Superheroes IC

[DeathsKnight]

He smiled at her,

"At least somebody notices what we do my dear."

He kissed her forehead and opened the door again, opening the umbrella for her and waited. He zipped his jacket close, hiding the shoulder holster with his off-duty pistol annd extra magazines, he was not certain why he had slipped it on, but he was wearing it anyway.

[Mayu]

She smiled as he helped her get to his car and inside the car, watching him getting in she smiled happily. Then she thought about it and decided to ask him. Looking at him she grinned happily "So what do you think of the black widow? Ive heard about her from some of the men that you work with" She said grinning.

[ThomasShort]

Faust grinned with the mischief of an incubus before settling on a bench near the café, watching the Soprana girl with a great intensity. He watched all women with that same glare though, so nothing had changed.

"My dear Crimson." He rolled the R, like one would roll tongues over illicit areas, "I would much rather be doing the same." He continued to roll the poker chip across his fingers, what power would it become?

-----

Meanwhile Cheshire had tired with the street; the fuzz had arrived, escorting the shrunken and the timid and the tired. He had merely left the half-broken scene to its own devices.

[blackpenman]

Danny finally made it to the coffee shop he had been told to go to meet Stephanie. Sure enough, there she was, sitting at a table for two. He walked over, and sat down with her. "Miss me?" he asked, joking. The waiter came, seeing that they were ready. "Hello, what would you like tonight?" he asked. Danny thought, and than quickly replied. "I would like some tea, if you have any." he told him. The waiter nodded, and turned to Stephanie.

[DormantEvil]

Looking up and smiling as Danny approached, Stephanie held her gaze away from the car down the street. She couldn't give away that she knew what was happening, so she put it out of her mind. Standing up just enough to kiss Danny on the cheek, she took her seat again and greeted the waiter. She had finished her latte already and decided to go for something cooler.

"Um, you know what, I might go for a chocolate milkshake," she grinned.

As the waiter left to go get their orders, Stephanie leaned forward on the table and continued to give Danny her absolute attention.

"You didn't take very long, I've only been here for a short while. The traffic must have been more kind to you than it was to me."

Laughing, she pushed her finished latte glass, and its little saucer and spoon off to one side.



They had made their way to a better vantage point, the bench just across the street. And taking a seat, Crimson crossed her long legs over, leaning back to wait patiently. It was only a few minutes before she noticeably prickled as Danny came into view. She licked her lips, but kept her pistol hidden under the flap of her jacket.

The red leather knee length peacoat style was comfortable and stylish, and her leather pants, heeled boots and the simple short cut tank top that showed all of her stomach made people often stare. Plus it also was padded and gave great lift, giving everyone a good look at her cleavage. She enjoyed the stares from men, and loved the glares of women who saw her as a threat to the sanctity of their husbands and boyfriends.

"Almost time, I'd say. Mr Soprana said once they had settled we could begin the fun. Would you like the honor?" she gave Faust a sly grin, cocking the pistol rather energetically under her jacket.

"But then again, I was never one to give others the spotlight..."

Standing up from her spot on the bench, she withdrew her pistol and as those nearby simply gasped she lined up the Soprana bitch. The first shot she fired went straight into Stephanie's shoulder, the next went through the teapot and hit the waiter in the stomach, just as he arrived beside the table. In an arc, Crimson continued to fire her first clip into the cafe indiscriminately. Although, Stephanie hadn't been wrong about limiting casualties, so Crimson restrained herself to simply near misses or non-fatal injuries. Apart from the waiter. That one was just too good to pass up. However, she made sure to fire at least two directly at Danny.

Faust would usually be more than capable of backing her up if some civilian decided to be a hero, or if Danny showed his true powers.

[DeathsKnight]

"Black Widow...ah yes the vigilante."

He eyed Melody,

"Aiming to write a book on her?"

He smiled,

"I know that according to the law she is acting as a citizen and actions from citizens against citizens is against the law. That is what we are there for you know, the boys in blue is actually there to protect you, not waste your tax dollars on donuts and coffee."

He pulled into a parking lot and eyed the car across the street, without really thinking he took out his notepad and wrote down the license plate. Then slipping the book back into his pocket he smiled at Melody.

"Not that I have forgotten about you gorgeous, I just seem to remember those faces from somewhere."

The rain had slacked off a bit, so he got out to test the slight drizzle, it was slight, so he walked over to Melody's door and opened it for her, offering a hand to help her out.

"On a personal note this Black Widow did save my life, that is why I let her go today."

He closed the door, activating the alarm and offered his arm for Melody as they walked to the restaurant's entrance.

[Mayu]

She enjoyed the ride to the restaurant and enjoyed the talking to her boyfriend about her and didn't know just how to tell him she was the same, just in black of course. Right now she didn't know a lot about anything, taking a deep breath as she chuckled about the writing of a book. She shook her head, and then when she took his arm to go into the beautiful restaurant. She enjoyed the thought of being with him, felt lovely. But she knew that she couldn't keep him in the dark, because she loved, respected him but most importantly trust him.

Sitting down in a beautiful spot she looked at him and thought for a moment. "What would you do if you knew the black widow? I mean the woman behind the mask, and she wanted to tell you who she was. But was more afraid of getting you into trouble then anything, I mean let's face it Dave. You are an amazing man, you are trusted and respected among a lot of people. But sometimes secrets can keep those they care for in the dark and out of harms way" She said a smile on her face.

[WebbedHawk]

"What luck this is!" Jack thought to himself. "Just breeze in to this berg and I already may have myself a good lead."

Jack had just started his new job with the 'Empire State News' after years of service with the 'Chicago Daily'. His new position gave him a lot of journalistic freedom with his choice of stories, and he had decided upon coming out here he would be getting his scoops in relation to the vigilante populace in New York. Earlier this morning in the midst of a bank heist one of the costumed vigilantes had inserted herself into the firefight and saved a few policemen from what could have been a terrible tragedy. After getting in close with a couple of beat cops at the precinct he found out where he might be able to track down someone involved in the crossfire this morning, and headed down to a fancy restaurant where he was supposed to be meeting his main squeeze.

Just as he pulled up he noticed the cop immediately, they always had this look to them, and he was staring into the distance at a car up the street, scribbling something in a notepad. A few minutes later he was heading into the restaurant with the eye candy that was hanging onto his arm, quite the looker from what Jack could tell. Deciding he would see if he could talk to the officer should he be free after his date, Jack decided to camp his car for the meantime. He'd tail him back home and, if he could, try to get some one on one later. Jack reminded himself that in case the lovers decided to make it a longer evening he would have to write down the address and see if he could try again in the morning, no point getting in the way of another man's pleasant evening. For the time being it was just a bit of a stakeout with a little hope attached. While he waited Jack turned on his police scanner, in case a hotter scoop came over the lines.

[blackpenman]

Danny saw Stephanie laugh, moving some utensils on the table, and than he heard gunfire, and a bullet hit Stephanie's shoulder. He immediately went as fast as light, and turned to see who was shooting. His surroundings were practically frozen, he was going so fast. He saw two bullets going to him. He grabbed them, and threw them on the ground. He ran to the bench where the shooter was sitting, took her gun, checked to see if she had other guns, and than rushed back to the table. He then went back to normal speed. Once hs surroundings moved again, he ducked under the table, pulling Stephanie with him.

[DormantEvil]

Crimson cursed as Danny took her pistol away, and was surprised at just how fast the man could move. It would prove to be an interesting skill to combat. Faust sat beside her, unmoving, but he had also not given away that they were partners, hence he still had some element of surprise. Checking her body over, she flung her jacket onto the ground and revealed the scars all up her arms. She didn't have the luck of getting regenerative abilities, and her scars had to heal, or occasionally be stitched close. On the inside of her boot she stored a small blade, and with a quickness that showed she was well versed in cutting herself, she withdrew the blade.

Knowing exactly what spell she wanted to cast, Crimson walked up to a woman who was cowering behind a nearby bus shelter. With blade in hand she hauled the woman to her feet and plunged the dagger into the helpless victims stomach. The woman screamed in pain, and blood began to spill down her white silken blouse. First just a slow trickle, until Crimson twisted the blade, withdrew it, and stabbed again.

Reciting a spell, Crimson drew the blood from the woman's veins as a sacrifice. Red globules floated through the air, creating symbols. A red aura surrounded Crimson whilst she worked.

She concentrated on Danny primarily.

Speaking in another language, one that sounded as old as time itself, she cast a spell that would blind him instantly. As if to indicate the spell had reached its climax, there was a crack of thunder in the air. Unless he had some sort of magical enchantment against such a spell, it would leave him unable to see even the most subtle of light.


Stephanie had fallen to the ground the moment the bullet had hit her, and she had instinctively looked around to see who was shooting. To begin with she thought it might have been unrelated to her crew, considering the random pattern of shots, and the fact she had been injured. But as she pressed down on the wound, she spotted Crimson, that psycho, almost laughing with glee. She should have known that woman couldn't keep herself in check.

Her shoulder bled enough to cause her face to appear pale and clammy, and she shivered with shock. But also with strain because when Danny grabbed her, she knew that she might give away that she had powers by draining him of energy. Forcing herself not to suck even one iota of energy from him, she knew that a trip to the hospital would save her life. Instead she looked at the damage her crew had done, and found herself getting rather angry.

"What's going on?" she coughed, her eyes showing that she was in pain.

Suddenly there was a crack of thunder, and she looked about to see Crimson had cast one of her blasted spells.

[DeathsKnight]

He was about to reply to Melody's question when shots erupted, he reacted immediately, pulling Melody from her seat,

"Everybody get down!"

He withdrew his pistol and cocked it, he checked if everybody was down and out of harm's way when a cracking of thunder caught his attention. He peeked out and saw a woman sprawled on the ground. He slipped through the door, keeping in a crouch, he took aim as he stayed behind a telephone booth.

"Freeze! Police!"

Technically he was off duty and not Police in the sense he had just proclaimed.

[Mayu]

She heard the gun shots and was startled as she got down, but she paid close attention to Dave and knew this wasn't good. Dave was off duty and before she knew it she noticed that men were coming to them. Looking at Dave she stroked his cheek and kissed him, knowing this was what would expose who she was to Dave. Everyone else had ran off, she got up quickly and ran right for the man with the gun. She jumped right onto the wall hanging there and tackled the man with the gun, pinning his arms with her knees. Her hand to his throat as he tried to throw her off, but didn't work of course.

[WebbedHawk]

As soon as things went south Jack was out of his car and ducked behind it. He was no hero, but he was not an idiot either, he didn't intend to be stuck inside anything flammable. Peeking over the hood of the car he saw the commotion in the restaurant. He snapped off a few quick photos with his digital camera, making sure to keep the flash off to avoid attention. He felt a quick breeze blow by which seemed to carry the smells from the restaurant right to him. In what seemed an instant the shooter dropped her gun for no apparent reason, with a miffed look on her face. Jack cautiously clicked on his mini tape recorder he kept with him and started talking quietly, but concisely, into it.

"Shots fired from outside Le' Grange at the patrons inside, shooter seemed to drop the guns for no apparent reason, possibly ran out of ammo."

Ducking back behind the car he looked towards the restaurant.

"Most of the patrons have hidden behind tables or ran to the back of the restaurant, a few seem to have been injured, but its hard to tell from this distance how bad it is."

As Jack looked over his car hood again he saw a faint glow in the distance, silently snapping off a couple more pictures of the figure inside the glow before a crack of thunder sounded, startling Jack and sending him back behind the hood of the car. Scrambling from behind his car to the alleyway nearby Jack moved to avoid detection, he knew he had risked a lot already being so close. Finding an open door in the alley he ducked inside, finding a set of stairs beside them. As the door shut he heard someone yell freeze, and he smiled. Time to get a good view from what he hoped would be a safer distance.

[blackpenman]

Danny heard the cry of pain of a woman, and than he was blind. He couldnt see a thing. How could he be blind! He than knew that the shooter was a super, and was targeting him. He felt his way out of the table, and stood up, in full veiw, or at least he thought, of the woman. "What do you want!" he shouted to her. "Take me hostage or harm me, not others!" he shouted to her.

[DormantEvil]

[[Double post apparently]]

[DormantEvil]

((DK asked if I could RP Steve for a moment, and I've just kept Faust in on the action, sorry if this is annoying.))

Seeing the cop draw a gun on her, Crimson decided it was time to find some suitable cover herself. The fact that the police were around didn't exactly deter her, but it did mean that someone capable might fight back. Beyond Danny, and Stephanie if she decided to protect her new project.

A nearby car became her new casting spot, and she dragged her female victim with her. If anyone was wondering, it didn't seem as though she treated the woman horribly, but she wasn't really that careful with her well being. The woman cried as Crimson pinned her to the car, keeping her eye on the policeman, and some new chick who seemed capable of holding her own in a fight.

That fighting style did seem rather familiar.

Danny stood up, and Crimson grinned wildly. Surrender? That wasn't nearly as much fun. But it would work for her.


-- Filling in for Thomas for a moment

Faust, having examined the situation long enough to call in a few low level Soprana button men, decided to take down Danny whilst he stood still. Not having to use a power would allow him to save it in case Danny made any moves to escape.

Drawing his own sidearm, he lined up Danny and fired. His movements were not very well hidden, and if the policeman wasn't afraid of hitting the few people cowering around Faust he might have even proved a good target.

--- Filling in for DK for a moment

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Faust show himself. He couldn't shoot that man, because too many civilians were in the way so he charged forwards. How could they be so cruel as to shoot a blind man.

Diving in front of Danny just as Faust pulled the trigger, he felt the air leave his lungs as the slug impacted his shoulder.

--- And back to Crimson

Seeing Faust finally step into the fray, she had prepared enough of her spell to move forward from behind cover. Running, she seemed to be closing in on Danny at the same time Steve was, and as Steve took a bullet (which made Crimson smile at Faust's nice try), Crimson reached for Danny's throat. At the moment she touched him, her spell was cast.

His body would become paralysed as Ghoul Touch affected him, and everyone within ten feet would feel sick to their stomachs, and possibly vomit from the smell of rotting decayed flesh. The stench was a by product of her spell.

Over behind the car, the woman passed out from blood loss, her body depleted of a good two litres of the crimson fluid in spells, and another litre in typical bleeding out style.

[DeathsKnight]

He fell to the ground, gasping for breath, the stench did not really help him to regain his composure. The scarred woman was standing close to the guy who thought these supers was after him. He struggled to his feet, a shot whined past his head, he felt that his right arm was useless, lifting his left hand he returned fire, the bullet hitting the man high on the chest, shettering his collarbone. He stepped forward and shoved the woman away from the man.

"I said freeze, that means stop what you are doing."

He was so intent on saving the man that he did not notice more gunmen outside. The first shot spun him around, the salvo which followed punched holes through his chest, stomach, neck and one slug managed to hit his skull and cut a thick groove alonf his scalp. The impact tossed him through a table and he lay there, pistol still clutched in one hand. He lifted his hand and pulled the trigger, then he passed out. The last shot he fired actually blew the backside of one of the gunmen's head away.

[Mayu]

She had been taken back by everything that was going on, she didn't care about why he was shooting. And had her boyfriend to protect, sure Dave was a big boy but still. Moving quickly as she did her own thing, as she landed on the ground she had a bad feeling about what was going to happen. She saw the gunman's head being pretty much removed and was taken back by it, panting lowly as she turned around and saw that Dave was on the ground. Running to him as she noticed he had been hurt and it was rather bad to.

Everyone was screaming so using the strength she shouldn't have she got him out of there, and into the car. Driving off as she sighed a bit, looking over at Dave she had a feeling much would need to be explained but it didn't matter now. She actually raised him to the hospital, her eyes scanning the area as she parked in front of the hospital. Getting out she was covered in blood, and ran through yelling for help. Two E.R nurses came out with a stretcher and got him into the hospital.

Getting the car parked so she didn't get a ticket, and stormed back into the E.R and was told to wait out, they worked on him for a good three hours. They lost his heart beat twice, until finally they got him stable and she was table to go see him. He was asleep and she walked in, sat down and took his hand.

[WebbedHawk]

Jack wheezed slightly as he got to the top of the three story building, swearing to himself he would start hitting the gym in his off time. Rushing to the edge of the building and pulling out his camera he used its zoom almost like a telescope to keep an eye on the action while taking several pictures.

"More shooters arrived, one is in bad shape though, possibly KIA. The cop is down too but... some woman who was fighting the shooters has just lifted the table from above him and rushed him out of the scene. She must be one of the heros in town. Will have to check further on her. The original shooter is now in the restaurant and getting into the middle of the fray. The woman she was harming before seems to be nowhere in sight... wait, no, she was moved beside a car on the street, she seems to be bad off though."

[blackpenman]

When he ehard the shots, Danny almost panicked. He almost ducked, hoping he wouldnt get hit, when he heard someone jump in front of him, and take his bullets. Outraged that the shooters were still causing harm, he began going berserk. When he went berserk, it wasnt good. He had only done it once before, and somebody almost died. He tried suppressing his anger, but than he felt someone grab his throat, and he was paralyzed. Good. Since he couldnt move, he couldnt go berserk. He was dragged off, and thrown into a car.

[DormantEvil]

Sitrep
-Steve and Melody head to hospital
-Crimson and Faust kidnap Danny and Stephanie and make their escape
-Reporter continues to update police on the unfolding scene

As the gunfire stopped, now that Steve had been disarmed, and Danny was able to be taken without any more trouble, Crimson and Faust moved with quick precision and fled the scene. Faust dragged Danny towards the car and placed him in the back seat, but not before he noticed Stephanie getting 'helped' into the back passenger seat as well. Her shoulders still bleeding. Faust smiled, he actually didn't mind Stephanie as much as Crimson did, but it was more for her appearance than her lineage.

The car left the scene, before making its way to the local Soprana parking lot. There, a small crew worked to repaint it and switch its plate. Something they were used to doing after any major conflicts.

When Danny awoke, he would find himself tied with a combination of rope, duct tape and metal chains, in a pair of concrete boots, sitting in the darkness of a cold room. There were no lights to give him energy here.

A cigarette burning was the only real light source, apart from the crack of light coming from under the metal door.

"Danny, isn't it? A pleasure to finally meet you. Unique, aren't you?" the masculine voice was unknown to him. But it was Faust, leaning against a wall out of arms reach, waiting for the man to regain consciousness.

[Mayu]

Everything went to hell and her anger took hold of her, her boyfriend was in a coma and it was all her fault. If she had only told him who she was, and right now she had no one to keep her straight. Storming out of the hospital she looked up at the night sky, she had her boyfriends blood on her body. She just screamed into the night air and clenched her fists, she would take down who ordered the hit. Closing her eyes as every inch of her body was shaking and knew one thing, that the hunt was on.

[WebbedHawk]

Jack continued to take notes with his mini-recorder and pictures with his camera as things began to die down. Now that the cop had been taken away by the girl things moved rather quickly. Another couple were taken away in a car by the shooters, Jack made sure to get pictures of the cars and the best shots he could of the license plates. Once they were gone Jack turned and sat on the roof top a moment, he pulled the memory card out of the camera and slipped a new one in. Making his way back down to the street he looked over at the woman from before, the one that one of the shooters had raised a glowing aura around. He was going to make sure she was okay but the paramedics had already made it on the scene, as well as the police, and there wasn't much he would do but be in the way.

Jack headed to his car first, pulling open his laptop and sliding in the memory card. He only hoped he had enough battery left to do what he needed to. As the laptop powered up Jack made a copy of all the pictures he had taken. Paying close attention to the file names Jack deleted the couple he had of the woman saving the cop from the memory card, keeping them on his laptop only. Obviously she was a super of some sort and he didn't want to cause problems for her by possibly revealing her identity to the police. He then quickly went through and changed the file numbers on the photos left on the memory card taken after the ones he deleted. He didn't feel like getting too many questions from forensics about any missing shots he might have taken either, this wasn't his first go round and he wasn't too shabby with his tech either.

Having worked out the possible photo mess he slipped the card from the laptop, powered it down and slid the laptop under the passenger seat. He then got out of the car and made his way towards the crime scene. As he approached the barriers he saw a young cop getting ready to wave him off. Jack held up his press credentials and talked to the cop.

"Look kid, I need to talk to your supervisor, I'm not trying to get my nose too deep in here, but I can help."

The cop rolled his eyes a little at Jack, then told him to wait. After a couple of minutes Jack saw the cop talking to one of the detectives on the scene, pointing over at him. As the detective approached he gave Jack a nod.

"Officer Greene there said you might be able to help me. Whats a slick reporter like you think he's got that might be able to help me figure this mess out?"

"You got anything around here that can read a memory card from a camera? Maybe a laptop or an iPad or something?"

"Umm, lemme see.... HEY JIMMY! YOU GOT YOUR COMPUTER DOWN HERE!?"

Another Officer made his way over, stopping at a car and pulling out a small tablet device.

"Thanks Jimmy, this man has something for you to pull up."

Jack handed over the memory card and turned back to the detective.

"I was running down a lead, intending to speak to an officer I found out was supposed to be at this restaurant tonight." Jack pointed down towards his car "I was sitting in my car when the craziness happened, I didn't want to disturb the officer on his date, I was thinking I might be able to get a hold of him afterwards."

As Jack was pointing out his car the pictures began to be pulled up. Jack turned and pointed up to the roof of a nearby building.

"When the shooting started I was down by my car taking pictures and trying to keep track of everything. When the officer inside the restaurant started shooting back I made my way up to the roof and continued getting pictures from up there. I have shots of the main shooters, the couple that were taken by the shooters and the cars of the shooters, possibly even some license plate shots. The cop was taken away from here by someone, I missed who, but he was pretty banged up when before he got taken away."

"Detective Logan, this is Officer Jenkins and his girlfriend there sir." The young officer pointed out on the screen. As Jack looked he made a mental note that not only was the young woman a super, she was a cops girlfriend too. "Officer Jenkins was reported as checked in at Lincoln Medical Center in a coma."

Detective Logan turned to Jack. "Okay sir, we are going to need your photos for evidence. You look like a smart guy, so I imagine you have copies, right?"

"Transferred the photos to my phone before I walked over, gotta love technology."

"Yeah, anyways I appreciate your help with this."

"Detective, I live for the people, but if I could get any scoops on the story..."

Detective Logan smiled "Somehow I thought you might ask, look, I'll see what I can do, no promises."

Jack nodded, then looked around. "Was anyone else hurt?"

"We have a woman over here across from the restaurant that is in bad shape, a couple of people injured from the bullet fire but no casualties that we know of."

"Well thats a plus side then. Detective its been a pleasure talking, but I have a story to write."

Detective Logan nodded and Jack turned away from the scene heading back to his car.

Lucky day, he's got a hot story and a juicy lead to run down. New York, it seemed, was turning out to be a great City Jack thought. Hopping into his car he made his way to Lincoln Medical, maybe he would be able to run into the girlfriend before she got too far.

[blackpenman]

Danny slowly regained consciosness. He heard a man talk to him, asking a bunch of questions. He felt a bunch of rope and duct tape immobilizing him. Even if he could use his powers, they wouldnt do a whole lot of good. "Hey, love to talk, but i prefer to see who I'm talking to. Also, while you are at it, could you untie me? I prefer to stretch my limbs." he told him sarcastically. Of course, it would not do much, for Danny could tell it was dark, he was absorbing nothing. Still, he shouldnt show that. To them, he must appear like a regular citizen. "What do you mean unique? All people are unigue, so yeah, im unique." he answered.

[DormantEvil]

"You are correct, all people are unique, but some are special. More special than 99.9% of the people walking around. You, are one of these 'special' ones."

Faust rolled a pair of dice around in his palm, as he often did when standing still. Pushing off the wall, he began to circle the room. Smiling, perhaps Danny might see a glimmer of his white teeth, but he most likely would not. Somewhere nearby a muffled cry could be heard, and Faust clicked his tongue several times.

"Poor woman, such a shame to have ruined such smooth skin. Don't you think?" he asked, finding it amusing that Stephanie sounded in pain, even whilst her father ordered for a button man to be her little energy reserve, so she could heal. There would be some time before he arrived though, and he knew Crimson would take every chance to inflict some 'unintentional pain'.

"But I digress, you move fast, a useful skill indeed. But that's not all, something else makes you special, hidden underneath the first glance. What could that be, hmmm? You wouldn't mind sharing your secret, now, would you?"