ic Stinger's Tale

[Lone_Star]

 

On 10/24/2021 at 1:36 PM, RocketLord said:

"Suits, now. Muirne, Leon, go get Luke. Bernie, show me and El the way to you. Nobody moves alone, and stay in touch all the time. The guy that Bernie's fighting sounds like an old villain called the Sportsman, but if I'm right, his partner's gonna be here too, and Princess Poison... well, the name speaks for itself, doesn't it?"

 

Outrider

 

El's armor quickly formed over her, clanking loudly as rusty hinges slammed open, soon covering her whole body. As her helmet locked into place, she quickly drew her grav-hammer, ready for a fight! Sportsman and Princess Poison? The names sound familiar - and that isn't good. These villains will be serious business!

 

"Understood, Nevermore," she said, her voice booming from beneath the helmet. It was nice to work alongside Nevermore for reasons she didn't completely understand. Weird...maybe he was just a good team leader?

 

Regardless, she moved along with the group, holding herself back, even though she wanted to charge forward by herself very much! However, she kept her battle-rage in check, as she ran along with her team. She gripped her grav-hammer tight, ready to take the villains on and help her friends!

 

 

Edited November 2, 2021 by Lone_Star

[RocketLord]

GM

 

Sportsman laughed, shaking his head. "Don't say I didn't warn you, kid. You didn't have to get caught up in all this, but we don't need more hero types getting involved." He twirled a baseball in his hand, on the top of his fingers, then leaned down and rolled it across the ground, straight towards Multigirl and her duplicates. 

 

The ball rolled quickly, right to Multigirl's feet if she didn't move, and then exploded. Hopefully Multigirl could keep the girl safe.

 

"Shut up you %#%ing idiot!" 

 

A young woman's voice called out to paper, before a whip struck out from above him, a blade at the end of it nicking at his good shoulder at lightning speed before being pulled back. The young woman, maybe a year or two older than Paper, was dressed in a skin tight dark green costume with black boots and markings, and a green mask that left her mouth and nose free. Long red, almost orange, hair was pulled into a ponytail that fell around behind her. 

[RocketLord]

Nevermore II

 

Charlie quickly ducked to the side, out of sight and pulled out his gear. They needed to be quick here. Sure, Bernie was anything but a pushover, and Sportsman was just a guy with a gimmick, but his partner? Princess Poison was the dangerous one. And what did they have to do with everything else going on here, anyway?

 

It didn't take him long to get into uniform. Alek's training was paying off. 

 

Nevermore moved, staying to the shadows, as he kept up with his friends.

[Thevshi]

Multi-Girl (original)

 

Bernadette and her duplicates where focused on Sportsman as rolled a baseball her direction. Uncertain what to expect, the Irish redhead began moving away from the object when it exploded. Although she had gotten some distance from the center of the explosion, part of the concussive force still caught the teen, causing a slight jolt of pain along her left side. Two of her duplicates had been hit harder by the blast and disappeared as they went unconscious.

 

But as soon as those two were gone, three more appeared in their place, an angry scowl on their faces that matched that on the original Bernadette’s. "Alright, ye got the first shot in, but gonna take better than that!" The Irish teen called out to the supervillain.

 

Then she and five of her duplicates all started rushing towards Sportsman at once, covering the distance in a moment. The speed and sheer number of figures coming at the same time seemed to catch Sportsman slightly off balance as he seemed uncertain which direction to move to avoid the rush. And then it was too late to go anywhere as Bernadette and two duplicates tackled the villain, taking him down to the hard floor.

 

No sooner was Sportsman down on the ground than other duplicates pinned down an arm or a leg and in seconds he was buried under the six redheads.

 

Multi-Girl (duplicate with others)

 

The duplicate Bernadette started heading back towards where the original was, trying to not move too quickly and leave Nevermore or any of the others behind.

[Nerdzul]

Blindsided, unable to catch unknown the scent of his assailant among the crowd, Luke was caught completely off guard. The hockey stick hit him square in his chest, forcing the seventeen years old to exhale all the air in his lungs, leaving him gasping for breath as his attacker ran away through the crowd. 

 

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"Shouldn't have burned my sister, freak," 

 

 

Wait what? He didn't remember burning anyone's sister.

 

He gave the man a surprised look. "No I didn't." He replied, when he had managed to catch his breath.

 

Still, why was he feeling at least a bit guilty after the accusation. Maybe because he had seen countless movies when the villain treated hurting the hero loved ones with disdain... Like it was a 'But for Me, It Was Tuesday' kind of situation.  Now he had fought against some women supervillains though. Maybe she- Doesn't matter now. The guy was disappearing among the crowd. 

 

He rushed toward him, jumping in the air in order not to trample any of the bystander and trying to cut the hokey mask guy's path. 

 

"Leaving so soon?" He teased.  Again it did sound like something a villain would say didn't it? His eyes now burned with golden light and the ghostly manifestations of his claws were in full display.

 

Nightscale dashed against the guy, planning to have a little talk, after he had restrained him, but unfortunately, he had to swerve at the last time to avoid crashing into one of the passers-by a the guy easily dodged.

Edited November 19, 2021 by Nerdzul

[RocketLord]

GM

 

"Hey!" Sportsman was clearly caught off guard as the group of Multigirls piled on him, quickly weighing him down despite his attempts at stopping her.

 

Almost instantly, the unconscious men and women rose to their feet and threw themselves towards Multigirl, quickly starting to attack them with kicks and punches, trying to pull at the Multigirls to get them off Sportsman, but to little effect.

 

"Yeah, you did!" the man with the hockey mask yelled back at Nightscale, before swinging a baseball bat at him, only to hit again. "Figures some big scary dragon would forget all about burning somebody, huh?" 

 

He pulled back through the now panicking crowds again, away from Nightscale and towards the girl with the whip.

[Spacefurry]

Paper had been so focused on the masked man further down the way he hadn’t even noticed second villain until she attacked. The blades whip striking his shoulder drew a painful hiss from him, but it seemed to feel worse then it was. He turned to face his attacker, his staff now pointed at her.

“Why it always red-heads?”

He sighed and slowly spun the staff to encourage people to move out of the way.

“Listen here, Red. You don’t wanna piece of this. Why don’t you run on back to Spirit of Halloween and get refund on that costume, cause damn that’s tacky.”

He tried to look relaxed as he tensed, ready to spring in an instant.

[Kaede Kimura]

Shadowborne

 

Muirne ran through the Schattenwelt again, resurfacing next to Luke. Seeing that he was still standing, and lacking any way to help him if he wasn't, she instead went on the attack, releasing a torrent if grasping shadows at the villain. Instead, he dodged and half a dozen civilians were caught. Muirne winced as they panicked as the darkness grasped them. Thankfully they wouldn't be harmed since she could stop the attack.

 

"Shit. You'll all be free from the... Shadows in a moment sorry. Please remain calm."

[RocketLord]

Nevermore II

 

"Hey, we're here and... I guess you already knew this or..." 

 

Yeah. The whole multi person thing was going to take a bit to get used to. Charlie had to try and figure out how that worked.

 

Multigirl seemed to be bundling up on top of somebody... was that Sportsman? And people were starting to move in close around them. They didn't really move like normal people did... Great.

 

Charlie reached for his belt and pulled out a small capsule, throwing it to the ground. "How long can you hold him? We need to regroup with the others."

[RocketLord]

GM

 

"Is that... ugh... the best you can do?" Sportsman yelled from under the pile of Multigirl's that were holding him. He was struggling against them, but they were too much, at least for the moment. "Do you stupid kids really think that's gonna take me down?"

 

"Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Ms. Scorpion started swinging her whip wildly around, cutting into the air and floor near Paper, before she suddenly pulled it back, grabbed it and then extended it again, flying forward and stabbing straight into Paper's chest. There was something on the blade, poison of some kind, Leon's vision started to blur. "You're not even supposed to be here, you idiot!" 

 

But there was something about Ms. Scorpion. Something that sounded and seemed almost a bit too familiar. 

[Thevshi]

Multi-Girl

 

Several of the Bernadettes piled on top of Sportsman glanced over towards Nevermore and one of her duplicates as they arrived at the scene. It was then that Sportsman tried to insult her, but was unable to break free from the pile of Irish teenagers.

 

Glancing down at the pinned supervillain, one of the redheads gave him a small scowl. "Oh, bloody shut up." She stated as she delivered a quick backhand to the side of Sportsman's head and knocked the villain unconscious. As he went limp and stopped struggling, the teens stood back up. "That should take care o’ him fer now." She responded to Nevermore, ready to follow his lead on regrouping with the others.
 

[Nerdzul]

So that's what was that guy was talkin' about. Stinger! Now, it was not like he had any way of knowing it was her underneath the mask though, wasn't it? Or that she was that supervillain's sister...

 

"Ms. Scorpion eh?" Luke chuckled as he closed the distance between himself and the superviallains. "I like it... nice callback..." He teased his schoolmate. Something was definitely off wasn't it? Now, he had seen Stinger siding with Cas and all, but she didn't look like Supervillain material to him, not yet t least. Still... There she was... 

 

Now he would have definitely spent his time investigating a bit more about her reason, but they were still in a fight and there were people in danger, so he still swiped his claws toward Sportsman II, not that it did him any good.