2015-04-28 - I Was Playing With That

Something runs through the hallway between rooms. It's got tentacles and appears to be a pancake. With legs. Vanishing into Nico's room, there's a shrieking noise and suddenly Nico comes running through the hallway from the kitchen into her bedroom, wielding a ladle like a club. The both of them vanish into her bedroom and there's a sound of combat coming from inside.

There's a blink over from the glowing Karolina, who is floating in while glowing almost stroboscopic and wearing a bikini, "Hey Nico, what's up?" Watching warily over at the flashing tentacle-cake. "And.. Which end of that is trying to eat the other end?"

Given a moment to answer, things calm down from inside Nico's room. "Just working on...dinner!" her voice calls out. There's a sudden breaking of glass noise, and a muffled thumping, and then the sound of someone in heels running over a table. Then there's a squish, and some kind of slurping, and Nico sticks her head out the door, her hair in a frazzle. "We're probably eating out tonight."

Molly Hayes is sleeping on the couch, sorta. She's sort of hanging off the bed, Doop doll in one hand, hat on her butt, socks on her hands, video game system with Smash Brothers Melee on it. What the heck happened?

Glancing over at Nico warily, Karolina just blinks a bit, "Uhm, I tkae it we're going to be.." The 'eating out' bit goes on and she just glances down at Molly, "Uhm, Molly? We're gonig out for pizza. You want in?"

Nico Minoru closes the door to her room, putting her back to it. She calls in, "Just eat it!" giving no clue to any of her friends who she's talking to in there, and then turns to walk away from it, dusting herself off. "We don't want those anymore. Just...trust me."

Molly Hayes responds to Karolina with a series of non-lingual sounds, that sound a lot like.... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Followed by a murmur, followed by more... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Karolina just glances over at Nico, and lets out a sigh, "Come on Molly, we're gonig out to get pizza. If you want we can get it with jelly beans." Offering as one final chance to see if that will perk up the girl. Then turning to Nico, "Sure."

Nico says, "I...think Chase bet her she couldn't lift Leapfrog earlier, Karo. I don't think she's getting out of that couch tonight." She grabs her purse, which is WAY too damn light from lack of funds, and says, "Maybe we go get pizza and leave princess charming to nap."

Karolina nods over at Nico, "Sure. I can fly us there." She goes to give the sleeping Molly a hug, and then goes up and over to, if permitted, pick up Nico so she could fly out of the Leapfrog with her.

Nico Minoru smiles and gets scooped up. "I am not doing Dominos again though. I don't care how good the deals are," she can be heard saying as they leave. "They're awful!"

Karolina holds up Nico over in her eyes, and geos to fly out of the Leapfrog, "No argument there. Though that last one did have a real cute girl at the cash register.."

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Nico and Karolina took off for pizza, leaving Mol to finish her nap, but upon leaving, Nico left a present for Molly. Laying on the couch beside the napping pilgrim was a neat suit made out of reclaimed scuba gear and looking her usual standard of seamstressing. When she wakes, she'll have a nice surprise.

Nico looks kind of down-dressed herself, in her lazy brown spaghetti strap dress with the white hem at the bottom and buckled high boots, and a ponytail. "If I don't get some pepperoni soon I'm going to kill a pig and carve it into little circles. And I don't care what Chase says, there is too meat in pepperoni..." She waves her finger threateningly at the chef behind the counter who has no idea what's going on."

Floating along with Nico, going over, "Well, it depends on where you go. I've found a lot of places will just put whatever extra meat stuff thye have and grind it together 'an call it pepperoni and put a bit of extra flavoring. You wanna get some real pepperoni, you just have to go to a nicer place than the three dollar for a pie place. Which is probably about all we can afford.." Still chatting with Nico, having toned down her glow some.

"Put your bracelet on already," Nico says, rolling her eyes. "We're in public and I don't want to draw...the...eyes?" She kind of trails off, her own eyes looking out the front window. Nothing special out there, heavy traffic mostly. There IS a short line of limousines though, one having a little diplomatic flag on it. Cute.

It would be cute, but what Nico is staring at is the guy in black with the orange face mask that's STANDING on top of one of the limousines. Nico raises a hand to point, as he reaches back and draws a katana out of the back of his...armour? Yes, armour. Then he stabs it down into the top of the limo, sending the car careening off toward the curb and leaping off toward the next car. One stab, and half of the guy's guards are out of commission.

The car is heading towards the front window of a bank though, with a whole PILE of people inside who haven't even noticed that they're about to get hit by a large pile of moving steel!

Karolina looks over at Nico, "We're in San Francisco, it's in the high nineties and you're done up in head to toe in leather. Hon, even in this town you're gonna get all the atten.." OTherwise, as your tone seems to drop off Karolina flickers then, glancing up and over until she sees over what NIco is staring at. "What the..?" She's just as caught by surprise over, her first instinct being to grab her friend to put Nico over behind her in case ther'es shrapnel as her powers flicker into force!

Out of ... well not nowhere, but the top one of the fire escape ladders drops a girl wearing a brand new honest-to-goodness costume that isnt made out of towels and used T-shirts and other household products! No, this one is a real costume, like real superheroes wear! With a mask-like cowl and everything. Also a really weird belt with a metal plate in front of it.

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"I got it! I got.. ow... yeesh jumping down hurt my foot, need to learn to land proper-

And that's when the car hits into her, sending her into the building as she attempts to stop it from plowing into the people in the bank. Which she does manage to do to her credit, her hands grabbing the front end of the car as she's pushed backwards through the wall into teh bank.... albeit in a very sloppy and amateurish way.

Tackled to one side, Nico manages to miss Molly's great introduction scene. She's also mildly blinded by the LDS light show that's keeping her from getting killed, and makes one of her most eloquent starting combat speeches to date, starting with, "I bit my tongue..."

Karolina is pushes off rather abruptly though, as the Staff of One pushes its wayo out of Nico's chest, and she says, 'When blood is shed, let the Staff of One emerge.' It doesn't make Nico any more elegant, but it does look a little bit more badass as she holds it and spits out blood, getting to her feet.

Deathstroke, or the man in black and orange since we don't know his frigging name, lands on the middle car and throws his katana at the lead car. Whatever he hits is apparently quite important, as it sends THAT car careening off to the other side, slamming into a telephone pole where it stops, then proceeds to break the city's no smoking bylaws.

The car that Molly stopped is in no better shape, though the people in the back crawl out their doors, dazed but generally safe. However, the middle car is in a bit of trouble. It has an assassin on the hood.

Quickly spinning Nico over to the side once she's confirmed there's nothing blasting, Karolina calls out< "Molly!? Are you all right? And put that car down right now!" Floating up in midair, still glowing and quite the attention getter. "No using it to hit anyone either!" She adds, as a moment's afterthought and trying to quickly assess the situation as she hovers up in midair, bright eyes sweeping the area.

Ready to give Molly or Nico some cover or act as damage control if needed and help the pair out. As she sees Deathstroke on top, trying to blast the car in she calls out, "you! Stop!" Ready to just set out and start flying after them!

Molly Hayes peeks out from behind the mangled hood of the car she managed to stop before it went into people, and calls out to Karolina. "HEY CMON USE MY CODENAME!" she says accusingly. She then climbs over the car out of the bank, stumbles, falls on her face, quickly gets back up to her feet and makes a heroic pose, before pointing at the Man In Orange And Black Formerly Known As Deathstroke. "And you, evildoer! You stop right there and put your hands up!"

Nico Minoru comes out of the pizza ship late. She is, as usual, the slow kid on the team but the annoyance on her face is obviously not boding well for the guy with the stupid mask. Bloody adults and their masks anyway. "We all alive?" She does a quick headcount. Bruiser? Check. Lightshow? Check. "Okay folks. Karo, high cover, Mol, throw something at the guy. And try not to die."

Yes, she's serious. She even starts to run after the car, as Deathstroke sticks his arm in the driver's window, which was CLOSED, and turns it off to stop at the side of the road, then jumps down and pulls another sword out. Karolina goes to zoom along after the assassin on the car. "Surrender and we won't have to let Girl in a Suit beat you up!" She's not going to call MOlly Princess Powerful. She has her limits. Her hands are glowing with built up energy then as her figure turns to almost rainbow, hovering up about ten meters in the air and moving to a position where she has a free range of fire to target Deathstroke if necessary and a clear view of the area. Hoping she doesn't have to blast anyone, but also aware the unknown man in a mask likely won't surrender.

Molly Hayes looks for something to throw at the guy. Rubble? Bank Teller Desk? Oh... wait. Car! Princess Powerful, the heroine formerly known as Girl in a Suit, picks up the newly empty car and launches it at Man in Orange and Black Suit. "Yeah! Surrender!" Wait, Molly... you're probably supposed to first wait for the bad guy to refuse to surrender, THEN throw the car. Not the other way around.

Give her a break though - she's 13.

Turning his head upward to the most obvious threat, Deathstroke pauses before the can-opener job that getting in will be. A guard sticks a gun out the broken front window to try and shoot, but Deathstroke snaps his right hand across the hand of the guy in a karate chop that drops the gun into Deathstroke's hand. He looks upward, then takes a shot at Karolina in the sky.

It may not have been as well aimed as he'd hoped, as his peripheral vision catches just a bare glimpse of something coming from behind, and he throws himself to the ground and under the limousine just barely avoiding the incoming CAR that actually tears off the fabric of his right hip, it was that close to tearing off his hip instead. Only amazing reflexes saved him from Princess Powerful's wrath.

But as Nico runs up, panting (god damn I'm out of shape), she can't see him and she curses audibly looking for the target. She gets down, looking under the car fearlessly. Fearlessly, I say! The heavy shot hits Karolina in the gut - floating and glowing and hovering in the open up in the air, she's hardly missable, particularly given she's not focused on going evasive. There's a loud 'GHHK' that comes from her as she's hit hard over in the stomach then, her hands going to clutch at it as the girl drops like a stone from the sky, hitting the ground and the paveyment hard along with incoming traffic and leaving an impact crater from the blow then!

Molly Hayes runs over to where Karolina falls after getting shot. "Karolina!!!!" she yells out, frightened about that. Pretty much forgetting about the Deathstroke thing for the time being. "Nico help!"

Nico Minoru calls out under the car, "Helloooo....express delivery...." as she looks for Deathstroke. Her head tips up as she hears Molly call out, having been kind of focused on what she was doing. Her eyes widen as she sees Molly standing over a downed Karo, and she starts to run toward them instantly!

And her feet come out from under her just as instantly, as the line that's around her neck pulls taut and she slams to the concrete, coughing for breath and laying on her back. Deathstroke stands up from behind the car, and says, "Seemed the obvious way to disable someone who looked...let's say, witchy? Stay down." He's on the far side of the limousine, and starts in on carving the door open. Now.

Flat on her back, clutching her gut hard where there's blood, or whatever passes for it all over the place, Karolina cna only hear the panicked wheezing and cries coming from Nico, even over above the fray. Her girlfriend is gonna /kill/ her if she survives this. "Molly? Smash the bad man." Her own irises are going almost white..

Molly Hayes blinks. "Uh... no? We need to get you to a doctor, he shot you!" She looks around for Nico. Maybe she could do a band-aid spell with the Staff of One? "Nico?!"

Molly peeks up from behind the car Karolina's behind when she hears Nico, then sees Deathstroke as well, and yanks off a tire from the car and throws it at Deathstroke while he's busy carving open the car with his katana.

Deathstroke pulls his katana out of the side of the car just in time to deflect the incoming tire upward. He's really very good. "I'm not really in the mood for playing with children, kids. Take care of your friend, I didn't hit her anywhere lethal. She's not my target."

Nico, pushing herself to her feet and ignoring the pain like a trooper, says raspily as she holds her throat, "We stopped playing...long time ago...ow." And holding up her staff, she says, "Go AWAY." The staff, the words, and the attitude. And the pelicans, which is what happens, a flock of them swarming the area and making even Deathstroke look confused.

Amidst it all, Nico can be heard saying, "GOD F*ing DAMNIT!"

One hand at her side, Karolina can only whimper dazedly, "Oww.." She's not entirely sure what is going on, only that her side hurts tons then. But if she doesn't get up, she can't backup Molly and Nico and her friends could be hurt more. Her breathing labors, but she slowly crawls up and out, likely having to lean on Molly for support. "YOu do anything to anyone, and it's past us." Trying her bes tto look defiant, which is not very given she's only able to stand with the smaller girl's support.

Deathstroke waves off the birds, shaking his head and muttering. "Rookies. Letting kids play in the adult games, I voted against it but do they listen to me? NoooOooo." He hauls back and drives his katana blade into the window of the vehicle he's been sent to take care of, and the window explodes OUTWARD. Not in, as you'd expect from a katana, but out as you'd expect from a big blue boot.

Deathstroke is thrown back, rolling in the air and landing on his feet as a tall blonde man steps out of the car wearing blue jeans, boots, and a white t-shirt. He looks uncannily like Steve Rogers. "Sorry, I'm probably not the person you were planning to kill today. May I help, ladies?" He turns to glance at the hurt kids, frowning a little.

The guards in suits from behind, the dazed ones?, run up beside Molly and Karolina, weapons drawn, and flank them, one of them offering a shoulder in case it's needed.

Nico Minoru backs up as she sees Captain America. The face is...unmistakeable. As the guy who SENT THEM INTO PRISON or foster care as they like to call it. She backs up toward Karolina and Molly, where her friends are, not sure what to say.

Molly Hayes blinks. "Is that Captain America? I thought he was dead. I mean... didn't I go to his funeral? Are they doing that thing where dead superheroes come back to life?" She looks at the other two people. "Are either of you like... doctors?"

Wheezing, hand at her side then as she clutches it, "Maybe.. Not the best time, Molly?" She's trying very hard to try and avoid bleeding out then, right about now as she looks over at Nico, and then at 'Steve' while very wide eyed. Not sure what to do. Just rmeembering the time he tried to force her away from her friends. And nto going to let that happen again.

Nico Minoru gathers by Molly and Karolina. She holds her staff, then says, "Actually getting you to a doctor sounds really smart right now, Karo," as she looks at the wound. Looking distrustfully at the two guards, who are not running away and staying to guard the girls, she gives them each her patented snarl.

One of the guys says, "We have a medic, miss, if you can just back to the side."

To which, Nico responds with, "Hell with that, I got her. Princess Powerful, how about you show off that new outfit by smashing that guy's face a bit."

Deathstroke and Captain America are slugging it out amazingly. Which is kind of stunning to watch, since Cap is not armed, nor armored, and is apparently not using his shield.

"Been a while, Cap." "I don't know you, son, but I don't appreciate the attempted murder of our good people. OR hurting children." "Yeah, well. It pays the bills." "So does retail. I'll set you up selling chocolate bars in prison."

Finally - the epic battle of two peak human fighters. One one side, Deathstroke - master assassin. On the other, Captain America - the living legend. They square off, countering and counter-countering.

Then a pint-sized costumed girl just charges into Deathstroke while he's preoccupied with the epic fight. Which results in a not so epic occasion of Deathstroke being smashed into a parked bus by a ticked off mutant girl. Karolina is currently half-braced/half held up, and is just floating a few inches off the ground and controlling her breathing then as.. Well, there goes Molly!

One of the guards can likely be heard to mutter KOol-Aid Man style, "Oh Yeah.." Right before the bus impacts over and likely leaves a very Deathstroke shaped hole in the ground.

The battle comes to a close as swiftly as it began. Deathstroke finds himself wedged into a bus and, unable to bend it out from around himself, takes a moment to pause and consider his life options. And to groan a little. Captain America however, in his t-shirt, looks at Molly with concern. He scratches his head, then looks back at the other girls, and says, "Okay. That's...impressive. Can we arrest him now, miss...What was your name?"

Obviously the super suit is concealing Molly's identity successfully, though Cap looks no more enlightened when looking at Nico or Karolina. And both of them are hard to mistake.

Nico, holding up Karolina, looks from him to her, and makes a leap of faith. "We could use that medic here." Molly Hayes seriously would probably punch Deathstroke in the stomach. The Punisher could tell what that was like. Or possibly the groin. Super Skrull could tell what that was like. But Captain America was there, and it's bad superhero form to punch the bad guy in the family jewels when pretty much the hero of heroes is standing right there, freshly returned from the dead. She looks up at Captain America in her costume. Wow he didnt recognize her! This costume worked! Okay Molly.... play this right. She puts her hands on her hips and says, "Princess Pow-" oh wait, he knows the name she's used before from when she punched Wolverine 4 blocks back in New York at that church. "Princess Pow!" Then murmurs "erful." Yes, that should trick him, Molly.

That's it Molly! Don't tell him your name so you can't be seen coming! Meanwhile, Karolina is whimpering as she looks down at the mess of blood on her stomach. Fortunately, Deathstroke had shot her non-lethally, but.. "This was my favorite shirt!" Then, the next, worse thing. "My girlfriend is gonna kill me!" This can't remotely end well as the war between fashion loss and romantic pain to come down the line wars on Karolina's face..

Nico Minoru gets Karolina into the medi-wagon already, looking concerned as things go strange all around her. "Your girlfriend will have all kinds of new scars to take care of, now get in here and let the nice lady AND IT BETTER BE A FEMALE MEDIC! Let the nice lady do her job before I have to club you over the head."

The guy in the medi-van is swiftly replaced, and oddly there's a female medic in there! Magic? Actually no, just SHIELD being really damn good. However, on the outside...

Captain America listens to Molly, then he grins that wide, warm smile at her. Then he sticks out his right hand. "Glad to have you all on our side. I don't normally agree with children in these fights, but you held your side of things better than I did." He looks Molly straight in the eyes, and has NO idea who she is.

Deathstroke is vanishing in the background though, using Captain America's speech as his chance to leg it. The team will find an empty imprint of his body in the bus.

Molly Hayes smiles. Then looks at where Deathstroke was. "What the - oh come on! that's such a rip off! How'd he get away?!" She looks around, and doesnt see him and yells, "That's cheating you know!" Then just frowns all pouty. Then remembers Captain America is here still. "I mean um...." Quick Molly, think of something superhero-y to say. "He'll be back!" Great. You just turned the bad guy into Arnold Swartzenegger.

She looks over at Captain Rogers. "Um... I have to go since my friend got shot. I'm happy you're not dead anymore." Then runs off to Karolina and Nico.

Molly Hayes pauses as she is in mid-run back to her friends. She left Captain America hangin' with his hand out to shake. Okay that's just WRONG! So Princess Pow. Erful runs back, pauses, shakes Captain America's hand, murmurs, "Sorry..." then runs back again to her friends.