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Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
Date of Scene: 13 July 2022
Location: Hell's Kitchen
Synopsis: Cannonball races Big Wheel along Manhattan.
Cast of Characters: Monet St. Croix, Samuel Guthrie




Monet St. Croix has posed:
It's late in the evening. The dreaded middle of the week approaches. People want to get back to get ready to brace and grouse for the rest of the work week, not at ahte half over point, to just go home. As with many things.. People can't always get what they want.
    Zooming along the roadway is a huge, freakish looking unicycle that looks like it was ripped from a monster truck axel. A giant, roboticized looking.. Wheel, maneuvering along the ground like a mag lev, dozens of popup lasers and rockets going out from various angles as it would roll along, flattening anything in it's path!
    Yes, it was a wheel. A very, very big one.

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie was out doing a bit of walking. As of late, he has been taking time to get to know more and more of New York, by foot since it can come in handy. When he hears the commotion he is looking up and blinks a moment "What in the." He will move to climb up on a porch to get a better look at what is going on, before moving towards the Wheel.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
It is a thirty foot or so in diameter giant robotic wheel that is rushing through the streets. Spikes spinning wildly, flattening things and occasionally shooting at passerby with lasers and rockets. Several blocks ahead traffic was fully congested and blocked up. And by intent or design.. The huge wheel was clearly heading towards the congestion.

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie frowns and while he would like to help this as Officer Guthrie without backup, that would be hard. He pulls out his phone and calls it in "Got a robo Wheel at " He tells the address "Seems a flying hero is engaging." He makes a buzzing noise of static and then closes his phone "Ok now to handle this." He steps into an alley and while there is not much costume change mostly just putting on his goggles and counting on the fact his blast shield may blur him some or if not oh well. He jets into the air and comes around so he is coming towards the wheel from the direction of the congestion. He will pull up hovering in place for a moment to see if the wheel stops when it sees him.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
What follows is the Wheel doesn't seem to so much as slow right around as Cannonball goes to blast up in front of it! The Wheel would go to simply rev right -through- him! Whether he dodges out of the way of the charge or is simply flattened beneath it and spun around on the rim and left pancaked in the street. Whomever (or whatever) was driving the thing would call out in a taunt, "That's what we do with the bugs! We use the wipers!" The chunka-chunka sound of a human voice making a windshield wipers whiffle would come out.

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie does move out of the way, and says "Ok, tried it the nice way." He will head up into the air and zooms out in front of the wheel, this time he comes right at the wheel not slowing down. He does try to judge where the driver might be and tries not to fly through that section, trying to blast through the wheel and put a bit of a hitch in it's giddy up.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
The Wheel goes to spin as Sam goes to slam in to it from the side. There's an armored cockpit in the core of a very unusual gyroscope. As Sam drives into it, it would nearly instantly stop,s wivel, and go in an entirely opposite direction, weapons popping over to try and hit him over with laser blasts at near point blank range!

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie 's shield protects him from the blasts as they hit him, maybe blinding him for a second, and as he can see and the thing is not going down. He hmms and studies the area a bit. He has been getting to know the area, and racks his brain for a local spot that might prove impassable for the wheel.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
The Wheel revs, and as if playing to the crowds the driver goes to twist it around! Like the two were racers on a track, the massive bulk of the wheel trying to sideswipe over in to him to backslam him as he would keep up with it!

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie looks to the wheel, and dodge out of the way when he was younger that might have sent him through a building, but he has been doing this for a while, and Sam dodges away and grabbing a flagpole cutting his blast field for the briefest moment to do a 180 in such a short time, and is blasting back in. This time he does not try blasting into it or through it, know he moves towards a section and trying to keep his shoulder against it, trying to start the thing spinning like a coin.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Sam goes to do a loop-de-loop, moving to hit into the side of it as the Wheel is flipped -up- and then around, and spinning around over like..
    A dime. The huge wheel twirling over in place and then starting to teeter over.

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie will jet up into the air and then back towards the wheel, but not at top speed, no, this time, though he is flying it is not much more than a normal shoulder tackle into the wheel, to help it topple but not wanting to add extra momentum as he wants it down not flipping back up.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Parts from Big Wheel start to pop off thanks to the leverage and the pumping. The smashing goes both ways, even as some of the interior parts start to be bent out of position. The Wheel's running has stopped, adn now it's just spinning in cycles at an angle. Then whatever bits held the central cockpit in place would pop off at one end. Which results in the cockpit 'zooming' about inside the wheel hanging suspended like a giant hamster ball!

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie winces a bit as he sees the cockpit going in the circles he will move to try to yank it off the wheel with a pass, to try to give the guy inside some relief. "Sometimes, your the bug and sometime your the windshield." He calls out to the man in the cockpit.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! There's a final SNAP as the cockpit finally stoops doing loop de loops and breaks off to be caught by Sam. Inside is a (very queasy and unconscious) driver. And on the side of the cockpit is a very, very small plaque noting 'made by A Company that Makes Everything'. Which didn't read off as ominous at all!

Samuel Guthrie has posed:
Sam Guthrie will take the guy and drop him off with the officers as they pull up. "Here is your culprit officers, his wheel is over there." He does not talk to them long and once the guy is dropped onto the hood of the car he is blasting away and around trying to come down a few blocks away and cut through alleys to head back over as good old Sam.