Issue 12: I Never got the Hang of Thursdays

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:44 pm

Shitshitshitshit wait, I'm metal, this is okay, that's... a big guy... okay, let's see if this WORKS! Alex drew himself up on the ball, trying to use its flying momentum to add to his iron punch that he... hoped would connect with Thunderball's jaw. "LOOK OUUUUTTTT!" he shouted as he streaked through the air.

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:46 pm

"Alex!" Haley cried out as she saw him get yanked through the air. She ripped herself free of the shrubs, and then punched her way through the maze with her TK in one blast. Looked like people would have a shortcut to the center for a while at least.

She rushed out of the maze and her eyes widened as she saw the grounds turned into a small battlefield.

"Oh shiiiiiiiit...."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:48 pm

Captain Britain tumbled out of the way as Alex took the Thunderball Express overhead.

by **Narrator** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:03 pm

Wrecker was smacked, simultaneously, by a horrible tentacle beast and a blasting Ryan, opening himself up for a slash by Kevin.

"You stinkin' pipsqueaks! Gonna pound your brains outta your nose," he said, slinging his crowbar like a missile up towards Ryan, and, in one motion, bending over to pick up Kevin, pulling him in the way of Amanda.

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Piledriver found his face pile-drove into the ground by the fantastic Bowen team.

"Don't let up!" Will said, coming in with a sliding kick of his own. "Big ugly can take it. Drop another elbow!"

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The mystic veils washed over Bulldozer, disrupting him and slowing him down, reducing the weight pushing against Sara. He turned his head to look, to see what the heck was going on -- and that's when Melody's bomb exploded, blasting him to the ground, where he tried to stand up again, clearly dazed.

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Janice was able to roll out of the way, and the added mass -- and steering! -- of the wrecking ball caught Thunderball off guard.

"Blast!" he said, hitting the ground, letting Alex and the ball continue on it's path towards the lighthouse.

by **Cecil Langdon** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:11 pm

Hearing Will's remark Cecil rushed at Piledriver, again jumping up in the air, but this time to deliver a drop kick to the still knocked down villain.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:12 pm

And that was when Captain Britain took advantage of the fact that she could fly instead of just scrabbling to her feet, and rushed at Thunderball to try to clobber him with the Star Scepter.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:13 pm

Sara follows up on the tumbling Bulldozer, shifting mass into her fist as she pulls it back to pound on the guy's helmet.

by **ASHLIE** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:16 pm

"Main Directive, prevent damage to Keystone structure!" Ashlie announces, somewhat to her own surprise, as the hardlight generators come to life again in what is probably their original purpose, projecting a shield in front of the lighthouse. She tries to calculate velocity, vector and rotation of the wrecking ball to make it hit the shield with the side that doesn't have Alex stuck on.

by **Thomas Bowen** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:22 pm

Tommy stood up, looking back in the direction of the lighthouse, breathing heavily, and glad he stayed away from that freaking wrecking ball.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:24 pm

"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!" Okay... this is bad... problem is this wrecking ball. Soooo... Praying that he could actually do this, Alex started trying to change the ball's shape, aiming to expand it into a wide plate so that maybe, maybe air resistance would slow it down.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:28 pm

Bobby kept Piledriver down as best he could, wrapping his brass body around the shins of his legs.

Christy, meanwhile, lined up another million dollar punch..

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:29 pm

Haley saw Alex speeding towards the lighthouse and tried to slow him down with a yank from her TK. She wasn't even sure she could reach that far, but if she could take down buildings, she was going to damn well try.

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:30 pm

Ryan's wings curled instinctively around him, flaring with light as he dropped toward the ground, seemingly in a lightforce coccoon that he sure as hell wasn't going to drop until he felt the crowbar glance off of it.

by **Melody Martens** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:32 pm

Melody chucked another bomb right at Bulldozer's crotch while he lay prone.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:39 pm

And just as she'd disrupted Bulldozer's connection to the Norn powers, Victoria sent a similar spell at Janice to open her own connection further. "No one ever teaches these bastards not to hit a lady... I guess it's up to us to teach that one."

by **Narrator** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:06 pm

Poor Piledriver was...well, piledriven, behind the combined forces of Cecil, Will, and the two Bowens. He wasn't getting up any time soon.

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Alex was able to manipuate the surface of the wrecking ball significantly. If he had had some more practice -- or if he just had some more space -- it totally would have "worked", for values of worked meaning awkwardly crashing to the ground. Still, the theory was sound.

ASHLIE's forcefields bounced the ball, with Alex attached to it, around a number of times, helping reduce momentum and prevent, y'know, complete destruction of the lighthouse.

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Captain Britain rushed at Thunderball with her Star Sceptre. He seemed poised to possibly counter it -- but the slight boost Janice got from Vicky was enough to get past that, and he was clobbered upside the head, and staggered, wide open for a followup attack.

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Poor Bulldozer. No one really deserved that. He'd be singing soprano for a while. Plus, he'd have an AWFUL ringing in his ears. He was out for the count.

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Ryan was knocked off course by the crowbar, though any actual damage was absorbed nicely by his shield. The crowbar returned to Wrecker's hands, and he used it to continue attempting to fend off Amanda. He thrust it at her, and concentrated, beginning to take possession of the hell-beast.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:07 pm

"Captain, knock his block off!" Will said, darting across the lawn and diving towards the staggering Thunderball's feet, gooifying and swirling around his legs before solidifying like a VERY quick-drying glue.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:13 pm

Amanda felt the mental attack, and new that she had to end this quickly. She moved forward, now trying to encircle him with her larger, more muscular tentacles.

by **Byrna Cooper** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:16 pm

One of the x-men 4x4s pulled up, disgorging Bear and a contingent of X-Men to help out where needed.

"Spread out! The Wrecking Crew are all strength, keep your distance unless you can go toe to toe with Juggernaut!"

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:26 pm

Ryan skidded to a stop on the ground, and then the cocoon burst open, a dozen feather-like projectiles darting at Wrecker. All right, just like I've been practicing... He lashed out with his wings, entirely composed of energy now, trying to run them through Wrecker before Kevin and Amanda got wrecked.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:27 pm

Alex, meanwhile, just kind of ricochetted all over the place. This. Is. Not. Fun.

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:34 pm

Haley moved closer to the action, trying to slow down Alex, her arm outstretched and eyes narrowed in concentration.

by **Cecil Langdon** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:38 pm

Cecil looked between the two that were still up. It wasn't that he thought Thunderball was the biggest threat, he still wasn't sure of that, he just wasn't sure what to do against Wrecker without getting in the way of the tentacles, laser swords, and light blasts. So Thunderball it was.

He rushed towards Thunderball getting a little distance off the ground and delivered a kick to his head.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:42 pm

Bobby got up, giving his sister a fist bump.

"Nice job, Rock."

by **Narrator** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:55 pm

Hey, Haley was getting the hang of this! Pinball Alex slowed towards something resembling a stop.

Haley's accuracy was less than "the hang of this", and Alex bounced off the ground with the wrecking ball on top, but at least that was the LAST bounce.
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Janice came from one direction. Cecil from another.

There wasn't much Thunderball could do but be knocked out entirely. Three down.

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Ryan's accuracy was second to...well, second to Bear's, probably, but it was still pretty darn good. The feather-projectiles hit Wrecker in multiple places, dropping his mental assault on Amanda. The tentacles than grabbed and squeezed him tight. He was in trouble.

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:05 pm

Haley, seeing that most of the big bads were down, and there was plenty left to deal with the remaining, ran towards Alex.

"Holy shit dude, are you okay?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:32 pm

"That was fucked up," Alex said, looking as dazed as he felt. "Did I smash anything?"

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:37 pm

"Mostly the ground...but I think you mostly avoiding slamming directly into the lighthouse, so that's good. You okay?"

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:40 pm

Amanda squeezed him. Not enough to cause damage, but enough that he wouldn't be a happy camper, and he wouldn't be going anywhere.

by **Kevin Gravis** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:07 am

Kevin, free again, grinned at Wrecker.

"So... tell the neighborhood association to fuck off... okey doke?"

He then punched him hard in the face with a hot glowing gauntlet.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:29 pm

"I'd leave the interrogation to the professionals, Lionheart," Captain Britain said as she worked on securing Thunderball.

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:35 pm

"Ooph..." Sara stands back up and lets some of the rock she's absorbed flow out of her and onto Bulldozer's hands to embed them, just to make sure.

by **Melody Martens** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:48 pm

"You alright Flowstone?" Melody asked, eyes scanning around to make sure nothing else was incoming.

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:54 pm

"Yeah, just a little rusty."

by **Melody Martens** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:04 pm

"Looked fine to me," she smiled. "Thanks. That guy would've probably killed me."

by **Narrator** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:47 pm

The combination of Amanda's squeezes, Ryan's bolts, and Kevin's fist to the face, were enough to have Wrecker seeing stars.

by **Loki Laufeyson** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:48 pm

"Oh, bravo," a voice came from above, complete with slow-clap.

Sitting on the edge of a window quite a ways up the lighthouse was a man in an impeccably tailored suit.

by **Kevin Gravis** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:17 pm

"A slow clap? Really? Is this guy an eighties villain?"

by **Ryan Gabriel** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:26 pm

"I don't think slow claps ever really went out of style," Ryan said, looking warily up at him.

by **Melody Martens** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:28 pm

"Who the fuck are you?" Melody demanded.

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