his commcard as he stripped down from his lab coat and other clothing down to the bare essentials.

Opening the door to the roof of the Avengers mansion, Bruce gave a running headstart as he headed for the edge... and jumped.

When he landed, a small crater of debris flew up from where the Hulk landed, fists pounded into the ground to 'soften' his fall.

"Hulk help. Hulk on Hulk's way." The Hulk growled over the commlink on his head... and /leaped/ into the air, heading in the general direction of the facility.

"Hulk got tired of smashing fungus things. Hope robot heads better."

Iron Man has posed:
Spider-Man and Hulk, apparently. Tony keeps his opinion of what could happen with that pair out of the communication channel, and ends up with responding, "Great, I sent you coordinates. Spidey, if you unfold the communicator's clip, it has a display there. Or you can use the other toy for your web-shooter, that has the holo-display if you rotate the base with a finger clockwise," Tony describes conversationally.

As the pair approach, they will see they need to get a move on: the Sentinels, while not fast, are just about arriving ahead of them. Both are high in the sky, and are starting a somewhat slow descent, their huge legs flaring with the massive rockets required to keep them aloft.

The facility has a huge outdoor zone of parking lot, with a lot of damage from other Sentinel activity: it looks like the warehouse has seen a number of sentinel landings, with the amount of footprints and burns there.

Spider-Man has posed:
"Where's he from, no one knows, look out!" Spidey is still swinging, switching from line to line in quick succession to build up speed. He'd installed the new webshooter not long ago and had to admit it was making things a lot easier as far as precision and relative tensil strength. He'll have to thank Tony, when he gets the chance.
"Oh snap!" Was that Bruce Banner?! "Doctor Banner? Huge fan of your work!" Then the voice changes to that of the Hulk.. who is going to help. "Yeah buddy. They make an entirely different percussive sound. More like a crunch than a squish! Also, kind of bigger. And made of metal. And have rockets... if they weren't the absolute worst, I'd say they were absolutely brilliant."

He might say it anyways.

Spidey turns the dial as directed, projecting the holographic display with a wide eyed wonder, "So that's pretty awesome.. Thanks Mister Stark. I can see the facility and the sentinels." He tells both the boss and the green guy. "On a scale from one to prop comic, how good do you think their sense of humor is?"

Pete has his doubts. Two lines fire, one from each wrist, and fling him upwards with his arms back and legs bent. His intent obvious, to grab hold of one of the Sentinels legs near the knee joint, "Hey big guy? Do you serve espresso?" Knock knock knock on the armored leg.

Hulk has posed:
"Hulk see them, Tin Man." The Hulk isn't even trying to slow his descent. Though to be fair, he couldn't if he tried. So he's falling right into the parking lot with all the finesse of a guided missile.

Which is basically what it looks like what he lands, with concrete flying everywhere from the crater he just created.

"Hulk see robots." Hulk helpfully informs the two, "Bug man not get in Hulks way. Hulk can handle puny robots." Hulk sniffs in the Sentinels general directions as he begins to walk his way out of the crater and over to the robots themselves. He seems to be sizing them up first.

Iron Man has posed:
"Aliases on channel, Spider-Man," Tony says in sudden firmness, serious tone. Then, with a tone that conveys the amused grin somehow, "I'm entirely joking; it's fine. I don't think the Sentinels have a sense of humor, except for the one in our facility, who is... well, we can discuss it later. I'd rather you stay alive."

In an aside just into Hulk's communciator, Tony adds, "Watch out for the kid. He's new. But feel free to impress him with lots of smashing of robots." Hopefully that will also translate into not smashing any spiders.

The sentinel with Spiderman on it doesn't react at first. In fact, it doesn't react at all, it entirely ignores Spider-Man, as if he wasn't there. Neither sentinel registers either of them.

"They're ignoring you. Hey. All right. They must still have you on their 'ally' lists, that we installed in them. That's good to know," Tony says. "These ...might not be hostile. Yet. They might become hostile if they land and notice that their boss is unconscious."

Spider-Man has posed:
"Oh! Sorry Mister St- Iron Ma- oh, you're joking." Spidey says from the side of a sentinel leg, "I'm sensitive, Mister Stark." He is, but not about that. Being ignored, now that he's definitely not partial to, "Alright, well I've got a knock knock joke for them. See if I can tickle thier funny bone."

Tony did say that he wanted them to buy Spider Woman, "I need to have a talk with my agent.." He mumurs completely without context and into a communicator he forgot to unkey. He's not use to work with other people, afterall.

Spider-man pushes off from the Sentinels leg into a sumersault up nearer to the machines upper torso, two lines fired with the intent to hit the shoulder on either side of it's massive upper body, and ultimately yank him at the back of the unsuspecting machines head with a both feet extended. "Knock knock..." There's no reply probably, so that joke is dead in the water. "I should have thought that through."

As for Hulk. "Don't mind me Jolly Green Giant, I'll go high and you go... probably everywhere, you're incredibly agile for a bigger guy, has anyone ever told you that? What's your secret?"

Hulk has posed:
"Bug Man talk too much." The Hulk informs Spider-Man as he steps right up to the front of the Sentinel Spider-Man is on the back of. Ten feet of the Mean Green is going right up to the Sentinels chest and directly blocking the Sentinels path. "You not allowed in. Go away."

Without much fanfare, The Hulk moves to grab the Sentinels leg, and he /SQUEEZES/. He wants it's flight capability disabled for an easier fight.

Iron Man has posed:
The Sentinel that Spider-Man is riding has some issues with being yanked around: they are strong, but the Spider is pretty damn strong, too. It reacts as if confused by being pulled around by the lines, as opposed to finding it to be an attack. Being ridden awkwardly isn't really an attack, after all. It lands right in front of Hulk, fearlessly. Robots are fearless in general, but since this one is ignoring Hulk as a threat, there's no reason to deviate.

"CEASE ATTACK, OR FACE RETALIATION," booms the Sentinel at Hulk, even as Hulk squeezes its right leg into highly mangled metal. Both hands come forwards, flaring with energy.

The Sentinel hands take a little bit to charge up, but the eyes don't: both Sentinels unleash twin blasts of optic energy, directly at Hulk. They pack a very powerful punch, plasma isn't anything to scoff at. Except for Hulks, probably.

Spider-Man has posed:
Spidey clutches either side of the sentinels head, kneeling down upon it's shoulders so he's kind of awkwardly straddling it with his feet up in the neck joints. "I get that a lot." Said to Hulk with his best humdrum tone, but this is kind of awesome. He wouldn't ever say that out loud, "Dude, this is awesome."

Nevermind, I guess.

"Face Retaliation... I think he's got a leg up on you Sentinel scum!" This is wrestling promo 101 with the quipmaster himself. "Buh dum tiss.." Spidey slaps out the rimshot on the top of the robots head with both fists, no reason to pull punches either.... and boy can that tiny spider hit hard.

"We're on top of the compitition, amirite? Anybody? Is this thing on..."

Hulk has posed:
With the leg mangled, there's not much to hold onto when the optical blast hits him... and The Hulk is blasted clear across the parking lot into a wall, where he gets stunned briefly from the impact as he goes through said wall a bit.

Of course, that just got the Hulk angrier, and soon, he's roaring as he grows another foot.

There's a plasma blaster in the head? Go for the head!

"HULK SMASH!" The Hulk roars as he goes directly for the head that blasted him, leaping right at it with both arms out in a battering ram.

Iron Man has posed:
"So, you two have that handled, clearly," Tony observes dryly of the interesting 'chatter' that is made by Hulk's style of speech, and Spider-Man's--, in a way that suggests he's going to tune out of the communicator, and probably continue to focus more on whatever is going on inside with their Sentinel 'guest', or perhaps the other four sentinels that he sent on vacation.

The bashing attacks to the head, administered in drum style to that first sentinel, cause the Sentinel to whip it's head side to side, to try to fling the clingy spider off. The huge sentinels don't more their limbs (or heads) very quickly, however. They are very strong, but not hugely fast.

The Sentinel that hasn't been attacked yet has moved to hand-blasts, which, if they hit, will probably be strong enough to toss Hulk backwards into his crater, even if they don't harm the giant green fellow. Those bolts, though, are far too late to stop the Hulk from slamming both fists into the first sentinel's head, though: the one with Spiderman attached to it... as it tries to walk, and instead crunches forward on missing leg, and begins to topple, mostly headless.

Spider-Man has posed:
"Alley-oop!" Spiderman sees a double poundy fist coming at him, by extention of being on the sentinels head, and jumps backwards into a single backflip. His wrists angle down to fire a line at a chunk of concrete created by Hulk's crater, and pulls it around in a swing like a hammer throw towards sentinel #2.

"Use your words!" He tells... either the sentinel or Hulk. Probably the sentinel, but Hulk amost smashed him so maybe, who even knows at this point. Spider-man's all over the place.

When he lands, it's clear he intends to double stomp the stumbling Sentinel #1 to further add insult to career ending injury. "Sentinel goes down... I don't know if he can finish the battle... This is a slobber knocker Mean Jean!"

Hulk has posed:
Being toppled over just means they're easier to smash.

"HULK GOING TO TEAR YOU APART!" The Hulk roars at the Sentinel, before he gets to work doing just that. He's literally trying to tear armor, pieces, and parts off of the Sentinel he just beheaded, trying to get to the 'core' of it in it's chest.

He's not even paying attention to the second one right now. The Hulk wants to be sure the first one isn't getting back up.

Iron Man has posed:
Between the Hulk and Spider-Man, the first Sentinel is getting turned into one amazing junk pile of machine parts. An explosion occurs, as the chest is dented, and the powerful batteries there are crunched. Fire cannons out of the front, as one of the arms is dislocated and flung aside with the rampaging Hulk at the mid-chest.

The other Sentinel lifted a hand as the piece of concete came at it, dissolving the concrete out of the air with a well-aimed little blast. It stands there, palm out towards Spider-man, for what may feel like a long moment, before releasing two blasts from the hands, and another lancing sideways plasma-laser from the face, trying to catch the Spider in the mix of potent energy.

Spider-Man has posed:
"Hulk! You've got a serious impulse control problem, buddy..." Spidey has to dodge out of the way of the big green monsters smashiness with a cartwheel when his tingling senses trigger that he might inadvertantly becomes caught up in the metal carnage.

"That's quite enough from the percussions section, thank yo-" Again with the tingling. Pete's head snaps around and he launches backwards out of the path of lasers... aided by the explosion when the first sentinels chest is caved in.

One of the cars in the parking lot is there to stop his flight. A human sized dent in the passanger side door with Peter now down on his hands and knees with a car alarm blaring behind him. "Please don't be the lambo..." Even breathless, he's still got quips.

Definitely needs some work on his team training.

It's all very new to him.

Hulk has posed:
Giant explosion, meet Hulk.

Of course, it isn't a huge explosion, so it doesn't send the Hulk flying. Again. But it does seem to both annoy and satisfy the Hulk at once.

"Robots annoying, but better than fungus things." Hulk concludes. Then, he turned around to see the Sentinel Spider-Man was dealing with, and he runs with a roar right up to it. "LEAVE BUG MAN ALONE!" The Hulk roars once more as he charges right into one of it's legs, trying to batter it off.

Iron Man has posed:
The sentinel was focused on Spider-Man, but the slam to its legs pulls its attention very quickly. "CEASE ATTACK; INVESTIGATION IS PENDING," The sentinel attempts, as if that would ever be the set of words that would stop a Hulk?

The Sentinel does, however, get smarter, and rear back the other leg, adjusting position, and then slams downwards with the opposite heavy fist, even as the leg is starting to take some very heavy impact. The Sentinel clearly doesn't take into account the other one being downed so quickly: it's still going to fight!

"If you get bored, the other four are doing laps nearby, so when you're done with those..." Tony's teasing. Maybe. The other four do show up on their radars, though.

Spider-Man has posed:
Spider-Man rubs the side of his head, then shakes it violently when that doesn't clear the cobwebs, "Really, there's four MORE?" Said, using the car, with the alarm still blaring, to pull himself up off the ground. "Cool. Remind me to hit a selfie for my twitter feed."

Now that the Sentinel is focused on the tank, Spider-man, like any good DPS, launches himself at the machine's turned back. An aerial assault. Snapping in for a kick, pushing off, and then pulling himself back in for another that has a little more umph behind it.

If all plays according to his careful plan, that isn't totally off the cuff or seat of his pants, it should prime the Sennie up for a big ol happy Green fist. See? He's got this team thing in the bag. CASH THE CHECK!

Hulk has posed:
When the fist slams down, it does catch the Hulk for a moment... before the Hulk roars, and brings both hands up around said fist.

"HULK PULL TO PIECES!" Is all the warning Spider-Man gets as the Hulk twists around under the arm pit of the Sentinel... and tries to pull the arm out of it's socket, using his legs as leverage against the arm and chest proper.

Probably not what Spider-Man had in mind... but Hulks tearing it apart, at least.

Iron Man has posed:
That fist opens, starting to gather a truly big blast --- but the fingers are pulled off of the hand, as the head turns to try to track the agile Spider-man. It may have had a good blast finally ready to really put a hole in Hulk, but with the combination of trying to fight both heroes at once? The sentinel can't keep up, not alone.

Maybe if it had an army.

Next time.

The Sentinel loses its arm, and shoots some ragged blast from the eyes across the poor car that was howling with alarm (it does stop making noise now), some of a building, before the Sentinel starts to collapse, the chest power source similarly damaged, much as the first...

Spider-Man has posed:
Spider-Man uses the force of his double kick to jump way back this time. Lesson learned, they explode when they're mad... or just damaged, details. Now crouched on the side of a lightpole, Peter glances up at the four bleeps on his radar with a frown behind his mask.

"Still got metal buzzards, nah buzzards doesn't play. Wasps? Wait, no I think that's actually an avenger... Mosquitos!" Snap pointing at Hulk, "Four more Mosquitos!" Stressing the name, now twice. "You want to go swat more Mosquitos!" Three times.