15712/Dinosaurus on Ice!

Dinosaurus on Ice!
Date of Scene:	25 August 2023
Location:	Arctic Ice Sheet
Synopsis:	Balm, Impulse, and Bio-Blade face off against the eco-terrorist Dinosaurus, who is attempting to jumpstart global flooding by blowing up the fjords!
Cast of Characters:	Mark Grayson, Phoebe Beacon, Bart Allen, Caleb Dykstra

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Mark Grayson has posed:
The city (using the term loosely) of Ilulissat, Greenland is known for two things. One, it never goes above freezing, no matter what time of the year it is, and two, it has a spectacular view of one of the largest natural ice sheets in the world.

However, right now, it's in the middle of a crisis. The one cruise ship that is in port has come under siege as citizens are trying to evacuate the city in a hurry. Why is this? Because in the middle of town, an eight foot tall humanoid tyrannosaurus is currently rampaging. As the creature sees a nearby camera crew from the Daily Bugle, it leaps and lands in front of the startled reporter, grabbing the microphone from her.

"Attention, humans! My name is Dinosaurus! And I have decided that humans are the reason that our Earth is dying and you must be stopped! The best way to do that is... to hasten your own destruction that you have clearly set upon yourselves!"

"To that end, I have planted a bomb on the ice sheet above me and when it detonates, it will break apart and fall into the ocean to flood the coastal cities of the world! Maybe then, humanity will finally take the steps it needs to save itself!"

With that, he throws down the microphone and turns over the news truck, leaving it on his side as he continues to rage, trying to herd the city's dwellers to the docks.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    A cruise ship under threat of an iceburg is one thing -- but a cruise ship under threat of a terrifyingly brilliant DINOSAUR is something quite different, and down towards the southern reaches of a beach where Phoebe and Bart had joined forces to clear debris and trash away from some possible turtle nests, a call had gone out for any who could spare the attention to rescue.

    And so they went, and a pinkish-gold portal opens up and dumps out a surprising duet-to-trio of people as Balm drops down, wearing her gray, hooded costume with her blue-lensed domino, making a wincing expression as she breathes out.

    "Eco-terrorists are so hard because, hard agree on their reasons, hard disagree on the methods -- Impulse is that guy a chonky allosaurus or some other Tyranosaur...?" she asks, looking to her speedster companion, "Let's get the people away from the floodzone first maybe?" she asks.

    "HEY! FOSSIL-FOR-BRAINS! Your Momma's the original holotype form for a Megalosaurus!!"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen is in his white and red costume, and says "I think a melamanicasurus" He offers as he looks around to get the lay of things "Ok, so, can you locate the bomb while I keep him busy?" He asks and says "I think the whole if you stand still is fake by the way, did not work on real dinos."

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
Happy Harbor. Warm sunny beach day.

Here you find people blissfully ignorant of the cold ice-sheet plots of humanoid tyrannosaurs, just enjoying the sun and taking a swim. This includes a certain Gothamite teen runaway, Caleb, and his family.

Now, a funny thing with magic and speed force somehow working together, is that they can sometimes cause 'ripple like' wake effects, like when a boat crosses the water.

So, when said certain teen, who was jumping into the water, disappears beneath the surface...

*THUMP!!*

The sudden change in tempearture - and the fact he's really underdressed for the occasion - sink in real quick.

"GAH-HAAAA!! IT'S FUCKIN' COLD!!" He gets up real fast. "W-Where the fuck am I??"

And still, it could've been worse - it could've been a nude beach...

Mark Grayson has posed:
As heroes start to arrive and insult his lineage, Dinosaurus snarls in the direction of the pair. "Really, that is the best you can do?" he asks the pair. "If anything, I'm most cloesly related to the Fukuiraptor, but what do I expect from two that probably got all their knowledge from 'Jurassic Park'."

On the beach, where Caleb is and near Phoebe and Bart, one of the locals notices him and looks confused, before taking pity and taking off his heavy bear skin parka to offer to the young man, speaking in kalaallisut, "Qimaavugut. Tuaviuutissavatsigut." (We are fleeing. You should come with us.)

He gestures towards the ship, as if to hasten Caleb along. Fortunately, with the evacuation, there are several vehicles that have just been left abandoned on the beach and at the docks, that could be procurred, if wanted.

The thing with this village is that it's small. Narrow streets are tall marked with buildings that don't go over three stories tall. It's a touristy type town, lots of souvenier shops, local made goods, candy shops and restaurants and pubs. Dinosaurus is in the city square, which beyond it is where the road leading to the mountain pass and glacier lie.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Ouch, way to insult, no Dinosaur Train? Species? Walking with Dinosaurs? Constant visits to the Natural History Museum?" Balm replies to the Dinosaur, and she raises her hands. The magician catches the car up on her sheild, feeling the weight of it strike, the crunch of the metal as she narrows her eyes at the dino.

    "Fukuiraptor yeah I'd go for that, definitely not a Yuyutyranus or Yenlong." she replies, letting the car drop in front of her -- but she had seen Caleb come through about four meters to her right.

    >>Impulse: We have aa stow-away! I recognize him--<< Balm states over the Outsiders' comms:

    "DYKSTRA!" Balm barks, "Get clear of the area! Go with them!" she calls out, keeping the fancy eight-pointed star of her shields lazily spinning between Dinosaurus and some of the endangered people!

    "He's got a bomb and plans on artificially raising the sea level!"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen will nod a bit. Before charging at the dino-man, he does a quick circuit in the city leaving some money on a counter and is back dropping some clothes next to Caleb "That should help." He then starts to head into the dino and calls out "Actually my knowledge is first hand, have you ever had a group of raptors chase you. I am sure it would be much worse if they had a chance of catching me." HE says as he is heading in for a punch and passby.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
The moment is of shock, as he's trying to get his bearings. Arctic weather... Heroes... Dinosaurs... Suddenly clothes, thank you, but that doesn't keep him from getting a sneeze out, so prolly a cold too...

And... Wait, did someone say a /BOMB/!!?

Now, his first instinct is to run. But then, he thinks about the consequences of the sea level rising. He thinks about his father and sister, down at the beach just now, probably wondering why he's not getting back up...

"A bomb?? Nuh-uh. No way, no fucking way. Get me there."

Maybe he can diffuse it - what could go wrong?

Mark Grayson has posed:
Dinosaurus is distracted from his car throwing by the rush of Impulse coming towards him. His teeth flash for a moment. "Super-speed, lets see how fast you run when..." One massive leg rises into the air and slams into the ground, shattering nearby windows and heaving the ground upwards underneath the speedster as he tries to keep Bart from passing him by.

Phoebe, however, gets a harder look. "Magic user?" he finds himself questioning. He doesn't really have a defense against /that/. He brings his arms together and slams them infront of him in a massive /clap/ that sends out a shockwave, with the hopes of knocking Phoebe back.

Because if chucking cars and shockwaves doesn't work, he's worse off than Blondie's 'Rapture' on what comes next.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Balm braces herself. She draws her arms up and closer, her eyes narrowing behind her standard Gotham-issued, Tim Drake specialized domino mask, looking to the readouts as her heart sinks. She can take a few more blows like this before she has to rest her shields and focus on hand-to-hand -- or magic-to-dinosaur.

    She turns to Caleb, nd then brings her hand to her ear <<Impulse. Get him to the Bomb. I'll engage Barney.>> she states with the learned-it-from-Batman, no-argument tone.

    "YEah, magic user." she states, and she drops her shield, having skid back from DInosaurus's shockwaves.

    So. Brilliant mind, knows his dinosauria, shockwave emits shockwaves from claps and stomps -- this guy was a DDR -- Dancing Dino Rager. Pulls from her side a flashbang -- decidedly not magic, but useful as she lobs it at the Dinosaur to keep his attention on her instead of the fleeing villagers -- or Bart and Caleb!!

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen sees the shockwave coming and he may not be able to avoid it, he is able to control himself a bit. He ends up semi controlled into a pile of snow. As he comes up, he is distracting the dino for a second or at least trying as about 50 snowballs are thrown at him in a matter of seconds. Bart hears Balm, and seems to trust she has this if she says she does, and is heading back away from the dino back to Caleb. Once beside him, he gives him a second to put the stuff on and says "Climb on my back." He offers the other man.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
The teen gets dressed, and sneezes again - yeah, that's a summer cold right there. Oh, the irony. And, once he's done, he climbs on Bart's back, "Okay...", while still looking at the humanoid dino. "Did somebody forget to tell that guy he's supposed to be extinct?"

Mark Grayson has posed:
With Dinosaurus continuing to rampage, he starts to run down the street towards the trio, just as Bart's snowball barrage slams into his side, pelting him with snow and causing him to shiver as he snaps his jaws at the speedster, too late to actually bite into him, but it has an unintended effect.

It allows Phoebe to bounce the flashbang near his face and it explodes brightly! Dinosaurus /ROARS/ in anger, his arms flying up as his hands cover his eyes and he starts to thrash around, whipping his tail into the air and across the side of a building, throwing up a wave of debris that is whipped in the direction of the little Bat as he continues to stomp and snap at air, fully flailing in an attempt to try to land a lucky hit on the woman.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    That's it. Pay attention to me.

    Phoebe shifts her weight around and is being obvious about her movements, distracting the raging repitiloid as she goes -- but she slips, her heart skipping a beat as she's caught by the tail, feeling ribs crack and crush. She lets out a WHOOF of breath as one pierces her lung. Blood erupts from her mouth as she tumbles and skids down the street, rolling and coughing, her nerves on fire from the pain.

    Her healing is already at work. The rib in her lung is pulled back and knit back into place first as the tissue from her lung begins to regrow, but she'll be down for a minute.

    Hopefully, Bart and Caleb are having better luck!

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen some speedsters may not know how to run on Ice, but Bart has been trained to do it, might have something to do with his Grandfather having a rogue called Captain Cold, or maybe just Max being a good teacher. Either way once Caleb is on his back, Impulse is off and running doing a grid search of the area where he expects the bomb would be to do the most damage.

Mark Grayson has posed:
Feeling his tail crush against Phoebe, Dinosaurus grins toothily. "Got you!" he snarls, whipping around, his maw opening wide to attempt to snap down on Phoebe - cue the camera angle of the open mouth with all the silhouettes of all those really sharp teeth about to snap down on her if she doesn't hurry, she's going to be a dino-nugget snack!

The bomb is relatively easy to find - it is set in the middle of the crevace on either side of the ice floe, a large cylindrical device that is tethered against the ice, a timer ticking down from three minutes, showing how much time the pair will have to work with.

The bomb itself is the size of three fifty-five gallon drums, lashed together around a detonator, with several wires and controls linking bomb to device. It's a matter of figuring out which wires are connected to the positive and negative feeds and the ground wire. Three wires. Pretty simple.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
"So, how does this w...?", is all Caleb has time to ask, before Bart speeds off like a bullet. "WAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH...!!" His first instinct is actually that of flailing wildly, but you're supposed to fight those instincts if you want to be a hero, which he doesn't, so he just settles for making out of this alive, and hangs on. Tightly, if you had to guess.

"Okay, there!", he says as timely as he can muster.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    That is exactly how everyone should react the first time they piggy-back on a speedster. #YesSheDid #StillDoesActually.

    Phoebe looks up, there's even a little bit of sparking on her suit for effect -- oh no! Phoebe's in so much danger!

    Well. Until she moves quickly, rolling back to her feet and bringing up her hand, from which a beam of solidified light springs to hold Dinosaurus's mouth open!

    "Got you." she replies cooly, and with a chill look, the light staff turns into a sword, and Phoebe pushes up with her legs, her face and domino iluminated from the solidified magic light -- and then she turns the sword and tears outwards.

    Her HUD in her domino is showing the 3D scans of the Fukuiraptor, and where she should hit for maximum hurt, but minimum lethality.

    She's a Bat, after all.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen sets Caleb down and says "Ok, not sure if a dino man can see colors, so not sure if the whole red wire blue wire would mean anything." He hmms and looks at the bombs and tries to figure where the actual explosive to start the big boom is, maybe he could grab it and run it off to toss aside so they only have a little boom instead of a big boom.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
Three minutes. Three minutes!??

"Three minutes??", he actually says it out loud this time. "Aw, fuck, this so above my paygrade..." But he grits his teeth and gets to it. "Somebody keep Iguanalord off my back while I do this." And he starts to look at the circuitry, making a mental blueprint in his head. And he starts to hum nervously... To Jurassic Park's main theme, no less!

On another note entirely... Is Iguanalord a cool or lame super-villain name? #PollIguanalordSucksOrBites

Mark Grayson has posed:
The mouth snaps down on the staff, and Dinosaurus' eyes widen and he starts to shake his head to try to break through -- just as Phoebe twists the knife (sword) quite literally and there's a bright flash of red that races through the raptor's brain and he cries out as a bright splatter of blood sprays out and covers the cobblestone street, the neaby building and perhaps Phoebe herself. Dinosaurus stumbles backwards, grabbing his face. "Mah nobe, mah nobe!" he cries out as he slams into a building and collapses, eyes rolling up into the back of his head.

As he drifts into unconsciousness, the scales and color fade and shrink as the massive over seven foot tall dinosaur in armor...

Into a six foot tall skinny white kid with long brunette hair, goatee and a very much obviously broken nose.

The circuitry of the bomb is laid bare, the wires running in what appears to be a standard pattern. It appears to be that it is the black wire that is running between the barrels and the detonator. Apparently Dinosaurus was not all that colorblind after all.

Just not all that diabolical at building bombs.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    >>Barney's been put to sleep and regressed to a more natural state of evolution, I'm Very Nicely sending a request to the Danish government to allow the Justice LEague to pick up this guy.<< Balm comms in, and she collapses down to her knees a moment, breathing out a sigh of relief.

    "I am so glad that you're going to be easier to ziptie than a big dinosaur beast." she comments to the much smaller and not as snarly guy.

    Phoebe stands up, and looks around to the village.

    Her domino crackles, but the communication array in her hood and domino translate for her to the local parlance:

    <Does anyone have any injuries? I'm a Healer.>

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks over and says "She has him down, do you think you know how to do this, or should I like take it all off and run it down to throw it in the ocean, I can leave the barrels which should make the explosion in the ocean smaller. Though Aquaman might get abit upset at me over it."

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
"Yes, well... I'm going to have to call you out on that", he talls Impulse. "This thing is designed to blow up an ice shelf. If you detonate it out in the ocean, the shockwave is still likely to reach a good portion down the sea bottom. Picture tsunamis along the coastlines. Besides, motion detectors are a fine way to troll a would-be day-saver..."

He's narrowing it down the daisy-chained drums, and gets the circuitry down to the black wire. "Clever bastard... He had a few decoys here."

He looks at the wire, prepares to cut it...

But with what tools? "Oh, fuck..." He braces himself. "Keep your fingers crossed..."

And he yanks, closing his eyes...

Mark Grayson has posed:
Snip! The wire is cut and...

Nothing.

Caleb has successfully disarmed the bomb, the barrels now sitting inert, with little chance of explosion.

With Dinosaurus down and out and getting gussied up for pickup by the Justice League, people in town start to come back from the docks. "Just a few minor injuries... the creature did not attempt to harm anyone." Odd, that.

"But please, you and your friends stay, dine with us, share a pint at the pub!"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Snip. No Boom.

    <<Pickup is clear, confirmation that the Danish government that the League can take him up since I have zero jurisdiction outside Gotham. Feeling hungry, Impulse?>> Balm states into her comms, and she turns to the villagers, and gives a bright smile.

    "I'm sure my speedy friend will be here momentarily and will happily partake, but the other gentleman was an unintended guest; I should return him back to where he came from before /I/ can party." she explains.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks over and says "I was not taking the whole bomb, I meant like just the wire, there is something that goes boom that causes the barrels to go boom right?" He holds up his hand to his ear and says "Looks like there is food back at the city, you ready to head back? I can carry ya again.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
Caleb opens an eye, looks around. No blast - or was there one and this is the afterlife? Nope, it likely would feel more like a spring, or maybe even summer - or at least so he thinks.

"Okay, nobody hurt?", he blinks. "Everybody in one piece? No explody anyone?"

When he realizes he still has a body, he finally sighs. And to Bart: "Yeah, the whole interconnected circuitry, acting as a deadman's switch. You'd take the detonator off..." And he makes the explosion gesture.

Then, the realization of what just happened sinks in.

"Okay, I have to ask, all lives saved aside...", flailing ensues, "How the eff did I get out here?? I was having a swim at the beach in Happy Harbor!!"

Aaaaaaand, another sneeze! #SummerFlu

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Best I can tell is that when I cast my portal it interacted with the SpeedForce in such a way that it prompted a tag-along. It's just... really weird that it was *you* of all people." Balm's voice comes up over Impulse's comm. Seems she was listening.

    "I can bring you back to Happy Harbor, keep the clothes. Least we can do until I find out if we can issue ad-hoc hazard pay." she gives a slight joke "But until then -- Impulse, Caleb, come and have a pint and some food. You both did really well, and it was good to work with you."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen carries the other and once they are back, he is checking out thing and will let them feed him, but he does not eat his full, enough to let them feed him but not enough to make them regret feeding him.

Caleb Dykstra has posed:
It does take a while for Caleb to adjust to the situation - and this Gothamite can be kantankerous -, but after a while he's eating and drinking. A pint for saving people, what harm can it do, after all?

And he'll get back with a story to tell - that on a summer day, he visited the fjords... #ToTheLandOfIce