An aPAWling turn of events [Open]

Chessa was currently napping on the couch, as she did while Daniel was off doing things. What did he do? Things that involved stuff, belonging to things to come maybe. Moving to this city and getting a new "job" was the best vacation from STAR labs she could've asked for. As exciting and informative as it was being a scientist, there was still plenty of caveats. Interns needed to be watched constantly, coworkers always mistook her for someone's kid (was funny as hell pretending for awhile there), dealing with the moral rammifications of her research that was more than likely used for the personal gain of higher ups and detriment to the rest of superhuman kind, and of course people forgetting to refill the god damned coffee pot. She was lazy and all that, but it literally took no time, and she knew what it was like being a zombie slaving away for eight hours straight. Still, she got her point across after some of the worst offenders suddenly founded their offices vandalized with toilet paper, toothpaste and gum.

BUT that's not what this post is about. Instead we take you to the mall, where Chessa is currently minding her own business with a soda. She was doing some clothes shopping, you could never have enough hoodies! She didn't really care that it was hardly the season for it, she loved wearing hoodies. They were comfy and great for randomly falling asleep in. Come to think of it, she could've been falling asleep more often because of the heat. Nah, it totally wasn't her beloved hoodies. But she did also get some new bathing suits, in the off chance she wanted to go swimming or something. Maybe if a certain green haired lord of order were to ask her-

Cut back to Sconehenge with Chessa...

"So here's what I've found so far Cain sweety~" Chessa yawned sleepily, scrolling through the pics she took on her phone of her trying on each bathing suit. Plenty of which were quite steamy and lewd.

Meanwhile, back at the mall where the actual subject of this thread is...

Chessa would jump with a start at the sound of breaking glass, followed by some screams. Then there was a commotion at the food court as a familiar band of supervillains was trying to do a smash and grab. A bald little goblin with a tech pack, a towering ginger behemoth, a giant nerd with a cyclops eye, some hillbilly that could somehow count higher than his fingers and toes- was that Batman? No wait, it was that mute guy. All that was missing was Jinx for obvious reasons, and that... army hive guy. "I should probably hurry..." Chessa said to know one but the invisible gods of this world, casually walking through the middle of the H5's smash and grab.

(feel free to NPC them too, I'm too lazy to do it all the time )

Before the appearance of the HIVE Five a blonde young man would be walking through the street outside the mall, accompanied by a middle-aged police officer. The young man was blonde, handsome and had a fit and muscular frame, but what really drew people's attention was the blue bodysuit he wore and the 'H' emblazoned on the chest. The young man's name was Chris, and he felt ridiculous. He had been told by his superiors that wearing a costume like this was a defining part of being a superhero, but he certainly didn't feel very super in an outfit like this.

As the two of them walked by the cop was telling Chris about the area "Now you won't get any giant monsters stomping through here boyo, but this is an important stop on your patrol nonetheless. You never know when something might happen here at the mall." As if on queue Chris and the cop both got a message on their radios, informing them of a cash and grab happening in the mall. It wasn't just a bunch of thugs in hoodies pulling off this crime though, it was the HIVE Five.

Chris ran into the mall while the cop he was with called for backup. Once inside Chris would run over to the commotion, seeing the HIVE Five ransacking the place. But his eyes were also drawn to one girl who seemed to just be... ignoring them? Was the girl in the hoodie one of them? Where they the HIVE Six now? There was only one way to find out. Chris took one of his Steel Balls out of its holster and stepped forward with his chest out, then shouted loud enough that he would easily be heard over the commotion "Stop! If you surrender now your prison sentences will be lighter!"

The young hero didn't seriously expect them to actually surrender, but it would attract their attention and this way they can't say he didn't offer.

Now there was a face she was not expecting to see here of all times and places- well, she didn't know him personally. "Heya Meowtamorphi~" Chessa waved at him as if she knew him. She didn't, at least not personally and at least not for... until a certain length of time. "Didja lose a bet or did you get your dry cleaning mixed up with Superman?" she added teasingly.

"Huh? HAHAHAHAHA! Look at this clown!" Gizmo laughed, sitting atop his pile of stolen electronics and games atop a floating disc. "What's the H stand for? Hilarious Clown?" Gizmo continued to laugh mockingly.

"Yeah man, I've seen some tacky costumes before but yours takes the cake," See-More said from his perch on the second floor.

"Did somebody say cake?" Mammoth erupted from a store front, carrying several safes he had ripped from their respective stores as he stopped and looked at Chris, laughing a moment later.

"Shoot man, not everyone can pull off the spandex look. Not like Billy here- isn't that right Billy?" A Billy Numerous riding an ATV called over to another pair of Billys carrying a vending machine. "That's right Billy. Only yours truly has the devilish good looks to make the spandex look work!" One of the Billys replied.

"When yer down kicking their butts, we should get some pizza or something," Chessa offered, continuing to walk by to a bench nearby to take a load off.

Kyd Wykkyd would appear amongst the others, who were mostly laughing at Chris' appearance.

Rico was in the mall today, looking for some new books in the little outlets there, when she heard a commotion nearby. Her lips formed a line as she put the books back and quickly made her way out of the store. She was wearing casual clothes, but it wasn't like she had invested in any armor to put on anyways. She unclipped the holster for her pistol, Pistolet et Fleur, and would take La Reine Tueuse in its collapsed form out from her bag as she approached the scene.

Cain, back at the Sconehenge, would grin lightly at the photos of Chessa. "Are you sure you aren't actually a cat girl, Chessa? You sure know how to make me purr~." She would scroll through the collection.

Meanwhile, back at the plot... yes, there's a plot! Rico activated the mechanism on La Reine Tueuse, as it unfolded to its full size, and then she planted it in the floor, using the motorcycle handbrake to rev it up very loudly, as hot air currents billowed out of the mechanism in response. The blade glowing red near it. "While I might not agree with the costume either, he's right. Police have already been notified. Pack it up and we won't need to beat you into the floor."

Chris hadn't seriously expected the HIVE Five to all be so intimidated by his appearance that they surrendered on the spot or anything, but even in this outfit he would never have guessed that they all burst out laughing at the sight of him. Kind of hypocritical of them, considering none of their costumes looked all that good either. Once they were all finished roasting him a white haired girl entered the scene wielding an interesting looking sword and a gun, from the sound of things she was one of those heroes Chris had heard so much about.

Either way her loud weapon drew the attention of the HIVE Five, which gave Chris just the opening he needed to take action. First he whipped his arm out like a snake and threw his ball right at Mammoth, striking the gargantuan ginger right in the face. As tough as Mammoth was the attack didn't do all that much damage, but it had taken him off guard and made him stumble back with his eyes watering. At the same moment he kicked off the ground and launched himself right at the Billy Numerous trio, despite his complete lack of wit Billy actually had quite a dangerous ability so Chris decided to target him first. Closing the gap in a second, Chris threw a punch to the Billy riding the ATV that would for sure be a knockout blow if it hit.

He didn't even bat an eye when she punned his name, odd. Oh well, it didn't matter too much as she sat down and got ready to enjoy the show.


Meanwhile, back at the obligatory cameo appearance of Cain....

"Heeheehee~ oh, by the way. Just bumped into Meowtamoprhi. For some reason he's dressed up like a stand in for Superman," Chessa giggled.

Back to the scene where I do a lot of things!


And it surely would've, if not for a sudden and timely eye-bubble shield from See-more. It gave the Billy just enough time to react when Chris managed to pop it, and immediately started to clone himself. "Look alive boys! It's wasslin' time!" A Billy whistled as the new batch tried to tackle Chris to the ground.

"Quit yer blubbering Mammoth! We got snot sniffers here!" Gizmo sprouted a jetpack from his... backpack and took to the air.

Mammoth would regain some of his composure and immediately letting out a bellowing roar as he charged at Chris! "That really hurt ya know!"

"Mammoth not that way! Rock brained..." Gizmo mumbled irratibly as he started flying overhead Rico, letting off a barrage of energy bolts before Wykkyd just... appeared and tried to hit and run Rico with a kick; then he vanished and reappeared at a different angle with a hook before darting away again. Then See-More started firing basketball sized... eyeballs at Rico from his position on the second floor.

Cain giggled lightly herself at the mention of Metamorphi and how he had shown up like a stand-in for Superman. "Well, hey, we can't blame Metamorphi for wanting to be like Superman, now can we? I mean, what American doesn't want to be Superman?"

Rico plucked her sword from the floor, holding it at the ready to her side as she watched Chris and the Hive Five spring into action. Gizmo started making his way over, and she saw Kyd Wykkyd look in her direction and disappear. Uh oh. Where did he go? No time to think. She started doging the energy bolts, running off in a direction opposing Gizmo's, before she found a kick in her stomach. She clenched her teeth, and then jumped into Gizmo's line of fire as Kyd Wykkyd appeared where she would have been if she kept going, and she clubbed his legs while he was punching with the flat of her hunk of iron sword. She put it over her shoulder, looking down at him. "What, no chit-chat or monologue? Just getting right to the point, huh?" She blinked and heard See-More start firing as Kyd Wykkyd used that chance to disappear.

She drew Pistolet et Fleur while See-More was honed in on her, pacing left meaningfully as she shot and deflected three of See-More's projectiles before getting behind a pillar and reloading. When done, she ran out and jumped, revving her sword as it helped propel her through the air. It wasn't making her fly or anything, only helping her jump further. She landed on the railing next to See-More and would kick him across the face on her same step down to the floor, and then fire two rubber shots directly into one of his feet.

Chris let out a grunt of annoyance as his attempt to take Billy Numerous out of the picture was rudely interrupted by the timely assistance of See-more, who surrounded the red-neck with a barrier that protected him from Chris' punch. This gave Billy an opportunity to do what he does best and replicate himself, creating a dozen copies of himself to swarm Chris and bring him down to the ground. Except they found that they couldn't, even with strength in numbers Chris was more than able to hold his own against the swarm of Billy's and push them back, sending them all sprawling against the ground.

What wouldn't be quite so easy to brush off was the charge from Mammoth, who was none too pleased by getting hit in the face with a one-ton piece of metal. Chris would watch him charge until the last second, where he would deftly leap out of the way and watch as Mammoth overshot his target and ran into the group of Billy's who had been picking themselves up, knocking them back down again.

While Chris had a moment to breathe he directed his attention to the white haired girl and the villains attacking her, while she seemed perfectly capable of defending herself with that unusual sword of hers 3v1 was still a little unfair. For that reason he decided to help her out, he took out one of his steel balls and tossed it at Gizmo, hoping to hit his jetpack and knock him out of the sky. It was a noble gesture, but now he was out of ammo, and had to tangle with Mammoth man to man "Let's go."

Gizmo would easily avoid the ball, not because he tried to dodge it so much as the fact he was a small flying target, but he did laugh- he hadn't stopped flying and was actually turning back around as See-more took a kick to the face! "You think your fancy tricks are gonna work against all of us?" Gizmo laughed. He'd let off another barrage of energy bolts at her, trying to give See-more a chance to get back to his feet. Wykkyd would rejoin the fray after Gizmo's next pass, covering his escape by reappearing by Rico and throwing a kick at her before trying to warp him and See-More elsewhere nearby.


Meanwhile... The Billy Bowling Pins would all be quite dizzy and disorientated after Chris and Mammoth got done with them. "Oops," Mammoth apologized as he turned around, ripping a bench out of the floor and brandished it like a weapon as he charged at Chris and started swinging. One of the Billys that had been stealing a soda machine would start replicating. Who said they wouldn't be able to overpower Chris with numbers? Unless Chris weighed as much as he lifted, they'd eventually have success! He did briefly steal an entire bridge after all...


Unfortunately for everyone involved, yet ANOTHER challenger approached! A green armored, cannon toting and Meat-bag hating robot by the name of CAP would wade through the panicked civillians, kick his thrusters on and speed toward the sound of combat. If these kids thought they could take on two supers AND a war machine, they were idiots...

She holstered Pistolet et Fleur, keeping her sword at her side. With those two rubber slugs hitting See-More's foot, maybe he'd have trouble getting away. She then heard Gizmo flying near, taunting her about her stylish moves. She would run along the balcony of the mall to avoid his blasts, and then jump, grabbing a pillar while Kyd Wykkyd appeared near See-More and took him away. With that pillar, she would sling herself into the air at Gizmo to intercept him before he could veer off.

"Yeah, that's usually the way these things go."

"Wh- GET OFF! You weigh too much!" Gizmo was veering as he tried to stay in the air, getting closer and closer to the ground. He would begin to deploy the spider legs from his pack to help shove Rico off and not crash and burn. But he had just called her heavy.

"You kids are so rude these days. Fine." She cut the straps holding Gizmo's pack onto him, letting him crash and slide along the floor while she dropped the pack. She then promptly projected her arm and crushed it. He should be out long enough for her to deal with the others. "Now where did Kyd go..." She looked around, knowing he was blinking about somewhere. But she did notice an armored suit rush into the fray as Chris was dealing with Mammoth. That meant it was up to her to find Kyd Wykkyd and See-More. So she began running to check out any hiding places she could think of, but also stayed close to the battle, since Kyd Wykkyd seemed pretty helpful to his team.

As much as Chris' attempt to take out Gizmo was made with good intention it would end up being all for nothing as his ball swerved right past the little gremlin. It was annoying, but not the end of the world. What was a much larger deal was the orange haired behemoth swinging a bench that he was now faced with, alongside the newly replicating Billy Numerous. This was why he had wanted to take out Billy first.

As Mammoth came at him with the bench Chris would jump up over the bench and land an uppercut on the giant's chin, causing him to stumble back slightly. As Chris landed he would jump up again and land a kick to the side of Mammoth's head, making him sway to the side and cry out. Mammoth growled in anger and swung back with a fist the size of Chris' torso and smashed him back down to the ground, leaving a small crater in the concrete "Graagh!!!"

Chris grunted as he climbed up to his feet, seemingly none worse for wear despite taking such a heavy hit. He'd read in Mammoth's file how tough the brute was, but that didn't actually prepare him for taking his right hook. While he and Mammoth had been fighting each other Billy had amassed himself a new posse which were now looking to bowl him over. Chris jumped up high into the air to make some space between him and his foes, and at that moment he saw CAP flying over "Hey, you're CAP right? Can I have some assistance?" While he'd been warned that CAP had a reputation for being rather heavy handed in these sort of situations Chris couldn't really complain, any backup would be handy right about now.

Gizmo sat up and muttered something under his breath irratibly- something along the lines of snot gobbling witch, something something. But without his tech he was basically useless and could only hope that either Wykyyd came back for him next, or that he could sneak away... until the mechanical menace entered the fray.


"Just don't get in my way," CAP retorted to Chris as he touched down, his missle rack popping out and preparing to lock on while his cannon hummed. Gizmo was more or less neutralized, he'd give him a sawk to the head if he didn't have more pressing matters to deal with as Mammoth and Billystarted to team up. Mammoth throwing the Billys at CAP and Chris to try and multiply ontop of them. CAP kicked his thrusters on and moved to the side, firing off a single missle straight toward Mammoth while his cannon narrowed with a not so familiar ringing sound.

CAP's main target was Mammoth, who wasn't the most dangerous one here; but he would be one of the easier ones to take out of the fight with a well placed shot. Taking to the air again after his missle, Mammoth not wanting to risk it, jumped up over the missile as CAP sawked him back down onto the ground. CAP's cannon now with a perfect shot, fired one shot and tagged him in the chest. For a brief moment it didn't seem to do anything, until another faint ringing sound that was followed by Mammoth being electrocuted by red electricity and screaming out in agony. This would persist on and off, until Mammoth was rendered unconscious.

"W-whoa now! No reason to do anything rash like that," one of the various Billys remarked, CAP rounding him with red glowing eyes.

"On the ground, NOW!" CAP commanded, his cannon warming up for another shot. Billys would attempt to flee, forcing CAP to make use of a trick he for some reason had in his database where he took one Billy, and slammed it into another one; leaving one less Billy to chase down. "If you force to of them together, they fuse together," CAP barked to Chris, not openly admitting that he was asking for help. But logically he wouldn't be able to successfully catch them all on his own... not unless he was permitted to cause even more damage- but hey, at least he wasn't making use of his flamethrower!


Gizmo seeing Mammoth taken down in such a way, definitely would be trying to make his escape when Kyd reappeared to try and bring him to safety next...

Kyd Wykkyd would come from the void once more near Gizmo, looking around briefly for any trouble. It seemed Rico had taken the bait.

"There you are! What took you so long? Hanging out with your new girlfriend?! The child was throwing a veritable temper tantrum as Wykkyd looked at them silently in disdain. "She crushed my pack! That's a week long replacement!"

Kyd Wykkyd rolled his eyes silently and reached out for Gizmo. Suddenly, Rico dropped down and kicked Gizmo away, snapping the leg out again to kick Wykkyd into the wall. He was taken by surprise and then Rico would clamp her demonic arm over his face. "Alright Kyd. If you want to play tag, then let's go." His eyes widened. Her red arm suddenly became black, and was glowing with red energy from the membranes. He regained his wits and disappeared, teleporting behind her to kick for her knee. But then, he was in for another surprise- she teleported, too!

He turned around just in time to feel her demonic fist punch his face. She kept up the work, punching him in the torso a few times and sweeping his legs, but when the initial shock wore off, they would flicker around the battlefield trading blows with each other. But Rico was landing them far more often, seeing how he preferred to teleport and taking advantage of it to hit him before he could even attack. Eventually she appeared near where CAP and Chris were fighting, kicking Kyd Wykkyd so he would slide across the floor. "Not as fun when you can't get in cheap shots, huh?"

As Chris requested CAP's help the robot would accept his offer, albeit in quite a brusque way, and prepared to open fire with missiles. Seemed a bit overboard considering there were still civilians in the area. Chris dodged from side to side as the Billy's were tossed at him, avoiding the multiplication dog-pile they were trying to form to flatten him with. CAP then managed to take out Mammoth pretty easily with some kind of plasma blast, it seemed that as tough as Mammoth was if you had a way to get past his tough hide then his huge size hurted more than it helped.

CAP then smacked two of the Billy's together causing them to fuse with each other and become one again, nifty little trick, Chris nodded to show he understood then jumped up. He came to a stop right in front of the fleeing Billy's, although there were a lot of Billy's fleeing there was only one exit, so they were all running in the same direction. Chris internally apologised to whoever's job it would be to fix the floor then slammed his fists into the ground Hulk style, sending out a shockwave that knocked the Billy's too close to the blast zone off their feet.

Chris would then lurch forward and start forcing Billy's together, as if he was a little girl making her dolls kiss, but even with him having knocked them down he would need help to fuse them all back together.

And he would already have it with CAP chasing after Billys of his own, just barely restraining himself from letting missiles flying everywhere due to the civillians- which was not part of his core programming. They were not his targets, and he did not need to work WITH them but he had no immediate desire to unintentionally damage them. But there were still limits to how far that "generosity" extended. The Spandex clad meat bag seemed more useful than he looked, heading some Billys off and downed the lot of them by smashing the ground with a shockwave. Oh, so he actually did have powers and wasn't just a walking joke? How surprising.

Speaking of surprises... he saw Chessa. More or less pelting Billys into other Billys, firing off his Zeus' Cannon's "tazer" shot to cut them off, they would eventually be rounded up with one more joining them by means of the white haired- was that Rico? Why did that name come to his mind? Wait- there was one missing. CAP scanned around for a moment...

Meanwhile...

See-More came to, finding himself... somewhere in a store nearby but couldn't really walk. Rubber bullets were no joke! Maybe if he was lucky they' forget about him and he could-

"Heya Eye-Sore~" A Chessa giggled, startling and scaring the hell out of him for a moment before a rift popped open behind him, and she sparta kicked him through it.

Back with Chris and friends...

See-More would just seemingly appear out of thin air, landing face first into the floor. CAP whipped his head and aimed his cannon, more out of reflex than anything else as See-More didn't bother trying to escape at this point. "If you don't have restraints, I can ensure they don't resist further..." CAP stated simply, making his way over to the sleeping Chessa. "You... wake up! You have some nerve showing your face to me..." CAP stated, giving Chessa a shake.

Chessa blinked and woke up with a start, looking up at CAP with a "who? me?"look on her face. "Hey Cappy... long time no see," she smiled sheepishly.