ic The Obsidian Prison: The Petty Tyrant

[secondling]

GM

 

The sudden dark and chill wrapped around the teen heroes' foes, as death's frozen embrace. "Powers! They're damned superheroes!" One of the officers shouted, panic in her voice.

 

Another voice - one of the thugs, most likely, snorted "If this is all they can manage, the boss won't need to do anything."

 

Unfortunately for all of them, it was at this very moment that Outrider's massive hammer hit the ground, shattering pavement and sending a spiderweb of cracks towards them. More pressingly, the quake sent all of them off of their feet. Their bodies crashed into the steps behind them, and none so much as shifted their weight to get up again. The steps themselves suffered greatly as well, however, and two of the leonine statues that flanked them cracked unpleasantly.

[Lone_Star]

Outrider

 

El grinned as the officers fell like ninepins under her hammer. This felt...a little weird? She knew that police officers kept the peace in the past, but these were clearly working for the Ex-Prisoner...so she wasn't feeling too bad about it. But still, it was weird.

 

"Bring us out the Ex-Prisoner! We will face him ourselves! No one else needs to get hurt today!" she boomed, her helmet amplifying her voice. "Disperse now and we will let you pass!" To demonstrate this, she charged her hammer with energy, holding it high into the air. "NOW!"

[Kaede Kimura]

Muirne shivered as she continued pouring her darkness everywhere. The pain of doing it dulled down after the large surge of actually using it, but was still there. She was growing accustomed though, even if she knew it would never fully go away. Gritting her teeth she exhaled slowly as El took down the thugs and shouted out to call out Ex-Prisoner. She seemed to have things in hand, so what should she do? She thought about it for a few moments before arriving at an answer by asking herself a question.

 

What could go wrong at this point?

 

She received some answers from Aoife as she also thought about it, before coming to a conclusion. Someone could be trying to sneak up on them. With that in mind she began straining her eyes and ears for any trace of people trying to use her darkness for cover or, if they were smarter, trying to hide from vision.

[secondling]

GM

 

For a time, there was no response from within the police station. Before long, however, the teens outside heard yelling, screaming, and a whole lot of rushing feet. Police, thugs, and officers in SWAT gear alike emerged from within, many of them throwing their weapons aside. The thugs (and a few police officers) dashed away as fast as they possibly could, tripping and stumbling in the cold and dark that Shadowborne emanated. The remaining officers, however, seemed ready to accept their defeat with dignity, fumbling their way onto the street in front of the station and kneeling down, hands up and held level with their heads.

 

For her part, Shadowborne saw no would-be ambushers among them - Outrider well and truly frightened them. She did hear faint shouts from inside the station, but... she couldn't really make out the words.

 

Inside, Paper continued his scouting mission. He, too, heard the screaming and shouting as the party continued outside, but then he found that more than a dozen thugs with weapons drawn were charging down the halls towards him, their eyes wide.

 

"Wait! Who's that?" A woman shouted, leveling a pistol at him.

"Who cares? Let's get out of here before they take the whole place down!" Another, this one a burly man, replied.

"Maybe he's with them! We take him, we've got a hostage!"

"Ya think we can? You're on your own. See ya, kid."

 

With that, seven of the thugs rush past him, leaving only six with the woman who wanted to take him hostage. 

[Lone_Star]

Outrider

 

"Let's go in, Shadowborne," El said with a grin as she shouldered her grav-hammer. "Let's go inside. Looks like we've gotten rid of the welcoming committee. Just stay alert. We don't know if he's got the place trapped, or what sort of nasty surprises are in store."

 

She growled at the retreating officers. They wouldn't last a day in her home dimension. El kept frosty, carefully opening doors and searching around corners before moving down hallways. This was a tense situation, but she thrived well under pressure. Besides, if the Obsidian Tyrant tried to ambush them, she knew that Muirne had her back.

Edited October 1, 2021 by Lone_Star