188/A Singular Event

A Singular Event
Date of Scene:	29 February 2020
Location:	Upstate New York
Synopsis:	The ex-con gets shafted. Again.
Cast of Characters:	Melissa Gold, Daniel Hastings, Singularity, Jennifer Walters

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Melissa Gold has posed:
    One of the advantages of being a down-and-out superhero who can fly is the ability to get away from it all. Most of the people in the tenement Melissa lives in don't have that option. They're born there. They live there. They die there. All within about a 10km radius.
    Of course Melissa can just fly away. So, after careful scrimping and saving, she manages to scrape together enough spare cash to get a decent sized meal from Wendy's and flew out into Westchester so she can be away from people. Just find an empty stretch of road with a copse of trees nearby, sit down, back against the tree, and eat her glorious picnic ... paper ... bag.
    Dammit. Still, better than nothing.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
Meanwhile, one of the Triskelion's denizens.. prisoners? Guests? Semantics, really, has decided to walkabout. Or.. walk is a relative term. He defies the laws of physics and meanders about the countryside just taking in the flowers and fresh air. Seeing someone in a tree is hardly unusual for him. Seeing one in spandex heroing outfit? That's.. a little more so. So he adjusts his presence and makes his appearance a little blurred from the folding of space as he sort of.. 'appears' standing in the air next to her. "Hello there. Come here often?" His voice is a little muffled thanks to the distortive effects but he sounds vaguely.. British?

Singularity has posed:
    Meanwhile...

    High above in the upper atmosphere of the planet, there's a disturbance.

    At first, it's a ripple that could be mistaken for a passing heat haze (though why one could be found so high up would be a mystery). Then expands, becomign an odd /wobble/ in the air, like it was water...no, like a two-dimensional space was attempting to shift...and stretch..

    Like a rock dropped in the middle of the ripples, space /twists/, sinking away, stretching as it briefly becomes a four dimensional space, like a wormhole, as the other end is being pulled away to some point far away...yet in a way where it doesn't seem to actually cross the space behind the disturbance.

    Then, like a rubber band drawn taut snapping back into place, the missing end of the whole in space violently jerks back and, somehow, pushes out into the surrounding area, like a tendril of something poking through from the other side, before spitting out a brilliant blue fireball that promptly begins to plummet towards the surface of the planet below. It quickly develops a tail, becoming a metor as it falls, the blue flames around it shimmering oddly, but never bursting into the standard reds, yellows, or oranges of normal re-entry...

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Dammit! She only just got a bite out of her burger when that voice comes out of nowhere. Worse, startled, she accidentally knocks the bag with the rest of her treasures down, spilling its precious--to her--contents all over the ground.
    Red jewels light up along her shoulder harness and collar. A short high-pitched keening starts and climbs into inaudible territory, even for dogs. Some kind of oddly pink wall wraps around the flank on the side Daniel's on.
    "You're payin' for that."
    Apparently that's 'Hello' in this part of the nation or something.
    The pugnacious woman glares at Daniel, ready, seemingly, to start something violent, muscles tensing. Until...

    Starlight, starbright, first star to appear in a dimensional rift and get thrown out of the sky on its plummet to Earth I see tonight...

    "We're not done," Melissa says to Daniel, pink transparent wings spreading behind her. "This is only on hold."
    And with that she takes to the skies.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
    Sure, he looks chagrinned at the lost of her bag of.. dear lord was that McDonald's? And she wanted to fight over it? No wonder this country was going to hell. Daniel was just about to protest her protest when someone walked across his grave. His neck tingling as space-time warped and twisted and.. /he/ didn't do it. His body twisted to track the sensation to its source. "Oh dear." Communicator. Right. "Ahh, this is.. Journey.." Codenames! This is a good time to use one. "There's a.. tear in the fabric of space.. oh.. two and a half kilometers south by southwest of the foyer. Give or take." He's not exactly focusing on telling the distance at the moment. Instead, he's transitioning to ride a wave of folded space following Melissa.. that is.. flying. Sort of. "Might want to send back up. There's a not meteor that's popped out of it and is going to make landfall."

Singularity has posed:
    Behind the falling meteor...which, it should be mentioned, is steadily growing larger as it gets closer, the ripple in space time shimmers then seals over, returning to normal. The meteor...wel,l it's sort of normal. Perhaps ten feet across, though it's difficult to see how much of that is flames. Though it's definitely picking up speed as it falls...that pesky gravity thing. On the bright side, it's about to hit that open, abandoned field over there.

    Right...about....

    *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

    The ground shakes as the meteor impacts, a blast of bluish energy swirling out in a rippling quantum flucuation, then recedes as quickly as it expanded, flowing back into the core of the meteor to leave a barren crater about four feet deep at the enter and perhaps twenty feet across in diameter. Curiously, there's some smoke rising from it, but the crater isn't as blasted as you'd expect for a fiery explosion.

    In the center, the bluish energy coalesces into a small figure lying on its side in a fetal position, with a long mane of blue hair behind it.

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Up in the air, Melissa tumbles one way as the energy hits, then the other as it comes back in. Apparently an old hand at this, she quickly regains orientation and swoops in on the figure coalescing on the ground, hitting the ground in a tactical landing (that's the three-point superhero landing from a certain irreverent film!), a pink shield flaring before her.
    Then, nonplussed at having someone start off unconscious instead of ending so, she pauses, staring, figuring out what to do next.
    "Uh ... are you alright?"

Daniel Hastings has posed:
    The shockwave.. sort of folds around Daniel to leave him with a halo of distorted air and flame. "That.. is new." He replies then sighs. "Alright, maybe not for this insane world." Rather than fly the distance, he simply teleports to ground at the edge of the crater. There's a brief glance to Songbird but then he's looking down at the fetal woman. The question was asked so it seems pointless to ask again.

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Super hero landing this is where she lives.. of course, doesn't Hurt when you're launched from a hellicarrier thousands of feet in the air but here we are she-hulk was launched moments after the call came in

     Her arrival is signaled by screaming air as she comes hurtling in at an extreme Speed. The Impact she hits with is basically the same as a meteor Causing no measure of a small explosion of Dirt and rocks Exploding upwards strangely instead of outward, almost like she made just to impact the right way so she wouldn't injure people.
     it's only a moment before she leaps up and lands slightly glowing green eyes sweeping the area to get a measure of what's going on as she rises up amid the smoke.

Singularity has posed:
    Well. This may be somewhat anticlimactic! The woman...well, really, more than a teen at most, from her build, doesn't seem immediately ready to CONQUER EARTH! She's just sort of lying there, looking a bit dazed.

    Of course, there's also the fact that she seems to be made of stars.

    Or at least, she looks not so much like a girl, but a starry sky in the shape of a girl. With glowing white eyes that slit up, blinking blearily for a moment as she sits up. She's not completely lacking in details, in fact. She has the figure of a teen, and there are modest curves that hint at femininity here and there, but her body lacks many features. Other than, oddly enough, a innie belly button. Her feet don't even have distinct toes, but are solid pieces, though her fingers are details and separate, as is her heartshaped face. Her hair is more an impression of hair, really, as it doesn't seem distinct from the rest of her, it's more like from the back of her head onwards she has a hair like texture. All the same starry blue pattern.

    Really, more than anything else she looks like she's just been hit by a really large rock and is dazed as a result...which she sort of did. Just it was her hitting the really big rock. Which was the planet.

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Well, isn't that special. Shortly after the Blue Man Group refugee falls to Earth, the Jolly Green Giantess follows suit, screaming into the ground from above, causing Melissa to take to the sky looking for the source of the onslaught. The explosion of dirt, rock, and other debris thankfully only dusts Daniel and Singularity. Spooked, however, now, a half-dozen glowing pink ... wait, are those MACES!? ... form in the air above the new crater.
    "Alright, whatever you are, come out with your hands up!"
    ... What? It works on TV dammit!

Daniel Hastings has posed:
    It's hard to tell if Daniel is staring at Singularity or not. His features aren't terribly distinct thanks to the distortion effect around him. He is, however, distracted by the second detonation and lifts an arm reflexively. "Bloody hell!" He shifts a little.. looks up a little.. "Right. Back up has arrived.." And then there are the maces, "For the love of.. put down the.. maces? Truly? You have no idea what or who she is and your solution is to bludgeon her with arms not used in a century." He gives a sort of wave.. salute.. towards Singularity. "Hello there! Welcome to.. Earth. Milky Way galaxy. By our reckoning. Approximately.. eight point two parsecs from galactic center. Give or take a rotation or two." Because space girls are NOT from venus.

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Eye's scan the area one guy with a blurry face that must be the agent that called her check.. another person she doesn't recognize holding up pink maces okay that's new but could be hostile.. One dazed Singularity that's normal okay, so what to .. wait

     Her eyes widen as she looks down in the crater " Singularity? When did you show up? " She cocks her head not dropping her guard just in case but now moving to place herself between Melissa and everybody figuring she's the bad guy by mistake, of course.

Singularity has posed:
    The girl blinks as the maces suddenly appear around her, peering up and looking curiously at them....but unafraid. More fascinated. She pushes herself up to her feet, then reaches up to just...poke one of them, smiling with interest.

    Dan's greeting turns her attention to him yet as she listens, then...actually quirks a brow....if she had them, anyway, but there's definitely that impression as Dan starts rattling off coordinates. "....Silly." she decides after a moment of careful consideration.

    It's Jennifer, whoever, who has the largest reaction as Singularity turns to face her and just....lights up. Not literally! But her expression changes to one of sheer joy. "FRIEND!"

    Annnnd she's airborne straight for Shulkie. "Singularity! Is! Here!"

    And unless stopped, she's totally going to tackle hug She Hulk and cling like a little blue barnacle.

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Nope. There's absolutely no way Mel's getting involved with that. If the weird starchick wants to jump the weird green giantess, that's fine with her.
    The maces evaporate and Melissa drops close to the ground a safe distance away for observation.
    "I used 'em last week," she says off-handedly to Daniel as she warily circles the pair of women. "That's a bit less than a century."
    Then, directed Singularity's way, "You know the green chick?"

Daniel Hastings has posed:
This world is entirely too strange for him. He's now wondering if coming back to Earth was.. stranger than living on a Kree colony world. "What she said." He gestures with a thumb towards Melissa because.. at this point.. surreal space girl and giant hulk woman and floating mace angy girl. Are too much for him. He's just a scientist damnit. Pulling up a patch of grass.. he sits. So what if he's three feet off the ground. This scene has to make sense somehow and popping a squat to think seems the trick.

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Blinks as Singularity tackles her, and she smiles softly, giving " Ouf " Even though it's clear the girl didn't even make her twitch, she reaches down to hug the girl.. " What are you doing here? " She frowns " Wait, that dream was real? ' She touches her head as if she knows the cute blue hug machine, but most of the details are kinda fuzzy.

     She looks back to the two of them then looks to daniel " I'm assuming you put in the call .. this one friendly? " She points to Melissa even as she looks back to Singularity " And don't worry about her she's special but no threat."

Melissa Gold has posed:
    "'This one' will be friendly," Melissa says with a cutting tone, "when she gets her meal replaced." She lands near Daniel. "So what do you say, tall, nerdy, and blurry? Ten bucks."
    Beat.
    Then she laughs. "Kidding. Yeah, friendly-ish. Peeved, but not a threat. Nice landing. You need to learn flight better." Her face goes a bit more serious. "I go by Songbird when I'm in spandex. I was just out here for a little picnic."
    If that doesn't send chills down Daniel's spine, nothing will. A picnic. With fast food.
    "Now anybody mind explaining to me what you's all are doing out here? I mean, she, I get." Her finger jabs out She-Hulk's way. "She fell in from the sky as backup. I'm with that. And the blue one I get too, sorta. She's fallen down and can't get back up."
    Her eyes swivel toward Daniel. "Which leaves you, bucko. So this all kinda starts with you. How? And why are you blurry?"

Singularity has posed:
    Singularity says excited, just...sort of floating in the air as she clings. "SAFE! YOU'RE! SAFE! You. Are. Safe." She pulls back a bit, tilting her head with interest at Jennifer. "You. Remember? Friend!" She grins big at that, then looks over to Melissa and Dan, peering at them both. "Friends?" she says curiously, then looks back to Jen. "Friends." She releases Jennifer, settlign back on her feet, though she's still bouncing in place a bit with excitement.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
Too many stimuli! Daniel would close his eyes if it mattered.. but it doesn't. Damnit. "Right. Yes. I was the one that called. Agen.. er.. Journey." Agent? Not sure yet. "At your service, miss." Green Lady. He makes a note to learn her name. "Glad to see you know.. her." Blue girl. "Yes. Friend." He smiles and nods to Singularity. But then j'accuse! Songbird gives the steely eyed stare and the hairs go up on his neck as he shifts his attention back to her. "Can't a bloke go for a walk and say hello to strangers? Is everyone so blasted paranoid on this blue rock?" Not that he can blame them at this rate. "I am sorry about your meal. Ahh.. here." He reaches into his pocket and extends his hand towards Songbird and drops a few crumpled bills onto her outstretched pointy hand. It's like twelve bucks. "All I have I'm afraid. I'm still legally dead you see."

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Smiles softly and touches her head as she looks Singularity " I know you, but it's kinda fuzzy.. why is it fuzzy? " She looks to Singularity as if she has the answers through the girl bouncing seems to bring a gentle sisterly smile to her face.. She looks back to the other two and lifts an eyebrow "Agent Shehulk " She nods and pulls out a device and taps it " Dimentonial event-level Green, situation handled " .

     She grins at daniel, " You called for backup, that means you can make the report." She glances to Melissa before speaking again, " We have about 3 min before the Quinn jet arrives " .

Singularity has posed:
    Singuarity nods firmly at Jennifer. "Met. Fought. Helped." she...explains? Sorta. "Gone. Different. Now." She wrinkles her nose, looking slightly frustrated. It's hard to squish ideas into vocalizations! It's so inefficient! She turns as she watches Melissa and Daniel introduce each other. "Songbird. Journey."

    She squints at the blurry features of Daniel, then points at him. "Broken." Well, she's pointing at the distortion, really, but she could be pointing at Daniel...maybe?

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Melissa blinks as the blurry one drops money in her hand. And then drops that little bombshell.
    "Shit," she says, "I ain't takin' the last money off a dead guy. I got my limits here. Here." She carefully sorts out the bills and hands back a fiver and a single. "I'll just take six. I got at least half the burger."
    Then Shulkie identifies herself and Melissa darts a sharp glance that way. "Wait, did you say HULK!?" A step back, followed by a brief leap to take her into the air ensues. She glances down at Journey. "YOU CALLED IN THE MOTHERF..." Wait, the Hulk looks different somehow. Bigger in places. Smaller else... Her voice trails off.
    "Aren't you supposed to be like all 'RAH!' and smashing or something?" Beat. "And a guy?"
    "And it's not nice to point, kid. Even if someone is broken." There's a wicked gleam in her eye as she glances over to Daniel with that crack.

Daniel Hastings has posed:
There was to be a small protest about taking the money back. Thankfully, he doesn't have to as Songbird freaks out about 'Hulk' and takes flight. Daniel is.. again.. a little confused by the reaction. "The.. what?" Mother something or other. Which aren't mothers usually women and not guys? He sighs. One day it'll all make sense. "Ahh no, not broken. Per se. Miss." He responds to the blue girl who seems to be least painful in this scenario. Though he does at least give a roll of the wrist 'yeah yeah' like he knows.. paperwork.. blah.. "Just.. a little frayed at the edges."

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Laughs " One that's my cousin and two he's male I clearly am not " She motions to her body while tall and green she's not her cousin at all. She lifts an eyebrow as the girl lifts up " While i can smash unlike him i'm in a lot more control of myself ".

She looks to Singularity "he's using a power or technology to hide himself he's not broken it's okay " . she assures the blue girl " Now our ride will be here soon. I'm assuming you're not wanted for something ?" She looks to melissa in the air at little meaningfully.

Singularity has posed:
    Singularity blinks at Melissa's chiding, not seeming to really catch the sarcasm involved, then looks back to Daniel. "Sorry." she says apologetically. It is not polite to point out how someone is warping space around them. Got it! It doesn't seem to be dangerous just...unnatural. which is okay, she decides after a moment, looking back to Jennifer as she explains, then cocks her head. "No?" she answers after a moment of thought. Is she wanted? People want her around, possibly. Or want things from her.

Melissa Gold has posed:
    "I served my time," Melissa says sullenly. "A couple of felonies on your record and everybody's up your ass and nervous. I've saved children in a burning school bus. Am I the student saviour? I've rescued policemen from falling masonry. Am I the friend of the constable? I stopped a bunch of tentacles from draggin' a couple of dozen bankers and others God knows where. Am I defender of the people? But you knock over one bank..." She gestures the blue girl's direction. "Look, when you came whistlin' in, I took to the air to PROTECT her. You figure the maces were for muggin' you?!"
    She lands again, still keeping out of casual reach of the big green one. "Now could someone explain to me what's goin' on? Not sure if you've noticed, but I get antsy when I get confused, and when I get antsy I get blowy-thingies-uppie."

Daniel Hastings has posed:
"Oh for the love of St Michael." Daniel looks heavenward. "Let's all not be blowing up or tossing or smashing.. anything.. shall we? We're all friends.. or nearly friends.. look she was just eating a sandwich when your friend.. Miss.." Blue girl! "came tumbling out of a shear in space time and crash landed. I had startled her by saying hello and she lost her sandwich. This.. these things.. are not worth going to war over, hmm? So.. everyone's happy.. let's all go back to the sterile metal walls and cafeteria food.. and.. have a bloody nice day, shall we?" /She's/ confused? He doesn't even know what a Wendy's is supposed to be.

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Blinks " Oh Wait " She snaps her fingers, "Cancel that pickup mama bird " . She looks back to Singularity, " Can you still you know " She makes a pop sound with her mouth. She pauses and takes out her phone special Fanstatic 4 semi Smash proof. She smiles and snaps it open and taps a few things.. and shows a picture " Bring us here hun " .

Singularity has posed:
    Singularity blinkblinks at Melissa and Daniel. "Friends. NO. Smashing." she agrees! She likes that no one is trying to punch anyone yet! That hasn't always been the case with friends. Well, mostly Jennifer and the lady with the long hair. And the boss of space. And the dazzling one. Or the grumpy mage.

    Actualy, now that she thinks on it, there was a lot of threats of smashing among friends previously, but never permamently!

    At Jennifer's suggestion she perks. "Yes!"

    And suddenly a glowing blue circle of energy spring into existence and expands under Singularity herself and the other three as, with little or no warning, a teleportation portal appears underneath them, they fall through it...and suddenly emerge in the middle of SHIELD Headquarters, exactly where Jennifer pinpointed.

    This does not please the SHIELD agents in the general vicinity as a intruder alarm promptly begins blaring and the confused troopers raise their weapons, but don't seem to exactly know who to point them at as of yet, since at least two of those involved appear to be well known SHIELD agents.

    (It's hard to miss the big green woman with the muscles and snark and the constantly blurry guy.)

Daniel Hastings has posed:
BAM! Emeril Lugasi has teleported them all to the Triskelion. No spatial nausea for him. It might as well be Tuesday. Daniel does glance to Singularity with a faint smile as if she has just successfully proven a hypothesis. Eureka! "SHIELD headquarters." He replies to Songbird ever so casually. "Care for a bite at the cafeteria? It's not bad quality and I do owe you a sandwich."

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Lifts her hands " Stand down .. " she shouts standing up letting everybody clearly see her she pulls out her badge calming everbody down before she looks over " Bug we have to talk about giving a warning before you pop everbody somewhere .. " she frowns as she gets the feeling she's had this talk alot with her before she shakes her head .


She does spot one person " Hey Frankie.. " She points to daniel " sort him out and give the other one a guest badge.. I got the blue one " .

Singularity has posed:
    Singularity looks around at all the nice people pointing weapons at her. It doesn't occur to her that this is where she should raise her hands really. "Hi!" she says cheerfully to all the people with guns!
    At Jennifer's barked order she looks back at her. "Sorry." she says apologetically. She just gets excited and waiting for all these words takes sooooo long when she can just...jump there. With her friends! "Guest!" she pipes up. She remembers guest! That means they don't look all surprised when you appear out of thin air.

Melissa Gold has posed:
    Melissa calms down-ish as she figures out where she is, but still doesn't seem particularly happy to be there. "Am I under arrest or something?" she asks the hapless agent assigned to get her a guest badge. "What for? I didn't do anything!"
    "See what I mean?" she asks Daniel. "Commit a couple of felonies and people just assume things about you."

Daniel Hastings has posed:
Daniel Hastings blinks at Melissa. Yes, she can discern eyes now as his features become less blurred and more.. human. "Sand..wich." He pantomimes biting one that's not in his hand. "Guest. Pass." Not Arrest Warrant. "This way." He thumbs off towards an elevator. "Food first. Paperwork after." Then he looks to the green woman. "Thank you for the help. If you hadn't recognized her and.. it was blood good luck you came. I owe you one. And your friend.. say.. you do have a name do you not? You may call me Dan. Also Journey. It's a code name thing around here."

Jennifer Walters has posed:
Jennifer Walters Nods her head to dan and lets him handle melissa as she sighs and picks up Singularity and puts her on her shoulder " Come on a bug, let's go talk about how I remember you but I thought it was just a dream " . She says, shaking her head as she starts to walk.