ic Pavo's Response (IC)

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

In her gold-white sentry uniform, the woman pulled back her hood. About the same age as the Claremont teens, her dirty blonde hair was pulled into a messy ponytail, and her addition to her uniform was two shining bracers, clearly where the shining shield came from. Said shield slowly lowered as she lowered her hands, but it had eaten all the truck's momentum. 

 

Sentry Scutum took one look at Gamma Buzz and shrieked.

 

"GROSS! COCKROACH GUY! Get away get away get away!" She yelled before taking off running in the other direction, clearly distressed by Buzz's looks. 

[Supercape]

Gamma Buzz

 

"Whoa!"

 

Baltazar's worst fear was now manifest; it paralysed him. His jabbering jaw, so used to a stream of consciousness defence, was momentarily slack. His antenna trembled, his eyes blushed red. 

 

He placed hand on chest, turned his head and, in regal pose, pronounced -

 

"It is the Cockroad... KID, Madam! In fact... it is the AMAZING Cockroach kid... that is AMAZING!"
 

He clenched his fist and screamed. "AMAZING, D'ya hear!"

 

Full of impotent rage, he blasted the tarmac of the road. 

 

"GAMMA BUZZ, BABY!" he shouted, carving the words into the street with his laser vision. 

[Poncho]

(Golden Star)

 

"Wait, hang on! Don't." The girl was gone. "Wait, hang on, Buzz, don't..." Baz was carving up the road with laser beams.

 

Michael felt like a guy holding the leashes of two dogs running off in two different directions. Not that his friend or the Starbright were not worth of their anger, but he was caught and unsure what to do to keep both of them together.

 

"Buzz, it's okay. She uh..." he paused. He couldn't say 'she didn't mean it'. He needed a different way to say it. "she doesn't get that you're a cool guy, you know? I'm sure she'll get it." he offered. 

 

"Don't worry about it, okay? We can explain everything to her and get everything handled." he was confident about that part at least. "We get this done and give Zoe a hand and hey, she doesn't think you look half bad." he reminded Baz.

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

As Michael and Baz were trying to recover their momentum on the city streets, as the Starbright fled into the alleyways of the city, a heaviness came over the area.

 

Dark shadows played at the edges of one's eyes, the real shadows of people twisted and jerked, untethered from what the person was doing. A dark cloud seemed to form from nothing and roil and bubble into blocking out the formerly blue sky. A chill reached into the bones of those around and clenched, sending people shivering. Snow started to fall, slight at first, then heavier and heavier, chokingly cold. People ran for cover, but many started to fall, as if exhausted from the sheer cold that was appearing.

 

And from the shadows came creatures; red skinned and scaled, gorilla like in posture with huge arms and chest and tinier legs, their large hands and legs ending in razor sharp claws. 

 

A far more delicate being emerged from the shadow of the crushed truck; still red skinned and scaled, still with large, thick claws, but her frame was slender and thin, draped in a long ballgown that glimmered with crystals. Her jewelry was made of ice, and where she stepped pillars of ice rose from the ground to catch her.

 

"...You aren't a Sentry." she said, clearly confused. "...Where's the Sentry? Where's the crystal?" 

[Supercape]

Gamma Buzz

 

"Screw her!" shouted Baz, giving a Cockroach-plated finger to Scutum. The perceptive might have noted that Gamma Buzz's huge red eyes were coated with green radioactive tears. 

 

His fury was soon cooled, almost literally, by the darkness and snow. 

 

"Hey, this isn't any good, is it? It actually looks pretty bad..."

 

He quickly whipped the crystal behind his back. "What buzzing crystal? We don't have a buzzing crystal. We never seen one, and we never will. In fact, we don't even know what you are talking about. Crystal? Pfft! The very idea that we have a crystal which we don't have!"

 

He looked around at the encroaching darkness and snow. 

 

"This is a cold welcome. Obviously we need to lighten the place up with some good old fashioned harmless lethal radiation!" he said, as the ground beneath his feet started to glow green. 

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

"Ah! What is this!?" She recoiled from the glowing light and heat like it struck her. She was not a being of light and it showed, she literally stumbled back, holding her hands in front of her face as the light hit her. The darkness, it seemed, wasn't just to hide their darkness, but to protect them from the light, and she stumbled away, trying to get away from Bazz.

 

"You...You're a wizard! A Magister! You've taken a modified form to increase your powers as well! Are you using the Umbra Star to cast this spell!?" she yelled, trying to summon more of her own darkness and snow, attempting to crush Baz's radiation under a blizzard of draining cold.

[Supercape]

Gamma Buzz

 

"That's right, baby!" said Baz, still alive with lingering fury from the "gross" comment. "I'm Grand Wizard Gamma of the Awesome order of Buzz!"

 

The radiation faded and contracted, but Baltazar had different plans. This lady didn't like light, it seemed - and he was going to shine. 

 

He jumped in the air, flipping, landing into a cartwheel by her feet, and stood up - all in one fast, fluid movement. Reaching out into his radioactive core, Baltazar let loose the inferno. 

 

For one second, the street lit up with a dazzling burst of green light. 

[Poncho]

(Golden Star Post)

 

"Wait, what?" Michael was pretty blindsided by this. Trust Baz to go in half cocked. He had no idea what was going on, but he wasn't sure Baz did either; he was just getting his anger out. He couldn't fault him for that, Michael had anger problems of his own, but he was definitely confused. Shadow creatures were everywhere now, and it seemed like everything was going to heck in a hand basket. But he was on Baz's side all the way, so he grit his teeth and prepared for a fight

 

Radiation sparked up, then snow, and it was very dark, then very bright as Baz and the lady started exchanging blows.

 

"You got her buddy!? She's all yours!" he yelled before lashing out at some of the shadowy creatures around. He was a bolt of lightning dashing between them with devastating elbow and knee strikes, sending them sprawling and knocking them out in seconds, where they turned back into shadows and disappeared.

 

"What the..."

[Poncho]

(GM Post)

 

Snowfall and her Shadow Warriors were not creatures of light, and Buzz erupting into a bright green light directly in-front of Snowfall made her scream in pain, grabbing at her eyes as she stumbled away. Her soldiers were even more affected, their eyes hissing with bright light as they stumbled around blindly.

"No! No! The light burns! Damn you you...you....you disgusting bug!" she screamed. Through blistered eyes and ice cold fury she aimed a clawed hand at Buzz, attempting to drain his strength from him; not to her, but...away. Into a pulsing orb attached to her hip.

 

Meanwhile, the Shadow Soldiers all jumped at him, though only one could see through his eyes, and his attack struck true, while the others all swung wildly and blindly.

[Supercape]

Gamma Buzz

 

"Oof!" said bazz as he got clonked by one of the soldiers, right in the jaw. "Is that all you got, hombre? I think you forgot about my amazing Cockroach armour! It would take the force of a very hard punch to break through my unbreakable armour plates!"

 

He jumped again, fast, accurate, landing on the side of a nearby building. 

 

"Why don't you... lighten up!"

 

His eyes glowed a moment, before a beam of green radiation swept through the street, mowing down the shadow squad. 

 

"Get that, Mi... I mean Golden... I mean Golden star! Lighten up! Eh? Eh? Get it?"