14553/Toy Man Tormentor

Toy Man Tormentor
Date of Scene:	29 March 2023
Location:	Downtown - New Troy
Synopsis:	In which Toyman attacks the local Nerf Superstore and his giant blimp-robot is smashed.. TO NOTHING.
Cast of Characters:	Monet St. Croix, Ben Grimm, Kara Danvers, Julie Power, Caleb Dykstra

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Monet St. Croix has posed:
It is a bright spring day in Metropolis. The sun is shining. Birds are singing. The sky is clear. A giant zeppelin manned with dozens of toy soldiers atop it sitting at the turrets of huge gatling guns and missile launchers hovers slowly through the air

Heading relentlessly forwards towards the local Nerf Store, off in the distance.

Ben Grimm has posed:
Ben Grimm was on a vacation. 'nuff said. Visiting Metroplolis because Reed "ordered" him to take some time off. Relax. Get away from it all. Ben had ta' go to Metropolis ta' pick up a package anyway, so why not?

Heading down to the street from his hotel, the first thing that Ben thought about was the "Chip Trucks" or "Food Trucks". He can smell the food from in his suite. *Sniff, Sniff*.

Moseying on up to the closest, a Hotdog Truck, Ben sniffs, and says, "Five of yer dogs, wit' tha' works!" As the man recovers from the appearance of The Thing, he nods, and starts to get the dawgs together.

Kara Danvers has posed:
The simplicity of a day in Metropolis is actually in the random encounters. Kara Danvers was heading home after finishing her classes, a smile on her face, and her cellphone in hands texting. She's quite capable of splitting her attention, of course, but occationally lets herself bump into people meandering home after a busy day at work.

Only there's a commotion! Startled shouts from ahead that draw her attention to what's causing it... her brow furrows and she peers up along pointing fingers towards teh Zepplain overhead.

"Oh, what the frik is that.."

With a quick glance around, Kara slips into a building to rush towards the restroom. A quick place to change! Only... there's a line. "oh come on.." She murmurs to herself, bouncing from foot to foot.

Julie Power has posed:
If there's one thing a decade of hero career teaches, it's that giant zeplins never mean something good. So when that one shows up...

Julie had been over in MEtropolis for some paperwork, filling and actually showing up at a parole hearing to talk about why that drug dealer shouldn't go free for selling MGH-laced crack cocaine to youths. Make sure he was still well locked up. Which had only taken the morning, but now, on the way back, Julie was under those zeplins and,.. Well, it seems like the world needs her. Or at least this town. Or that store.

Where Kara is on the way to a toilet to try and change inconspicously, Julie had lost the secret identity years ago, and that had at least one benefit: she could have her clothes change to her uniform in plain sight, the business casual from the hearing melding away to turn into black and magenta-red, a prism on the chest. And with a rainbow trail, she dards to towards the target of the Toysoldiers, and over Ben. "Hey, Uncle Ben!"

Ben Grimm has posed:
The Food Truck Owner hands the dawgs over to Ben Grimm, and Ben hands him the dough. As he was about to take the first bite from the large Hawt Dog, Ben can hear tha' commotion in the distance. "What tha'? Ah thought this city was quiet, being as how it is Superman's home and all!" Sighing, Ben hands the dawgs back to the man, eyes him, and says, "Keep these in tha' steamer fer me! Ah'll be back!"

With that, the Thing heads to where the noise is all coming from, grumbling the whole way.

That was when he heard a familiar voice. "Uncle Ben". That stops him in his tracks. Looking up, Ben says, "Julie! What are you doing here?!?"

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Nearby to Kara is something that even the hyper-intelligent Kryptonian might take a moment to realize what it is. Something she might have only ever heard was a rumor, or a myth even. A booth used for an analog, wired connection landmine that could be utilized by anyone for a fee.

On top of the booth, there was something which read 'TELEPHONE' and a sliding glass door. Something, perhaps, would come over Kara. Something perhaps instinctive. As ingrained to her as her elder statesman of a cousin giong 'GREAT SCOTT' to anything of surprise or dramatic.

And going to charge on past Ben Grimm are a series of large, mechanical dogs that look like they were made from some sort of strange clockwork. With giant, huge, barbed tones the size of maces dropping out of them dribbling along drool that might be acid, melting bits of the streets. The dogs chanting in mechanical voices, "IT'S SLOBBERING TIME!"

As Julie Power goes over to what to passerby could just be called a sental styled magical girl transformation, there's some sort of j-pop sound effect in the background over from people watching. And advancing towarsd her are what look like an approaching storm of dragons.. Made out of Minecraft blocks. Someone's wanting to get their rocks off.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
And Metropolis is also where Caleb can be found, walking alongside him is a young girl in her pre-teens. They're out for a walk, away from Gotham City. A change of scenery every once in a while is a good thing, and let's face it, if you're the underdog of a mob boss, you wanna get away from it and return to simpler times.

"So, how'd you like the movie, Sheila?"

She shows a neutral expression, though more focused on her cotton candy, "It was okay, I guess."

Caleb raises an eyebrow, "Oh? I thought you were looking forward to see it?"

She shrugs, "I guess it wasn't so funny after all."

This makes the teenager think - is she growing out of her child phase, or is it because she's in her own way put through a stressful situation given the things he has to do? It's lost in thoughts like these that he idly notices the giant artillary-filled zeppelin. "What in the...?"

His hand instinctively tightens around Sheila's wrist, and she complains. "Ow!"

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara stares at this mysterious standing structure with a look of awe in her blue eyes. Her mouth hangs slightly agap, hands clutching at the straps of her backpack. There's a full revolution of the glass faced, sliding door with the small black metal box and black banana shaped hand-held attachment. "Excuse me..." She holds up her hand, stopping someone who was walking away from the scene of the zeplin and, now apparently, clockwork dogs.. The same hand points at the booth, "What is this amazing thing?"

'It's a phone...'

Kara inclines her head, staring... pushes open the door with two fingers. Gentle as a first time lover. "How do you fit it in your pocket? Does it collapse down?" The man is already gone. There's toy soldiers, he doesn't have time for silly zoomer questions. Learn the internet you ditzy idiot.

She lays a palm on the top of the telephone and nods, chin wrinkled, "I'll always remember my first time..." She coos... whispering, finger to the receiver, "Shhhh no... don't make this harder." A second later and Kara is gone, replaced by the perky Supergirl WOOSHING across the sidewalk to send a clockwork dog absolutely FLYING with a soccer kick, "Okay! Is it christmas? Is this the Macy's Day Parade come early?" Peering up at Zeplins, she grabs another mechanical dog and spikes it down on the sidewalk.

"Gosh I hope this isn't the Toys for Tots people.."

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Tromping along towards Caleb and Sheila are what look like a group of old Rock 'em', Sock 'Em Robots. Admittedly, that are about three meters tall, have huge sledgehammers instead of fists, and have enough spikes on them to qualify as an 80's hair metal band.

"KILLBOTS! SHOW THEM YOUR POWER!" They would chant over in an electronic monotone. "KILLBOTS HAVE THE POWER TO KILL!" They go to cheer. "KILLBOTS SHALL KILL! YOU TO DEATH! FOR THEY HAVE THE POWER! OF KILLING!" Theygo through what could be an 'OH YEAHH' chant at this point before going to attempt to use thier self proclaimed power.

There's something special about your first time going in a phone booth. A reminder of an innocent time. A WHOOSH. hopefully a remembering of where one discarded thier clothes or they'd go through outfits really quickly.

Kara goes for the PUNT and moves to throw the dog up! It would be shot out of the air by a robot soldier firing a machine gun. A neon flash on the blimp shows the nerdy, nebbish neckbeard of TOYMAN.

"For too long you have taunted and challengedme, corporate subsidiary! NOW, I SHALL MAKE NERF.. INTO NOTHING!" Dozens of laser guns turning over slowly towards the Nerf store in the distance.

Julie Power has posed:
"The right thing! How're Susan and Reed?" Julie exchanges with Ben before turning a quick arch, going up to like the fourth or fifth floor. Hovering a moment, she taunts the Blocky monster before extending both arms forward to smack one of them with the speed of a freight train.

As Supergirl joins in, she offers a quick wave. "The Cavalry is here!"

Ben Grimm has posed:
After the shock of seeing Julie, and his tummy grumbling from not getting to mow down on those hawt dawgs, Ben Grimm looks up in time to see mechanical dogs slobbering his way saying, "Its Slobberin' Time!"

Seriously. "Okay. I need ta' call ma' lawyer 'cause...IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"

With that the thing leaps forward, and starts Clobberin'...maybe a little Slobberin' in there too...hitting these mechanical whatchamacalits with all his might. Left. Right. Kick. "This is fer making me miss ma' dawgs."

Seeing Kara Danvers fly by, and with the chaos that came next, Ben keeps an eye out for Julie Power, to make sure she is okay. "Julie. Susie and reed are good! Stick by me kid. We can tag team these...dawgies."

Wait...that voice. "That must be the villain..." The thing looks for the culprit, right as he Clobbers another mechanical "Slobberer".

Monet St. Croix has posed:
The minecraft dragon slides forwards, block by block at highs peed. Going tounleash a series of flaming breaths that are.. Also somehow as blocky and seemingly independently produced, like out of an old 8-bit console game shooting towards Julie Power and the wall! Julie goes to power through them rather casually to KLONK the dragon-rock, sending it flying through the air to several chimes of high pitched music and.. Apparently some random bits of coal and steel.

Ben goes to smash the dogs, even as they flail and try to slobber on him. It's not going quite as well for them as they get stomped, smashed, squished, and beaten in hard. And then advancing over towards him is what's like something out of a nine year old's hyperactive nightmare. It looks.. Vaguely demonic, acid boiling in some sort of huge, terrifying.. Self moving pitch. Smashing two large hands together, it would go. "OH. YEAH." And so the Evil Kool-Aid Man would stomp towards Ben.

Kara Danvers has posed:
"Trademark infringement is not okay..." Supergirl says up to the Neckbeard of one of her, admittedly minor, enemies. Pointing a finger up at the neon billboard agains the side of a zeplin. "Apologize to Mr. Grimm." Because who doesn't know the very famous Ben Grimm? "Big fan by the way..." To Thing.

Then Supergirl is airborne, moving quickly to put herself between the firing gattling guns on the side of the attacking toys, unleashing a line of heat vision as she does a single flyby, trying to take out the gunners, if not completely destroy the zeplin.

"Nerf has done nothing, but bring joy to millions of young people, Toyman!"

Julie Power has posed:
"I'm no small kid anymore Uncle Ben. I faced Klaw and lived to tell the tale." Julie offers with a laugh, but does do a little staying closer. To support him. Speeding the monsters into Ben's direction if possible, so he could finish off what doesn't fall from being crashed into. Though, it does make a rather nice rainbow lightshow.

"Hey, ben, can you smack that one like a baseball to the zeplin?" She then offers, attempting to do a flying punch of a more srurdy looking flying toybot towards The Thing.

Ben Grimm has posed:
"Ya' gotta be kiddin' me! Next Thing ya' know it will be saying, "Oh Yeah!" Yep. There it is. The Thing sighs, and readies himself for the Kool Aid onslaught. "At least its Cherry..." Ben Grimm punches, and hopes for the best, but expects the worst!

"Julie be careful! Ah expect it to explode or be acidy er' something!" She was right he realises. She wasn't a kid anymore. She was doing an outstanding job corralling the monsters. "Wow kid. Ah'm impressed."

Looking up at Kara, the Thing grins, taps his left hand to his forehead, salutes, and says, "Thanks! By the way...ah'm YER biggest fan too Supergirl!" Watching as she speeds away, Ben then turns back to the battle at hand.

Then Julie makes a suggestion. Ben grins, readies himself, and says, "Sure kid. Let's do it." Grabbing a damaged lamppost, the Thing does just that, taking Julie's pitch, and hitting one of those Slobberers towards the Zeppelin after pointing at it like Babe Ruth."

"Going, going...."

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
Just in time, Caleb pulls Sheila towards him, and dashes away from one of the murderbots' sledgehammer.

Queue the music, Peter! (No, not Quill! Gabriel! Peter Gabriel! Look just put in the s...)

Okay, joke aborted!

So anyways, Caleb takes a detour from a straight path to jump over the hood of a car - juust in time to have one of those sledgehammers sink into the hood right behind him, which causes Sheila to yelp! - and Caleb to go temporarily deaf from one ear.

"Murderbots - giving a whole ne meaning to the word 'death metal' since creation..."

He pulls out a gun after he gained some distance and, aiming, he searches for a weak spot... And fires! "Here goes nothing..."

* BLAM!! *

Monet St. Croix has posed:
As Supergirl goes to fly through the gunners on the lbimp, each of them detonating over, somehow despite all of the explosions, the large neon hologram of Toyman monologuing continues. "THEY SAID THAT TOY GUNS NEEDED CHILD PROOF CAPS! THEY SAID WE COULDN'T USE SPRING LOADED MISSILES AS GIMMICKS! THEY SAID WE COULDN'T USE FRICTION SPARKLERS!" Apparently, someone had gone into a murderous rage over toy gimmicks of the past.

Flame goes all the way along the blimp as Kara smashes through it!

Julie had fought Klaw. Did that mean that she had De-Klawed him? Punquiring minds wanted to know. The monsters would be directed over in the direction of the Thing from Yancy Street. Had Ben ever wanted to go to try the Mets' farm system? Well, here was his chance to show off. There would be the pitch, and the swing, and a --BROOM-- as the rocket-monster would blast up through the air, going to smash over into the Zeppelin as it would start to explode over in the air in a massive fireball!

And yet still, atop it would be that hologram of Toyman, "Yet through all this, I shall have.. MORE POWER!" High pitched, nerdish cackling filling the air as the spindly frame of the zeppelin would start to shift, peel, and unfurl over to a huge, sorta wire-frame'y giant robot several dozen feet tall with the huge hologram of Toyman's head as a head.

"MORE POWER RUHRUHRUH! I'M THE TOYMAN! TAILOR!" Oh sweet mercy.

Caleb goes to dive over to teh side as the Murderbots would advance upon him and Sheila, "Kill them until no one more is laive! We shall kill them.. TO DEATH!" Such high pitched, loud and agonizing squeals over as Caleb goes to wince.. And theng oes ot fire. Each of the robots had a giant red battery pack in them, bright red against it's torso which was otherwise grey and black. If he had spent another lifetime playing Duck Hunt..

THis was the time you finally got ot shoot the dog.

Kara Danvers has posed:
The explosions do little to sway Supergirl, though it does push her cape and hair back in a most dramatic way when the zeppelin ignites, errupts, and becomes... a GOSH DARNED ROBOT?! "Oh come on..." She groans quietly, flying in a wide circle that constricts as she ascends, then becomes a vortex to pull the flaming debris from the exploding flying toy plane in. Dragging it along behind her so that none of it can fall upon the street below.

Once she's at ground level, her heat vision hits a a hydrant before flying over it, putting out the debris, the pieces of tarp, and all the broken off sections of Toyman's dangerous flying ... toy.

She skids on the sidewalk and spins, sucks in a deep breath and blows, freezing the water, the things caught in it, and creating an ice statue full of metal, broken toy soldier, and zeppelin et al.

Now they just need to deal with the giant robot.

"Why is there always a giant robot."

Ben Grimm has posed:
Takes a pause, looks up, grins at the "dead" mechanical Slobberers around him, and lights a cigar. Nodding upwards, the Thing grins at Julie Power, and says, "Supergirl's got this." puffing on his cigar, he reacts as the last mechanical dog stirs, smashing it...no...clobberering it, with a side smash.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Kara should *know* why it's always giant robots. Namely GIANT ROBOTS ARE AWESOME. Someone might have to take away her nerd credit for having spoken such blasphemy. Like a giant Lego mech, the Toy-Mech Taylor would stomp forwards towards the Nerf building. Where..

Ben Grimm would see a vastly oversized Nerf gun, the type that would be GUndam scaled. If there were such a Nerf gun that even Cable might be envious of, it would be the huge, precariously overproportioned one over on the large billboard.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
Well, no Duck Hunt, just some Duck Tales reruns.

(And you got the song in your head now! Admit it!)

But, he is becoming a good marksman. And his skills are put to the test here. He's got half a dozen incoming. "You know... I'm tired of these muthafuckin' bots in my muthafuckin' life!"

DISCLAIMER: Caleb gets disqualified for not being able to keep it kid-friendly in the use of puns or movie references. Plus, his 11 year-old sister is right by his side.

But Caleb doesn't care - and neither does Sheila, for that matter. He starts shooting at the very brightly obvious spots.

"One little, two little, three little murderbots..."

Julie Power has posed:
"Dunno, because that's Toyman in a nutshell?" Julie kind of answers to Kara as the fight shifts to a giant robot, slowing down as she spirals down towards Ben. "Looks like the cavalry indeed has arrived. You think she needs any help or do we call in Damage Control to fix the aftermath?"

Monet St. Croix has posed:
As Caleb goes through his count, one might -almost- swear there's an 'AH AH AH' and blast of lightning in the background as he goes through his counting routine. There's a BZAPT over as they go down thanks to the blasts that he's giving them. And some sort of peppy theme tune to each take down that migh tbe best to not admit he may or may not hear.

Kara Danvers has posed:
"It was rhetorical." Kara says to... well the only person who answered her, really. "I know why there's a robot, I just don't have to like that there's a robot. It's robot psychology..." Supergirl flies up towards the big LED face ontop of said the giant machine! She crashes right through Toyman's neckbeard face and smashes out the otherside with her fist extended up into the sky.

It might not stop the Robot immediately, but she sure does hope it shuts him up!

"I think we have him on the ropes!"

Ben Grimm has posed:
That was tempting...okay, darnit, the Thing fires the Giant Nerf Gun at the bad guy!

Monet St. Croix has posed:
And the giant nerf gun flies through the air. And it's Nerf..

Kara goes to smash her fist through the giant floating neon head as the head capsule pops off old 80's spring loaded toy style. Right as that huge nerf shot goes to hit it.

IT's NERF.. OR NOTHING.

Cue the giant robot exploding.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
The robots are down, the blimp is going out of commission, everything will go back to normal in a few hours. Such is life in Metropolis, it seems.

His eyes watering from the fumes and sparks the bots' batteries give off, he pulls out a pair of sunglasses.

(WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGH!!)

"And they say Gotham is crazy..." A hand over Sheila's shoulder. "Come on, let's go home."

But he stops for a moment, looking at a camera that's filming him. He shrugs, and says:

"That's all, folks!"

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