Owner	Pose
Professor Zoom	Manhatten is active even at night. 'The city that never sleeps' is a fairly good description of it. Tonight, a rather weird situation has developed in Central Park. Whether you're patrolling it, listen in on underworld rumors, or are just hunting the riff raff, they're rather obvious once it starts. About two dozen men pop out of various bushes and trees near a clearing deep within the park. Most of them are carrying one form or another of submachine guns. A few carry rifles, and yet more carry... net guns? They're all converging on the clearing, where a blurred man in a yellow suit with red, glowing eyes is standing about a dozen feet from another man, dressed in a trenchcoat and casual clothing. He's wielding a pistol. Eventually, they've got the man in the yellow suit surrounded. "Thought you could blackmail the mauls, huh? I've dealt with you metas before. We can handle your kind, freak." The leader of the Mauls sneers at the figure. For his part, the blurring figure just stands there. Is he unaware of the the men surrounding him? Not likely, at least three are in his line of sight.
Mercy Thompson	It's not particularly late, nineish, and the park still has a few intrepid, or foolhardy, souls out in the CIty's main open space. Mercy is one of them, out jogging. She slows and starts to rethink the plan when men with guns come out of the woodwork, nearly literally. "Stupid stupid stupid," she mutters to herself. Nothing good happens in central park after dark. She looks around to see if she can find some cover to get behind, not having any great faith in the Mauls' marsmanship.
Helena Shepard	"Major, the Mauls are massing in central park, I'd suit up if I were you... and please... try and leave a few alive." That was the only breifing she needed, and walking onto the scene as a flurry of snow engulfed her, flow shield taking the form of a scutum, and her shotgun in her hand. "Well well well, looks like we have ourselves a little party... so... who want's to see if god is real?" She says, twirling her shotgun to get the lever action going before raising her shield. "Jump if you grab-astic peices of amphibian shit feel froggy!"
Domino	A block away Domino smiles as she drops the office worker to the floor. The shot to the head ended his late night, and her job was done so it was time to head home. She exits out the window to climb out the same way she came in, but as she puts her weight on it the rope snaps. Normally one might panic, but Domino looks at it with a titled look of confusion as she falls into a late night pillow transport truck. While it stings a bit going through the thin roof the pillows inside do break her fall. She shrugs to herself from inside of the truck, and just rides it out.. She had learned to trust her luck, and what others found misfortune might just not be understood yet. As she is thinking this the drive of the truck is heading right towards central park.. Of course he is following the roads, but in a hurry he thinks the road around it will be a nice shortcut for him to get home early tonight.
Professor Zoom	"The fuck?" The leader gives in a susprised statement as he turns his head to regard Helena as she walks into the scene and turns herself into a spectacle, "Fuck this, kill them all." The leader states, before he gives a wide gesture. Four of the enforcers start firing their submachine guns at Helena, a mix of Uzis, MP7s, and one UMP open fire in her direction. The rest turn their weapons on the man they surrounded... and the results are nothing short of both horrific and spectacular. The moment the guns start firing, red lightning sparks and arcs around the mans form, and there's a sudden flurry of red lightning flitting here and there around the clearing. Anyone nearby will feel the tug of a wind funnel as Professor Zoom rearranges the battle. Where there was once 20 men shooting at him, suddenly six of those enforcers have changed positions with the figure, each one of them taking the bullets meant for the figure... including /their own. Well, the blurring figure is clearly a Speedster... and one that just let six men die in his place. He stands there where one of the men were, "I was going to go easy on you and just get some information." The man says, "but now you've crossed Professor Zoom... and no one crosses me." His voice itself is distorted, monstrous. "Anyone else want to die tonight?" As he speaks, the six in the middle have landed on the ground, copious blood flowing over the grass now.
Helena Shepard	Battleborn smiles and raises her shield to deflect the bullets, and rapidly fires four rounds of buck shot, knocking arms, and legs off the four attackers, before holstering her shotgun and summoning her runic frost axe. Said axe is tossed in an arc that goes for one of the assalient's legs, before being summoned back and the heavy back of that axe cracks another thug in the back of the head on it's direct return trip back to the large woman's hand. "You've heard of the bat-man, well I'm the axe-woman."
Mercy Thompson	Mercy has nothing to add to the fire being laid down. Rather she does what she can to get out of the way of bullets flying around. She hits the deck and starts to low crawl along. Her luck is poor...one of the Maul steps out from cover right next to her and points his gun...she falls into the category of 'all'. Mercy comes up, one hand wrapping around the gun barrel and deflecting it to the side while she gets to her feet. The man tries to back away, but MErcy has a good grip on that MP 5 and she goes with him. The gun goes off, bullets stitching the air just next to her.
Domino	As the shooting starts, and the truck driver panics he turns a bit too tight. Into this mess of a fight comes just a shower of feathers that the wind from speedsters running around, and just being outside quickly lift to start covering the area. Also being deposited on the ground is one Domino, she stands up looking around.. "What is going on here?" she muses to herself, as a gunshot wizzes by her there is a a "Pumf" as the silenced gun she quickly had in her hand goes of without her looking towards her target. She would then start just walking around in the field of chaos watching it happen as bullets whiz by, but none actually hit her. There might be a click here or there as guns jam, and she would shoot those lucky ones. But her impact right now is low as she is mainly just taking a stroll through the battlefield until interupted.
Professor Zoom	A few of the enforcers see what's going on... and just run for it. A few who were firing at the Speedster glance at Domino, and pause. "No witnesses." A couple Uzis start to fire in her direction. Helena's group continue to pour fire into her position, but the low visibility and the chaos make their accuracy low at best. The rest of them keep firing at the Speedster, whom is... standing?... in place. At least it looks like he is. Then there is another. And another. Another. Within seconds, there are six of the figure just standing there, taking shots which obviously miss. To say the gangbangers are confused is an understatement. They're panicking as they fire now, a few yelling as they start to rush one of the Speedster figures.
Helena Shepard	Is that... wow that woman is a trouble magnet isn't she? Helena has spotted Mercy and in trying to help her, she tosses her axe underhanded towards the thugs arm.. so when Mercy pulls the gun away, there is still a hand holding the gun.... but no body attacked to the hand, and a hard thunk of her axe getting imbedded into a tree. Helena then turns and slams her theild into one of the thugs, which kicking one of their uzi's into her hand and emptying the clip in a spray and pray in their general direction before dropping the spent firearm, another gets kicked/pushes off his feet to where his face is under her boot as she extends her hand... Her axe dislodges from the tree and soars right back to her hand, snacking another Thug that eas going to try and ambush Domino... lucky day!
Mercy Thompson	Mercy shakes the hand loose from teh gun, works the charging handle, and turns the firearm on the nearest Maul thug. She was willing to sit this out, but no..... She flips the selector lever to semi-auto, raises the gun, sights.....pulls the trigger and mutters appreciation for the suppressor on the end and the gun not blowing out her eardrums. The Maul falls, and Mercy shifts the sights onto the next closest thug to her.
Domino	Domino is just standing in the middle of falling feathers seeming to just be enjoying the rain of now red feathers she just turns like a kid in a snow day. Her spin takes her behind a tree as the bullets hit it, and there is a sigh.. "Can't a woman enjoy a blood bath in peace." as bullets hit the tree she is behind. Steping out she turns her back to the man that is smashed by the axe she faces the men turning. She throws a small blade hitting one of them in the hand, and turns to make her way to what is happening in the middle with the multiple people seeming to fall very quickly. As she turns the man who's hand got hit by the blade gets stuck, and the gun fires now freshly reloaded as the thug slowly watches as the gun pulls a path that cuts his friend nearly in two with bullets. Domino stops turns and looks at that with a cold smile daring the man to shoot at her again before she turns to continue her original path. He may not live long, but she wants that guy to know she is suffering best left alone... it makes her happy she thinks with a cold smile.
Professor Zoom	The fight is turning horrific by this point, and it's clear the Speedster is far more than the Mauls bargained for, "screw this!" About seven of the remaining enforcers turn tail and run, leaving about fifteen others. Then, the others start to run. A clear Domino *HA!* effect is taking place as the rest try to keep their lives. The yellow suited Speedster obviously sees this, and five of the figures disappear, leaving one blurred visage with red eyes. He turns to regard the fleeing enforcers, but makes no other moves. Yet.
Helena Shepard	"Command, have the local police look for mauls with missing limbs... and ah... their leader was in a trench coat I think." Battleborn says as she looks to the carnage. "Well, not my best work, but it'll do." She says as her Axe vanishes, as does her armor. Turning to Mercy she smiles. "Fancy meeting you in a place like this, first Zombies and now armed thugs, it's nice we get quallity time together."
Mercy Thompson	Mercy sighs, and shoulders the gun's sling after making the weapon safe. "I just wanted to go for a run," she says. "Glad you happened by, or were sent or whatever. I'm starting to think you're following me or something though. She looks around, ending looking at Zoom. "Should I know who that is? And should I be worried?"
Domino	Walking that way she comes up to the blurred visage the only one moving towards him in the wave of people running away. She stops giving him some distance figuring unlike Wade she understood what personal space ment. With a flick of the wrist she speaks to the blur. "You seem capable.." she tosses the card she got earlier towards the blur thing. "You looking for some tough work, or you get enough money to pay for it.. Call that number." she speaks to it wether it is listening or not. She doesn't seem to be bothered by his appereance at least so she must be used to dealing with powered people. With a nod, she turns to look at Mercy her pale face with the black mark on it looks at her.. The blue eyes cold calculating. But she doesn't say anything to her either, she just kicks one of the dead people to make sure he wasn't faking it, and she was upset it was already over.
Professor Zoom	The card is actually intercepted as Domino tosses it to him. It's read briefly, before it's slipped into a storage pouch on the belt. A second later, and red lightning trails behind him as he zooms up to Helena and Mercy, "Your interference cost me control of this situation, but I'll let it go." The Speedsters monstrous voice remarks to them, "The leader is the only one of consequence to me. Have fun with the rest." Red lightning trails behind him as suddenly one by one the fleeing enforcers have their weapon magazines ejected, and placed near the trio. The trail goes back and forth as they're put in a pile, knocked out. Within about five seconds, every single runner has been rounded up and placed there. All but the leader. "You can call me Professor Zoom. Do what you will." The Speedster adds, before he superspeeds back into the night, gone.
Helena Shepard	"W..." Before Helena an get a word in, the speedster does the speedster thing and she just rolls her eyes. "Ugh... speed freaks... so annoying." She says before turning back to Mercy. "I'm not following you, I just think you have that wrong time wrong place symdrome. Though if that's the case... I might just start following you."
Mercy Thompson	Mercy looks back at Domino, nods, but doesn't interfere or say anything, just the nod. Mercy doesn't feel bad about what happened to any of the obvious goons but she's not nearly as cold as Domino appears. Then Zoom makes his semi-threats. "Well excuse me," she replies in sarcastic tones. Fear tends to make her mouth off. But Zoom is gone then and she breathes a sigh of relief. "Yeah, if something's going wrong I'm probably there," she admits to Helena, unwillingly. "It's a curse which I blame on Dad."
Domino	She notes the card is gone as she starts just walking away before the police show up to arrest them all. She stops for just a moment before she is out of the scene, and picks up a single bloody feather. Maybe it was a momento of this experience, and reminded her sometimes she just had to ride the luck out. She did wonder who that was, and why she was supposed to meet... him?... tonight, but she is sure she would figure that out eventually. She did look back a litte to make sure she wasn't being followed, but other then that she is also gone into the night!
Helena Shepard	Helena Shepard blinks when the cops show up and removes her hat and sticks it on mercy's head, her own 'ID' being worn with her dog tags as a cop comes up, sees her ID, and mercy in a marine corps hat, and nods before walking off to deal with the Riff Raff. "Ms. Thompson, my offer of trainning is still open..."