12970/Joker vs ACME: Where the Anvils Roam

Joker vs ACME: Where the Anvils Roam
Date of Scene:	09 October 2022
Location:	Abandoned Ace Chemicals Warehouse
Synopsis:	The Intrepid Bat-Kids track the Joker to an Abandoned Practical Joke Factory. They fight goons armed with the strangest array of backfiring gadgets this side of a 1960's comic book. LET THE ANVILS RING.
Cast of Characters:	Talia al Ghul, Phoebe Beacon, Audra Meridian, Austin Reese

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Talia al Ghul has posed:
The Joker had sometime after his last (and ever so predictable) attack on the bought out AC(M)E Chemical Plant been tracked to a nearby abandoned practical joke factory. Why did Gotham have an abandoned warehouse district? Why did Gotham have an abandoned amusement park district? Why did Gotham have so many abandoned clown themed facilities throughout the city? It was like there was some sort of huge irony established within the city.
    But, today the Joker had been tracked to the 'CLOWN AND JESTER EXPLODING WHOOPIE CUSHION JESTER CENTER'. A huge, glowing clown face lit up the front of it, broken neon signs hung around it.. And why god /why/

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    JOker had been tracked to quite possibly the most ridiculously named place that Phoebe has ever seen, and she's been in the Happy Bubble Laundromat, the Laughing Magician bar, and Wayne Manor.

    She was in proper armor tonight, the gray armored costume resembling Tim Drake's Red Robin, and she sat wedged between the wings of a handy dandy grotesque as she watched the plant. She wasn't supposed to have direct confrontations with Joker; she wasn't ready for it.

    She ha a pair of binoculars as she was watching, looking for anything suspicious being moved in or out of the abandoned practical joke factory.

    The whole thing felt like a bad joke gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Gotham is a big city with a lot of sections that have many ups and downs over the years when it comes to economic stability. Or something like that. They're not here to try to make logical reasoning for such things, they're here to deal with the crazy Clown Prince of Crime.

Audra hadn't been at the previous confrontation, but 'Windrose' had an almost literal bird's eye view of the city from flying above, she'd caught a glimpse of activity in the old district of jokes and warehouses and come down for a closer look for herself. She was still getting up to pace with the whole superhero thing, but she'd learned enough that activity in run down parts of a city like Gotham are usually bad news.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Sometimes one doesn't -want- to know why on things. It just leads to deep, dark holes that one does not escape from, one's mind turning as topsy-turvy as security at Arkham. On the outside, up above Audra is able to get a quick spot of.. Pale faced man, green hair, wearing what looked like a purple tuxedo and.. Almost looking like a mustache with white painted over it. Must be a trick of the light. Then he would go on inside.
    Then, the cracked neon lights on the run down practical joke factory and clown paradie would suddenly power up and a.. Yes, the ice cream truck theme would be playing.

Audra Meridian has posed:
You don't have to hang around Gotham long to recognize that gnarly combination of green and purple over pasty white. He disappears inside, and the lights come back up... and that annoying advertising song. Why is that on external loudspeakers? It's a joke factory, not an ice cream factory!

Audra lowers herself down to hovering closer at the level of the buildings and takes a look around. Surely if the Joker is here, one of the city's defenders is on his trail. Hopefully. As brave and some would say as reckless as she is, she really doesn't want to tango with one of the Gotham A Listers on her own.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Balm, in her armor, swings over to get a closer look, and she is definitely not feeling too friendly on the Entertainer being played over the speakers, carefully she examines the rooftop for sensors -- whoopiee cushion, cream-based or otherwise, and slowly makes her way towards Dramatic Entrance Appropriate skylights, if there is one. They seem to be standard Gotham archetecture after all.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Phoebe goes to kick her way down through the skylight, she moves to see underneath the skylight.. Another skylight! Presuming she also breaks down through that one as well, there's another skylight beneath it!? That's weird even by the standards of Gotham, and seems to play up the sheer ridiculity of things even more.
    On hte jupside, she might have a personal best for Bat-Family skylight breaking in one eve, if that's the sort of Bat-bragging window rights they count.
    As she goes to land, she sees several Joker goons (they're wearing signs which read 'Joker Goon' on them to make sure one gets it) are going to load up a series of old cannons which are pointed at her!

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Audra goes to float her way on in, she's suddenly surrounded by laughter! Lots and lots of laughter! Popping up and over around her are a series of turrets that are shaped over like Joker heads. With.. Audio speakers on them. Blaring out at high pitches, they start to play 'IT's a Small World' in a haunting, horrific reverb!

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe kicks through several skylights. They are equally as frustraiting, and once she lands (from a measely eight foot jump), and fathers her wits, she looks at the cannons. She looks to the sign-carrying Goons.

    Somewhere, It's a Small World is playing.

    She's had visions of the real thing, but at this moment, this was assuredly Hell.

    "Well, looks like someone here is about to have a ball." she states to the crowd -- and then pops smoke and goes low!

Audra Meridian has posed:
Looks like she's got her own problem to deal with for the moment. Because that is the best worst song they could of picked for getting on someone's nerves. "What is this, psychological warfare?!" She probably shouldn't be surprised. She's more surprised at how this is already set up. Like it was waiting for the Joker to come back or something. Super villians are weird.

But it's audio equipment. She knows how to deal with audio equipment. She electricially ionizes her gauntlets and snorts. "Okay, time to switch tracks... How about Ride The Lightning instead?"

She slams her hands together over her head, producing a loud clap of thunder. And a discharge of electricity arcing around her, aimed at shorting out the annoying musical torture machines.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
The speakers go mercifully silent. Ever, ever so mercifully. And Audra may be particularly smug over at this bit. But she's taken them down, and there's no immediate threat.. Then she might notice a very, very large 'X' painted beneath her on her observation point. Huh, that hadn't been visible until right beore this highly convenient moment.
    Beneath her the roof goes to suddenly LAUNCH her upwards over if she's not fast enough to move out of the way from something so highly ridiculous - namely a ridiculously powerful spring-based booby trap that has the rooftop edge going up with a sudden -FLING- sound effect!
    Phoebe goes to vanish into the smoke. This is a girl that has had her voice taken from her by demons. She's lived through the hells that life has inflicted on her. The confusion. The angst. The continued struggles that are cast down upon her.
    This.. Might outdo them all for not making the slightest hint of sense.
    Namely, as she vanishes into the smoke she makes out on the barrles of the cannons 'JOKER ANTI-ROBIN/ROBIN ADJACENT SEEKING MISSILES'. Then they would launch a trio of missiles that no matter how well she hid in the smoke and the darkness would somehow lock onto her and pursue her!

Austin Reese has posed:
It looks like this isn't even going to be remotely subtle. Because Phoebe goes in through the skylight, Austin isn't too far behind her, landing after she's already popped smoke. Uh oh. Missiles?

He goes low, using the smoke and the fact that MAYBE Balm is the sole target right now, to go after the goons by the cannons, pushing back out of the smoke and aiming to dropkick the closest of the very clearly marked Joker Goons.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Joker brand Robin/Robin-Adjacent Missiles!

    *what*

    Phoebe ducks low, rolling about as she tries to lead the missiles (as, weirdly, she is closer to the robins by legal adoption than poor Austin is), and she attempts to find the best way of escape -- via convenient pogo stick. She grabs the pogo, leaps on it, and attempts to jump a wall, banking on the idea that the missiles might not be so quick on the uptake!

Audra Meridian has posed:
Who would think so out of the box to have the music machines placed so someone is likely to stand on a specific spot to stop them, knowing their annoyance factor would draw most of the attention? Apparently the Joker, and apparently it worked. Normally the spring trap wouldn't be a problem because she'd be hovering, but she had planted her feet in order to do the radial lightning technique.

*FLING* "What the holy heck?!"

That's not the usual way Holy is used in these parts, but she's not a Gotham native. The defenstration from the roof catapult flips her head over heels a few times... but then manages to deploy her booster pack stabilizers for balance and catchs herself before taking a fall to the pavement below. "Now I know what the tornado cow feels like."

Momentary deterred but not driven away, she dives back towards the factory to rejoin the shenanigans. Fearlessly stubborn or recklessly brave, take your pick. They both pretty much apply.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Balm goes to leap over onto it, it's a conveniently placed pogo stick with.. Rocket boosters on the side. Wait, rocket!? Oh, nevermind. Of course they are. She's able to pogo stick her way across the room, even as Austing oes to leap over and kick into one of the Joker Goons!
    *WHAM* everything flashes for Austin over for a moment, almost as if around him he's not only hearing but -seeing- the loud *WHAM* echoing through things as time seems to almost pause for a moment.. Right before the Joker goon goes flying! Then high, high up he would see another Joker Goon putting on a set of wings and a.. There's small writing on it which reads 'ACME ROCKET POWERED BAT SUIT'. Wait, that's a thing!? Why, why does such a thing exist..
    Phoebe, however, still has the problem that she's being chased by the missiles. No matter how high she jumps, how fast she jumps, or however much smoke goes along with her as well. No matter their ridiculous name, they were really good at keeping up with one of the Bat-Family's sidekicks.
    On the ground as Audra lands, leaving an almost outline over of a crashed Audra upon it, she sees a large.. Anthropmorphic.. Scavenger normally reputed to be from the American southwest. It looks down at her with a 'so that's what it looks like' expression.
    Hadn't there been reports of various wildlife from the American desert mutated by exposure to gamma rays by the Leader a few months ago?
    Less importantly, WHY would the Leader mutate animal life in the southwest desert with gamma rays.

Audra Meridian has posed:
'Holy Copyright Infringment, Batman!' is probably what would be said if the right generation of Robin was here to say it.

The tech clad heroine stops, hovering as she peers at the creature for a moment. If there was one thing she learned quickly, it was not to waste a lot of time questioning 'why'. That's just a path down to madness. Still, this is pretty strange... On the other hand, it is an ACME factory. So this particular mutation of a creature being here isn't... anyways. Let's not get off track.

"I don't supposed you'd just let me inside to deal with the goons making a ruckus inside, would you?" Logic is already out the window so Audra figures it doesn't hurt to ask.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    A Rocket POwered Pogo Stick?! ... yeah that tracks.

    Balm goes over the wall. And up. And up. and off to the side, and she gives a squeak of aparm before she abandons pogo, turning and trying to take off the JOker Goons on the down low in the process with the abandoned Rocket Power Pogo stick like a streamlined, atomic era retro bowling game!

    "Baby needs a new pair of shoes!"

Austin Reese has posed:
"What the hell was that?" Austin asks, pausing after his hit when he literally saw the word WHAM right before he hit the goon. This unfortunately leaves him open to the Goon with the ACME ROCKET POWERED BAT SUIT. Which is thankfully very clearly labeled.

He quickly tries to close the distance with the goon that has the wings, lest he escape into the air, and make Osprey chase him with a grapple line, because that would be, well...That be WAY harder than just taking him down on the ground.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
This might be *FUN* for Balm. Ridiculous, yet fun. The rockets go through the Goons, making sounds (and suspicious flashes of light that form words) with things like 'ZOWIE' 'BOOM' 'POW' and 'SHOVE'as they go flying! The missiles are streaking after her, evenas the abandoned pogo stick goes up.. Up.. And away!
    She goes to land flawlessly over and then hears a loud squeaking. A chain has been released. Up in the air is a giant metal.. 1 and three quarters ton anvil. It's very specific in the weight (written on the side and on the bottom). A smaller sign reads 'how is my crushing? please complete our survey'. The anvil starts to fall..
    Outside, for Audra, the extremely intelligent scavenger, empowered thus being a super-genius, and having a look of cunning about him would shrug to Audra and give a nod. Then going to head over to the side of the building, open a door over, and then shrug at her. The building was in a dillapidated state. If it were a bar, one could call it a dive. But, it wasn't a bar.
    Was definitely still a dive though. There -was- a non-bottomless pit right past the door a few steps in after all.
    The Rocket Powered Bat Suit goes to race along after Austin with the greatest of ease! The Goon going to wield a giant hammer that was almost Harley-grade in it's ridiculously voersized, convoluted style and trying to swing at him! "Here Batty Batty.."

Audra Meridian has posed:
Sometimes politeness does work. Audra gives a tip of her head to the supergenius scavenger. "Much abliged." Then turns to head inside.

And drop down. Then rise back up a moment later. The lack of a floor initially caused and issue with her hovering having nothing to repel against, but this time she was at least expecting weirdness and used a vectored boost from her boots to essentially air-dash back up and out to the opposite of the pit. Glances down at it a moment. Glances around, then ahas as she notices a discarded 'CAUTION WET FLOOR' sign lying near by. Picks it up, pulls out a black marker, uses it to scribble out the WET FLOOR part and write OPEN PIT underneath it. Sets it on the edge of the pit facing the door. "OSHA would have a conniption over this place," she mutters as she turns to head farther inside.

Austin Reese has posed:
You know what, in a situation like this, you have to think like the situation calls for. Some situations call for a more serious attude, but this? No Osprey can have fun with this.

Well once he's not on the run from the flying goon. He ducks under a conveyor belt that's a part of the old factory, and then swings himself around to land on a second tier of the same belt system.

He balances there for a moment, before he jumps down, aiming to land on the back of the rocket suit wielding goon, "Hey, this looks important!" He says to the goon, before reaching down and grabbing whatever he can get his hands on in the rocket part of the rocket suit, and trying to rip it out before he bails, aiming to land somewhere like a pile of stuffed animals, and hopefully not a pile of recalled Mr. Stabby dolls or something.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    STEEERIKE!

    Phoebe knocks some goons over!

    "Leave it to /a/ bat dash girl to sweep a man off his feet." she murmers into her comms in amusement, and she turns around to take stock of the -- oh hey, missiles were still incoming.

    Why always the missiles?!

    She runs through the cannons and goons again and tries to baseball-slide her way towards anything standing higher than she was!

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Osprey's work is sheer genius, even as he somehow manages to hit the vibe over of what this scenario is oriented towards. Sometimes you just have to go with it. He ends up over landing on a series of Mister Softy dolls easily enough. However.. They were recalled for a reason.
    Unfortunately the reason was that they weren't soft at all. The rocket powered batsuit does however make a rather satisfying CRONK over as the goon goes to impact over into the wall where there's a rocket powered batsuit wearing Joker goon impact silhouette on it. The walls must be really thin..
    Audra goes to make her way in, after having quickly made a change in the sign. And since when was anything in Gotham OHSA compliant? Laboratories, crime labs, Arkham, abandoned chemical plants, Arkham, overlooks above skyscrapers, Arkham..
    She makes her way on inside, even as she catches sight of a large pile of.. Wait, why were those giant bed mattresses with large numbers of thick looking rubber sacks that would make out a sound akin to a very, very loud armpit noise?
    Fortunately, Phoebe was what was called 'height impaired'. So she's able to zoom RIGHT underneath some things conveniently standing tall for her to zoom her way through! The missiels do explode over on contact. She's now got a massive hole behind her on fire and a goon holding up a sign which reads 'Ow that hurt' before collapsing. Huh. That might be a more effective way for her to communicate than pushing her throat hard or trying to work through a nauto-typer!
    She goes to pop up and then sees a large boxing glove on a spring coming towards her!
    .. A large rocket powered boxing glove on a spring.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Audra Meridian stops, for a moment a bit dumbfound. Even when you're expecting the unexpected, something like a giant stockpile of whoopie cushions is still a bit of a surprise. It takes her a few moments to parse this. Without thinking -too- hard about it. Then, finally, works her way to some manner of observation of the matter.

"So much for 'silent but deadly'..."

Atta girl, just roll with it. Who says scientists have to always be stiff and logical? She's only stiff when it's after one too many drinks! Hah! Okay moving on.

Then on second thought she comes, and grabs a few of the whoopie cushions, before continuing on. Considering how this night has gone, taking a few of the pranks with her might prove to be useful.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe skids to a stop, giving a 'ha ha!' moment to escaping the missiles !

    And then she pauses.

    And then there is a large boxing glove on springs -- with a rocket!

    "WHY is everything ROCKET POWERED?!" she squeaks out, and she gives to the side to tuck and roll away from the boxing glove!

Austin Reese has posed:
"Ow. Damn.." Osprey gets off of the Mr. Softy dolls that are not even remotely soft, "How did this get past QA?" He asks nobody in particular as he pulls one of the dolls out of his back, before turning back to the hole in the wall left by the goon.

Unfortunately for him he gets hit by the rocket powered boxing glove which sends him for a loop, and leaves him open for any goons that are still standing to try to swarm him as he gets back up to his feet.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
The boxing glove goes to SPROING right past Phoebe! It goes to then even as it arcs right past her, twist around to try and retarget her. She's able to make out 'BOOMERANG ROCKET POWERED BOXING GLOVE' somewhere on the large mitt.
    Why were so many things here so explicit in their purpose and function!? Don't question the logic, don't question the logic.. That way only lead to madness. ... Well, more madness than Phoebe already had, probably.
    Audra goes along with several exploding whoopie cushions on her. Whehter or not it was a good decisionw ould be reflected in later events! But, never let it be said that the scientist had issues with going with the flow and relaxing to go along with things. Up ahead of her would be two Joker goons that despite all of the chaos, fighting, and calamity going along outside would be sitting at a table talking, sipping some beers, and smoking. A large 'BREAK' sign would be flashing next to them.
    Wait, Gotham Henchmen were unionized? ... That explained a lot.
    Then Austin is flung through the air, to land over past Phoebe, no doubt rather dazed.. And perhpas having even if only for comedic value chirping adorable cute bats flipping above his head. This has any goons around him going to try and leap atop him to make a giant smoke cloud, tornado like of fists flying, mallets flaring, and a rubber chicken honking!

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Boomerang... Rocket... Powered.. oh no.

    /Oh No./

    Phoebe wrinkles her nose a moment, and she looks around quickly -- only to have Osprey flying over her head.

    She ducks, avoiding a birdie as she turns for the Ruber Chicken honking, dust cloud of a mallet fight, and she she was about to dash in to try and drag Austin out of it when she is hit by the boomerang rocket powered boxing glove, and forcibly gets slung into the fray!

    Ther eis no words for the Rubber Chicken that she tries to commandeer and use in new, inventive ways to fight within the dust cloud.

Audra Meridian has posed:
It's Gotham. Supervillian capital of the world some would say (Metropolis is more of an Evil Genius place, thanks LexCorp). Henchmen Unions would be the least surprising thing on this rollercoaster of a night. How else do you think they get things like matching uniforms styled to whatever wacko they're working with that week?

While Audra would hate to make the chaps work on their break, the break room is kind of in her path. But does she really need to start a fight?... Then she gets an idea.

"You two." She does her best at sounding official. "Who's suppose to be auditing the gag storage vaults? I've found stuff left lying around randomly. Someone could step on it!" She tosses one of the whoopie cushions on the break table, intending it to be a demonstration of what was left about.

Or considering it's an -explosing- whoopie cushion maybe a demonstration of why they shouldn't be lying around is more appropriate.

Whoopie whoops.

Austin Reese has posed:
Austin is down when the goons pile on him, turning the whole area into a big cloud of dust and smoke and fists and props. But Osprey has seen this kinda thing before. So as the fight continues, he crawls out of the bottom of it, stands up, and then leans against a wall nearby, letting the goons continue to fight each other inside of the dust cloud.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Then Phoebe is in the middle of a tornado-crazed, weapon ready fight! Fists fly! Rubber chickens honk! Someone desperately tries tos truggle up and out of the fight only to be yanked hard back down into it! Phoebe latches on to the rubber chicken, and thus is armed. There's some sort of perhpas empowerment of her. Something that may be psychological. Something inherent. To Phoebe, and to Phoebe's ears alone there's something jolting through them.
    ~Nuh nuh nuh nuh~ with a catchy, peppy beat to it.
    No one notices Austin crawling his way over and out of the cloud. He has a few moments to catch his breath, even as one of the goons that's off-duty shrugs, glances over at him, and then checks the clock on the wall. Then goes over to offer him a cigar. "Want a light?" He would inquire as the fite fite cloud went on.
    The two men stare over at Audra for a moment, the first one going to complain, "But we're on.."
    What follows is an armpit noise combined over with an EXPLOSION. That has the two men covered over in smoke, carbon blasts, and somehow each with their beards and hair zoinked up and into the air. Each goes to slowly tumble and fall flat on their faces, and for good measure a pair of bowling balls up on the ceiling tumble down ot hit them as well with a satisfying KABONG.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Okay, explosive described more than just the sound. But that's what they get for letting someone store bowling balls on a shelf rather than on the ground.

Audra walks over, leans down, and pinches the end of one goon's sizzling mustache between two of her gloved fingers. "Sorry I had to break wind boys." Oh great now she's getting into a little too much.

Let's keep this crazy show moving, though.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe is getting a little over the top. There is a SQUAWK! a SQUEAL! a ba-GOWK!

    Followed by a BAM! a SMASH! a POW!


    And Phoebe is sitting in the middle of the ruffians, her fists raised, with a pai r of Rubber Chicken Chucks as she looks from one side to the next.

    "All right, who's next to play... fowl?"

Austin Reese has posed:
Austin politely refuses the cigar, "Not much of a smoker. Also when's your break end?"

Apparently right then, as Audra takes care of that problem, "Well. Guess it's time to get these guys taken care of." He cracks his knuckles, and then lets out a battlecry and then leaps back into the dust cloud, aiming to grab the goons he can get his hands on and toss them out of the pile, until the dustcloud breaks up!

At one point he accidentally grabs Phoebe, "Whoops, wrong one!" And pushes her back into the dust cloud before ducking back in himself.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Balm is having the BAM PIFF SMACK time of her life. It's ridiculous over and yet likely even FUN. The remaining goons over around Phoebe turn to look at her, stare, and then go to start to run! They do in the process hit another of those 'X' marks the spot.. That's one of those spring loaded traps which sends them flying over into the thrice-skylight ceiling!
    Austin is likewise clucking the place up as he goes to come out of it with his own WHACK SLAM KAPOW things. Somehow this includes also a large, oversized card which in bright paint reads 'KABONG!!' as he matches the tempo of the beatings that Phoebe is giving. The goon that had offered the cigar had taken taken it to his own mouth to take a puff.. Right as it would explode in his face, revealing itself as a stick of dynamite. He would likewise fall and crumple.
    Audra goes to get into things a litlte too much, and arrives just in time to find an open set of Rocket powered jet skiis. There's something lgorious about them. Every scientific and logical principle would say such things are ridiculous and condemned. But the way this night is going.. On the front of them there's also a large ram-bumper that's connected to the two.

Austin Reese has posed:
While literally none of this makes any sense, Osprey is not going to question it at this point, because it's working. With the closest group of goons finally taken down, he ventures deeper into the factory, "Hey guys!" He calls out to any goons that can hear him, "I'm willing to give you a chance to surrender now, but if you don't I'm not gonna be held responsible for what happens!" He does start quickly searching around for something he can use as a weapon. These goons have been using giant hammers and rocket suits, he should probably level the playing field.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    NOne of this makes a lick of sense.

    "Yeah! If you don't surrender, he's gonna unleash ANOTHER Rubber chicken on you!" the crime fighting Balm calls out to the other goons, while slowly turning her chickenchucks of doom.

    "... I don't suppose you have a crate of banana peels we can dump from a catwalk or something, do you? That seems just the type of thing this place might get." Pause.

    "Did you hear another non-goony voice?"

Audra Meridian has posed:
That is rediculous amd impractical... and for this night, absolutely perfect.

Look if Audra was the sort of scientist that needed everything to be logical and regulated she wouldn't be a storm chaser. Sure, she can be a bit on the nitpicky side, but not to the point she doesn't know how to just suck it up and improvise... though she does double check that the rockets are firmly affixed to the skis, just because she is that sort of person. But then clamps down into them (she's already wearing reinforced boots, convenient!) Then fires them up and takes off!

Any Goons that just happen to be in that hallway are going to be in for a bad time as she literally plows right through them, thanks to the thing having that stupid yet somehow effective ram on it. "WHOOOO! Time to hit the slopes... and you're the slopes!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Austin goes to rapidly search his way through the area sweeping quickly for a weapon. He finds a set of Groucho Marx glasses (with attached mustache, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more), and one of the most powerful items known to ridiculity. Actually two items that have been combined together with clearly hostile intent. It's a massively oversized anvil that uses a large stick of TNT on the side to launch it. It.. It is perhpas one of the most ridiculous yet glorious things that he might have ever set eyes on.
    Balm's quick search finds a large crate of banana peels, and then another with bowling balls. how convenient, how terrifying. And yet -fun-! When was the last time the Expendable Side--We mean Bat-Kids got to enjoy themselves while fighting crime?
    And there is Audra, in the glorious of a rocket powered ski ram that's racing through things, smashing through goons, and sending them flying! The music that the three of them can hear now is going louder and louder. They've earned this. The total, ridiculous sense of overkill that's coming together. Audra has sent the goons flying. Phoebe has hte things of which to keep them off their feet. If he dares to take it, Osprey has the thing that will take and keep them down.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Fighting crime is its own reward, storyteller!

    However, on occasion the additional reward of the ridiculous can be entertained, if deviousness allows.

    First away: The Banana Peels. The yellow grenades of accidental slippieries and comedic gold standard are unleashed first, spread over a good section of floor.

    Then, in her most booming voice Phoebe shouts out: "LOOK OUT! THERE'S A SHARK BY THE BACK DOOR!"

    ... and as the remaining Goons begin to run to the front (and that possibly bottomled pit), she unleashes the bowling balls!

Austin Reese has posed:
"I definitely heard a non-goon voice!" Osprey replies to Balm, as he looks over the anvil, putting the Groucho Marx glasses on in order to make sure he can harness their power first. Now that he's unlocked their power, he pulls a cigar out of nowhere, "And away we go!" He lights both sticks of dynamite and then gets out of the way, wanting to make sure he's well clear of that explosion when it goes off.

And go off it does, as the dynamite sends the anvil flying like a missile. For some reason, several goons have decided to line up in a direct line to attack Osprey, who ducks the anvil and allows it to careen through into the group of goons, before impacting into the wall nearby, "Geeze, talk about a tough crowd." He laughs, before moving to the next goon he can find.

He actually appears next to one of the still standing goons, tapping him on his left shoulder, and when the guy turns back around, he finds Austin punching him in the face with an extremely telegraphed haymaker.

Audra Meridian has posed:
As if to answer Phoebe's question multiple Goons come tumbling out of a hallway into the main factory room where they had been fighting, followed by Audra roaring in on the rocket skis!

She zigs, she zags.. oh wait skiing calls it saloming. Same difference. She's doing it, just with Joker Goons as the poles and she's weaving into them instead of around them. One guy tumbles into a pile of boxes, resulting in a chorus of chattering as dozens of novelty teeth clamp onto him like bear traps. Another does it into a crate of joy buzzers. A couple more hit the walls, knocking shelves with heavy objects off the wall and on top of them.

One mook gets rammed, and after his short flight lands on a conveyer belt. Audra skis by once, then comes back as she noticed there was lights on the console. This must be like the only one that still has power. So she stops at the controls, looks at the goon trying to get back up, and grabs the lever. Grins gleefully at the guy as he notices her at the controls.

To which she grins, and pulls the lever.

The machine revs up, and in a panic the goon has to get to his feet and start 'JANE STOP THIS CRAZY THING' running to stumble along. In place.

Fortunately the belt isn't moving to drag him into the machine. Audra checked. But it is dispensing things out of the machine that he has to try and jump or stumble over, or he's going to find out the hard way just what gags are packed inside.

Audra grins as she looks to the other two heros (and the audience) "Ain't I a stinker?"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Who says that fighting crime can't be fun? There's a pile of bruised, broken, and battered goons over left in a pile. One of them has a hand rising up from the bottom of a pile and is waving a white flag over in a universal sign of surrender. And the day is saved! The group has taken over the abandoned joke (and exploding whoopie cushion) factory, driven off the joker, and taken out an abandoned practical joke factory full of goons conveniently numbered and lettered.
    The group can perhpas only grin, for a rare enough thing in Gotham, total merriment over as outside, the large anthropomorphized wolf'ish like, highly intelligent canine would hold up a sign on a stick which read 'That's All Folks' and then another sign which read 'What Else Was It Going to Say?'