ic Explosions After Dark (IC)

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt

 

Vueriz wasn't sure if flying straight up and saying hello was quite the brightest (hah!) idea, and had meant 'Meet and Greet' euphemistically. She cringed as the rocket flew, not really out of any concern for Michael's safety, she was pretty confident he was gonna be fine, but rather at the terrible attempt at a snappy one liner. Still, as the explosion roared she felt it would be a good time to interject. She set the Nervebuzzer to trigger at a specific phrase and then dropped it down as she started yelling out better one liners. "Oh no officer, we're here to party, don't worry it'll be a blast! Don't worry sir, this whole thing'll be over in a flash! Don't worry mister, we're street performers, allow us to blow your socks off!" She lit her board's particle blades and swooped down, a blue light to Michael's gold.

 

"I am the amazing Blue Bolt, genius from another world, and you lot are in the unenviable position of fighting me! Your little party seems dead in the water but don't worry, I promise you'll find my tech... Electrifying!"

 

After her own (much better, thank you) one liner, finishing in the code word for the Nervebuzzer, which popped open and began spraying electrons everywhere, arcs of lightning quickly beginning to jump between different parts of the ship as the electrons ionized the air and unequal charges built up in different places. Vueriz would deny cackling madly at the lightshow, and anyone who asked would be told that it was due to resonating cracks from the arcs of electricity. She would of course, be lying.

 

[The Sailor]

Torpedo Lass II

 

Mizuki wasted no time. She heard the splashes, so she instinctively pulled a cord on her vest dumping it's air in a moment, soon she was able to quickly pursue her first target.

 

Pulling up behind the one that is known as Hammerhead she held out her hand and a greenish-blue bolt of energy slammed into the shark-man.

 

FIRE ONE... she thought... everything was coming together. As long as he didn't go deep where the city lights wouldn't light his sillouette she's fine.

Edited September 11 by The Sailor

[Poncho]

(Golden Star)

 

Michael had not expected being shot with a rocket launcher. The rocket hit his chest and enveloped him in a massive explosion, and he was afraid he'd just been exploded. But then he realized he was fine; He had just managed to survive it, not that he was tougher than an explosion. Several shotgun shots followed after, piercing the smoke that surrounded him, but they missed; the person shooting him seemed just as blinded by the smoke as he was. He heard Vueriz yelling, he sort of heard something going on under the water, but as the smoke cleared he was a bright light shining as he flew down towards the shark creature attempting to reload the rocket launcher that he'd just been shot with. His fist connected across the creature's face, stalling it's movements momentarily, but doing little more than leaving a bruise; the creature didn't even move.

 

"Woah, these guys are tough...I guess I shouldn't be surprised." he admitted. "They are 8 foot tall shark people." and now he was standing in the midst of them.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

Now things were really kicking off. The Shark men were fairly well organized; surprising for what seemed like such brutes was how quickly they prepared; were these regular sharks, or some sort of trained merc force that just happened to be made up of Shark People? For now, survival was more important, as one of the shark men- clearly a Bull Shark- on the boat attempted to take a big bite at Michael, but the shiny teen dodged out of the way.

 

"Tiger! Get the ship moving! Time limit just showed up!" the Bull Shark yelled as he grappled with Michael. The Tiger Shark seemed to agree, suddenly leaping up into the pilot's cabin on the ship. He gripped the throttle and shoved it forward, and the entire ship lurched forward, then slowly started to pick up speed, heading out into the water. Then the Tiger Shark slammed the panel, breaking it violently. The sharks on the boat- and Michael- slipped a little as the Yacht slowly began moving, and started picking up speed beyond that.

 

Meanwhile, after Torpedo Lass II revealed herself with a direct shot to the back of the Hammerhead shark, it made both him and the Whale Shark turn around.

 

"...You keep going, Hammerhead! I'll handle her!" The Whale Shark said, swimming at Torpedo Lass and shoulder checking her. He might have been a giant shark man, but he moved in the water like he was born to it, just like Torpedo Lass herself.

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt 

 

Vueriz swooped down slightly. She didn't want these guys getting away, which meant she needed access to either repair the controls, or fiddle with the engine itself. Her preferred option there was the controls, since they were a bit safer to interact with.

 

Which meant she needed to clear out the current occupant of the control room. She quickly activated her board's firing mode, holographic display flaring to life. Michael said these guys were tough, so she adjusted the power up, the barrel widening to support a greater volume of particles. She hastily input a firing solution, quickly activating the firing mechanism. With a flash of blue and green the bolt launched, but went wide.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

"Someone get that guppy off me!" yelled the Tiger Shark as he continued to try and figure out how to prevent the ship from being stopped. "I don't want that laser hititng me!" 

"You got it Tiger!" yelled the Great White as he smashed open one of the boxes and pulled out a gleaming shotgun, aiming it at the dimminuitive Alien. But Michael intercepted it, taking a pile of buckshot to the chest but blinking it off. "Intercepted by the glowy one, get the big guns again!"

 

Meanwhile, under the water, the slightly bruised Hammerhead- trailing blood in the water- continued to swim off as fast as possible. "Moving to the target location!" the voice came in over the radios the shark men were wearing as he sped towards the bridge.

Edited September 18 by Poncho

[The Sailor]

Torpedo Lass II

 

The Whale Shark lived to his name and bull-rushed her. She went limp moments before being hit, which may have saved her from a far more brutal hit. Her air was knocked out of her lungs, so now she had to compensate as her buoyancy's thrown off... didn't help her chest was burning from the blow. Seems he knew the water far, far more than her few months. But one thing she DID know was she was more than able to fight underwater. Her eyes glowed a phosphorescent blue as she grinned. She knows he had to see her exhale and not be anywhere near drowning. And to see her just grinning like it wasn't a problem should give him a signal... she's fully seaworthy.

 

She closed the distance with startling ferocity and speed. Her right hand glowing blue as water and even reality warped around her fist for a moment as she threw a punch that seemed to turn into several... As her flurry of blows connect, the first few didn't seem to get through, but then the last three crisply connected staggering the shark back, the last connecting on his nose...

 

Torpedo Lass, pleased with her success stays grinning, pointing at Whale Shark, then points down... intending to signal she's about to sink his plans, and Davey Jones as ref is going to do the 10 count.

Edited September 19 by The Sailor

[Poncho]

(Golden Star)

"Dang, there's a lot of these guys!" Michael complained as he flew infront of Vueriz, taking a blast from a shotgun directly to his chest for the little alien, but shrugging it off. "I hope TL's having it easier down there than we are..." He mumbled. Aiming at the Orca he'd been brawling with, he fell towards it like a hammer, crashing into the orca man's head with both hands. It let out a loud crunch and knocked the creature to the ground, splintering the boards underneath them.

 

"Okay! Let's keep going, we can get these guys knocked down and figure out what's going on!" He called to Vueriz. "Don't worry, I'll keep them off you!"

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

The Sharks may have been getting hurt, but they were standing strong for now, refusing to back down as long as they were together.

 

The Bullshark grabbed an assault rifle that had been tossed to and fro in the rocking of the ship, opening up with wild abandon across the ship at Michael and Vueriz, leaving bullet holes across the entire ship; they didn't seem to much care about how much they were destroying the ship, which made sense considering it was starting to speed up, heading further into the water, speeding towards the bridge. Hopefully it could be stopped if they could manage to prevent whatever the plan was here

 

Meanwhile, the Tigershark, having successfully cracked the ship's console open, turned his attention to Vueriz.

 

"You think you're the smart one huh?! Going to try and stop the ship? Guess I'm gonna have to eat you!" He roared, leaping directly into the air towards the little alien, his mouth open wide. But he was intercepted by Michael's body, his teeth sinking deep into the Golden Boy's chest and neck, but somehow it seemed to leave only a glancing blow, despite the fact it clearly sunk deep.

 

This was getting bloody and brutal!

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt 

 

Vueriz twirled through the air acrobatically, avoiding the area with the highest density of bullets, but still felt the sting as several impacted her chest, the bullets thankfully coming in at an angle and skimming off her tough tissues rather than puncturing. The hot lead left searing paths along her ribs, and the young alien could not stop from crying out in pain.

 

She was about to make a snarky comment to Tigershark about being smarter than him or something when the Jaws of Doom opened up and tried to swallow her.vThen suddenly Michael was in the way, same as he had been with almost every shot but this was different. This time there was blood.

 

The tiny alien snarled out something that even her Universal Translator couldn't understand as her hands flew across her holographic console. Immediately the skyboard responded, the Particle Cannon irising wider as with a flash of blue and violet light a lance of subatomic particles crashed into the shark man, sending him flying into the railing with a crash and a sizzle of scalded flesh.

 

She dipped her board lower, the lingering trails of ionized air still hot as the glow of the particle cannon lit her from below, yelling "I'm gonna pull your teeth out and use them to clean dust out of hard to reach corners you expletive!" Before her fury suddenly broke as she turned to her teammate. "Are you okay M- Golden Star?"

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

The big Tigershark was sizzling as he leaned against the rail he banged into, clearly quite dazed from the force of the blow. He grumbled something unintelligable, his legs shaking like jelly as he tried to get back in the fight, but he was out of it for a moment, threatening to fall into the water.

 

Meanwhile, the Great White sharkman slammed open one of the wooden containers, reaching into it and pulling out a full on, barrel fed machinegun that he aimed at the little blue alien.

 

"I'm gonna light you up for that one!" he yelled, as the machinegun spun and started firing, filling the air with smoke trails and flashes of color at the tiny blue alien. "Gonna turn you into Blue Cheese!" 

 

Meanwhile, as the Hammerhead glanced back at the struck Whale shark, he swore.

 

"Dang, you're more trouble then you're worth, Aqua Lady!" He yelled at Mizuki as he pulled a retractable harpoon out of one of his pockets, dashing at Mizuki to try and stab her.

[The Sailor]

Torpedo Lass

 

He didn't stab her, but his attack grazed her arm enough to draw a little blood, and damage the material on the arm of her suit... not that she wasn't designing something new anyways back on campus.

 

Immediately it dawned on her Hammerhead's plan. He's trying to draw me off... no, I can play this to my advantage. They're acting like mercenaries. Time to get this other shark on tilt. She thought.

 

She swung but at the bigger brute of a shark her grin still showing as her fist once again became several, knocking the well-statured behemoth out.

 

She turned to Hammerhead in a smooth motion, gesturing him to step up with the same grin on her face... she wasn't fully comfortable with the water as the opposition was, but that just made this more fun. Her eyes glowing a phosphorescent sea blue only emphasizing she was not intimidated in the least. The new Sailor Suited Sentinel of Freedom City was earning all her stripes tonight.

[Poncho]

(Golden Star)

 

"I'm okay, I'm okay! It didn't get me right." He called to Blue Bolt. He was as surprised as her that he wasn't as damaged by the bite as he felt like he was going to be. He had a few lacerations in his costume, but he ran his fingers over it and seemed surprised. But the explosion of gunfire brought him back alive as he grappled with the creature biting him, unable to help Vueriz as the Alien was shot by machinegun fire.

 

"Hey! Stop that!" he yelled, tossing the shark creature off him and flying down directly at the Great White, trying to kick the gun away from him, but the strong shark man swung the gun around, keeping the gun in place between the Great White Sharkman and the glowing golden Super.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

The sharks were a bit on the backfoot, but they weren't going to give up so easily; they were a trained group of military specialists, it seemed, and they didn't back down. As Michael attempted to try and fight the Great White, the numbers were getting to him, and the Bullshark quickly dropped his Assault Rifle, grabbing a baton and rushing at him. As the Golden Boy turned around, he jabbed the baton into Michael's chest, causing an explosion of light and sparks as it struck the Metahuman Claremonter, sending bolts of lightning flying off him as it sizzled against his chest. When the shark pulled the baton away, the Paragon was clearly dazed, leaving Vueriz alone and open.

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt

 

Vueriz had never been in many fights, and it showed, having completely lost track of Great White in her (righteous) fury at Tigershark, and bullets once again raked hot lines of pain across her chest as punishment for her focus. Fear rattled through her as the trails throbbed, but then Michael dived at the sharkman and her fear was... not gone, but no longer dominating her thoughts. 

 

She growled as her friend was electrocuted for his troubles, and spared a moment to hope Mizuki was doing better even as she was moving. Her board left a trail of glowing blue as she swooped up next to Michael. All at once she moved, her tail wrapping over the bigger teen's eyes while her right hand freed the Aurora Roarer from her belt and activated it. Her left formed a rude gesture she had seen some of her classmates perform as the supertech grenade began spinning, the spray of particles beginning and an aurora springing to life.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

"I can't see! I can't see!" The Sharkmen snarled, lashing out wildly and violently at the air as they were now much less prepared for combat. But the Great White Sharkman was differnet; he'd covered his eyes, and he flashed a toothy grin at the little blue alien giving him a rude gesture.

 

"You're a little smart-ass aren't you? How about we see how smart you are torn in half!" he yelled, trying to chomp down on Veuriz, but missing.

 

Meanwhile, in the water, Mizuki was still tangling with the one remaining sharkman in the water, who was swinging that trident around visciously. 

 

"I'll get you yet, little girl!" he snarled. "You won't stop us!" But he was missing too.

[The Sailor]

Torpedo Lass II

 

Once again a swing an a miss from the shark-man... and he was looking like he was on tilt bad. An idea popped into Torpedo Lass' mind, but first she threw a punch again at them but that time he manages to move his head to the side making her go wide. As she turned to her back near him she exhaled whatever air was left in her lungs and covered her mouth. She panickedly pulled her scarf which inflates her vest and started kicking for the surface in the direction of the boat, swimming at a normal person's speed. But that is what she wanted... Not only was she not in distress, she wanted him to get tunnel vision. Unless he got lucky and ran her through something vital, she still felt healthy enough to keep this fight going, whatever happened up on deck though that flash alone told her things were getting lively on that boat. They might need a +1 once she gets that tail off of her. Then again if that shark man knew she was perfectly fine, playing with his head might tilt him further.

 

Either way this fight isn't over. Not yet.

Edited October 19 by The Sailor
baddie name corrections.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

Weapons were scattered across the deck of the yacht at this point; from empty shotguns to jammed machine guns to the taser currently jabbed into Michael's chest, an mid-tier security force's arsenal had been upended onto what had once been a luxury yacht and now was a battlefield.

 

Michael was still smoking in the center of the wide open deck, trying to get his feet back under him as he was getting violently shocked by the taser hooked into his chest. Meanwhile, three of the shark men, all blinded by the Aurora Roarer, were fumbling amongst the discarded weapons, coming up with heavy pistols; most of the higher tier equipment had been used to it's limit, and now they were mostly left with side arms as they fired blindly at where Veuriz had been before hand.

 

"Come on! Take her down!" Yelled one of them, but it was hard to tell which with the hail of fire, the bright light from each firing weapon, the explosive sounds of the guns, and the continually speeding up Yacht

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt

 

Vueriz smirked behind her mask at the blinded sharkmen, even as she jinked out of the way of Great White's jaws. She laughed at him mockingly, replying "Even half of me is still more than twice as smart as you!"

 

This is of course when the gunfire started, guided by memory of her location and her taunting voice. One bullet skimmed off her shoulder, leaving another long welt, but the other was more square, carving a thin cut across her forehead, a shriek emanating from her as the munition rattled the gadgeteer, purple blood quickly flowing from the shallow wound and into her eyes.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

"Nice! We're taking this to the bank!" the Great White said, as Veuriz was lit up by bullets. "Your turn, glowstick!" he yelled as he opened his mouth and clamped down on Michael's shoulder again, leaving a gouging mark in what had been the highschooler's almost invulnerable skin. But it made sparks shoot and hiss from the stun baton in Michael's chest, and he quickly backed off in concern, hissing. "Maybe I shouldn't get that close." he mumbled. But the fight on the yacht definitely seemed to be on the side of the sharks for now.

 

Meanwhile, Torpedo Lass II and the Hammerhead were struggling as they slowly came closer to the surface. The Hammerhead pulled back his head, his mouth full of razor sharp teeth, and attempted to bite down on the aquatic heroine with a snarl.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

There were bubbles underneath the surface of the water as the fight continued on the ship, the individuals in fight there unaware of what was going on below. Eventually, the bubbling water gave way to a small pool of blood, and Torpedo Lass II bobbed to the surface, unconcious after a ferocious bite. The Hammerhead shark did not emerge, disappearing into the bloody, murky, dark waters of the river 

 

On the s hip, Michael finally gripped the taser stuck into his chest and ripped it free, allowing him to catch his breath, but only for a moment. Three of the remaining sharkmen, two barely able to do anything besides lean against pieces of the ship and fire guns, unloaded on him. Blind of not, these sharkmen consistently hit the target, but the bullets bounced off Michael's body as he covered his face, sending them flying.

 

"Did we get him!?" yelled the Tigershark.

 

"I can't confirm! Keep lighting him up!" Yelled the Orca. Their vision was coming back, slowly, now, but maybe it had given the teenage heroes enough time to catch their own breath.

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt

 

Vueriz wiped her blood from her eyes and glared over at Great White as he backed off from Michael after his unsuccessful bite. She didn't say anything, just blasted him. The shark man crashed into the railing in a blaze of blue light.

 

"Golden Star, I'm gonna need to stop the ship soon! We need to wrap this up!"

[Poncho]

(Golden Star)

 

Finally free from the electo-shock baton, Michael turned his attention to the creature that Blue Bolt had just blasted, rushing at it and trying to swing a kick at it. But it did nothing, as even sizzling with burns on his chest and bent over the railing, the Great White Shark man still ducked to the side, meaning all Michael did was kick the railing loose on the yacht.

 

"Argh! Crap! Sit still!" he screamed at the shark man. "You guys are so annoying!" he was shining red and gold, bloody and bitten, chunks gouged out of his costume, but even with bloody on his lips, his eyes were full of fury and frustration, trying to get a hold of the shark creatures and take revenge for just how badly he'd been beaten and bashed around today. But it simply wasn't happening; maybe it was the trained soldier in these shark men, maybe they were stronger than him, but he had done essentially nothing but flail at them the entire time, while getting shot, bitten, and stabbed.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

"That's it! That's it! We're out of time!" The Bullshark yelled suddenly, as he checked the area around.

The Yacht had continued to build up speed and was now progressing quite fast, heading directly at one of the supports of the Century Bridge. If it hit the bridge's support at this speed, it could have led to the entire bridge collapsing; even in the middle of the night, people were using that bridge. It'd cause a tremendous disaster if it hit.

 

If that's what the Sharkmen had been hoping for, they were confident in success now, as they began to flee the ship; the Bullshark grabbed the still dazed Great White, shoving Michael aside like a linebacker as he grabbed his shark brother in arms and leapt into the water below. The others followed; beaten and bloody they might be, they had taken their own victory, and besides the Great White, all of them were leaving under their own power, leaving shiny red stains in the dark water before they disappeared into the depths of the dark water, gone from vision.

 

If the Yacht could be stopped, perhaps this night could still be salvaged heroically.

[Kaede Kimura]

Blue Bolt

 

Vueriz glared after the Sharkmen as they fled, fury bubbling in her stomach. Part of her wanted to zoom off after them, blasting them with her particle cannons until they surrendered. 

 

But she had to stop the ship. 

 

Zooming over to the cabin she lit up her boards particle blades to create enough light. She quickly opened the panel that let her access the wiring for the controls and took a moment to curse humans for making so many wires black. What reasonable species doesn't colour code wires?

 

Still, she wasn't considered a super genius for nothing, and made quick work of the cables connected to the thrust lever, inverting their inputs so that the ship went into full reverse. With a relieved sigh she padded out from the control room to Michael. "I've done it. How are you feeling? And have you seen Torpedo Lass?"