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.

Comments

[starsburn]

[ that certainly looks like her cue.

With a movement that's just a little too fluid to usually credit to a girl her size, Shooter sweeps forward towards the bot and swings her cannon through the air, aiming to smash it into the bot's side.

Maybe if it's still functional when it's out for the count they can get information out of it-- or something! ]

[omegamods]

Nice shot! The swing knocks Leader One away, crashing into a pile of Deviobots... but then bounces back, sans helmet, with a flying kick at Black Rock Shooter! As he kicks, his extended foot spins around like a drill, just for added impact.

[starsburn]

[ Shooter has the presence of mind to try and block the hit, swinging her cannon to put it between herself and the bot. Unfortunately this just means that when the impact of the kick meets the cannon, it smacks it back into her face, stunning her and sending her staggering.

No nosebleed? She checks hastily with her free hand and -- no, no nosebleed but it's definitely going to bruise.

Struggling to recover, she turns as quick as she can, trying to point and aim the cannon in the direction of the bot. ]

[omegamods]

[ And yet, it's too fast! By the time she's got her cannon ready to aim, Leader One is already too close to easily shoot, read to follow up that kick with an equally-spinny punch.

This Deviobot isn't on the same level as the rest, and someone taught it Kung Fu. This is gonna be a tough fight! ]

[starsburn]

[ aaarrgghhh, her cannon's going to be too unweldy for a fight like this and she doesn't feel as comfortable with her sword, but she's going to have to --

she keeps her cannon held up between them and the impact of the punch knocks it back towards her face against, but this time she manages to lean her head back before it knocks straight into her face. One hand fumbles around for her sword and as soon as her fingers close around the hilt she wills her cannon away.

It bursts into blue flames and then into nothing -- and while the Deviobot is hopefully distracted, she follows through, swishing her sword towards it in an arcing motion. ]

[tiny_revolutionary]

[Meanwhile, if the robot had been paying any attention to whatever had caused the helmet to get bigger, he might have been better equipped to spot the tiny little thing bouncing around its legs. And as it spinny punches, she takes this lovely opportunity to grow JUST large enough...

...and shrink the bolts around its knees. One wonders why she doesn't just shrink the robot. DETAILS.]

[omegamods]

[Leader One is ready to take the attack... but then he backsteps on a leg destabilized by some loose bolts, and staggers! Caught off guard, he loses a hand to the sword swing.

Jumping back on his good leg, Leader One's shoulders pop open, firing a pair of missiles. Take that, Black Rock Shooter!]

[starsburn]

[ ARE YOU KIDDING HER

She reels back as fast as she can, swiping her sword through the air -- it cuts through the missles and they explode before impact. Heat washes over her and flecks of debris slice open cuts across her face and rips in her sleeves and gloves.

There's smoke everywhere and she staggers in the direction she last saw Leader One, swinging blindly with her sword. He has to be around here somewhere...! ]

[omegamods]

[ Somewhere indeed... and there he is!

Out from the smoke behind Black Rock Shooter emerges Leader One, his remaining hand turned into an electric stun gun. Think fast! ]

[starsburn]

[ unfortunately, thinking fast is not one of shooter's strengths and she doesn't even have a chance to step back before the stun gun jabs into her chest.

She's distantly aware of hearing herself let out a shriek of pain and her body jitters before she tumbles backwards, each blink alternating red and white behind her eyes. ]

[omegamods]

[ Leader One advances on the damaged magical girl, hand swapped from stun gun to hammer. Is this the end for our hero?! ]

[knows_your_name]

Leader One will find his approach suddenly halted by the block of ice Simon is forming around his feet. He also shoots a freezing gust of wind out in order to push Shooter farther out of the robot's range. It's not entirely gentle, but he needed to move her out of harm's way quickly.

Simon waves his arms to further catch the robot's attention.

"Hey, wadbag! Come pick on somebody your own size!"

The icy magic surrounding his hands crackles in a dangerous threat.

[omegamods]

The gambit works! Leader One's advance is halted, at least long enough for Black Rock Shooter to escape, before he can break out of the ice.

"Come on, why do you heroes gotta make everything so difficult?" The hammer transforms into a laser gun aimed at Simon. However, he can only point that thing at one hero at a time...

[starsburn]

[ Still reeling with pain, Shooter scrambles to her feet as soon as she can, intending to put as much distance between herself and Leader One as possible -- she really doesn't want to see what other weapons it has.

But then Simon provides the distraction she needs and after wavering for a moment (look, that stun gun hurt, okay), she turns back around. In a burst of radiant flame, her cannon rematerializes and she takes careful aim before firing a bolt towards the robot. ]

[omegamods]

[ Will it work? Will she be able to stop the fearsome Leader One?!





A moment later, the robot's head hits the ground, the body wandering around aimlessly in search of it. ]

Why do you heroes have to make everything so difficult?

No, you stupid body! I'm over here!

[starsburn]

[ VICTORY

Shooter grins triumphantly, watching with a rather smug feeling in her chest as the body goes wandering off. She hurries forward and in a swift movement, slams her foot down on the top of the decapitated head -- not hard enough to do any real damage, but enough to serve as a warning. ]

So! Are you gonna talk or not?

[omegamods]

Hah! What do you expect me to talk about, meatbag?

[ It's surprisingly cheeky for a severed head. ]

[knows_your_name]

What does that- uh.. [He taps his crown, trying to remember the word.]

Transmitter! What does it do?

[omegamods]

You want me to talk about that? Well here it is, my awesome answer in ten words or less!

[Leader One's eyes start blinking red.]

TEN
NINE
EIGHT
SEVEN
SIX

[starsburn]

[ OH

OH THAT'S NOT GOOD

Suddenly very glad that she'd planted her foot on top of the robot's head, Shooter swings her foot and kicks it as hard as she can away from them -- aiming towards Leader One's body -- before turning on her heel and getting the hell out of dodge ]

W--we should probably start running!

[knows_your_name]

[You don't need to tell him!! He follows right on her heels, but the timer is nearly down! He has no idea if they can make it far enough out of the blast's range, so he raises his arms and casts a thick dome of ice around them.]

[omegamods]

[BOOM.





That was kind of a small explosion, really. The only real result is that Leader One is no more.]

[knows_your_name]

[....]

Oh.

Well.. that was a little underwhelming.

[The shield melts and he kicks a broken piece of robot away.]

[starsburn]

... I was expecting a huge explosion...

[ SHOOTER WHY DO YOU SOUND DISAPPOINTED

But then she grins and pumps the air with a fist. ]

But we did it! We make a good team!

[knows_your_name]

Me too... But heh-hey, yeah! We did!

[He raises his hand up for a high-five.]

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