3607/Hangin' with the 'Borgs

Hangin' with the 'Borgs
Date of Scene:	28 September 2020
Location:	Spiral's Body Shop
Synopsis:	Harley has *more* gifts for Spiral! Including a bat! But they are interrupted by a couple of cyborgs unhappy with how Spiral treated them... They intervene to save some innocents and while Harley gets to kick some ass Spiral actually talks one down from a fight! Impressive! Also, GROUP SELFIE!
Cast of Characters:	Spiral, Harley Quinn

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Spiral has posed:
People in town know Spiral is about - she was standing atop the Statue of Liberty last night - so wanting to be out of her - his - Shop, she teleported up to a roof to watch the cityscape, all Gotham like except not as gloomy, with her legs over the edge of the building. Her bottom two hands are holding her up, two are in her lap, one is toying with a strand of grey hair, and one is doing the nails of one of the lap-hands. Her swords are all splayed out across the rooftop, still attached to her belt - sitting with swords on isn't that practical.

It's a pretty quiet part of town, nobody has looked up to notice the furry boots of doom protruding over the edge of the roof.

Harley Quinn has posed:
It's a fact that every villainess needs some taking care of so they don't lose themselves to their evil ways and forgot such basic things like food or, god forbid, showering...

Enter Harley, experienced with taking care of villains that can't take care of themselves! Not that she thinks of Spiral as one. Or at least no more than someone she will help in turning to the light side again! Because noone wants to be a filthy Anakin...

So here she is skipping down the street to the meeting point she normally chooses to meet with Spiral so they visit the shop. All the secrecy! Not wanting poor Harley to know where it is .. Tsk! The sound of her voice is heard well before she is seen, singsonging ' Jump magic, juuump...' a kick given to a discarded bottle on the ground and she whistling along, a large box in her hands..

Those furry boots are unmistakable though. "Awww, usin' the paeh I gotcha already? I knew you'd love 'em." wide grin.

Spiral has posed:
Spiral is nothing like Anakin. She can teleport, so she always has the high ground. She does have a metal hand though - two, in fact. She's as always a bit distracted - partly with her own thoughts, partly wondering if the bullet that is Betsy Braddock is flying towards the target Spiral gave her, and partly, because, well, she's still seeing the wildways, even now. That 'skill' that lets her see the shortcuts through other dimensions to get her where she wants to go.

Unfortunately she can't be sitting on her butt to use that ability so she slowly gets up. She was almost calm by her standards. But she can see Harley down there, and she's already talking about clothes - boots - whatever. "Just the boots." she calls out in reply. Oh no, she thinks. What's in the box? Harley has picked up at least some habits from Joker, not that Spiral would know - boxes of gifts. At least they don't explode or gas people these days.

She dances on the edge of the roof for a moment, doing a twist and a jump and then points down at Harley, sending a yellow teleportation beam down there to bring her up to the roof.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Oooo, a teleportation beam! It could also be a disintegration ray...., ah well! Harley takes the chance and gets hit by it fully instantly going 'Weeeeeeee' as she is pulled through the wildways to get teleported up to that roof where Spiral is. When she lands there is a wide grin on her lips. "This telepoatin' ya do is like my catnip. Can't live without it." she sets the box on the floor and eyes Spiral. "Still rockin' the blue outfit.., That's faeh.., keepin' the good one foh a special occasion. Ya should use it when ya go visit that friend o' youse, Elizabeth." she then wrinkling her nose. "Such a posh name. Elizabeth." and yes, she says it with quite the british touch to her accent.

"So, I got some things heah foh ya." She says, "A new brand o' coffee because the one ya got just sucks, stuff foh yoh bathroom and some otha surprises." she announces grandly.

Spiral has posed:
Spiral is generally pretty good at teleporting people even if they dont want to be teleported. Disintegration beams, she's had less luck there. Longer dance, easier to dodge. "I suppose a teleporting around the world afternoon can be my gift to you then one day... one day when I don't care about barely being able to see at the end of it.". A whole afternoon spent staring into the wildways? Only Spiral and Harley might find that fun.

"She IS very posh! I think she's a noble in fact.". Spiral smirks, just a lil. "But I made her the woman she is today, at least in mind, if not in body. She recovered her old body, very sad. Ironically if I didn't do that she would be a terrible swordfighter, skills she yearns to use on me. I think our dance will go on for a while yet though... good friends that we are.".

Even Rita Wayword's room was so full of swords, old leather jackets and decidedly unladylike clothes that it was mistaken for a mans room, so you can imagine now shes Spiral she's even less fussed about 'things for her bathroom'. That dirt gets magicked away! But she does open the box up to see what's in there.

"Oh, I had a drink with Elizabeth. Only because of you, too." she murmurs, while leafing through it.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Woah, that'd be a great gift! I knew theah was some carin' on ya!" Harley looks absolutely delighted at that proposal. And it's Harley, so expect to have her nag about it again sometime soon. But she already had a little catnip so she doesn't need more for now. "We could even go to some place you nevah been at. Could be fun!" It's now been decided it's a thing which will happen.

"Noble?!" Harley lifts her chin up, nose upturned, a brow quirked in that posture of royalty, hands on her hips, "I will have ta meet her one day. I will let ya know that I am great with dealin' with nobility..." Joker was particularly adept at it during the Gotham days ..., all the kidnappings... "I should meet her someday."

"But.., you and her awhe givin' me frenemy vibes ovah heah. But I will have ta see ta be able to tell. So next time yoh go to that club o' hers I will go too." That's also decided too, apparently.

Inside the box there's a muddle of things, including boxes of coffee capsules for the coffee machine, various types of tea .., because every villain needs their contemplative time while drinking a tea.., a pair of potted plants, a baseball bat.., and even more that isn't exactly visible at a first sight. But one imagines there may be shampoo, soap and all such things! And most likely with her own deviant choice of scent so....

"I went on a lil shoppin' spree." A grin but then ..., she pauses. "A drink because o' me?! Tell me everythin'!"

Spiral has posed:
"I'm sure she would be ecstatic to see you." Spiral laughs, arms automatically wiggling around as she delights in what might happen, aside from the bottom two which continue to sift through the box. Out of all the things in there, it's the baseball bat that she draws out. And she flicks it from hand to hand, back and forth, until all six hands have touched it. "I'm missing a sword, so maybe this will be handy." she admits.

"Oh she hates me." she freely admits. "It wasn't really my decision, I actually helped her! But the old boss wanted me to do it. Anyway, we have history, some of my finest work went into her.". And two hands are held out palms facing Harley - and then move across one another, from left to right. "Ungrateful. And, what is there to say? I wanted to talk to her, so went to her club. She was there, she got angry, but a lighting technician bought me a drink. She didn't drink.". A finger waves, forming a circle. "Wound up very tight. Maybe I should undo one of those screws and let out the tension in her brain.".

Harley Quinn has posed:
"So she is a cyborg too?" Harley questions, not exactly aware of the history there. But to be honest, Mojo stories.., always complicated! "And yoh sayin' it as if she'd hate me.." a pout offered and she continuing. "I mean, lotsa people do. But at least they get ta know me befoh thinkin' that!" she then watching Spiral bring out the bat and swinging it about. She grins, showing teeth. "That's the Johny I got on Gotham a while back. In the meantime I got anotha so thought ya could use it instead o' just havin' those swords. Also non-lethal option." she notes. It's an important note too!

"Woah, she didn't drink..? Nobility indeed.., no drinkin' with the pleb.." look who's making judgements without actually having met Betsy!

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Down the quiet alley some sound starts to be heard, a couple of men making their way in, large, perhaps larger than they should be. "I think it's around here -somewhere-" one says. "I hope so, this shit hurts. We need to have her take away what she did." the voices may be familiar too!

Spiral has posed:
Spiral shakes her head. "No, not a cyborg. She was merged with a ninja. By me." she says proudly, positively beaming in fact. "It was supposed to be a body swap but, didn't go quite according to plan. Never mind. Both ended up better than they were when they started, althought the other body, not Elizabeth, needed quite the recovery time I heard.". She shrugs though, waving two hands dismissively. She had already left that story by then - mess em up, move on, it's how Spiral rolls. "In the end though I did help Betsy." she maintains, even using the non-mocking Betsy name.

As for the thugs, well, Spiral has a horrible tendency to ignore what the extras are doing. It's kinda how she goes from the Time Dancer of Death to smashed by a complete zero like Rita. And these two are zeroes.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"A ninja ..., really. "Foh fucks sake!" such language! "Why does it always have ta be ninjas...?" a sigh escapes her lips and Harley shakes her head. "It's like in Gotham, everyone's one. Loomin'..." she glances over a shoulder by instinct.. Just to make sure. Look, five years being a criminal in Gotham.. She has issues, ok?

"But so you tellin' me Elizabeth got the betta end o' the deal. She should be thankful to ya then!" some people are so ungrateful..

"Betsy, that sounds betta. Rolls off the tongue and so!" She then peeks over the edge of the building as the two figures start looming down the street. "Heh.., what's with these thugs..?" she murmurs in a quiet tone..

The two figures are now more visible in the light, some of those .., augmentations.., visible. And painful they do seem indeed, specially around the head and the metal visible, along with the arms.

It's when she might just go and do the same as Spiral and ignore them that a couple of late party-goers come walking into that small street, laughing, a man and a woman, holding a bottle in hand and clearly somewhat inebriated.

One of the thugs stops, turns and approaches quickly. "Hey, you two." he picks the guy off the ground in a scaringly easy manner. "Where is Spiral's shop?! Are you going there now?" clearly he is not that sane right now. But that's what pain does!

Spiral has posed:
"She got to be a ninja rather than a British noblewoman, and the ninja got to be, well... a pile of whatever mental remnants were left behind. I heard she got better though." Spiral explains further. "Now she's a noblewoman AND a ninja, so, I don't see any reason to complain.". Aside from the hideous mental scars and the like, but nothing compared to Spiral or Harley, so Betsy is just being a big baby really.

ZING her name got mentioned. That actually makes her pay attention. And oddly enough its... right below her. She looks down with her white eyes, curiously, one hand reaching out to nudge at Harley. "Oh look. You can see some of my more basic work right here. A shame Elizabeth saw them. But... I think she assumes I did such bad work deliberately so...". That's okay then. She watches what's going on curiously, see her toys in action.

Harley Quinn has posed:
What is this? National Geographic? The way Spiral just nudges and calls Harley's attention just makes her believe for a moment she is in this surreal show, watching a pair of animals in action.. Which for Spiral, maybe that's what it is.. Harley lets out a sigh while she watches what's unrolling down there. "Gonna say that with a David Attenborough voice next..?" she questions, arching a brow at Spiral.

The thug shakes the young man a bit more vigorously, which makes him just get more scared. As for the girl, she retreats back a bit, letting out a yelp even as the other cyborg just reaches for her, fast as well, picking her up. "Where are you going?" he asks menacingly. "None of you going anywhere until we get some answers. So ANSWER!"

Harley looks up at Spiral again. "Hey, should we put that bat I brought ya to use?"

Spiral has posed:
Spiral watches what's going on with some interest. Oh they can pick up the other people quite easily. "Oh, I remember them. Not one of the people who broke in. I suppose they've settled into their new lives now, it's been a couple of weeks after all.". Not exactly David Attenborough, but she does take pride in her handiwork it seems, even when it's grafted on mechanical muscles and assorted steel blades, as opposed to a work of art like Deathstrike or... Psylocke.

She looks over at Harley with some confusion. "Why is that? They are just... doing what humans do. They are not the best examples though, these ones came to me willingly, I think.". She has done a few unwillingly after all, and she peers a bit. "Oh, maybe not.". She points at one of the two, the angry one shaking the man. "That one, did not." she says, a slight trace of regret. "Elizabeth better hurry up, the man who wanted me to do this, I don't even know who he is.". Yeah, not much heroism here.

Harley Quinn has posed:
"It could bring the heat on ya, if these guys hurt these people badly and spill the beans on who's been changin' em." Harley notes to Spiral. A voice of conscience this one! "Besides, aintcha itchin' ta test the bat? Mmmm?" she looms closer to Spiral. "MMMM?" such an intense stare!

The large thug continues shaking the man a bit more before tossing him against a trash can. "Look I don't know anyone by that name! What shop?!" the man coughs out a bit of blood while the big man moves closer. "She changed me, and now it just doesn't fucking stop hurting." he growls, leaning closer to the man on the ground which is now lifting his hands in fear, pleading. "No, I told you.. I am just here drinking with my girlfriend!"

As for the other, he starts squeezing the young woman's neck, slowly, but determinedly. They only need one person to tell them where the shop is afterall.

"Fuck it!" Harley exclaims..., and jumps, aimed towards the big guy holding the girl!

Spiral has posed:
"I feel like I am an actress yet again." Spiral sighs, as Harley jumps down to do battle with the borgs. "Fine.".

Naturally she teleports down there rather than jump, appearing with a pop right behind the guy who has grabbed the other man. One hand is holding the bat - but it's not exactly an elegant weapon, so that hand is behind her back, while two of the other ones are raised and ready for violence, the other three just... waving around. She really does have an excess.

"All you had to do is mention my name - but the Body Shop doesn't allow refunds.". A pause. "Not that you paid anyway. Satisfaction not achieved?". She actually looks faintly embarassed, her white eyes wandering over the guy curiously. See what I have to work with here. :(

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley is gaining some speed... On hindsight, perhaps this wasn't a great idea? NOPE! It was the BEST idea! She drops on the man with her knees, right on it's back and making him topple over, releasing the girl in the process.. A bit hardier than normal too so instead of she just doing a smooth landing on his back she is instead pushed back and flies to hit a wall with a 'oof' "Ow, damn it!" she rubs the back of her head, slowly regaining her footing while the thug does the same..

As for the other.., he turns suddenly. "Spiral!" surprised for sure just before his frown grows. "You- you.." his eyes look wild, in pain, clearly satisfaction was not achieved. Or at least not the one he wanted! "I want you to take this away!" he shouts.

The young man is now forgotten, starting to slowly crawl away from all the madness.

Spiral has posed:
Spiral looks him over, and then looks up into his face, as he's probably a (tiny bit) taller than the extradimensional sorceress. And she remembers what she said to Harley up on the roof. She did help Betsy after all, at least in her own fashion - not undoing everything but helping her get her mind back.

"I don't remember you begging me for these gifts like so many did." she admits, one hand reaching out to run a hand across a metallic muscle, bonded to his body not merely with science, but some magical and scientific hybrid that perhaps only Spiral really truly understands.

"It isn't within my power to return you wholly to how you were before me. But. I shall do what I can... you've played your role in this story already, most likely.".

Harley Quinn has posed:
The thug was, admittedly, fully ready to go into a tussle with Spiral. Besides having a lot of accumulated tension he is itchin to just punch who did this to him.. But then, she says yes? The man blinks once, stopping on that rush that he was preparing to take, hands lowering a bit to his sides..

"Uh, yes.. please." so quick that they turn to pleading. But he nods, eager to be turned back to his former state...

As for Harley.. "Thought we were gonna smash 'em. And you caressin' him now?!" she asks with an indignant tone to Spiral. No, she doesn't seem to have heard what she said. But her attention is soon called to the big man. He is charging her apparently, the aim being to squish her against the wall.

Harley yelps suddenly and close to the last moment appearing as if she will just be smashed. But right in the last second a wicked little grin appears and she moves. Rather fast too. She steps to the side and so the man hits the wall, some bricks being crushed at the momentum and then a howl of pain erupting from him.. "Fooled ya!" she says proudly.

Spiral has posed:
Spiral is nothing if not unpredictable! No wonder people think she's crazy. Spiral of course thinks she has her own reasons for everything, even if sometimes the reason is 'for the lulz'.

"The other one came willingly, this one did not. And, well...". Those muscles do look a bit nasty, it's not surprising it hurts. Steel magically bonded to flesh? It's probably rusting.

If there was actually a fight, she would probably get involved with fists and bats and swords, she does like to be hands on. But as at least with her guy she has other plans, she begins to dance instead, two arms lifted up high above her head, one leg going up, then the other, then a spin and then ..... POW.

A stunning blast aimed at the guy she's talking to. It's not like she uses general anaesthetc after all.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! That's what the guy is thinking when that blast catches right on.. Perhaps he was expecting it just to be magically done, pain taken away, or however Spiral does things... He is a simple man.. But now he is flying back with a groan of pain, landing against the trash can and lying there, totally knocked off now..

As for the one with Harley, he turns, groggy, barely able to keep himself standing.. And that's right when Harley strikes. "Tryin' ta squish me, eh?!" she jumps, delivering a vicious kick to the man's face that sends him sprawling to the floor, unconscious. Honestly, for a girl her size that kick must have packed quite the wallop...

"That will teach ya!" Harley says, hands on her hips. As for the young man and woman nearby.. They are already on the edge of the alley and bolt quickly around a corner!

Spiral has posed:
Spiral zaps the guy and he drops like an Avenger (hee) - then she does another swift pirouette and he vanishes, teleported to the Body Shoppe for ... improvement, at the least. Maybe he'll come out worse than when he went in, but probably not.

Then Spiral ambles over to where Harley seems to be having fun, hands on hips, and one reaching out to rest on Harley's shoulder as they survey the handiwork. "See. Not my finest work. When we meet Elizabeth you should try that on her! I'm not sure if any of her ninja skills were there before I got to her, so. I'm claiming them all as mine.".

Spiral casts haste, Spiral gets all kills from then on, is how it works. Like every sorceress!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Think that will teach 'im a lesson." Harley says, still eyeing the fallen guy until Spiral comes by and rests a hand on her shoulder. It makes Harley grin broadly. "Ya did help. Wasn't suwah if ya would." she takes out her phone. "This deserves a celebration." she announces. And what celebration would that be? Group selfie of course!

She gets the phone up a bit away from her face so as to get a good angle from the duo. "Remembah, no duck face, that's disgustin'!" and then BAM! Photo taken! For the memory album!

Harley and Spiral. Unstoppable crime fighting duo! (In Harley's dreams perhaps)

Spiral has posed:
Unstoppable crime duo maybe. Spiral does actually strike a pose - after all, she's the mistress of ceremonies really! "Did I? You didn't seem to need any help." she notes, and prods at the downed cyborg with a furry boot. "This one is going to seek a refund too... when a small human like you can beat him like that, he won't be happy. But working with material like that, there's only so much I can do." she notes.

"Well, apparently I have work to do anyway, attending to my... refund.". She hasn't forgotten the gift though, and does another quick dance, summoning the box on the roof down to near her feet. Really, she recommends everybody uses this mode of transport, so convenient.