8545/The Bust

The Bust
Date of Scene:	28 July 2019
Location:	Siren Chemical Plant, Bronx
Synopsis:	Diana Prince and Kid show up at the same time to tkae down a drug operation making LSD
Cast of Characters:	Hammerhead, Kid, Wonder Woman

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Hammerhead has posed:
The Siren Chemical Plant is one of the many industrial buildings that have been shut down in the Bronx over the years. This plant, which created cleaners for a now defunct Stagg Enterprises Subsidiary has been sitting abandoned since 2020. Recently rumors however, has stated that someone has taken residence inside the building and evicted the squatters living inside of it. Sightings of men dressed up in 1930s mobster clothing entering and exiting the building have been reported, leading some to believe that Hammerhead has taken posession of the aandoned building. These rumors were true and Hammerhead, wanting to expand his ever-expanding drug operations, has taken over the abandoned warehouse and has turned it into a makeshift drug lab and marketplace. Hammerhead, not wanting a repeat of the incident at Chinatown awhile back, has armed his men at the location with the heaviest weaponry he could muster from his stockpile. Tonight, the front is contiuing as usual, not expect a visit from one one of the world's most famous superheroes and a talking ape.

Kid has posed:
Well, as it stands...Kid always has a foot in the underground. Mainly squatter, which tend to be his typical 'victems' or 'friends' depending on how you look at it. And much like the small store owner, he was defensive of them. So when he got word that the plant has been taken over by Wannabe Mobsters, Kid took to the streets.
    And as per usual, he never takes the direct route, unless it proves useful. Thankfully, Kid had a pocket full of illusions he could use. And this time...he takes on the guise of Malcolm 'Kid' Ironwood. He was the 'grown up' version of his teen illusion, and this one looked and dressed like a mobster in a fine looking suit.
Hisnd Malcolm was more well known than 'Kid' for being one nasty piece of work if someone got on his bad side. It was a small time reputation, but hopefully enough for him to get through the front door goons without incident.
    Malcolm approaches where the typical entrench would be for such a place, looking like a man on a mission.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Heading toward late Summer, in the year 2027...

Diana lands atop the edge of a nearby building. Her right armored boot is up upon the building's corner ledge while her left rests extended behind her, the muscles in her thigh flexing to support her lithe weight like this. Her dark hair is loose and its gently swaying about her shoulders in the wind... her blue eyes are down upon the target location.

She's listening to the site for now, observing it with vision and hearing, taking in the sights and sounds to get a feel for the place.

Covering the rest of Diana's form is a black hooded cloak, the hood is down behind her shoulders, leaving the voluminous garment to sway around her body, over the armor she wears beneath it.

Hammerhead has posed:
The man at the door is a tall, bulky fellow dressed up in the now familiar 1930s clothing that signified membership in Hammerhead's gang. He is reading travel magazine when he hears footsteps appraoching. He looks up and his eye widen in surprise when the well-known and brutal mobster Malcolm 'Kid' Ironwood comes walking up to the market place. Like many hoods in NYC, he has heard of Malcom and his various exploits and chose not to mess with him. So, he stands up and try to keep a tough guy look while saying," Well, if it ain't Malcolm 'Kid' Ironwood. Been a while since you've been in the Bronx. What brings ya to the Marketplace tonight?"

Kid has posed:
Exploits came mostly in the form offering protection as a Body Guard for various operations in the past. But he was known not to take crap, and had zero loyalties to any one group...which he made very VERY clear in the past. He was also eccentric, and mute.
    Seeming to know this was comming, he pulls out a disposable cellphone. Can't trust things that can be traced after all. He quickly types something out on it and shows it to the man "Looking for work. Now piss off." and once the man read his phone hw would move to get into the building, unless the guard tries to stop him. He had more important things to take care of.

Wonder Woman has posed:
The arrival of the incognito 'Kid' down on the street level was a welcome distraction for Diana. She takes this opportunity in-kind and uses it to cross the gap between the buildings, landing atop the one she's come to investigate now. Now, directly above the heads of those down belong, she peers over the ledge down to them and then disappears again as she sets out to exploring the roof of this supposed criminal operation's production facility. Diana moves with a casual stride as she lets her eyes and senses sweep the rooftop while her soft black cloak flows about her form.

Hammerhead has posed:
The man read's the message on the phone and immediatley opens the door, knowing that refusing to let Malcom in would result in a ass kicking. As he lets him in, he says," The freman is up the stairs, past the marketplace, near the production plant." As Kid enter the facily, he is greeted by the factory's lobby, which as been replaced by tables being manned by various goons, all of them displaying various narcotics, with the most prominenet being Heorin with a white lotus flower, obviously from China White. Meanwhile, as Wonder Woman explores the roof, she would notice a sky light directly above the manufacturing plant area of the plant and a roof access door. However, before she can take a look, the door opens and one of Hammerhead's goons comes out, smoking a cigar. He immeidatley notices WW and immediatley tries to pull out his pistol, leaving only precious seconds before he fires and blows her cover.

Kid has posed:
Malcolm eyes everything. He was so glad he was hidden by his illusion right now, else they may have seen him shudder. He...despised labs really. They made him...cranky to say the least. But it also meant that his meaness and attitude was far more believble and thus more effective.
    Still...they kicked his 'friends' out for this crap? Unbelieable. At least hire the 'squatters'. His face was a perpetual grim expression that he wore as he made his way through. His eyes stayed hard and unkind as he made his way towards the back, where stares to more private offices in facotories are found. Including that to the freman. But he was in no rush, not yet anyways, as he was kinda planning on the fly here.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana's hearing allows her to pick up on the man stepping out of the roof access doorway just split moments before he does it. This lets her reach inside of her robe and pull forth the coiled-up length of her Lasso of Truth! The lasso comes to life with a golden glowing light and the Princess of Themyscira whips her arm back, then forward, sending the rope whirling through the air as the man pulls his sidearm!

The golden length of rope will attempt to wrap around the man, there-by giving Diana the ability to pull him toward her--past her more accurately, aiming to slam him into a brick chimney-face just past her right shoulder atop the building's roof!

Hammerhead has posed:
As Kid walked up the stairs, he would be greeted by the sound of yelling and the familiar smell of cigar smoke. Outside the foreman's voice, he hears a voice yelling," Listen, listen, get that money and brig it here by midnight. Don't make me get big Al involved!" As Kid opens the door, he see the foreman, a short-middle aged man wearing a tux with salt-and pepper hair and a mustache. He looks up at Malcome and says," Malcolm Ironwood. What can i do ya for tonight?" Meanwhile, the man is lassoed and before he can let out a scream, is slammed against the chinney, knocking him out. Now, that the man is dipatched, WW is now able to look into the skylight into the plant itself, which now has a noticable hum of activity

Kid has posed:
Malcolm gets a smirk, and let out a harsh dry laugh, the kind that folks who do not laugh often sometimes make, with a beastly quality to it. Bringing out his phone again he types out "Big Al eh? Bet I can snap his neck" and considering the beating he gave in the past...that look on his face more said he wanted to see how big a threat Al was compared to him.
    But none the less, he gets down to buissness after the mini-joke. Never lingering long. "Looking for work. Also, looking for who moved this joint into MY hunting grounds." That where Malcolm real brutality rep comes from. When he got his grip on someone, they would scream and writh in his grip, and fall to the floor unconciouse, barel breathing, sometimes in a coma. And whenever someone asked, Malcolm simply always replied 'he ate thier minds.' No one quite sure how true that is, but he often spoke about people and minds like food, like he was a damn vampire or something.

Wonder Woman has posed:
A look is given back to the man that Diana puts onto the roof floor, out cold. She crouches a moment to check him over and she removes any other weapons on his person and then places his hat overtop of his face so that he can rest peacefully where he is for the time being...

She's then up and patrolling the roof again, specifically that skylight above the building's interior. One of the windows is partially ajar which allows her to more easily hear inside and she can hear the voice of this Malcome fellow down belong, as well as the others. She is slowly walking around the exterior of this large window and trying to take in the visuals of what lies down below, to get a confirmation on the rumors of this place's true intents and purposes.

Hammerhead has posed:
The foreman nods at this request and says to Malcom," Looking for work eh? Let me see what I can fine. Also, if you came here to gripe to me about this joint, you are barking up the wrong three here pal. One of Hammer's lieutenants, Alfred Bachanni ordered us to set up shop here and he is out in Staten Island. Don't know where though." Meanwhile WW takes a look through the skylight and see that the main area of the plant, the foundry, has been completely turnd into a makeshift drug lab. In the center of the room, you can see a whiteboard with the formula for LSD on it. Apprently, Hammerhead wanted to start mass-producing the stuff. Gathered around the various assembly lanes are people where hazmat suits handling various chemicles. Meanwhilem heavily armed Hammerhead goons are either overseeing the production or opening crates full of smuggled drugs and carrying them to a door with a piece of paper marked over it saying "marketplace."

Kid has posed:
Malcolm types into the phone "I do not gripe. I get results" he was already commiting the name to memory. It seems he will have places to be. But, he needed to 'send a message' first. He stands up, as he seems quite serious about anyone in his grounds. He types into the phone "Already got a location. All I need is a picture" he types to the foreman. "And one way or another, I am going to get it" his eyes narrow as he cracks his neck. He WILL get his hands dirty if he has too. And by the look on Kid face, the foreman better have a pic or Kid may just start swinging.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana's right hand raises up to dip her fingertips beneath her hair over her right ear. She speaks into a comm system and sends out an alert to the local Police Department to call in for their backup. They'll want to be here in time for the aftermath of this one, which will help the civilian population not be effected nearly as much by it.

Once the call for the Cops is sent out, Diana doesn't waste any more time. She reaches up to unclasp her cloak and let it fall from her shoulders. Her hands then moves to her back and she pulls forth her sword and shield...

What happens next will draw the attention of everyone. The glass from the skylight above shatters entirely and starts to rain down on the production floor below!

But there's no sign of why it broke...

A handful of second later and the brick wall on the north side of the building suddenly implodes, and there... in the settling rubble and dust is Wonder Woman, shield up and shining sword raised!

She charges toward the nearest and most heavily armed guards!

Hammerhead has posed:
The foreman was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He knew that if he gave Malcom a photo and something happened to Al, Hammerhead would kill him, or Al would if he managed to kill the bum. On the other hand, if he refused, he would get a serious ass kicking from Malcom. So, in a act of despiration, he decided to give him a fake photo. He pulls out a photo of a rather obese man who owes Hammerhead money and gives it to Malcom and says," Here he is. Now please go!" Suddenly, the sound of crashing glass fill the entire factory. The foreman immediatley rushes out of the room towards the assembly area to figure out what happened. Suddenly, Wonder Woman herself breaks into the building. The guards she is charging are aromed with two shotguns and a assult rifel. They immeidatley start firing at her while other guards start filing in from other parts of the factory, guns drawned and the chemeists start franctically gathering the unopend chemicles, while some of them pick up distols from the bottom of their desks and start to shoot at WW to.

Kid has posed:
Malcolm puts the photo in his pocket. It was a good choice, and if the foreman was lieing...he would have just been back. Would being the operative word. When he heard the crashing of window and brick, it didn't take long to see who has paied them a visit. What luck indeed, Wonder Woman! Well Kid was oppertunistic and this was a good chance not to blow his cover.

Since no one else was near the office, Kid swaps his Malcolm illusion for his invisible one. With quiet but quick feet he follows the foreman...and attempts to grab him from behind and drain his mind. If successful this would take him out of the fight - and also allow him to see who Al really was, as well as a location, in case the man was lieing about that too!

Regardless of success though, he also attempts to send out a telepathic message to Wonder Woman. o O ("Well, fancy seeing you here Diana. I'll give you a mind up.").

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana knows the presence of that voice when Kid sends her telepathic message, but she is too busy to directly respond to it. In the present time she's battling... and moving at a breakneck speed while doing so.

Her first target are those two men with shotguns. Their pellets spark off of her round shield, bouncing off of the eagle emblazoned upon its metallic surface! She'll go to perform her leg sweeping attack on the men with the shotguns, attempting to take them off of their feet and then lunge SHIELD BASH style toward the man with the automatic rifle!

Coming back around then to raise her shield up to block the bullets from the pistols, Diana keeps moving, using the production facilities own natural cover to help shield her from attacks while her speed is tremendous! Godly even!

Hammerhead has posed:
Kid manages to grab the foreman and start to drain his mind. The most prevalent image of Alfred he saw his him grinning sadistically as he watches a large, muscualr, broad-shouldered man that was not Hammerhead grab a innocent tatoo artist by the arm and stab his hand with the tatoo needle and activate it, inking up the insdie of his hand with Al cheering him on and saying," Come on boss, fuck him up!". He then sees Al at an arcade called Luigi's down in Staten Island eating a slice of pizza and ordering the foreman to head over to Sirens.
    
     The goons Diana hits immediatley fall onto the ground unconcious. Meanwhile, the new guards that streamed in after the initial breaking see WW and join in the fight, firing their surprisngly heavy weapnry, which include assult rifles, shotguns, and surprisngly, a LMG.

Kid has posed:
Most people would probably have flinched at the imagery. But it was just another day for Kid. Once the foreman was sufficiently drained - aka knocked unconciouse, he drops him and makes his way forward, carefully.
    That was alot of gunfire possible. And he still had...zero protection really. And so he does what he does best - start causing chaos. He backs up to a good hidden spot that would allow him to see the floor, and minimize who can see him.
    Once there Kid drops his invisibility illusion in favor of others. Up along the walls, images of Batman, Spider-Man, The Foot, etc, begin appearing and dissappearing on the wall. They are accompnaied with sounds to provide additional distraction. The heros always appear up on the walls, instead of directly on the floor. This was to get the goons to A) waste bullets shooting, and B) Not have them shooting and killing each other, or potential passby on the streets in case of going through a window, so overall safer, and will hopefully take some heat off Diana.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana wasn't moving about the interior of the building without purpose though. She was avoiding gunfire, but she was also preparing her next attack, and after disabling the first three gun men she's sweeping her body out from her cover for the next!

Her sword is put away now and her lasso is coming out to grasp not the men, but the support structures from the balcony above the armed attackers. Her shield is up and its being actively used to deflect incoming shots, her dexterity and agility so great that the shower of peppering bullets is like slow-motion movement for her, coming at her in like waves of growing pillars of bullets!

But her lasso is lashing out and latching onto the support beams of the balcony above the gun men (and those who may be standing atop it no less). Her intention is to bring said metal structure down, with hard yanks from her glowing golden rope to pull the whole second story down and take the men out with it!

Hammerhead has posed:
The illusions seem to be doing the trick as gunfire starts hitting the walls, keeping some of the fire away from WW, who manages to pull down the balcony, sending three guards falling to the ground. The guards underneath the balcony try to run away, but the mental balcony hits them, trapping them underneath. The guards who were lucky enough to be at the center of the room and the chemists who were shooting continue their assult while three of the chemists attempt to flee with what chemicles they managed to salvage.

Kid has posed:
With a much better portion of the gunfire neutralized, Kid goes barreling out. He wasn't trying to hide his gorilla self, as he was keeping up the other argubly much more important illusions. He was going fro the chemists. Charging at full speed, Kid leaps up and towards the chemist from his position, intending on barreling into all three of them.
    If he does manage to barrel into however many, he will of course try and drain them as well, to knock them out and shrink the number of people causing chaos to this situation. That...and incase Diana pulled down another catwalk, Kid didn't want to accidently be ontop of it as it where.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana is holding her position as bullets ricochet off of her shield, and this is when the Gorllia Kid goes fly over her head. His acrobatics do not go unwatched, the Princess observes Kid go flying over her and this gives her a window of opportunity to strike out at the men in the center of the room with the heavy weapons.

A leg sweeping move will lead Diana into the middle of their party, her hand trying to grab for one of their machine guns to tear it into two halves before her lasso will go to wrap about their legs and attempt to sweep them up and off of them!

Diana is likely very much unlike anything these men have ever witnessed before, her ability to move as though she can predict their attacks, utilizing the reflexes of the gods to achieve her combative prowess against these very average (or below) men!

Hammerhead has posed:
Kid attack succeds, but he only manages to barrel into two chemists, knocking them down onto the floor. The third chemist stops and looks in horror as he watches the gorilla at work. Meanwhile, WW succeds in taking down the men in the center of the room, ripping apart the gun in the process. She would suddenly see a man in a hazmat suit runniing towards her, the final chemist taking off his protective visor, revealing a middle aged man with a goatee and brown hair. He runs up to her, hands up in the air while saying," I give up! Just keep that thing away from me!" He then points at Kid.

Kid has posed:
The two chemist unfortunate enough to be grabed from Kid shudder and writhe in his grip untill they crumple to the floor. Kid was going for quick and efficient. And he was preparing to go for the third, untill he was running to diana, quickly giving up. At least Kid wasn't a maschocit and didn't give chase. He simply retreated back to regroup and see what was left of all this nonsense.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana doesn't like anyone running up to her in situations like this so when the man does, even if he's surrendering seemingly, she's smart enough to wrap the lasso around him and then reach out to try to kick him down to his knees. "Sit." Diana orders the man who's now ensnared by the Lasso of Truth. "The police are on their way." She says in her thickly accented English.

"You are going to work with them and tell them everything that you know, so that we may bring this facility down permanently, as well as any others that you may be able to lead us to." Diana tells the man under her truth-demanding power now, not that the lasso can force him to do her bidding... but she's a fairly intimidating presence after all, at least to most people who have faced her in combat and seen what she can do.

Diana's eyes rise up then to look onto Kid. She calls out to him. "So good to see you, my friend." She says in a calm voice.

Hammerhead has posed:
The man is knocked onto his knees and looks at WW with fear in his eyes. Once he hears her demands, he nods at her fearfully, not wanting to incur her wrath. Once he sees the gorilla again, he looks up at it in fear.

Kid has posed:
And...the gorilla seems to ignore him, no different than a gorilla at the zoo who wants nothing to do with humans stareing at it. So he may looks somewhat less intimidating, save for the fact a 600 gorillas is just a few feet away...without any protection.
    Kid nods to Diana and speaks to her mentally o O ("Good to see you too. I know where the head idiot for this may be, if you wanna help take him down. otherwise, I have a meal to catch") meaning said lietienant. That and the police where comming, he was still skittish around them. o O ("And uh...thanks, for you know, taking out them guns.") he still wanted to ask her something, but this wasn't the place. And with the police getting closer, Kid fades away, clearly having no plans to speak with them.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana dips her head in a light nod to Kid. "We shall see. I must help the Police clean this up for now though." She tells him before she helps the Chemist stand and will then escort him out of the building to where the local police vehicles are arriving and starting to spread out in front of the warehouse.