8712/The Chop Shop

The Chop Shop
Date of Scene:	09 August 2019
Location:	Brooklyn College
Synopsis:	Various heroes decsend and destroy a chop shop.
Cast of Characters:	Hammerhead, Dragon, Zeta, Kaelyn Silverleaf

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Hammerhead has posed:
Brooklyn College is the last place one would expect brazen crime to happen. The scene that greets you is a scene of academic learning as students hurry to and from their classes, chatting, and other activities. Suddenly, you hear arguing coming from another part of the outdoor area of the University and suddenly, a scream of pain fills the air and the sound of tire screeching echoes through the area as a yellow sports car zooms on past down the road. A crowd of people start rushing past you towards one of the parking lots. If you approach with the crowd, you see one of the students lying on the ground with a bloody nose, clutching his arm and hissing in pain. You see a pair of broken glasses nearby.

Dragon has posed:
Walking down the side of the street while munching on a street sandwich from a nearby chip truck was Richard Dragon. He was wearing a light jacket, a pair of loose pants, and comfortable sneakers. His long, red hair was being blown by the wind in an unruly manner, which was pretty typical. When the students start rushing past, Dragon gets curious and decides to check out what was happening. Remaining quiet and in the crowd, he watches and waits to see what was going on. He notes the broken glasses and injured young man.

Zeta has posed:
    A young man, with black hair, and green eyes happens to be minding his own business when everything breaks out. He was casually walking back the university when he could hear the screams, before he eyes quickly come to connect and follow the yellow sports car in the distance.

However, his eyes move from the vehicle as one of the college students bumps into him and he has to quickly correct the backpack he has loosely slung of his shoulder.

    His looks to the student laying on the ground, seeming in pain. Zeta frowns gently as concern moves over his face, but while he skims over every students as they go rushing past, he also tries to look beyond them. Using every visual range he has access too to quickly scan and asses not only the danger, but the cause.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Having been at the college to pick up a few rare books, Kae notices the onrush of students heading to the scream. Kae pauses, the tall redhead giving out a sigh. She then takes a breath, spins on a heal and proceeds to shove books in her backpack as she heads toward the trouble, walking at a rather brisk pace at this point.

Hammerhead has posed:
As the group of students gather around the student, a security guard pushese through the crowd with a first-aid kit and starts attennding to the yiung man's bloddy nose while saying," What happened here son?" The student lets out another groan of pain as he says," Some bastards in pin-stripped suits car-jacked me. They wanted my keys and when i refused, they beat me up and stole my my car. I think they broke my fucking arm."

Dragon has posed:
    Subtley moving out of the way of the security guard, Dragon moves back, and watches quietly. He finishes off his sandwich that he had almost forgotten about, and listens to the interchange between the security guard and the kid. Shaking his head sadly, Dragon's expression was of empathy, but it didn't look like he was going to leap to help the young man.

    Noting the basic tactics used to steal the man's car after beating him up, Dragon extrapoloates at to the skill level and techniques used. Not impressed Dragon sniffs, and crosses his hands across his chest.

Zeta has posed:
    The yellow sports car.

    Zeta hears the explanation and then narrows his eyes. He turns in the direction he saw the car head off and then calls over, hoping the young man could hear him. "Was it a yellow sports car?"

As he asks this, he is already looking to see if he can locate any security cameras and if so, trying to see if he can tap into the network. If he can, maybe he can pull up a visual of not only 'who', but perhaps get into the city's network and see if he can tag not only the licence plate, but also get a general heading.

Anyone with a good perception, might pick up a flicker of light around the man's pupil as he waits for confirmation, however time was of the essence.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae is now at the back of the crowd, moving around a bit, then sighs. She pulls a hand-tied broome out of her jeans pocket,and steps up on the collar, before floating up and over the crowd. A she steps down, she shoves the broom back in her pocket. "Y'allright?" She asks the injured party, as she sorts through her various pockets..

"Lezze here,I may...Oh here we go." She says, and tugs a smallvial with a glowing blue liquid inside. "Drink that, it should fix you right up." She says with a friendly smile...

Hammerhead has posed:
"Yeah, my car is the yellow sports car. My dad gave it to me, now it is probably gone." He then takes the vial from the red-headed woman from the woman and drinks from it. He lets out a sign of relief as his body starts to heal. He then unsteadly gets up and say to Kae while trying to shake her hand," Thank you." Meanwhile, Zeta managed to get a look of the car going down 5th street approaching Maple. You managed to get a good look of the liscense plate, which says 009JL.

Dragon has posed:
    Dragon's eyes spot Zeta as he hears the man's comment. A yellow sports car. That was the car that tore out of there a short time ago. Moving through the crowd carefully and patiently so as to not touch anyone, well - as little as possible. He avoids most of the people jockeying to get a look with minimal fuss.

    Dragon takes a moment to look back over his shoulder, noting Kaelyn. Pausing for a second, he decides to wait and watch as she pulls out a blue vial. Of sudden interest, Dragon watches intently, waiting to see what happens next. Quite the healing draught...confirmed by the victim...a yellow sports car. Not a surprise. Memorizing the plate, he decides to keep an eye out for it. And remember the woman with the healing potions.

Zeta has posed:
    While waiting for the response, he then spots-- something odd. He turns his focus from what he is trying to do and on to Kaelyn's mystical art of broom riding. His advance, computation brain can simply do is...

        HOW?!!!

    So, while his jaw seemingly slacks for a moment as he observes her and that flickering glow almost comes to a complete halt by just being confused beyond all programming.

Thankfully the words of the young man snap his attention back from his puzzled, computer brain, and like that he focuses his attention on what needs to be done.

    He suddenly turns on his heels in an almost inhuman fashion and bolts faster than a human should run while saying, "I have it. Fifth street, approaching Maple. Vehicle 009JL. Tracking and in pursuit!"

And tossing the backpack to the side, his hands suddenly extend, before breaking the hard-light projetion around his arms. He reaches up to a light pole, before swinging himself to a rooftop of a building and then racing across. Moving from building to building.

Yep. Looks like that 'man' is either a cyborg or a machine.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae nods to the fellow... "Well we have a few hours to grab it before it gets chopped up or sold I imagine. You have anything, like a pic or something?" She then blinks as she hears hears tracking and pursuit?" She sighs and rubs at the back of her neck. "Well take it easy there, we'll be back shortly..." She adds, then tugs what looks like a hotwheels or matchbox pickup out of her pocket. It gets tossed on the parking lot clear of folks, it glows, then suddenly is a full-sized pickup. A Ford Raptor to be precisel, and the engine turns over as Kae walks around it and hops in... She then lowers the windows "Anyone coming along?" She asks curiously.

Dragon has posed:
    Now that was interesting. As Zeta takes off in an "almost inhuman" fashion, Dragon raises an eyebrow in a quizzical stare. "Someone to speak with further, it seems." Dragon says to himself, eliciting a few strange looks from the people around him. With a smile, Dragon turns his attention back to the spectacle. "Fascinating."

    Watching as Kaelyn gets in her pick up Dragon, shakes his head, calls out, "Maybe next time! We should sicuss your gifts at healing." Bowing slightly towards Kae and then at Zeta, Dragon moves off into the crowd, and lets the "heroes" deal with the miscreants. After all, he was but a teacher and philosopher, not a super hero.

Hammerhead has posed:
Eeventually, you managed to catch sight of the yellow sports car. Whoever is driving does not seem to notice Zeta follwing them across the rooftops. In fact, they don't seem to notice any traffic laws at all as they run stop signs and red lights, narrowly avoiding car crashes at every turn. Eventually, the car comes to a stop i fnront of a garage named "Frank's Custom Auto Shop." The garage door opens and the car drives in. The door then slams shut.

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta follows the car to the best of his ability, including when the car goes into the shop. The strange man lands down on the ground outside in a crouch, before rising up to his feet.

He stares at the place, as his hands seem to go back to normal. He looks across the building as he stands there, giving it a once over from what he can see.

Zeta then tilts his head and switches his vision to thermal, trying to look inside and see just how many people might be within the walls. Eager he is to help, sometimes even a little foolish, but running in blind was something he knew was never a good idea.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae's truck rumbles up to the autoshop, the woman pulling it up to a side street where she is now watching the place curiously.. "Ummm..." She mutters... "Soo frontal approach or something else.." She says out loud...

Kae opens the door and appears to be about to step out when she shrugs and closes the door... She then reaches over and turns off the horse power limiters on her vehicle and mutters something... A brief shimmering appears around the vehicle and then Kae grins a bit, hitting the accelerator a few times..

The huge V-8 roars to life not once, but twice as she revs the engine. She then reaches over and shifts it into 4 wheel sport, before slamming the pedal down.

The sound of the engine is quite obvious as the wheels peel out, leaving a quartet of tar-like black stripes on the ground as she turns the vehicle toward the entrance to the shop... This should be good.

Hammerhead has posed:
With the thermal vison, you managed to get a glimpse of six men inside the garage. Three of them seem to be having a discussion and the final three are gathered around a car, obviously the student's. Before you can make a move however, Kae's struck rumbles to life again and plows through the entrance of the garage. The two pin-striped suited gangsters turn around in shock along with a tall, muscualr man wearing a tank-top, obviously the shop's owner. Three men wearing mechanics uniforms are also watching in shock as the car plows through. Frank, the man in the tank-top, then bellows out in a deep voice," What the fuck," as the two gangsters pull out pistols from their pockets and start shooting at Kae and her car.

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta was going over the best option to handle the situation, till he hears the rev of an engine behind him. He slowly looks over his shoulder and see's the massive Truck. "... Well then." Is all he says, just as Kaelyn hits the gas.

The Synthoid steps out of the way and simply watches as the truck slams into the Garage door. He leans to the side to look in at the group of men, before he watches them open fire. That-- will not do.

To deal with this quickly, he will just need to give up his hidden appearance, which means making himself more seen then he already has become today. Instead he decides to take a more-- basic approach, with less chance of harming the criminals.

"Hey idiots!" Zeta yells out as he runs in and goes to grab one of the pistols, before trying to crush it in his bare hands. "You picked the /wrong/ car to steal." he says with a sneer and allowing his eyes to glow solid green.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae just sits there and waits while the perps shoot her car? Well kind of, there is that blue glow, that flares brightly every time a bullet strikes this, what appears to be an energy barrier...

Kae waves to the perps inside, probably taunting them a bit while they shoot.. She casually opens the center console, then tugs out two rods, each with a slightly different set of runes... "Here we go..." She mutters, and pushes the door to the truck open, the woman having to use her legs as there's some debris in the way. The ward changes shape to now accomodate the opened door, as the woman then jumps out, closing the door behind her, as her own ward flares a bit as a riquocheting bullet glances off it... "Ooh that was close." She mutters... "Sooo girl, whatever made you decide to do this?.." More rounds, and Kae nods "Yup too much TV lately." before she peeks over the cover and a pair of blue bolts, made of arcane energy jump out of the end of rod of hers, each one trailing a flurry of frost behind it.

Hammerhead has posed:
Zeta managed to grab one of the two gangster's guns. As he bended it, he looks on in shock before he is hot by one of the arcane bolts, freezing him on impact. The second gangster and Frank turns their guns on Zeta and start firing. Meanwhile, one of the mechanics tries to sneak up on Kae and whack her against the head with a wrench, obviously not noticing the arcane fiels around her.

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta watches the arcane blast by and once more nearly causes him to become very puzzled, but thanks to the other gangster opening fire, he raises up his arm. The bullets bink and tink off his arm. Ricocheting down to the ground and off to the sides.

"I suggest that you all surrender now. You are outmatched." He says calling the obvious that is happening around these goons. He continues to step forward, as a bullets slam into his chest. Each hit causing a strange flicker to his hard-light body, before he just tsks.

    He lowers down his arm and then the other arm comes forward, extending out as it breaks the hard-light field, reaching directly for the man's shirt.

If his fingers manage to grab hold, he does a hard yank forward and reels him right in with no effort. Trying to look him dead in the eyes as he says, "Just. Stop."

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae is bonked, her ward flares to life and she turns around slowly. She then whips the second rod she had at the fellow who just bonked her and her ward... There is a brief flash and a green bolt zips out. Thing is, the rod's runes resemble well, a barn, a chicken, cow, horse, etc, like barnyard something? Kae doesn't wait though, she's rolling to the side to put distance between her self and her attacker, not bothering to pay attention to what the rod does, before popping up and looking around some.

There's more, she blinks and fires both rods at one perp, one shot from each hand.. This could be interesting when/if the magic works together... She then hears the Just Stop... "oh ok, I guess I can but they're still shooting I think." She says to Zeta... Has this woman done much of this kind of heroing?

Hammerhead has posed:
The man Zeta grabs immeidatley drops his gun and nods franctically while the mechanic who bonked Kae is turned into a chicken. The other mechanics dive out of the way of the blast. Frank, seeing that shit is hitting the fan quickly, unexpectedly punches the other gangster, knocking him out instantly and rushes towards the yellow car, clutching the car keys. He immeidatley tries to start the car and drive away while the remaining three mechanics try to run away through a emergency exit.

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta looks over toward Kaelyn, "Not you. Them! If they would just surrender, no one would have to get hurt or even possibly killed." Says the Synthoid designed to be an assassin. Not that anyone would know that he is designed as a killing machine, trying to not be a killing machine.

    Zeta has issues.

    However when the Gangster agrees to stop, Zeta goes to let the man go, "Don't. Go. Anywhere." He says with a stern look, before letting the man drop to the ground.

His focus turns to Frank, as the man goes to try to escape in the car they came to save. "Oh for crying!" Zeta blurts out.

The Synthoid goes to quickly run over to the car, and tries to grab the back bumper, or at least a strong enough section in the back to hold onto. Even as the tires squeal and the man tries to drive away. Zeta slams his feet into the ground, his feet slide against the concrete floor, before he plants them down harder.

    His shoulder's spark, as the Hard-light flickers, before his systems just give up trying to hold it together. The entire holographic form fades as the machine is now visible for the world to see.

His optical eyes shift as they seem to 'narrow', before their glow intensifies, then he starts to lift the back-end off the ground. After all, if this thing was rear drive-- that was going to halt it from going anywhere.

Hopefully-- it is rear drive, now that he thinks about it after his action.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae blinks "Oooh giant robot thingie..." She says and rubs at the back of her neck... She's definately distracted... She then looks at the car, and the synth and then the car, then waves her hand at the car, muttering some as she tries to levitate the car enough to get its wheels a few inches off the ground... "Theere..." She says, having forgotten about the guys who ran out the door... "You think he'll get the hint soon?" She asks, while looking from the car to the synth-person curiously...

Hammerhead has posed:
The car leviatates and is lifted up at the same time. Frank's face is obviously that of suprise and horror. The door fly open and Frank leaps out and troes to follow his mechanics out of the emergency exit.

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta looks over to Kaelyn, trying to /not/ let her magical arts confuse him and staying focused on the task at hand. "Hopefully... and Thank you."

Though when the man leaps out of the car, he tells Kaelyn, "Please hold this." Seeming to trust her crazy ways to keep the car from not crashing back down.

The Synthoid goes to run after Frank, which was fairly easy to do give Zeta could run faster than a human, and goes to reach out his hand to take hold of the man's shoulder. "This is far as you go, pal! The gig is up!" Yeah, he might have gotten that from some 1950s, 60s cop movie.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae blinks and looks to Zeta "You should watch the 1940's flicks, oh and Cassablanca..." She says and simply lets the Synth do his job, as she waltzes over to the car and pushes it down some, she then climbs in, and turns it off, before hopping back out and pushing it down to the ground again, and canceling her spell... "Soooo, now what? Not used to superheroing, just seemed like the thing to do at the time.... Usually I'm not one to deal with car thieves and this kinda threat.... I usually deal with ummm, well more exotic thingies."

Hammerhead has posed:
Zeta manages to grab Frank who, after a few moments of struggling to break free finally give up ands starts to mutter curses to himself.

Zeta has posed:
    "I don't know." Zeta admits as he makes sure that Frank can't get away. "Probably round-up who we do have, tie them up so they can't escape and call the police here."

He looks over to the yellow car. "Maybe let them return the vehicle back to the young man as well..." He then looks at Kaelyn. "Or you can do that, but the police will know what to do with these guys."

    He then goes to examine the bullet marks that he can see on his arm and body, his optics dim in thought, before with a flicker his appearance seem to change to an older gentleman, with cloths to match. Even his voice changes.

"I will get them tied up and make the call. You just see to the car's safe return. That will probably be best." He gives a warm smile. Not that Zeta has any plans to stick around once he does make the call.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae oooh's and nods, then looks to the kid's car.... She looks around curiously and proceeds to take a bunch of pictures.... She then fiddles with her phone and sends the info off to the authorities...Next She waves her hand over the car, there's abit of a glow around said car, and well, a small box appears in Kae's hands... "There we go, Sooo, DNA, finger prints, etc have been collected..." She blows on the box and it goes to the place she sent the information...

"I guess make your call, Imma get the car back to the young man..." She says simply, and looks at the car for abit.. Her eyes glow and she begins to whisper something as what appears to be some kind of summoning circle appears around the car... The Circle then glows and flashes, as the car seems to be sucked rapidly into the ground. The boy's gonna end up with a really nice present as the same circle would appear near him, in a safe area, and the car would pop up, unharmed, with a note on the driver's seat "Careful with your stuff there kid.." She then grins and looks at Zeta. "There, I think I got it!"

Zeta has posed:
    Zeta, is as old man Joe, just stares. Blink his eyes a few times and then shakes his head. "I-- don't even." Its the best he can do to not let it bother him, but it was. Oh, was it /ever/.

He goes to collect up the criminals, using a steel chain to wrap them up and keep them all tied to a pillar and actually using a small rod as a lock by looping it through the chain's holes. Yep. That should keep them!

    He then walks over to the phone and goes to make the call, giving the address, before hanging up the phone. He looks over to Kaelyn. "Well," He then tips the brown golf hat to her, "It was good working with you. Till next time, hm?" Not that he is sure there will be a next time.

Zeta then starts to make his way out, whistling a little tune to himself, and heads for the nearest ally to vanish on the streets.