14612/Hot Dog in a Hot Car on a Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen

Hot Dog in a Hot Car on a Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen
Date of Scene:	05 April 2023
Location:	Hell's Kitchen
Synopsis:	When someone tries to make off with a mercedes with a little passenger in the back seat, Sundance, Emiko Queen, and Kai make short work of a run-away car
Cast of Characters:	Kainashi, Emiko Queen, Sundance

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Kainashi has posed:
    It was a rather chilly day, cold wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean carrying the smells of the city with it, the sizzle of street taco food trucks, the rolling of conveninece store hotdogs and the slight slime that goes with them murdered beneath mustard and vinegar-rich ketchup, jalapeno-filled cheddar pretzels dipped in taco seasoning, and let's not forget the gyro cart with the stacks of suspicious meat towering on its ever-turning spindle of --

    Admittedly Kai was hungry, out and about, running a patrol, giving a bit of a pant. The days were warming up, and she still had to wear a thin hoodie over her top half to try and break up her un-human stance.

    She happens to be leaning over the side of a building when a white car pulls up to the curb to pick up some food from See Yew Soon, a Thai place with THE BEST vegetarian-friendly pad see ew, and a tiny Teacup Yorkie barks its displeasure at being left in the still running mercedes.

     -- and that's when someone in a decent suit looks both ways in the street, and slips into the driver's seat in order to take the car -- and the dog! -- for a joyride, tires squealing as he peels out of the impromptu parking spot (by a fire hydrant) and into the Hell's Kitchen streets!

    "HELP! HELP SOMEONE! HE'S STOLEN PRINCE HAIRY!"

Emiko Queen has posed:
Emiko was less well known than her older half-brother. In much the same regard Red Arrow did not have the same fame as Green Arrow or Arsenal. So it was less likely to cause a lot of questions seeing her prowling around Hell's Kitchen than one of the vigilantes strongly connected to Starling City... Plus, she had an apartment of her own in upper New York, it was easier for her to move around the city.

Oliver could focus on the business side of the recent aquisition of Phoenix Towers. Despite being wrangled into assisting with the family company that was not Emiko's specialty. Instead she had donned her gear and taken to the rooftops. She wanted to get a better idea of what problems and threats Hell's Kitchen as a whole has to oppose them...

The scream of a car being pushed rapidly to it's limits roars up from the streets. Chases probably aren't uncommon though the crime and drug riddled part of the city. But when she crouches on the edge of a roof to look down the street, Red Arrow notices the car is very pricey and in too good of condition to be a Hell's Kitchen original. Stolen. Or belongs to one of the scumlord dealers.

Still it's a bit of excitement on a so-far boring stakeout. The girl springs back to her feet and sprints down the side of the roof, leaping over to the next with little issue. She can't chase down a car at full speed, so she needs to put herself into a position to act before it gets here. An arrow is pulled from the quiver on her back, nocked in her compound bow to be ready.

Sundance has posed:
Sundance had just wanted a hotdog. It was just one of those street hotdog vendors. The kinda guys who don't ask questions and only take cash. That's why the cowboy coyote is standing at one of those stands, having just taken the hotdog into his hand, "Thanks bossman." He says to the guy. He apparently doesn't even bother with disguises anymore, because he starts to wander down the street, eating his hotdog.

There's a lot of commotion that comes from the sound near the street, and the commotion of the car suddenly speeding off, "Goddamn." He shoves the rest of his hotdog into his mouth and gets ready to try to stop that car. How he's going to stop the car he hasn't figured out yet. Probably a gun.

Kainashi has posed:
    Stolen, definitely stolen, with the rear window open and a pretty desperate looking teacup yorkie, its brown and tan and fancy who-the-heck-gives-a-dog-a-Karen-haircut blowing in the wind of an open window, yapping its head off, clipped safely into the riding seat box. The car swerves to avoid a slowed up Toyota, and then roars ahead, coming on fast towards Emiko and from Sundance -- when Sundance might notice a familiar shape coming through the air and -- landing right on the top of the Mercedes. She totally scratched the paint.

    Kai is holding on though she is IMMEDIATELY REGRETTING this decision to try and lift a car from the top.

    ... she's the brawn for a reason.

Emiko Queen has posed:
Thank heavens whoever owned that car and the dog at least had them buckled in!

Another rooftop. The car is getting closer. A lot of trick arrows were considered, and were quickly discarded. Causing a skidout or such would do more harm than good.

And then something big jumps down onto the car. That's... unexpected. But if she's lucky, that's going to distract the driver.

She reachs the end of the rooftop, planting a foot against the raised edge both to stop herself and to brace as she draws back fully on her bow, leans forward for the angle to aim, and fires. The arrow buzzes down through the air to jab into the street.

More importantly is that on the way down the compartment composing part of the projectile's shaft opened, sending a shower of caltrop-like spiked knobs across the street in the car's path. If she takes out multiple tires at once instead of just one, a skid is less likely. Especially the extra weight now atop the vehicle.

Sundance has posed:
Well shoot, that's not something he was expecting. Also now that is going to complicate things. Since he's on ground level, he has a good chance to stop this thing before it gets out of hand, but he has to move quick.

Mouth full of hotdog he draws one of the revolvers he has on him, the one on his right thigh and brings it to bear. Just as an arrow whizzes past him and bursts into caltrops, drawing his attention for a moment, as he hops across and lands on the hood of the car, dropping to a knee and grabbing a hold of the hood as he expects the car to spin out, "Kai, get ready to catch this thing when it flips!"

Kainashi has posed:
    The Caltrop Arrow does its dastardly dangerous work, and there's the squealing of tires before the canine mutant's eyes go wide, scarred face catching in a street light as Sundance lands on the hood of the car, and she grimmaces.

    The man inside screams.

    The dog inside pees in its carry-box but is still securely clipped in.

    The caltrops pop tires, and with the force the Mercedes SUV is lifted skyward, rolling as if in slow motion.

    Kai ducks. There' the scraping of metal on metal, and then the car seems to skid in mid-air -- but wait what's this?

    PRINCE HAIRY WITH A STEEL CHAIR?

     -- no that'd be too silly.

    Kai has, however, managed to hold on and slow the vehicle enough that its shredded tires are in the air, the three-point belt is holding the perp away from the brake and gas pedals, and poor Prince Hairy is hanging, yipping pathetically, from his seatbelt.

    Thank goodness it's a harness.

    Kai is holding the whole vehicle up without too much trouble, though at a slightly awkward angle, holding a caltrop in her teeth and looking over to where Sundance was hanging on the hood.

Emiko Queen has posed:
Okay, that could of worked out better. Cut her some slack, she was trained as an assassin since before she could properly walk. -Not- being lethal is still hard sometimes. And it still wasn't a collision causing more harm to bystanders or buildings, in part to the mutant intervention, so it still counts as far as Red Arrow is concerned.

The young woman pulls her red hood up over her head and makes her way down to street level via fire escape, walking out of the alleyway a few moments later. Regards the two... unusual people. Mostly with some manner of analytical curiousity, she's dealt with monsters and aliens before. Hell, she's operating on teams with a few.

"Good catch." She comments as she walks up. "It was moving faster than I had anticipated, it was suppose to just grind to a stop with no wheels."

Pause. A glance up towards the driver's seat. "The actual owner is probably going to need to wash the seats."

Sundance has posed:
Sundance waits until the last second before the car starts to flip, as he bails out of the hood, running over the side of the car and hopping down onto the other side, quickly sweeping out of the way so Kai can put the car back down. He does, however, tap on the windshield with the barrel of his revolver, "Hey pal, ya give up?"

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai looks to Emiko, and her tail begins to sweep behind her, taking a sniff of the air a moment before she grunts, and she lets everyone take a look at the really rather scared car theif, and then she slooowly leans back, caltrop still in her teeth, and eases the car to two wheels, and then follows it up briefly to sit on the roof before letting go of the guide rack and sliding down, snapping the seatbelt for the doggo so she can comfort the poor shaking thing.
    Prince Hairy goes into her sweatshirt for security as she crosses her arms, looking a little like she wants to eat the guy in the seat.

    The guy in the seat doesn't appear to want to comment, holding his hands up at Sundance's gun!

    Kai walks over to Emiko, with the yappy dog's head sticking out of her sweatshirt. She spits the caltrop into her own hand, and offers it back to Emiko.

    Her tail wags.

Emiko Queen has posed:
Emiko Queen wasn't expecting the returned caltrop, but accepts it all the same. "Thank you." She dips it into a pocket on the side of her quiver. Then reachs up to give Prince Hairy a comforting pat on the end. "Sorry to scare you."

Sundance is already wrangling the crook from the driver's seat. So she just pulls some zip-tie cuffs and tosses them over. "Bind him to a lightpost or something." Then she looks from one to the other and back again.

"Are you some of these 'mutant animals' the news occasionally mentions?" They don't look like turtles.

Sundance has posed:
Sundance pulls the seatbelt out of the car, along with the guy, and then uses it to tie him to a lamp post, grabbing the zipties and wrapping them around his hands behind his back on the pole, making sure he's extra secure, "So what was that all about anyway, partner?" He asks the guy, glancing back over his shoulder to Kai and Red Arrow, "It's a bit more complicated." He responds, "But I s'pose that's a decent enough description."

He does take a good look, and a sniff, at Prince Hairy, "Probably should get 'em back to their owner."

Emiko Queen has posed:
"Probably to sell to one of the chop shops for drug money," is the assumption the red-clad archer replies with. "Don't know why else they'd be driving -into- Hell's Kitchen." The dog is safe, the car is.. repairable, and the thug is the police's problem now. The mutant canines were an oddity, but far from the strangest thing she's seen.