Collision Course

[lil_hellion]

A monk. In Manhattan.

A twelve year old orphan mutant monk. In Manhattan. That may or may not be linked with the Young Avengers.

The hell?Julian was having a hard time trying to wrap his mind around this. And around the fact that he was apparently supposed to find the kid and bring him back to the school. At least, that's what he thought Miss

Comments

[prettyfurfriend]

Catseye had been staying out of the scuffle, more or less, but the sight of the gold-skinned boy plummeting down on to Kate sends her springing forward with an outraged snarl. A predator knows killing and what Catseye sees is an attempt to break her friend's neck.

It's a good thing that Elixer can heal. When Catseye aims to tear him off of Kate, she's using fangs that can crack bone and claws that can rend kevlar without any thought of restraint.

[billy_be_a_hero]

There's a bright blue flash of light, and suddenly Asgardian, Hulkling and Speed are all standing in the alleyway as well.

"I told you. Locator spell and a teleport. So not difficult. And oh look, seems we've arrived just in time for a fight--Catseye, no!"

Nordic runes flick from an extended hand and Catseye turns intangible just long enough to go right through Elixir without killing him.

"Speed, see to her. And no killing, either of you."

[rock_slide]

Santo sees Archer Girl is occupied now with a malicious smirk, but it quickly fades as the other kid- and suddenly a big ASS CAT- enter the fray. All he can do is yell a warning off, before either possibly connect.

"Foley, watch your back!"

Aww, screw this!- He undelicately tugs the arrow out and tosses it away. His forearm might be temporarily useless, but the rest of him isn't. He charges toward Catseye in a full defensive body tackle that'd make Vince Lombardi proud, not registering yet the other new arrivals in the alleyway.

[lil_hellion]

This was starting to get out of hand. Time to start putting an end to things.

The garbage can lid that was thrown at Elixir is sent careening back towards Eli. "What happened to the shield; don't tell me you pawned it already." His tone was anything but jovial, and grew even more serious with his next comment.

"Order your team to stand down now, before someone else gets hurt."

[kate_bishop]

...ouch...ouch...fuck! Why is it everyone thinks that I am the one they need to drop a house on?!

She's trying to do a rapid body part inventory on herself...ten fingers, two arms, two legs...make sure everything moves the way it's supposed to. Problem is, things are getting bad..ok, worse..and she doesn't have time for more than that.

Something between her shoulder blades doesn't feel right and this just serves to piss her off more. Hearing Julian's demand just fans the fire.

She hopes whatever is wrong below her neck doesn't hampen her ability to shoot a bow as she bypasses the fletchings of the less damaging arrows, chosing instead from the ones that are a bit more...impressing.

The arrow is clenched between her teeth as she uses a trashcan and a box to heft herself up, then draws a bead on Julian.

"Patriot! No holds barred! They're going for throats!"

[lt_legacy]

Hellion is once again assuming Patriot is where he left him. One of these days, that is going to get his ass kicked. It's also not like he hasn't been calling for his people to stand down this whole damn fight. So why isn't Hellion able to give that command to his people?

"Archer! Hold fire! Gold kid - I suggest you stay right where the cat wants you if you want to breathe!"

If Hellion does the TK pull again, he'll be in for a nasty surprise.

"Now you - little boy - you will take your little children and leave. You will not take Ang with you. If you all come back and molest this group again I will make sure the next people you chuckle to will be in the metahuman juvie lockup! In return, you all will leave and I can throw the cops - who are on their way - off your scent. Yes or no, jackass?"

[tommyshepherd]

He could blow Grey Thing up, but maybe that's not the smartest way to go.

Besides, Billy clearly told Tommy not to kill anyone.

Instead, he rushes him, using all of his superspeed to try to knock the guy over.

"Don't hurt the cat, Rocky."

[hunkling]

Teddy shifted into his Hulkling form almost the instant they emerged from the teleport. Completely forgetting to remove his hoodie, now in tatters on the ground.

After a quick nod to Billy--a nod of mixed communication, including but not limited to stay safe, thanks, and I'll handle this--Hulkling moved forward to back up Tommy, but made no attempt at a direct assault...yet.

[lil_hellion]

Being able to and being willing to are two different things. No flatscan is going to order him around.

Eli's hiding again, so Julian takes a moment to raise above the crowd to search him out. "Whether or not Ang comes with us is entirely up to the kid, not you, you miserable punk ass bitch! Its his life, flatscan; no one else has a say in this." Including Julian's team, a fact he was never willing to deny.

Found ya!

"The cops know exactly where to find me. So does SHIELD, the X-Men, and the Avengers. I'm not worried about any of them, especially the cops. After all, I'm not the one wanted for grand theft shield, Private America

[lt_legacy]

It has the same effect.

The fire escapes on both sides of the alley give way. Eli did the math and his people are just barely out of the way. Not so for Julian and the Rock guy.

[kate_bishop]

She's not happy about it, but she's held fire. That is until things suddenly started falling.

After an initial wince to make sure nothing was hitting her, she drew back completely, waiting for the right moment to fire off a gas tip into Julian's group.

[magnetlips]

Cassie wanted to help her team out, and a tiny part of her wanted to throw the guy she was holding at that jerk leading this team, but after her captive had said tag people in the streets started swarming her like fire ants protecting their nest.

"Whoa hey!" She was afraid to shrink down for fear of getting trampled, and she didn't exactly have any room to grow. "What did you do to me?"

[prettyfurfriend]

Catseye grunts in surprise as she misses her strike, passing clean through her target with no bloodshed. She falters the landing and somersaults, jumping to her feet just as Santo comes barelling down the alley. This, at least, is familiar...and the rocky youth isn't nearly as fast or impressive as Rhino. He fills most of the free space between the walls, making dodging a tricky proposition at best, so the Catseye simply goes up, leaping for the sagging remnants of a fire escape. The rusty new perch creaks and groans warningly at the feline's weight, but she grins anyway as she catches a glimpse of Tommy comes to intercept the rock boy. Good

[rock_slide]

The purple panther-cougar-bigASSCAT thing leaps up as he simultaneously feels a shove changing his momentum and ends up colliding into one of the walls holding up the alley. It takes him a few moments to shake off the daze from his brain before registering the culprits. Where the hell did Speedo come from? And dude, the big green guy behind him.

He glares. "The cat is trying to eat my teammate, Ken and Barbie. And I might not like Goldie much, but attacking my teammates just ain't on. So why don'cha shut the hell up and get outta the way?" He starts toward one of the big alley dumpsters, intent on using one as a convenient projectile. Before he succeeds, the groan and wrench of metal is heard and he's caught right beneath the collapse.

[billy_be_a_hero]

"Would anyone mind telling me what's going on, and what Ang has to do with any of this?"

Billy floats up opposite Hellion, preparing to try and subdue him before Catseye leaps after him. New tactic, then.

A hand explodes in blue light, and a shield begins forming around Cassie and spreading outwards. The people on the street are pushed away from her, giving her time to recover.

[lt_legacy]

"Now that we have everyone's attention -" A glare towards Julian and Santo. "Including you fools - can everyone under the goddamn age of 18 please stand the hell down?"

Yup, this would be Patriot undermining a somewhat incapacitated Julian - for his own good.