14379/Color Coded Combat

Color Coded Combat
Date of Scene:	11 March 2023
Location:	Abandoned Apartments
Synopsis:	A splinter group of Purple Dragons pick some new colors and then get clobbered by a combined Splinter Clan and Mutanimals force.
Cast of Characters:	Sundance, Alopex, Sally Pride, Kainashi

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Sundance has posed:
The Purple Dragons, it would seem, have been experiencing a schism, and the effects of it have reverberated through the criminal underworld. A faction of Dragons broke off from the main gang, and then fractured themselves, leaving a bunch of smaller gangs fighting with each other in order to try to claim territory near Bushwick.

Which is how this massive gathering has broken come to be near the abandoned apartments on the edge of Mutant Town. Six groups stand around, eyeing each other, making some threatening motions and are all, thankfully all color coded.

And there was only one rule for this meet: No guns.

Alopex has posed:
    Oh. Purple dragons? Lots of them with distinct colors and such? Doesn't matter. Any chance to put fists to faces of the folk inadvertantly laying siege to the Fox Den was something Alopex would take advantage of. Its weird, seeing SIX groups all in some sort of unarmed mexican showdown. Then again, a white fox on a roof in gear, with binoculars, could also be considered weird. No Tentetsutou though, cause Its Moment Is Over, for now. "The hell are they doing..?"

Sally Pride has posed:
No guns? Well Sally didn't get that memo.

Not that she's inclined to specifically listen to rules set by the enemy punks. Or necessarily need to use guns. They're more for the things she can't just punch, kick and claw up.

The fox was the view from the roofs. The lioness was crouched down in an alley, watching the subsects of Dragons stare each other down. Her tail gives an occasional flick as a cat's is wont to do while waiting to pounce. Waiting for the idiots to make the first move on the street so they won't see the surprise company crashing the party.

Weird is relative. The only thing really weird at the moment is that this isn't as weird as the usual weird they deal with.

Kainashi has posed:
    Beside Alopex is the silent doggo, ears pricked and nose snuffing the air as they look over the color-coded dragons below. Her tail is frizzed out a bit, dark eyes focused on the multicolor meeting of the minds below. Her tail gives a slow wave back and forth as her shoulders twitch under her sweatshirt. Her head tilts as she ponders the thugs, and Alopex's question, mentally coming up with a list, the first of which was:

    -Re-enactment of Michael Jackson's BEAT IT video
    Mid-Level Marketing Scam Meeting (Tupperware Thugs)
    West Side Story - except East Side
    Plot to steal all the Girl Scout Cookies

Sundance has posed:
    Sundance is with the other three, two Mutanimals and two of the Splinter clan all gathered together on comms with the group. He's at the far alley, the other side from Sally, lurking in the shadows, his eyes giving off a faint glow if any of the gathered gangs catch it just right. "This is gonna pop off." He says over the radio, as he watches the gangs starting to posture and threaten. They seem far too distracted to spy any of the mutants.

The first group to step up is wearing silver bandanas and shirts, "We're the Silver Snakes, and we're going to run this town!" Decries the leader, though he soon finds another leader standing in front of him, wearing a red bandana "Yeah, we're the Red Jaguars, and we're going to kick your ass!"

The group still clad in purple throw a rock at the guy in Red, "The Purple Parrots think you should shut up!" Only to themselves have a beer bottle thrown at them by the orange clad team, "The Orange Monkeys could throw way worse at you!"

Finally the first punch is thrown by a guy wearing blue, "Blue Barracudas say fuck you!"

That's all it takes, as the group of gang bangers have descended into a full on melee now.

Alopex has posed:
Well then. That didn't take all that long. The gang leaders (presumably) start posturing and then everything breaks down into a brawl. "I.. wonder if we should even bother.." Let them take each other out, right? <<Should we wait and clean up the 'winners' or...?>> She transmits to the others. Honestly there's something a little satisfying about letting the purple dregs tear themselves apart.

Sally Pride has posed:
Well that escalated quickly once it started. "I was thinking that too at first," Sally replies, "But then there's a chance this could spill out into a more populated area. Neither Mutant Town or the rest of Brooklyn needs that kind of urban decay complicating matters." That was enough of a reason wasn't it?

Sally leans forward, bracing against the dumpster at the end of the alley for a moment. Until two of the gang members slugging it out with each other stagger closer to her alleyway in the process of trying to throw sloppy punches. Neither notice the lioness until she steps right up next to them and grabs each by the back of the head. "I think you two should kiss and make up."

Then smashes their heads together face-to-face.

Kainashi has posed:
    Quick escalation makes for disturbed thoughts of songs about tupperware pitched by gang members. And now the pup is on alert, hackles rising up as Sally steps out of the shadows first, and giving a look to Alopex, the dog's ears rise up, looking for permission to go out and try and calm the rabble with Ninja antics, tail giving slow wags of hope.

Sundance has posed:
"Nah, this is way too much fun to pass up." Sundance replies over the comms to Alopex, as he pulls something off of his hip, snapping the baton out to full length. These idiots didn't deserve to get killed. Just maybe a little maimed. He sweeps the leg of one fighter and whacks him in the torso with an elbow as he falls backwards, driving him to the ground, before smacking the baton into the leg of the guy he was fighting and kneeing him in the face, "Y'all are lucky I'm holding back!"

The gangers that Sally smashes together are out like a pair of lights after their heads collide together. Seems the fighters are so focused on each other, a pair of them stumble right into Sally, one of them turning around to try to throw a punch at her, their brain not registering what they were punching at until after the punch was thrown.

The rest of the group continues to brawl, but as Sally said, there is a risk of this spilling out into the wider area. Besides, it could be good practice.

Alopex has posed:
    Haha, yeah, they're all right, this is just a little too easy to pass up. Kai's hopeful eyes gets a grin from the fox who gives a wave of approval to the pup, "Go get'em," she instructs as she stands up, storing the bionoculars before heading down a little bit after Kai. The fox goes a separate way, looking to take out the leader of the Silver Serpents with a knock of the hilt from one of her kama to the back of the head. "Snake? Maybe an Axotol. .. Amber Axotol? ... no no that's just silly."

Sally Pride has posed:
The brawlers bumping into Sally causes her to stumble a moment, then turn around just in time to juke aside of the punch following it.

The thug is a bit slow to realize what he just barely missed punching, holding his fist out awkwardly. Then gets snapped out of it as Sally grabs his arm and pivots, hauling him off his feet and in a partial circle to toss him back into the greater melee, likely knocking a few more down in the process.

Then Sally turns back to the guy he had been fighting with, looking him over briefly. Notes he's one of the one's wearing red. "Jaguars, huh?"

The lioness holds up her hands in a ready stance. "So where's your claws?" she quips, extending her own thanks to her gloves being fingerless.

Kainashi has posed:
    There is a very physical 'yesssss' tailwag from Kainashi before she hops herself over the rooftop, using her weighted chain to catch on a flag pole, rebound of the building ledge and then absolutely CLOBBER a pair of Blue Barricudas on her way down, ears up, eyes wide, and tail giving a wag as she bares her teeth, scarred face peering out of the hood like some sort of guardian.... of a secret temple... she grabs another and drags them with an appropriate yelp into the alley!

Sundance has posed:
Sundance plows into the main part of the melee, whacking Parrots and Jaguars and Monkeys alike. He doesn't seem to have much mind to stop beating the gang until they're down on the ground. Once they're deemed no longer a threat, he moves on to the next, finding himself grabbing one from behind and choking him out with the baton, letting out a howl in the process. Seems someone's having fun.

Alopex's Silver Serpents leader is soon knocked out, going down with the force of the blow as he crumples like a sack of potatoes. Several of his minions are nearby and all turn on Alopex, "Wait what the hell?! A mutant!?" It would seem that the group has been noticed. It would have been hard not to spot Sundance.

Or Sally, who's straight up challenging the Jaguars fighter. The guy takes a second to look her up and down, "You mutants put my buddy Keith in jail!" He yells, before he rushes right at Sally throwing the most absolutely telegraphed haymaker of all time.

The Barracudas never even see Kai coming as she bounces off the ledge and slams into them. Then she grabs a hold of a third and adds him to the pile of unconscious Barracudas. She's probably giving them lifetime trauma just like some sort of real temple guardian who grabs kids out of the darkness.

Sally Pride has posed:
Telegraphed right into her palm as Sally catches the fist. Clamps down just enough to dig her claws into the back of his hand, and watchs his face twist into a tooth clenching grimace as he tries to not show how much it hurts. Pulls him up close to her face so he can see her own much sharper teeth. "Whoever this Keith is he likely did something to deserve it," she retorts. Lets go of his hand while at the same time putting her knee into his gut, from which he staggers back with a groan. Manages to not lose his lunch but is a little woozy getting back into a fighting stance.

Which is ruined by a light *plop* of a speck of white on his forehead. He glances up, gets several more *plop plop plop* in his face. "AAAAH FUCKING PIDGEONS!" he yells in disgust as he turns to run, chased by the birds poo-poo bombing him.

Sally tilts her head aside one moment. "... I guess Pete sent some backup." Sometimes that weird boy had his ecentric uses.

Alopex has posed:
    "Oh, Four against One? ... Huh.." Alopex's other kama comes out with a twirl before she spreads her stance and has a long look around at the group. "Look around. There's a few of us. We all know we're going to win."

"The hell you are! We're the Silver Serp-"

"Shh, no no, we do.." That's about the time the group rushes her and ends up inside a smoke screen. Loud noises. Yelps. Thumps. The smoke clears. Four Silver Serpents on the ground. "Told you. We. Do."

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai has to pause a moment as... the birds... definitely... are ewing. Her nose wrinkles, her ears folding back a moment before she licks her own nose in an attempt to dissuade herself from smelling it -- but then she's grabbed from behind by an ORANGE IGUANA! And lifted up, her arms flailing a bit before she manages to get her legs free.

    She swings her lower torso down, getting him off balance, and reverses it, lifting him up instead and giving him a toss into a dumpster!

    Down! Stay!

Sundance has posed:
Sundance's howling doesn't go unnoticed, as he wades through. Several of the groups pile onto him, apparently forgoing their newfound rivalry to go back to their old rivalry of fighting mutants.

Sally's thug gets his hand nearly crushed as the claws dig in, and then he gets knocked backwards, and then divebombed by Pete's shithawk friends. He stumbles in one of the blobs and whacks his head on a wall, getting knocked out cold.

Alopex's four goons find themselves beaten into a pulp within the smoke cloud. It seems that the groups are starting to thin out, there's not a ton of guys left. A bunch actually seem to have bolted when the mutants made their appearance known. They've been beat up before.

Kai finds herself throwing one of the guys who can't pick an alliterative animal. Orange Orangutan was right there!

Thankfully he's now in the trash where he belongs.

Alopex has posed:
Another twirl of one mini-scythe and the fox stashes them both, looking around for any stragglers. There is one rather brazen Purple Parrot head toward her from behind, but a stern glance over one shoulder actually leads to him holding his hands up, throwing a silvery necklace at her, and then he just runs off. "... The heck is this for..?" she shrugs and holds it out toward Kai, "Do you want this?"

Sally Pride has posed:
The ones that fled are the smart ones. For an arguable amount of smarter that's possible with this lot.

But not all of them. One of the Parrots jumps on the lioness's back, trying to wrestle his arms around her neck for a headlock. "Oi! Idiot." After a bit of stumbling to get her balance Sally stands up, and reachs over her shoulders to grab the back of his shirt. "You can't do that if you don't have your feet planted to hold someone still!" she snaps, before pulling her off her back and over her head. Onto the pavement. Then grabbing him as he's getting back up, easily putting him into a sleeper hold. "THIS is how you do it!" She keeps the pressure of her arm locked in place until the chump stops struggling and falls still. "Probably won't even remember the lesson."

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai just gives a grin, and with a crack of her knuckles she turns to the other Orange Iguanas that were about to try and get the drop on her. She flexes her arms, and the ends of her weighted chains drop out of her sleeves with heavy THUDS on the pavement.

    And then she's on the move, she's got the moves, skidding between two of them and wrapping the chains around ankles, she slings them forward, smashing them against each other, and then uses two Iguanas to clobber the third Iguana.

    One Iguana, two Iguana, three Iguana, floor!

Sundance has posed:
Sundance throws a Red Jaguar through a window of one of the abandoned apartments, and the shattering of glass reveals it has gotten very quiet. The low groans of injured gang bangers can be heard, from the ones awake enough to groan in pain.

"I think the rest ran. Shame." Sundance says over the radio, as he heads into the middle of the courtyard where the main battle had taken place, "Well I guess we should give the law a call and let 'em know about all this."

Sally Pride has posed:
"Well that was a nice workout, even if it wasn't extremely hard." Sally rummages in the pocket of her jacket a moment and finally pulls out one of those generic mobile phones. "I got a burner for it. Dial 911 as we leave and that's that." She flips it open with her thumb. "Lizzy found a pawn shop offloading a bunch cheap."

Alopex has posed:
"Simple enough, yeah," Alopex agrees to both the gangs going down and for dialing 911. "I imagine they'll all go limping back to the main group of dragons now but.. well at least this may give us a breather back home. I hope so.."

Kainashi has posed:
    Kainashi stretches her arms over her head, and finally gets the chance to investigate the necklace that Alopex had been gifted, one ear lifting up as Sally mentions Lizzy. She gets a puzzled expression, and rubs the back of her head a moment.

    She taps on Alopex's shoulder, and then motions at the unconcious folks hanging around, and then traces the gang sign for the Purple Dragons in the air with a questioning look.

Alopex has posed:
"Huh? Oh, yeah, they were a splinter group... that splintered even further.." Alopex explains to Kai. "One of the stragglers sort of threw this at me so I wouldn't put him on the ground like the rest, I guess? Just seems weird."

Kainashi has posed:
    A Splinter Group?

    Kainashi raises her hands to her head in imitation of the Clan Hamato patriarch, and looks even MORE confused.

Alopex has posed:
Fox blink. Then she realizes, "Oh, no no, I just meant that this bunch broke off from the main dragons and then they broke into a bunch of even smaller groups. . . . I imagine they'll go back to the main dragons after this.."

Sundance has posed:
"Sounds like a good plan. Dial it, toss it down and then we get the hell out of here." He says, as he listens to the mention of them being a splinter group, "Least this is a barrel of assholes off the street."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride also shakes her head. "She means splintered, like, the bits that break off when you snap a wood board apart." She taps the 9 1 1 with her claw, flicks it near one of the unconcious ones that's not likely to get up before the cops show. "Good job guys, but now it's best to scram."