13533/Holy Silver Age Batman: The Not So Great Arkham Escape

Holy Silver Age Batman: The Not So Great Arkham Escape
Date of Scene:	15 December 2022
Location:	Arkham Island
Synopsis:	Holy Siver Age Batman as Arkham has an escape of the loonies and toonies and the Bat-Kids must give them all obliteroonies!
Cast of Characters:	Talia al Ghul, Bart Allen, Austin Reese, Damian Wayne, Audra Meridian

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Talia al Ghul has posed:
It hadn't been the best day for Arkham Asylum. The Minimum Security Wing had been allowing the inmates to do arts and crafts for the season. This has lead to Kite Man making a paper mache kite and then fleeing via the upper floors, and then the CHristmas Tree turned into a giant rocket by which many of the prisoners had escaped. Not the finest hour as sirens were wailing, Humbug was fleeing through the night with presents intended for the Joker Memorial Orphanage.. And the situation was getting much, much worse as the chronically underfunded, understaffed, and over-idioted security guards had been caught flatfooted by the exploding pies that had taken out most of them.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen had been called in to work an early shift at the zoo. It had been a pretty much normal day, then the break out news came. The zoo being the home of some of the animals that the inmates used to have in their company, usually gets the word pretty quickly. So as Bart was signing out the news came in. He considered staying there to keep anyone from messing with the animals, but figured it might be best to handle this at the source. So with a superspeed shower and quick change he is headed to the Asylum, finding a hill overlooking it to get a vantage point, and thats where heroes usually group up for things like this. He is in his normal Impulse costume tonight.

Austin Reese has posed:
There are alarms all over the Oracle network specifically for when this kind of thing happens. But normally it's not the entire low security wing of Arkham. They're low security for a reason, sure, but there's a lot of them that have managed to get out of the Asylum and out into the city proper. And they're dangerous. Well, most of them.

Osprey had responded as soon as the alerts started to go off, but getting to Arkham reveals the huge police presence and the lack of villains. Which means this is going to require getting at them on the ground. Osprey wheels his batcycle off, and heads deeper into the city. It's Gotham, so finding where the chaos is, that's a matter of looking for the screaming.

Osprey dismounts his bike and rounds the corner where people are running from, finding himself facing off against two costumed criminals. His AR HUD immediately identifies them, but it'd be hard not to guess judging by one wearing a giant pencil-shaped helmet with a huge eraser on the end, and the other currently spraying whipped cream all over a pair of patrons at an outdoor cafe, "How about some cream with that coffee!" He laughs, as his condiemt gun splatters over the two, who fall over and try to run but can't because they're now covered in whipped cream.

"Are you..Are you serious?" The two turn to look at him, not recognizing the new costumed crime fighter, "Who are you supposed to be, one of the Bat Brats?" Asks Eraser, as he turns to face Osprey. Condiemt King turns as well, finally allowing the two victims to escape, "He doesn't look like Robin, that's for sure!"

Osprey frowns a little bit, "Nah, I skipped the Robin phase." He knows these two aren't a threat he CAN'T take, but he has to be careful, so he stands off against them on the sidewalk, "I don't suppose you two want to do this the easy way?"

The high pressure spray of mustard that he barely manages to evade is his answer.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Bart goes to zip around, he comes face to face with someone that has flying.. Wings and a pair o fantennae over on his head floating in the air. Like a.. Wait, moth. A man.. Wait, Moth Man is a real thing!? "Come on, let's see you get stuck on you!" With that he goes to blast out at Bart with his cocoon ray, trying to cover up Bart in acidic webbing while cackling madly!

ANother bad guy goes to race through. He's wearing what appears to be a.. Zebra Costume, but all the stripes are multi-colored. "Come on, let's do this dance!" And so the.. Zebra-Striped.. Man.. Goes to yank out his stripes to start using them on lassos, going to try and corral them over anyone over in the yoink of them or trip them up and bind them in bright, sparkly Zebra Lassos!

Damian Wayne has posed:
     A high-pitched whine echoes amongst the buildings of Gotham as Robin speeds on his Redbird over to Osprey's location. The tire squealing as Damian stops on the other aide of Condiment King and Pencil. The white eyelets gape at the sight of Condiment King. "YOU!" He raises a finger toward the Master of Mixins. "You owe me a goddamn motorcycle!"

  Though in a softer tone he looks to Osprey, obviously not considering either 'supercriminal' much of a threat. "You good?" Obviously with an all-hands type situation, the veteran Bats dont want to leave the rookies alone but there is plenty of kooky crims to catch at this point.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks up at the man moth and says "Oh yea your....The bouncing Butterfly right?" He asks, easily dodging the ray with ease. He then looks over at the Zebra guy and shakes his head a bit. He continues to torment the villain "So, did you start your career as the hungry caterpillar? Is the book about you can I get an autograph?" And then he looks over to Zebra-Striped. "And you, you were in racing stripes too? Great movie." He does lead the shots from Killer Moth to try to get him to shoot the Zebra man.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Moth Man goes to try and loop out with his moth gun, he's lured over to take a snap over at his 'associate', even as Zebra Stripe Man is bound up over and completely trussed! Then over towards Bart is a man in a white suit covered in.. Dots.
    "Come on, let's go ahead and gety ou spotted up! LIke the Iguana." Iguanas did not have spots.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Audra Meridian just happened to be in the vicinity of Gotham again, monitoring the winter weather patterns. She was already above the city skyline in her Windrose kit since it made the job a bit easier and no one really questioned how she got the analysis she did. Probably just assumed it was high end custom drones and sensor pods like most stormchasers employ.

So when alarms and emergency calls go out for a breakout from Arkham she's already in a feasible position to respond. "Guess weather watching will have to wait, there's a different storm brewing." She does a backflip to reorient herself back towards the ground and dives in the direction of the villain containment facility.

But on her way down she spots someone coming up... via giant kite? Really? Well escaping is still escape. "Hey, revenge of Charlie Brown!" Windrose pulls up to hover, arms stretched forward. "The only air you're catching tonight is a bad case of windburn!" She unleashes a surge of downburst from her gauntlets to blow the kite crook back to the ground.

Austin Reese has posed:
After Damian appears, Osprey can't help but grin, and turn to look back at Condiment King, "You did say you were looking for a Robin." He nods in response to Robin's question, "You wanna get your payback while I break a pencil?" He asks, as he steps to one side to line himself up with Eraser.

The two villains clearly aren't happy with the arrival of Robin, and Condiment King laughs back at Robin's call out, looking past him at the new Redbird, "I relish the chance to do it again!"

Eraser squares off against Osprey, "I'll wipe you out!" He is apparently the braver of the two, as he lunges at Osprey, swinging a giant pencil that may or may not be made from a baseball bat.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Kite Man is spun around, then using the rocket boosters over in his kite to steady himself. "That all you got!? I'm not going anywhere towards the ground, 'cuz I'm Kite Man b*tches!" Then a series of micro-missiles spin up and ou to fhis kite as well do a series of rocket launchers as he goes to streak along on his rocket powered kite! Oh man. Oh man!
    "Take that you trees! I'm never getting stuck in you again!" Apparently Charlie Brown had some issues.>

Audra Meridian has posed:
Wow, Kite Man was a bit more prepared than Windrose was expecting. Where did he get mini missiles in prison? Her own vectored thrusters flare up to pursue, taking advantage of her having mobility over extreme speed. Frowns a bit as he starts blasting away at trees... and here she was just making the Peanuts crack because of the kite. Didn't expect him to make it literal. "Fine, my mistake for thinking something so dorky would be easy breezy..."

Her gauntlets flare up again, this time with little electrical arcs along the trace line tech greeble. "Enough of that treedipitation! Now I'm going to make this," she unleashes the bolt of lightning, aiming it to try and knock out those rocket boosters he's using, "A revolting experience for you!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
BZAPPT! The lightning bolt goes to hit Kite Man over and gives him a big shock! There's the flashing of hisskeleton, his Kite being reduced over to ashes, and then those rocket boosters fading off and exploding much like something made for anti Road Runner munitions.
    looks like team Kite Man is falling off again as he goes to tumble down over towarsd some of thsoe completely theoretical kite eating trees..

Damian Wayne has posed:
     Damian smirks just a little bit, grabbing his fist and popping knuckles. "Yeah, and I am sure you'll ketchup with all your friends back in Arkham." He comments as he runs up at Condiment King, not before long he takes a smoke pellet and throws it to the ground, filling the air with grey smoke.

  Of course it was a diversion, Damian leapt high, one sharpened birdarang in each hand as he swipes at Condiment King's gun tubes if theres jothing feeing the launcher, then he can't get covered in horseradish. "As a sign of the season, I will make sure not to break your leg like last time, only if you give up, Mayo." He calls out, ducking and cartwheeling around squirts of mustard and Ketchup.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen is almost stopped by the comment about the Iguanas, but luckily his reaction speed is inhuman as well." He sighs a bit and says "Cheetahs are spotted, Chameleons change colors. It sounds like we might need to start some classes at the Asylum, maybe this will be good, as they are probably going to cancel Arts and crafts now." He will move to dodge the thrown balls, and give a dozen or so punches to put him out and then he is grabbing him and with a speed run throwing him at Killer Moth.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
There's a BOINK as POlka Dot Mna goes to throw over his detonations and they make a bridge of explosions! Even as he moves to try and hurl them along like sticky tape over at Bart! "Out, damned spot!" Even as Bart goes to loop through the air adn KABONG the high flying Moth Mah!

Then coming over towards Damian and Austin is another enemy! This one that doesn't quite look as ridiculous as Eraser but nearly as much.
    He has his hands up in a defensive stance, his fingers blinking at them.. Wait, blinking!?
    "I am the Ten Eyed Man. The most dangerous man alive. I've been.. Looking out for you." Actually shouldn't that be twelve eyes?

Austin Reese has posed:
Osprey blocks the bat-like pencil with one of his armored gauntlets, and then looks right into Eraser's eyes behind his mask, "Is your costume actually made out of wood, or is it just for the aesthetic?" He asks, clenching his right fist. It's a pertinent question, as the knuckles of his gauntlet flare white hot, and he swings a blow for Eraser's helmet, transferring enough heat into it with the impact to light it up, making him panic and quickly pull the helmet off, allowing Osprey to deck him in the now-unprotected face with his other hand.

Just in time to get approached by..The Ten Eyed Man? Osprey blinks behind his mask, the LEDs narrowing, "That's..Are those real or is that some kind of like gimmicked glove?" He asks, as he slips a small, glowstick sized flashbang out of his belt pouch, and tosses it towards the ground at the feet of the Ten Eyed Man. If a flashbang works well on two, it should work GREAT on twelve.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks about and will bring the three he has to the cops leaving them in a pile for them. He does move at speeds trying to keep the cops and others who have not been fighitng him from knowing there was a speedster about.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
As Bart Allen goes to zoom about, there's suddenly a bit of.. Slime along hte path! "Say hi from the Greaser!" Greaser who had just shot out a ton of.. What was clearly chilled grease from a fast food restaurant towards his feet! But making the ground near frictionless!

Audra Meridian has posed:
Is this the end of Kite Man? Will he finally fall to his aboreal nemesis and live up to his inspiration? Maybe he should just leaf the trees alone...

But no, not quite. Windrose swoops down and grabs the back of Kite Man's costume, swinging her legs down to use the thrusters on her boots to slow their fall. While doing so she leans over his shoulder, his reflection briefly visible in her own goggles. "You're fortunate I already got the speech about 'no killing in Gotham' from one of the Bat's protegees." Not that she would purposely let a death happen, she's not that kind of person.... but he doesn't know that...

However she does believe in poetic karma, and while she did stop Kite Man from crashing into the tree, she instead hook him on one of the branches by the back of his suit like some green and singed christmas ornament. "Now you can just hang out for a bit, and think about how much you blew it. And maybe the winds of fate will change for you one day."

Before turning and jetting back off to see who else needs rounding up.

Bart Allen has posed:
Impulse would have totally wiped out a few years ago, but he did spend some time working in snow, and preparing for villain's like Captain Cold. That being said he does slide a good hundred foot father than he planned on. He looks about "Is someone cooking French fries? If so I want some." He does consider trying to lit the grease on fire, but that could be dangerous. So he will instead move about gathering leaves and twigs and rolling them into a ball with the grease and rolling said ball at the greaser.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
And even as Audra goes up and over to fly, she faces someone else going to face her from the ground. It's a man that's wearing a facemask that has a.. Giant swirly over on it. LIke Ringmaster of the Circus of Crime. "Come, my pretty! Fly for me! Float for me, my angel of beauty!" His facemask would beging to swirl, making a stylized spiral that would hum up into the air and blast up and out towarsd her!

"Let your mind open and then fall to the whiles of HYPNO MAN!" Wait, Hypno Man!? Gotham really did have a bit of everything, did't it.

Audra Meridian has posed:
And this is one of the times not being a super fast flier doesn't work as well in Windrose's favor, as she catches full sight of the swirling spiral. And veers away from the source, darting past Hypno Man to skid across the ground, first on her feet and then down on her bum as her balance is off from the evil spinny brought to life. Maybe not the fall he meant. "Ugh. That was a literal sight for sore eyes," she mutters as she gets up, rubbing her posterior with one hand. And considers before she actually turns back around. That might work...

"Alright ya spin doctor, if it's going a round that you want." She does turn towards him, unleashing a controlled surge of air from her gauntlet as she does so. But it doesn't just whip towards Hypno Man, it kicks up a bunch of dust and debris and other grit that makes Gothic the dark and grim city it is to create a minature dust devil. The dust is to obscure that hypnotic mask, while the swirling wind is picking up in power to potentially spin him instead of his gimmick until Hypno Man is the one too dizzy to stand! "Try taking this for a whirl!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
It is one of the weirder tactical decisions that Audra might have made, but it is sitll a very effective one as she's able to block out Hypno Man by avoiding lookingat him directly in the face! It's not even the weirdest gimmick of the night (cue the brawling with Condiment King). Even as she goes to send Hypno-Man spiraling up and over into the air, vrooming around in circles as he's caught up over in a spinny cyclone and sent whooshing along to hit over on the ground with a loud -cuckoo-!

Then, she's face to ave a moment laterw ith a man wearing what looks like a Prussian nobleman's outfit with a large sword at his side . "Tut tut. You face before you now Baron Von KillDeath. Whom has the ability to kill anyone ot death with any weapon! A toothpick! An accordion!" He goes to draw out a large English style sword. "Now, prepare to die!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Bart is not having the strangest evening he's had (likely) as he goes to spin about and take down Greasepit! Then as the bad guy is sent carthweling over out of the way as all of those twigs and rocks go over to send him tumbling..

Bart is face to face with a man that has a.. Clock.. For a head. "I am Clock King. I can predict your every move before you'ev made it! Now tick tock, with each second we go closer to YOUR DEATH!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Austin's move has the Ten Fingered Man going to yowl out. Ten times the eyes, ten times the fun as he goes to be spun around over, "I.. Cannot See!" His hands are covering in front o fhim, the eyes on his fingers rapidly blinking over as he goes glazzy twelve-eyed! And Austin perhaps has a deep, deep inspiration somewhere, perhaps, to go for a finishing move out of the martial arts style of Howard-san, Fine-chan, and Howard-sama.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks at the Clock king, and says "Oh if you could only see." He knows his own personal time line is all over the place. He looks over at him and says "Did you know I was going to do this, or this, or that?" He asks, and he hopes on one foot for a moment, zooms off and comes back with a Gotham knight's jersey one and then takes a swing at the other man, just going a bit all over the place, what at one time was his specialty

Austin Reese has posed:
Well the flashbang worked quite well, which Austin takes advantage of as he ejects the cartridge out of his gauntlet and loads a new one into it, "You really need to work on your branding or something, man."

He crosses the distance between himself and Ten Eyed Man, planting one of his feet as he ducks down to grab across his chest, putting one of his arms around behind as he hauls him up through the air and slams him downward with an ura nage throw, showing off some of the judo he had been practicing lately.

He rolls back up to his feet after taking him down, and then pops up onto Robin's comms, <"You all good? Just took down weird eye guy.">

Talia al Ghul has posed:
There's almost an anime'esque motion as Austing oes to charge over towards the Ten Eyed Man, going to flip him through the air and slamming him over into the ground with a -WHOOMSPH-. If this were another sort of genre, there might almost be a 'FLAWLESS VICTORY' chime that would be playing over in a sort of glorious manner.

Austin is able to check for a few moments on the others. THen he goes to see a man wearing a frock coat and fedora, carrying a large.. Glass case and a black bodysuit in an arm and white facepaint. The (less than) infamous MIMEKILLER.

A mobster hit man prone to locking up his targets in soundproof, unbreakable glass boxes, dressing them as mimes, and leaving them in parks and public areas where they might seem like mimes performing to slowly asphyxiate.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Audra Meridian stares. Just stares, hard enough it can be seen in her eyes even behind the goggles. But she's not staring at his historically silly outfit, or his large weapon. She's just staring at the name that's so obsurd, even for low rate super villains. Then finally she snorts, ticking off with her fingers. "One, that name is rediculous. It sounds like some edgy tri-hard teenager's gamer tag. Two, Kill and Death is totally redundant. Three, it doesn't give me much material to work with for clever quips, but I'll try, Baron Von Ripoffen."

Both gauntlets come up, combinging wind and cold temperature to sending a blinding flurry surging towards DeathKill. "See, this time of year there's no business like snow business!"

Talia al Ghul has posed:
And as Bart Allen goes to charge over at Clock King.. Somehow Clock King has managed to at the last micro-second dodge far enough out of the way to even with the clothes (sweater styled) line he's still somehow able to dodge it! Further he's gone to stick his foot out, trying to trip Bart up and send him flying along with a surreal move out of somewhat lower style comedic material!

"You're just on TIME!"

Facing off with Baron von KillDeath, the Baron (or was it DeathKill) goes to pull out his weapon. "I can use anythig to kill you! I once defeated a man wiht but a spatula and a car radio antennae!" Even as she goes to send the ice over at him, he would dive over to the side. And move to throw the first thing at hand over a ther he could dig up. Namely a squeak toy that looked like something from someone walking a dog over at the side of Audra's head!

Austin Reese has posed:
Osprey's HUD again gives him the file on the Mimekiller when he sees him, looking at the guy and the glass case, and then back at the guy, "Okay seriously, stop. What the hell." He just starts walking towards the guy, shaking his head, "You kill people for the mob. You know guns exist, right?" He stops as he gets closer to the guy with the box, "Just put all that stuff down. Okay? Why are you even in Arkham shouldn't you be in Blackgate or something? You're just a hired gun for the mob. And not even a good one!"

Austin stood up against the Joker before he even had an armored suit. He must have missed this guy when going through files, because there's no way he would have believed it when he saw it, "Look just handcuff yourself to that pipe." He tosses a pair of bat-cuffs at the Mimekiller's feet. Is he really going to make Osprey work for it?

Damian Wayne has posed:
     Damian emerges from a cloud of smoke dragging Condiment King bound in manacles. Himself covered in mustard, his hair, his tunic, even the lining of his cape...wait no, that's just the cape's color. "GCPD en route to pick him up." He says, putting the now knocked out Mitchell Mayo down on the ground to sleep it off.

  Robin looks a bit of both exhausted and pleased he got vengeance against Condiment King, who now has a mouth full of Sriracha remnants. "Tell Arkham he's going to need extra TP in about three hours."

Audra Meridian has posed:
Despite all her wisecracking Audra has dealt with enough weirdos in her time to not risk taking all his bragging about a killer ability as bluster. So when he throws, she moves. The boosters on her boots flare, but they don't launch her into the air, just to the side of the projectile squeaky toy. The Zephyr Boots are just as good for dashing, which almost looks like skating the way she does it. Gliding over the ground, and quickly towards DeathKill before he can find another weapon. "Time for you to heel!" she snaps even as she plants one foot and whirls to swing the other at her foe in a roundhouse kick.

If it connects, the kinetic force of the thrusters will give it that much more oomph in sending him reeling.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen will trip over the foot, and skids on the ground. He will stand up and walks over towards Clock King. Once in punching distance, he will just throw about two dozen punches knowing the guy may dodge some but doubting he can dodge all of them

Talia al Ghul has posed:
Damian is thusly engaged a moment later by a man wearing a cheap looking magician outfit and with large, oversized boxing gloves. "Come on and meet PUNCH and TELLER!" He goes for a series of attempted brutal swings over against Damian, whom by this point might more be 'wait what why'. "I'm going to do some magic and make my fists disappear and reappear BEATING YOU UP." Could a martial artist sob at something so dumb?

The quick counter-attack of Audra has Baron Von DeathKill hit the ground, then spin up quickly back over. "Very well. YOu seem to be reliant on your toys. Fortunately.. So am I!" Wait, that didn't make sense. Even as he would take a hand up to his mustache, starting to unravel it to revela.. A garotte!?

Clock King acn dodge one punch. Two punch. Unofrtunately, not ten punch. It looks like the clock has struck twelve.. With a long GONG he goes down to the KABONG.

Audra Meridian has posed:
Audra Meridian watchs the unraveling into a garrot. "Well that's one way to get wired." Does she ever stop? "But I'm going to have to strike a different cord." Apparently not. Though that did subtly hit a nerve, as she is kind of dependant on her custom technology. But isn't going to let it phase her too much, at least not visibly.

"Okay, you know what, that name is still dumb, but you're stealing the show. And that deserves some applause!"

Except when she claps her hands together its with her gauntlets ionized, disrupting the air around her as the two charges come together and creating both a bright burst of light and more importantly a deafening clap of thunder! It's like a stormchaser equivilent to a flashbang, loud blinding and disorienting!

Damian Wayne has posed:
     "What." Dodge. "The." Dodge again. THUD! Damian's hand reaches out, clenching the boxing glove and refusing to let go. "Hell are you?" He comments, wiping his hair off on the boxing glove, and jumping up for a kick of his own to Punch's midsection, followed up by a one-two-three combo in the same spot. "Magic sucks." He comments dryly, obviously not a fan of the mystic 'arts'.

Talia al Ghul has posed:
This guy's gonna have the codename Fistface when Damian's done with him. Namely as he keeps getting fists hitting his face. Not that he has a giant fist coming out of his face instead of a face. That brings images too horrid to contemplate. Sort of like Butt-Head and Dogwelder.

As the energy buildup goes from Audra, she once again goes to BZAPPT her latest adversary! And the mustached man goes down like the everly poorly abused Coyote, klonking out hard.

It looks like the heroes are mostly winning the day and on mop up.. And there's no animated mop going through either!

Austin Reese has posed:
If Osprey had seen an animated mop he might have actually legitimately just left. But he didn't, so he moves through the various villains on the ground, checking on their states of impact induced sedation, and making sure to secure them with zip ties as needed.

<"I'm really glad I'm not on the GCPD cleanup detail tonight."> He comments over comms to Damian, <"Spot any more?"> He asks, as he takes to the rooftops to scan for any more escapees that he might have missed.

Damian Wayne has posed:
     Bob, weave, duck, jump. <Just a magician who thinks he can box.> Damian keeps dodgung for an opening, right when he sees one: BAM! ZIFF! BOFFO! Two gut punches and an uppercut to Punch's jaw. <That should take care of him.> He comments on comms, taking a deep breath and coughing right there at the end. "Damn mustard but at least my Redbird is unscathed."

Audra Meridian has posed:
Audra Meridian wags a finger at Baron Von Deathkill's prone form. "Remember, thunder's just the noise boys, lightning does the work." Dusts her hands off together. "I think the cops can clean up the rest of this mess." She engages the stablizers from her pack and takes back to the air over Gotham. At which she spots Osprey perching on a rooftop and waving to him in passing. "Sorry, didn't get a chance to chat, that was pretty hectic down there!" Pretty sure she caught glimps of a Robin too, but she hasn't learn how to tell which one from which yet.