8871/Sentinels: Sentinel Park Beast

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Sentinels: Sentinel Park Beast
Date of Scene: 19 August 2019
Location: Central Park, Manhattan
Synopsis: Two sentinels attack in Central Park. One down, one out. Minor injuries to the defenders. A half day off was had by all.
Cast of Characters: Beast, Cypher, Nightingale, Surge
Tinyplot: Sentinels


Beast has posed:
Henry McCoy is always the teacher. And today he seeks to teach by bringing a couple of school kids, along with Doug, to see a museum. He walks them through the park when, out of nowhere, a passing pedestrian stops. A young black-ponytailed woman, by all appearances, wearing a trenchcoat and hat on a hot day would look very uncomfortable, as she then grabs Hank by the neck, lifts him up, and throws him 30 feet away into a grassy knoll. A second, apparently a blond, slim man with a buzzcut, also throws off a trenchcoat and hat, and faces the students from behind them.

Cypher has posed:
...Which leaves Doug there, with the two students. "...Get back." He says to them, before he turns to face the young man and the young woman.

"I know what you are." He says to them. "You used to be human. How could you let them do this to you?"

Nightingale has posed:
     Shannon had planed to turn on her image inducer when they got a bit closer to the museum. She'd begun to hate hiding, but understood the necessity of it sometimes. Still, it was something she delayed as long as possible. Perhaps it was a little bit -too- long in this case. Or not, as the case may be. She's quick to get in the air the minute Doug gives the warning, though she wasn't quite sure what was going on. Who or what the hell had managed to throw Hank back like he was just a sack of feathers?

Surge has posed:
Nori did not want to go to the museum, so we'll call this part of her 'punishment'. What she's being punished for, that's anyones guess, but it is without a doubt that she's done something that warrents it. Maybe she destroyed (purely by accident) a piece of art and now has to do Museum stuff to appreciate the beauty of 'blah blah blah' she was gone by the time they said art and appreciate in the same sentence.

She has buds in her ears playing music and her usual punk-bitch attire. Nevermind the disinterested glance around cast constantly as they make their way across central park. Except when Hank is immediately attacked. Doug tries, but they brought a live wire to the water park. "The fuck's your problem bitch." The Asian is wearing a pair of gauntlets to concentrate and control her energy impulses. "He might be a dweb, but he's my dweb... You walk your fucking ass over there and apologize or I'm going to rip your head off and feed it to your asshole!"

Beast has posed:
Henry McCoy gets up, and glares across 30 feet of grass. He gets into a four point stance, and charges at the female sentinel. But they aren't immobile. The male sentinel goes after Shannon, reaching for her wings to try to grab at them. The woman shakes her head at Doug and Noriko. "The purity of humanity must be preserved," and she charges right at Noriko, attempting to land a punch to the face!

Cypher has posed:
"Of course they go after the kids." Doug says.

"Hey. Hey! I'm the dangerous one here--"

And then he speaks... Binary. Rattling off strings of zeroes and ones faster than the human ear can follow. Hank would understand it, as he builds a program out of nowhere to declassify Shannon and Noriko as threat priorities.

The problem with being an amalgam of man and machine is... you're part machine. Part of your brain is replaced with a computer.

And that computer part of a Prime Sentinel is Cypher's bitch.

Nightingale has posed:
     About all the Sentinel gets is a fistful of feathers, but that does make Shannon yelp. It's not enough to pinion her, but it's enough to encourage her to gain altitude as quickly as she can. What the hell...? Purity of humanity? These guys were nuts! They were very strong nuts, though. She kept high enough in the air to where she was hopefully out of reach of the Sentinel, but prepared to act if she had to. What the hell was Doug up to? She'd never seen anything like this, but in its own way it was kind of fascinating.

     She takes a few deep breaths and keeps an eye on the general area, taking advantage of her position high above to scan for further threats to the group.

Surge has posed:
"Oh yeah, bring it bitch."

Nori aint scurred of no dark haired bimbo in a trenchcoat.

Her gauntlets slam together, electricity rattling up her forearms as she draws it directly out of herself in currents. A spark jumps between her fingers tips... and even if the woman turns away from her to focus on Cypher... well that's just as well too.

One palm points out at her and fires off a concentrated blast of closed circuit electric energy.

"Get fucked!"

Beast has posed:
Henry McCoy sees that the 'woman' is going after Noriko, so he does is best to help out. But then Noriko's blast electrocutes the female sentinel, and Hank makes a U turn to avoid his momentum carrying himself into getting electrocuted!

The male sentinel starts to leap after the now-flying Shannon, but stops and looks right at Doug, being now the largest threat close to him. He claps his hands, and charges at Doug, hands aiming at the neck.

Hank shouts "Shannon, get away from here. Get on top of Stark Tower if you can fly that high. Noriko, run."

Cypher has posed:
"You know sometimes I don't think these things through --" Doug says, as the Sentinel grabs him by the neck and lifts him up. "Hurrrrk--"

He kicks at it, trying to dislodge it, and his face goes red, as he chokes, his air supply cut off.

Then he lashes out, with his techno-organic hand, and jams his thumb into the Sentinel's eye, suddenly, violently, using the shock of it to slip free, his neck red, already starting to bruise. He rasps, "...We need a bigger gun--"

Nightingale has posed:
     "My foot, I will!!" Shannon is not about to stand for her friends having to go it alone. This was likely to get her in trouble, hurt, or worse, but she pulls her wings in tight to dive-bomb the Sentinel attacking Doug, in a bid to distract him long enough for Doug to recover and renew his attack. The trick would be to get close enough to be a nuisance, but not close enough to get herself killed. She picks up considerable speed as she drops through the air straight at the Sentinel, coming close to her top speed, and spreads her wings at the last possible second in an attempt to swoop up and away. Hopefully she was fast enough to distract, without getting caught.

Surge has posed:
"There is no version of this story where I run."

Noriko /actually/ snorts. 'Run'. As if that word is even in her vocabular. She might be a student, but she's a /fighty/ student. In that, she will... and has... and isn't going to run from one.

"Dude, I /am/ a bigger gun."

She slides a little out of a run and points both her fists at the man, at least once Doug has dislodged him, and her knuckles start crackling. Blue electricity radiating up and down her forearms, across the surface of her bare arms, and even up into her hair... drawing power from her own reserves as well as the static energy in the air around them.

"Hey, dick hole.. Please step away from they weird guy with the metal arm and grab your bitch ass friend for fuck offs. Last warning my dude."

Beast has posed:
The male sentinel manages to get his hands on Doug's neck. Normally he would consider Shannon's swoop in to be a threat, but unfortunately Doug's attempt at reprogramming succeeded a little too well, and she's going to have to actually try to hit him in order to pull him off. As it is, Doug manages to get his airway freed, but now the sentinel goes for a bear hug, trying to wrap up one arm, if not both.

The female sentinel, saved from the reprogramming attempt by an electric jolt, regains her senses and looks at noriko. Apparently speaking for the pair. "No." is her one word answer. "You must not resist. Your freakish electricity cannot stop us so easily." She then charges the same way Doug and Hank were attacked, going for Noriko's neck!

Apparently Hank's decapitation strike was a message received.

Cypher has posed:
Hurrrk. Yeah, there we go. Doug looks down aat the sentinel with its ruined eye and its death-grip, and he wraps his legs around it, trying to buy himself whatever seconds he can before it breaks his back.

He starts speaking in binary again, this time creating a different executable - a computer virus is data which, once read by a computer, begins replicating itself. Self-replicating language that overwrites other data and robs a computer of its ability to perform its standard functions.

There's no reason one couldn't be created verbally.

Nightingale has posed:
     Okay, so that wasn't effective. There goes Doug with his binary language again, which sounded like some weird, electronic warbling and humming to Shannon's ears. She had to try again and buy him some more time! Using the momentum gained from her last dive-bomb attempt, she wings her way higher up in the air than before. This was going to hurt, but with any luck, it would nail the male Sentinel and give Doug the time he needed to finish doing whatever it was he was doing. In go the wings again, pulled tight to her body, and she aims straight for the Sentinel on her descent. Her hair is whipping about in the air behind her as she dives. At the last second, she spreads her wings out, and twists her body upwards, so she is heading foot-first right at the Sentinel. THWACK! "Ooof... that's going to sting in the morning..."

Surge has posed:
Strangely, Noriko lets the woman get her hands around her throat with big ass, shit eating grin. Both gauntlets slap up towards either side of the woman's face like she's going to /drum/ her, but instead she releases all that drawn up energy. She releases from the palms of her hands and the tips of her fingers. She releases it from the skin around her neck where the woman has a grip. If she could shit it at her, she would have.

Just like WIlliam Wallace.

Beast has posed:
Hank is making another charge. This time, just in time to see Noriko blow the female sentinel's head clean off. He stops, sighs, and shakes his head. "Well done. Now get out of here before you get hurt fighting these Sentinels, Noriko. Please. You too Shannon." But it's too late for Shannon too, and well, Shannon brings a lot of kinetic energy to her feet as they impact the heavy attacker. Which, while the male sentinel attempts to fight off the invasive attack of Doug, is enough to cause him to disengage from Doug copmletely, and slam face first into the asphalt, approximately simultaneously with the falling of the headless female sentinel body to the sidewalk.

Cypher has posed:
Doug looks down, and then exhales. "I had no idea if that was going to work." He rasps. And then he looks up at Hank, and shakes his head, slowly. "They were human once." He says, "But there's nothing left of them in there. They're just... Sentinels." He clutches his neck. "He has countermeasures... he'll reboot in a few seconds. And probably turn off his auditory data input."

Nightingale has posed:
     As fast as Shannon was going, she can't quite stop herself from going for a roll on the asphalt, tucking in her arms and legs. She might get a few scrapes, lose a feather or two, but otherwise through some miracle, comes to a stop without anything broken. "Owww... going to feel that in the morning." She pushes herself to a sitting position, getting her bearings. "Is everyone alright?"

Surge has posed:
"BOOM, bitch." Nori bucks at the explody headed sentinel. "What.. say something.. oh, you can't? Suddenly fucking silent now that you've /got no head/? That's what the fuck I thought..." She hauls off and kicks the sentinel with the toe of her boot.

"Purify that!"

Glancing up, then, at Henry, "Really dude? You worried this bitch is going to grow a new head?" Double middle fingers, almost as an after-thought, down at the 'corpse'?

To Shannon, "Yeah, I'm solid a.f." Fists in the air. Former human, current sentinels? Sounds like /SENTINELS/ to her.

No room in her cold heart for guilt in this circumstances.

That's what therapy is for.

Beast has posed:
Henry McCoy storms on over to the male sentinel, and before he can get up, Hank places a foot on his head, firmly. Then the teacher pulls out his phone. "Beast here. A pair of you know whats just attacked us in Central Park. One is permanently shut down. The other is down but not out. Injuries to two of us. Pick us up immediately for medical attention." He covers the phone. "I was going ask you guys that. We'll get you cleaned up in no time." Then back to the phone "Roger. Beast out." Shoving it back into his pocket, he looks to Noriko, and sighs. He can't say a word when he had the same reaction not that long ago, so he looks to Doug. "You alright pal? You three want to help keep this guy down while the cavalry flies in?"

Cypher has posed:
Doug looks down at the sentinel on the ground, and then he says, "Well, I just almost got throttled by the Terminator." He says, "So, you know, processing that--" Then he looks down at the sentinel on the ground. "Keep damaging it," He says, "So it diverts all its energy to its regenerating protocols until it can be shut down."

Nightingale has posed:
     Shannon gets to her feet and dusts herself off, a few scratches on her face, a good bit of gravel in her palms, and let's not get into the state of her lower arms and elbows. She actually -grins- at the three of them, and looks right at Noriko. "Feel like kicking some ass with me?"

Surge has posed:
Nori rubs two fingers against her earlobe and reaches in her oversized pockets for a grumpled plastic bag full of multi-colored gummi bears. One is plucked out and tossed in her mouth, then the rest are held out in Shannon's direction as the Asian mutant takes a step back away and spins, "Let's get the fuck out of here and go get some ice cream. Kicking this much ass comes both naturally AND with a terrible lust for frozen milk based treats."

Beast has posed:
Henry McCoy nods to the three, and taking doug's suggestion, he puts a lot of weight, grinding the Sentinel's face into the asphalt, and gives it a few swift kicks to the side. Keeping it down long enough for a black helictoper to swoop in from the north, lowering a line with a familiar X-Men face looking down from above to invite them in. Hank will carry all three up personally if he has to, riding on his shoulders, to lift them in and away. Where each will get checked out personally by Hank in the med bay, given all the snacks they want, and generally encouraged to rest for the rest of the day.

At least, Hank hopes they will but knows they're going to burst off back to their lives as soon as possible.

Nightingale has posed:
     Shannon just shakes her head and laughs politely. "Naah, Zap. Thanks though. I'm more in the mood for something savory when we get back. Maybe some pizza?" She does not need to be carried up, instead taking to the air herself and getting into the chopper. The med bay proves fascinating to her when they get back, and she pays particularly close attention there, noting what is what, and just plain out giving her curiosity free rein. Snacks? Sure. Rest? Yeah, right.

Surge has posed:
Nori closes her hand on her gummi bears and slips them back in her pocket. The offer for a lift in a helicoptor is given a dubious glance... until she's informed of snacks. Snacks are good. She likes snacks. "Alright, but I want Lucky Charms and a Colt 45. Don't worry about how old I am, I was just attacked okay? Survivors request or whatever... chop chop." Clapping metal clad hands at a spook... who probably didn't even look at her.

Regardless, she stretches out in the chopper and starts to doze off.