A Very Unlikely Assembly

[Kavos]

Shui Bracers for the attack… When this was over he would have a lot of explaining to do, although on the positive side, if he’s killed he’ll just reform in a weeks time perfectly healthy again.

Despite the pain Shui suddenly takes flight, racing around the outside of the buildings to avoid more fire, and dives into the mist… claws sharpened…

[Fear feat: Fear [2] DC 10, 10 feet]

[Air walking: top speed 250ft]

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 03pp – Blast (D): 00pp – Strike (D): 20pp – Create Water (D): 01pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 01pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 09pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 08pp

[VideoGeek]

Colton slows briefly to deal with the thugs on this roof before continuing on to drop down towards the next one on his way to the source of the commotion.

OOC: Attack thugs at I15 and I17, move to square F21

[MBCE]

CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS ROUND

The Norseman swung his sword but failed to hit his target. Shui quickly and easily dropped his mist upon the southern building from the truck, blocking the skinheads' view of the streets below. Colton Fired a quick shot that dropped the nearby thug before making a very impressive jump to the other building.

Icarus strikes an impressive pose that demoralizes one of the red skinned thug. He waits to see what happens next, ready to weight them down if they try to attack him.

The thugs react quickly to the presence of the super powered adversaries.

The power thug swings at the Norseman but also fails to hit. Another of the powered thugs charges the Norseman, but he also barely fails to hit.

The demoralized thug struck out at Icarus. The blow fails to hit and the second powered thug also strikes out at nearly the same time. The second attack manages to land a blow upon the metal encased man even as Icarus retaliates by increasing the gravity around the two. The extra weight is more than they can take and they drop to the ground.

The remaining two power thugs quickly run to the truck and together manage to lift the truck up slightly.

The four skinheads all fire at Colton. The hero is hit multiple times.

Two skinheads fire at Shui and the hero is riddled with bullets.

[Heridfel]

"Oh, heck no," Icarus thinks as the blow bounces off his body. He isn't even paying attention to it - it's not strong enough to injure him. But the van being lifted up and carried off? That's annoying.

While he maintains the extra weight on the two skinheads who tried to attack him, he steps up and swings at one of the skinheads carrying the van. It's not a very accurate blow, but they might step into it if the van is too heavy for them.

[MBCE]

Norseman again swings his sword at teh already wounded thug and this time, is able to drop him out cold.

Shui is again bruised by the bullets that pound into his body but he doesn't let that stop him from walking upon the air and moving quickly into his own mist.

Colton fires at the two thugs before him, dropping them easily before running and jumping to the next building. He stumbles slightly on the landing, but is otherwise successful.

Icarus takes the blow and is upset to notice the truck being lifted by two other thugs. He moves slightly and swings at the thugs but fails to hit either of the two.

Seeing the Norseman drop his companion, The lone Thug doubles up his fists and swings a haymaker at the swordweilding hero. Even with his recent attack focus blow, the Norseman is able to avoid the blow.

With Shui out of sight, the two thugs on the rooftop, move over and fire down upon the Norseman. The bullets easily hit but are unable to penertrate.

The two thugs within the mist fire randomly, unable to see any targets through the obscuring mist.

Bullets again fly out towards Colton hitting the hero squarely in the chest.

Down below at street level, the two skinheads decide to use the truck against Icarus. They pull back to swing the truck like a baseball bat but their timing is off and the truck swings in the space slightly above Icarus' head.

[Kavos]

Shui pauses for a split second, before lunging at the closest thug on the roof, his attack only just landing a blow on the thug, despite the awkward attack, shui’s watery claws run deep badly injuring the thug.

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 10pp – Blast (D): 00pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 20pp – Create Water (D): 01pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 01pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 00pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 08pp

[VideoGeek]

Colton briefly sprays fire across the two skinheads in front of him, one taking a rubber bullet right between the eyes, while the other catches one in his arm, but takes it like a champ. Colt drops his gun, unsheathes his wickedly curved sword, and takes a menacing stance against the remaining skinhead, who remains calmer than a rock in a garden.

OOC: Attacks against minions at I21 and I23 using autofire, crit against I21, I23 saves, drop weapon (free action), draw weapon (free action with quick draw 2), Intimidate.

[Heridfel]

Icarus reaches down and slams his fists into the pavement. He lifts up a piece of it and then makes it ripple beneath the two super-skinheads' feet. If the armored truck should happen to fall on them... well, that's their own fault for lifting it in the first place. It shouldn't kill them, at any rate.

[Vaalus]

The Norseman smiles under his helmet as one of his foes drops to the ground. The middle of combat is no time for taking pride in your abilities, and he knows this all to well, moving slightly to the side as what could have been a terrible hit moves past him. Bringing his vision to his new foe againhe swings. Realizing at the last second his attack might fail he redoubles his efforts, focusing on his goal at hand.

[MBCE]

The Norseman swings his sword with all his strength behind the blow only to see the red skinned thug get stunned. He shakes his head to clear it.

Within the cover of the mist, Shui strikes out quickly dropping another thug.

Colton's bullets again spray about taking out one of the thugs, but only grazing one. With his weapon empty, Colton drops the weapon and quickly draws his sword and puts on a menacing look that does little against the skinhead.

Icarus slams his hands down upon the ground and another shockwave rockets out to shake the two thug's footing. Unable to resist the heaving of the earth below them, the two thugs fall prone to the ground. It seems that luck really isn't on the skinheads side as the truck that they were holding fall awkwardly upon them. The constant juggling of the truck causes a small crack to the cesium container.

The thug lowers his gun at Colton and smiles as he fires. Unfortunately, his aim is less than stellar as bullets fly pass the hero.

Bullets again fly out hitting the Norseman who simply ignores the weak projectiles.

With his buddy falling in the mist, the thug swings his weapon around and fires blindly into the area. bullets fly near Shui but luckily, they all miss.

Down below, two of the normal thugs get in the van and back up onto the street. Behind Icarus, the two thugs manage to stand up though the strength is obvious upon their faces. Before him, the two thugs attempt to push the truck off but only one manages to free himself.

[Heridfel]

Icarus quickly notes the cesium container's crack. He hadn't thought of it before, but it's clear now that the sort of fight that they are in could easily do a great deal of damage to the ill-gotten gains that should be rightfully his. Pounding the skinheads, as pleasant as that's been, is going to have to wait for another day.

He stops concentrating on the two skinheads who had been pinned by his control of gravity, and instead pulls down on everything within 60 feet of him (except for the cesium canister, of course). That done, he walks over to the canister and picks it up, doing his best to keep it from cracking further.

[Kavos]

Shui growled, as he focused an intense full powerd blast of water at the remaining thug.

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 00pp – Blast (D): 40pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 00pp – Create Water (D): 00pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 00pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 00pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 00pp

[Vaalus]

The response to his attack initially angers Ullgir. This foe should have fallen. Before he can think anything else a smile comes across his face. "A worthy opponent you are, yet you will fall before I finish." Drawing his sword back for another set of blows he attacks, bringing his sword down with a might he hopes will drop his foe.

[MBCE]

The Norseman strikes out again with his sword, this time the blow is more than enough to stagger the thug. He shuffles back a few steps away from the Norseman. He shakes his head trying ot clear it of the damage just done to him.

Shui focused his water control into one massive blast that blew the thug. The blast hit with so much force that the man flew back into the ledge. Once Shui stopped the blast, the thug slumped forward unconcious.

Colton stood with his weapon in hand, waiting to see what the Thug would do next.

Icarus releases his hold on the two thugs behind him and then shifts his power to bring everything down around him. The sudden change in gravity reaches out to the distant car and van, slightly crushing them. The pull again drops the standing red skinned thugs to the ground. The lowest building caught within the area of effect was never made to resist such a sudden change and crashes in upon itself.

Luckily, the building had already bee abandoned when the skinheads first made their appearance. The other buildings shake and strain from the increase of pressure but manage to remain standing. It's very clear to the Norseman that the armor wearing person moving into the truck was the cause of the sudden change in the area. Neither Colton nor Shui can see what causes their building to suddenly shake.

The sudden shaking of the building causes the skinhead in front of Colton to drop his weapon as he struggled to remain standing. The two remaining thugs upon the distant building realize that their bullets are useless against Norseman and the sudden widespread damage that Icarus causes is more than enough to convince them to flee the scene. They dart to the roof top doorway and disappear inside.

[Kavos]

Shui runs to the edge of the building and looks down at the street. Not sure who caused the destruction of the building or the cars. Spotting one of the powered thugs near a van Shui fires another full blast at the closet powered thug to him. [L20]

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 00pp – Blast (D): 40pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 00pp – Create Water (D): 00pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 00pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 00pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 00pp

[Heridfel]

Icarus looks over to the building as it collapses. "I didn't think I was that strong," he thinks to himself. The cesium's nearly within his grasp, but he ignores it for the moment. It's not like anyone near him could really stop him if he wanted to take it, anyway. Right now, it's more important that he didn't accidentally trap anyone inside. Sure, the heroes there - that big guy and whoever caused the fog - could probably do it, and probably will, but he doesn't kill. That's important. It's what separates him from... from the other villains, who just don't care.

He stares toward the building, trying to see if he can detect any people inside with his regular senses and his enhanced senses built into the suit. That comes first. Almost as an afterthought, he releases his downward pull from the buildings so that they don't collapse (or collapse further, in that one's case).

[MBCE]

Shui's water blast hits the thug with devestating force that rocks his world. Water splashes against the truck and Icarus can easily hear the water splattering against the side of the truck.

Icarus checks on the fallen building but determines that no people were in it. He quickly excludes them from the effects of his power.

The thugs agains try to stand but fail to resist the force upon them. The wounded thug near the collapsed building takes the chance to run from the battlefield just as the lone thug upon the building darts pass the stunned hero and into the building.

[Kavos]

Shui stops for a second, a little supprised that anyone could still be standing after one of his blast's. But than he was weeker in Aarons body, and all thoughs years ago there wern't many 'supers' to contend with. Shui fires anther blast at the stunned thung, attepting to take him out of the fight compleatly.

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 00pp – Blast (D): 40pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 00pp – Create Water (D): 00pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 00pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 00pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 00pp

[Heridfel]

Icarus sighs quietly to himself. He'll be able to sleep tonight without thinking about who he hurt. These guys he's pinning now - they don't count. They can take it.

He heads back over to the cesium container and picks it up gently to keep it from cracking. He tries to re-arrange it so he still has his left hand free if need be - the goal being to be able to punch with it if someone causes trouble.

[MBCE]

Icarus easily rearranges the canister in his hands but is sure that the crack is going to be a problem if water enters it. Again, he feels the van shake from water hitting the side.

Outside, Shui's blast again hits its mark but something about the angle just isn't enough to damage the thug further.

Colton chases after the thug into the building and out of sight. Norseman, seeing Shui and the armor clad figure had the situation in hand, follows after the red skinned thug he was beating on earlier. His war cry echoes behind him as he moves.

One of the thugs manages to regain his feet as he strains against Icarus' gravity control. The others remain either pinned or unable to move.

[Kavos]

Shui grows as his blast has little to no effect on the thug, but the other thug getting to his feet quickly distracts him. Firing off another blast of water at the now standing thug. However Shui couldn’t help the nagging feeling that something was wrong. Who was that other hero, and why were they spending so much time in the van?

(Assuming shui can see him, if not shui will fly down to street level)

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 00pp – Blast (D): 40pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 00pp – Create Water (D): 00pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 00pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 00pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 00pp

[Heridfel]

It's clear that one of the heroes has water powers, between the fog and the sound of the water hitting the side of the vehicle. That hero probably also doesn't know about cesium and water not playing well together, or isn't thinking about it. These thoughts go through Icarus' mind quickly and the obvious answer is "Get out before the hero causes a problem."

Normally, he'd fly away with his prize. Only a few people can fly as fast as he can when he goes all out, and it's a good way to get out of trouble. The problem is that he isn't sure whether the container would break if he started getting up to his full speed, and he doesn't want to risk it. He frowns, then thinks of something. He looks down at the container and extends his gravitic aura around it. In doing so, he makes it so that there's no way that it can leak. Unfortunately, it also means that he stops concentrating on pulling down the thugs in the area.

With the cesium safe, he jumps out of the van and starts flying down the street. He's moving faster about as fast as a running man, but he's still accelerating.

[MBCE]

Shui blasts the downed thug again into unconciousness but then he notes the other thugs still down begin to stand up. Whatever force that was holding them down, had released them.

Icarus creates a gravity field around the canister to protect it from from water getting in--that is, as long as the force of water isn't stronger than his field. With the canister protected, he steps out of the van to see the thugs begin to stand up. Only one was already standing their eyes locked for a moment before Icarus began flying away from the scene.

Shui, from his higher vantage point saw the armored man exit the van with a canister in hand. Slowly the figure began to fly away from the scene but it was clear that he was accelerating. If Shui didn't do something right away, the armor figure would be well out of sight.

[Kavos]

Shui sees the armored man exit the truck and make a run for it. Shui frowns, not sure what to do, on one hand the fleeing man could be a villain steeling whatever the truck had, but on the other hand it could be a hero who is trying to get the item to safety???

As Icarus got further and further away, Shui decides to take chance. Since the Armoured man was the only other hero still around that shui new off, and the strange event that was keeping the thugs on the ground obviously didn’t come from the thugs, than it had to be the armoured man, and in shui’s book, no hero would bring down a number of buildings like he did just to grab an item and run.

Taking flight, Shui follows after the fleeing stranger...

Airwalking 2 [linked] speed 5][top speed 250mph]

Array: 40pp – Water Control (D): 31pp – Blast (D): 00pp – Strike/Nauseate (D): 00pp – Create Water (D): 00pp – Current Control (D): 00pp – Obscure (D): 00pp – Snare: 00pp – Air walking(D): 09pp – Insubstantial (D): 00pp – Healing: 00pp – Force Field (D): 00pp

[Heridfel]

Icarus doesn't need to look back to see the young hero coming after him. His radar shows that his pursuer also isn't limited to the ground, and that he's definitely got some speed to him.

"Need to lose him fast," he thinks. He gradually increases his speed, concentrating on keeping the force field solid around the cesium. "I can't let him interfere with my plans. Too much depends on it."