3259/Quick, follow that stolen tech!

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Quick, follow that stolen tech!
Date of Scene: 06 September 2020
Location: Gotham City Chinatown
Synopsis: The Blue Beetle loses some fancy ass tech and Huntress helps him track it down.
Cast of Characters: Helena Bertinelli, Ted Kord




Helena Bertinelli has posed:
The Huntress stops at a red light on her fancy motorcycle, perhaps proud of herself that she's obeying the Gotham City traffic laws, "I should record this for the Bat," she grumbles. It's turning into a busy evening on a Saturday in Gotham City. Chinatown is littered with people who have come for some food and to meander the streets (at a socially acceptable distance).

As a commotion starts at a nearby Chinese restaurant, she frowns and turns to look in the windowed double doors off the sidewalk as sits there on her bike. The light turns green and some jerk gives her honks his horn behind her, so she eyes him, "Shut the hell up and go around!" she yells. Inside the restaurant, the commotion continues and the electronic lightning erupts from the restaurant doors, blowing them off their hinges. "Whoa!" Huntress says. The three criminals run outside with their new electronic lightning tech!

Ted Kord has posed:
A figure in dark blue lunges after the men. "That's my Tesla cannon you rotten scum! Come back and face the wrath of the Blue Beetle!" the man yells.

The thugs stop, "I thought it was the f***ing Bat!"

"Rico said it was the Bat, ah hell with it. Waste him!"

They bring their cannons to bear as their pursuer skids to a halt. then does a triple backflip away from the crackling lightning. "No respect, I get no respect! And your aim sucks! Jersey sucks! Don't know what Batman sees in the place."

"You quit trashing Jersey! Just cause you're having a bad night... try another settin' the coward's bein' hard ta hit!"

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
As the thugs start to tussle with the Blue Bat, Huntress pulls off onto the side of the street and hops of her cute motorcycle to join the fray. "This Techla Cannon rocks!" one of the thugs laughs as they try to hit him with their crappy-ass aim. They then zap a mailbox and one of the three says, "Try again Paulie! Zap em good!" he lets out amusedly. Paulie raises the cannon and aims carefully at the heroic Blue Beetle... oh no!

A crossbow bolt TWANGS through the air and into the thug's muscley arm, causing him to stumble back and his shot goes wild up into the air saving the heroic Beetle from the zapping! His pal tries to take the Cannon from the wounded Paulie, "Dammit! Watch out! it's one of the Batgirls!" he lets out, "This ain't good!". The third thug has had just about enough of this and pulls a small lil handgun on Huntress, "Don't matter, she's dead!" he says.

Ted Kord has posed:
The Blue Ba... Beetle! jumps onto a car roof and as lightning bursts around him aims his BB Gun and fires a beam of light blinding the thug with the handgun. the other two are somewhat dazzled and fire a barrage, badly. Several bolts graze the blue warrior who spasms and jerks. "Damn is only I wore my insulated costume... wait, this is it! What're the odds? I know you got electrical blasters and I happened to wear my insulated costume!" He does a handstand and springs to the side to flank the thieves.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress turns sidelong as she reloads her Badass Crossbow, and now it's the Beetle's turn to save her! The thug yells out in surprise and his shot misses Huntress, leaving time for her to advance on the thugs menacingly, cause she's kinda upset now and he can't see much but black, "Now you pissed me off," she says. She kicks the gun out of the thug's hand and hits him in the nose, causing him to double over to spit blood on the sidewalk. Huntress brings her hand up in order to chop him and finish him off like a good vigilante, but his friend's are running away so she stops to figure out how to stop them. "Paulie, take off!" the thug says as he carries the Cannon off. Huntress lifts her crossbow to aim at them but the bleeding thug grabs her arm and she struggles with him, so she can't shoot down the fleeing thugs!

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord aims the BB Gun again and says, "Gee if only I brought that gun that shoots compressed air blasts, wait! This is that gun! What are the odds?!" There is a loud puff, like the Almighty just went "Pfft and the thug named Paulie with empty mits gets hit and lifted off his feet. The third thug continues running as his friend goes down. The Blue Beetle doesn't seem horrified by the thought of his cannon being carried away.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress doesn't shoot down the fleeing thugs (or kill anybody, surprise), but she struggles with one of the thugs while they run away. She pulls on the thug's neck and slams her knee up into his chin, sending him backwards onto the sidewalk.

Paulie lets out a yell in surprise as he flips off his feet and over a Green Streetz trash barrel, meant to clean up the streets. Ironically, Paulie lands awkwardly and seems dazed.

"Hey! What's your problem?! He's getting away!" Huntress lets out angrily, pointing at the third thug. He pushes a woman on his way past and he darts into an alleyway. There are police sirens in the distance. Huntress decides to go after him.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord shrugs. "Gee it'd be good to see who he's taking that to. Too bad that I don't put a tracker on my prototypes oh wait... nah you know what I played that joke out." He extends a hand to the Huntress. "Blue Beetle, nice to meet you. I bet Batman talks about me all the time!" Ted obviously does not respect the The in the Batman properly. "Pleasure to meet you, Batwoman!"

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli stops and puts her hands on her waist, looking at the Blue Beetle really annoyedly, which gets worse with each passing moment, especially as he calls her Batwoman, "Huntress jackass," she grumbles. She turns and motions to the alleyway entrance, "Can't believe you just let that guy go. I could have run him down," she tells him whiningly.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord pulls out a smart phone (It's a Kord Less) and brings up a GPS map of Gotham with a red dot a block away. "So run him down, I didn't say you can't. I'd appreciate a lift if you don't mind. I parked my ride on a roof. It's a little more obvious than your bike and when we catch him, you can beat his ass and I'll hold your purse or something." He holsters his gun and his hand is still out there and he's still smiling, Seriously, sorry about the mixup, I was onthe sidelines for a while. I'm sure Batman must have mentioned me sometime."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress wrinkles her nose, "Hold my purse, screw you," she mutters annoyedly and smirks, "I'll beat his ass then I'll beat your ass---no Batman didn't mention anything about...some guy in blue with a flashbang wind gun," she assures him but may be lying like the rebel she is. She shakes his hand and takes a step in...to try to steal the GPS! "Where'd he go...?" she wonders.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord heys as the GPS is swiped. "Hey! Give that back! This is no way to run a team up! There are rules to these things! We start out ticked off then become friends by the time we're done! He is a blue clad action hero, sees a beautiful anti-heroine, together they fight crime... seriously give me back the phone! Or a ride! And it's the BB Gun." He tries to grab the phone back, probably not trying half as hard as she is to keep it. After all she's a woman... with a crossbow. Either she plays, "You hit me and I'm, a girl!" or pins his foot to the pavement. Can't win.

Probably the pinning his foot move for Batw... Huntress!

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress turns and elbows him (lightly) as she holds the GPS out of Beetle's reach. "Shut up!" she yells and squints at the blinking red circle on the GPS, "He went into gang territory," she mutters, "What? You want to ride in there guns blazing? We're not doing that shit. Dang, and Batman says I'm aggressive," she adds. She steps on his big toe and heads back to her motorcycle.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord oofs and ows. "A little aggro aren't we? What's wrong with you? Been awhile since you done some thwarting? What'd I do, eat the last donut? Am I getting a ride? Okay, keep your ride! I'll race ya!"

The Beetle lets out a piercing whistle. "Baby! Come to poppa!" he yells touching a button at his throat. Mutter mumble grumble gripe.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress mutters annoyedly, "Race me...yeah like I'm twelve," she says. She climbs onto her cute motorcycle and plugs her ears as Beetle whistles at her, "What the **** are you doing now?" she wonders. She sighs and revs the engine. She sneakily still has the GPS and uses it as she takes off down the street!

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord watches Huntress ride off. "Yeah like I'd whistle after Femme Batman! Fweeeeeeeet!" A bright light comes down out of the sky shining on the Beetle. A line is lowered and grabbed and the blue warrior is yeeted up and away as people scatter and the police roll up. Mutter mumble grumble gripe.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress blows through a red light! So much for following the rules! She screeeeeetches around a corner and dangerously loops through traffic, cutting off a fancy ass Porche who squeals his tires in surprise at the aggressive driver. Huntress zooms downtown into the dirty part of the city where the lower rent folks blend into each other. She drives on the wrong side of the street to pass a Ford and breaks all the traffic laws. The GPS then begins to BEEEP BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEP louder as she nears a BLACK VAN, which stops at a traffic light. She stops as well, looking over an annoying Honda at its busted and dented bumper.

Ted Kord has posed:
... and a giant metallic, flying bug flies down the street, incredibly quiet for such a huge craft. It tilts at a 45 degree angle and in one window-eye Blue Beetle waves as he zooms along. The smart phone she yeeted erupts into a bwa-ha-ha as the craft flies ahead of the van and pivots in place to fix twin searchlight beams on the vehicle.

The craft's speakers blare, "Step out of the van, keep your hands in the air. Do not surrender to the woman in the cape, she is mean. Surrender to me.

And the van roars under and past the Bug.

"Goddamit." The Bug starts turning around, thrusters flaring. "Why do they always want to do things the hard way?" The PA speaker blurts.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress nearly jumps off her bike and runs at the Bug, "You idiot!" she yells, veering around the Honda and blowing another red light to chase after the van, "Friggin' idiot!" she lets out again, swearing up and down as the Beetle causes a start of a car chase! An accident probably erupts behind Huntress as she breaks more traffic laws. The van SCREEEEETCHES around the corner and instead of going on the highway, heads downtown past the Projects, with great foreboding and innocent lives hanging in the balance (/overdramatic).

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord frowns at the hoopla ahead the stolen phone relays his thinking aloud. "Okay... no longer funny. Thirty two people ahead. I'm not following this boob to anyone important for sure. Sorry Huntress, I got this. Stay back." The Bug drops down, closing on the van. Its legs show themselves to be quite functional as they drop down and grab the vehicle lifting it a foot off the street and braking to a stop. The driver's door is shoved open and lone (lightning) gunman leaps out firing at the Bug with virtually no effect.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress keeps behind the BLACK VAN as the heroic Beetle lifts it off the street and saves everybody from traffic. She squints as she looks up at the car hanging there, "Stay back my ass," she mutters. Huntress is not distracted from running down the thug this time and grabs his collar, kicking him to the ground. She puts her heel into his stomach and then the side of his face. Ouch. "You're under arrest. Oh wait, I'm not the police, asshole," she tells him, jamming her heel into his wrist and then stands on it, "OW ow ow! You bitch!" he whines.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord lowers himself from the Bug on that line again. He scrambles into the van and shuts the engine. "Down Bug... okay stay... release." The van is on the ground. The Bug waits, hovering. He walks over to the Huntress and looks down at the thug as he picks up the cannon. He shuts that down too, clicking his tongue loudly. "call her a bitch again and let me know how that works out for you, Sparky."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress kicks him in the chin rather forcibly and the thug can't really answer Beetle. She then stops and glances at Beetle as he stands there actually defending her, then looks down at the thug again, "Mission accomplished, you got your gun back," she says though it's a little sarcastic, "I'm actually glad I didn't have to chase down the van. I would have caused an accident," she admits.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord shrugs. "It's cool. No harm no foul. You got him out onto the parkway where I could grab him. I couldn't do it alone. Thanks for everything. So docyou know... does Batman need a A-A-R or are there forms to fill out? Should I send him a fruit basket?" He rubs his scalp a little embarrassedly. "You're done hitting me, right?"

The thug gurgles a little and Beetle looks down at him listening. "Yes, that does look quite painful. Maybe you want to let a little air get to him. The cops are sure to frown on crushing his trachea."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Huntress looks less annoyed now that everything is right in the world and the thugs have all been beaten up and defeated, "If I hit you, you'd be on your ass," she chuckles, thinking that amusing. "Oh yeah," she comments, holding up the GPS and offering it back to him, "How do you lose your stuff to thugs like these...?" she wonders detectively. She hmms as she looks back at the thug, "Musta been the fall from the van. I didn't do that," she says and then pats her utility belt, "Fine, I'll tweet the police," she says, though she keeps searching.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord takes the phone but continues rubbing his head, as if to stave off a headache. "That one... worked for me. I screwed up. But don't call yourself a thug, you gave my phone back." he retracts the hood and mask from his face and pulls off his goggles to get some air after the excitement. "Listen... if I seem a little off... my former partner and I had a certain... vibe and... I dunno. Don't do serious that well."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli watches the thug as Beetle talks and pulls off his goggles, "I like to get the job done. And keep my business and casual separate. Different way of doing things, I guess. Forget it. It's fine," she tells him and then click clicks on a device she finally finds in her belt. "Congrats, you got an ambulance," she tells the thug.