Episode 2: Summer School Showdown with Leader One!

[omegamods]

Who: The Kid, Black Rock Shooter, The Ice King, Peacock, Darkwing Duck and up to three other heroes
What: Investigating the device that Velasquez found
When: The evening of the 9th
Where: Underneath the Venture City High School Gymnasium

Beneath the Venture High Gymnasium, abandoned for the summer, is a basement. Hidden in a corner of that basement is a trap door, leading down into another basement. A basement.. of evil.

It's actually quite spacious down here, like someone built another gym under the first gym. The trap door opens onto a catwalk near the ceiling of an underground chamber dominated by a device shaped like a radar dish, ten feet tall and covered in blinking lights. Milling about the area below are dozens of evil robots, all bearing the insignia of Dr. Devious's Deviobots. Standing near the device itself is their apparent leader, a robot with a hardhat and a clipboard. The others are armed with giant fists, laser guns, balls on the ends of chains, or other such weaponry, but the leader appears unarmed.

They haven't noticed the approaching team, but it's only a matter of time.

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THE APPROACH

[omegamods]

Dr. Devious didn't program her robots to look up very often, so you're safe for now. Waiting below you is at least thirty evil robots, ready to punish any intruder they see.

What's the plan, team?

[tiny_revolutionary]

"Uwaaaaah, there's so many of them." Inchling Girl had come as quickly as she could, but now that she could see them, the situation sure seemed a lot more daunting. "So those are the real bad guys?"

[knows_your_name]

Simon peers down, nodding. "Yeah, looks like it.."

He might be nervous about trying to use his powers for for good for the first time, but they're not going to be very successful if they're all worried. He nudges her lightly and puts on his best smile.

"But hey, we're gonna be alright! Those guys don't stand a chance against all us heroes."

[tiny_revolutionary]

"Y... yeah! I'm not worried! I'm not!"

She unsheathes her needle sword. "We can take them all on! It's for the good of everybody after all! ...I think." Okay, yeah, she's nervous, but at least she's eager.

[knows_your_name]

"That's the spirit!" He shakes her shoulder reassuringly.

"Just stay on your toes, and we're all going to be just fine."

That might've been directed a bit at himself, as well. He just needs to stay focused.

Re: THE APPROACH

[sebastiancafe]

"How tough are these things normally? They do not look tougher than lunkheads, but they look well armed."

The Kid wasn't used to walking metal, though he had blown up his share of turrets in the day.

[usedrapidspin]

"It's a good thing that robots aren't usually very smart. But how tough usually depends on the inventor."

Tails landed near Kid. He is pretty used to fighting robots, but what he really wanted was to find and disable the transmitter.

[sebastiancafe]

"It is. I guess we will need to just go in and find out then. Do you want to go straight to the transmitter and the boss guy or shall I handle him?"

The Kid figured he would fight all these big bucket of bolts by himself, but hey, others were here. Had to be considerate.

[usedrapidspin]

Considerate in a fight, that's kind of a new one. "I'd like to focus on disabling the transmitter as quickly as possible." But he also didn't want to just leave everyone to do the fighting.

"But it might be best if I lay low until there's an opening."

[sebastiancafe]

"Well, could lend you something of mine to help knock out the boss of these bots so you could get to the transmitter quicker."

[usedrapidspin]

"You've got something like that?"

[sebastiancafe]

"I have a few heavy grenades on my belt here. You look a lot more mobile than me, want to try them on him?"

[usedrapidspin]

"Yeah, I can give it a try." Holding out his hand for one, he looked down at the robots. It looked like they still had the element of surprise.

[sebastiancafe]

He handed the grenade over. Looked jagged and somewhat scrap made to anyone without a sharp eye, though the Kid told him where the pin was. Also another important note.

"It explodes on Impact, so make sure you have some distance before you toss it."

[fabricati_diem_pvnc]

Vimes wasn't QUITE sure what he and half a dozen squad cars were doing here. The business was all underground, and his officers seemed reluctant to go down there when a dozen super heroes were already here to duke it out with an army of robots. But he would be damned if there was a disaster on this scale in Venture City and afterwards people would say "And the police took no action."

So they've said up a cordon around the gym and are standing around keeping civilians away. Meanwhile Vimes himself is arguing with HQ about the possibility of getting a SWAT team sent in.

[terrorwhatflaps]

Traffic. Why had it been traffic? He really needed to get the Ratcatcher up and running if he was going to be of ANY use whatsoever here. Drake had taken the public transportation system as close as he dared, then changed into his costume in a convenient phone booth (thank you hipsters) and headed for the school.

Oops. Policemen. ... Well, maybe they were a little more receptive to heroes here in Venture City than they'd been in St. Canard. And less critical of his hat, to boot. He strode up confidently.

"You can relax, now, officers. Darkwing Duck is on the case."

[fabricati_diem_pvnc]

DW got a number of looks that weren't annoyed yet, but might start edging in that direction once they got over being confused.

Vimes looked up from the radio. "Right. Sure. Who the heck is Darkwing Duck?"

Before anyone could answer, he added on "If you just say 'I am!' I am going to get cross."

[starsburn]

[ Urk.

Shooter hadn't signed up expecting this. It's one thing to know you're about to go up against a ton of robots and another thing entirely to actually see them and know you're going to have to attack.

She swallows, hard. Time to try and be cool. ]

S--so, ahaha! Th--that's who we're takin' down, huh? Anyone got a plan? A--anyone?

[knows_your_name]

Good to know he's not the only one feeling stage fright.. He looks over the edge of the catwalk, taping his beard while he thinks.

"We should focus on the transmitter, first and foremost.", he says. "The robots are probably just here to guard it, so some of us should get their attention first. Then the others can deal with the machine while they're distracted!"

"I can help with the robots." he offers.

[starsburn]

Y--yeah, me too! I've got a pretty good cannon, so I just need to get some firing room and then --

[ she punches the palm of her hand and gives him a shaky grin. ]

Pow, you get it? Or I could use my sword if you need me to get in close!

[knows_your_name]

[He grins. She's starting to seem more confident about this..]

Whatever works best! We might want to steer clear of each other in the fray. My powers can be a bit unwieldy... and I don't really want to get in the way of a cannon!

[starsburn]

Alright! Long distance fighters it is! I'll keep an eye out for you and you can keep an eye out for me!