3770/Beware of Knockoffs

Beware of Knockoffs
Date of Scene:	11 October 2020
Location:	County Courthouse, NYC
Synopsis:	Two Madison High Alumni meet over toys and thugs.
Cast of Characters:	Winslow Schott, Jessica Jones, Peter Parker

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Winslow Schott has posed:
The trial of one Jack Nimball began over six weeks ago, and was filled with nothing but drama and fear. Jack Nimball was the second man to take the label of the infamous Toyman, taking advantage of the long absence of Winslow Schott, the original Toyman. Nimball, who differentiated himself from Schott by dressing up in a rather colorful costume that mimicked the bards from medieval times. However, the authorities were aware that Nimball was a copycat from the start, mostly due to the crude nature of his weaponized toys, and Nimball's almost casual disregard for citizen's caught in the crossfire in his crimes, even children, something the original Schott would never do. Nimball was apprehended after a tense standoff when he and his gang fled from a failed bank job and ended up taking a bus full of citizen's hostage and held the police back for hours with his deadly toys.

The Nimball trial attracted media attention from the start, with the high=profile gimmick. However, recent threats mailed to the DA's office has caused some concern. These threats, which were drawn in crayon, threatened death against Nimball and three of his gang that were being tried together. This has caused concern about a potential attack. As a result, security has appeared to be tightened, especially today, on the day of the sentencing.

The Courthouse was packed with people. Members of the press intermingled with the families of victims and curious bystanders who wanted to witness the sentencing of this outlandish felon. The judge had not arrived from his chambers yet, but, standing right to the left of his podium were four men dressed in prison orange. These were the defendent of this trial, and standing in the middle was their ringleader, Jack Nimball himself. Jack Nimball was a very tall, very thin man with short brown hair, green eyes, and a almost hooked nose. He showed no emotion at the commotion around him, and seemed to almost smile whenever the TV Cameras focused on him, he seemed to be enjoying the publicity very much.

Jessica Jones has posed:
Jessica Jones was never one to consider herself a hero. Well, that's an outright lie, when she was in High School she used to dream of being a hero. But dreams are crushed in the real world, and most of us grow up, and try to cope with a shit reality and dark prospects, where our best hope for suffering another day is drowning it all in whiskey. Lots of whiskey. Well, at least that was Jess' perspective.

So how does a woman like Jessica Jones arrive on a trial of one Jack Nimball she could give no fucks about? Well, she has this back and forth with the NYPD thanks her work with Alias Investigations. They feed her open cases they can't close, sometimes help her with access to archives and evidence, even detained suspects. But she in turn helps them in cases they find themselves a bit beyond their depth. Such would be the case of a threat coming from none other than the original Toyman. She's not here because she has fucks to give, she's here at the behest of the NYPD, just in case her aid would be needed to keep Nimball alive to face trial.

Peter Parker has posed:
Peter Parker was there, in civilian clothes, but is wearing the Spidey costume underneath.

*Buddy, I met Toyman. I know Toyman fairly well. And you, sir, are no Toyman.*

The crayon stuff is a little disconcerting. Even with the thing about toys, crayon is never a calming medium to read in. So, he brought the web-shooter and the Spider-Drone...

keeping an eye out for trouble.

Winslow Schott has posed:
After a few moments, and the customary rising for the judge, Nimball's sentencing finally began. The judge, a rather portly man with grey hair and a walrus-lie mustache clears his throat and says,

"Mr. Nimball, Mr. Courtmen, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Vasquez. After much consideration on this matter, I have finally reached a appropriate sentance for you all. I sentence you all to-"

However, before the judge can finish this, an explosion blows a hole through the left wall of the courhouse. As panic immediatley rips through the court room, a group of toy tanks rumbled through the hole in the wall, being followed closely by tin soldiers modeled after the German Army from WW1. They Toy Soldiers began to fire real bullets at both the court security guards and at Nimball and his cronies. Meanwhile, the Toy Tanks were not firing any more shells, but seemed to be aiming their cannons at Nimball's defense attorney. Nimball meanwhile, seemed concerned for the first time all day and began to make a attempt to flee the court room, followed by his three cronies.

Peter Parker has posed:
Ah, Hell.
Peter activates the Spider-Drone to find a good spot to record the upcoming donnybrook for the BUGLE and uses the chaos and confusion to "sequester" himself behind the jury box to slip out of his civvies and into his "skivvies."

Dangit, how did Kara make it look so EASY? Just, WHOOSH, in costume.

Jessica Jones has posed:
When the explosion happens, Jessica dives to the floor for safety, muttering to herself, "holy fuck that idiot did show up." She peeks up to survey the area, and spotting the toy tanks, she crawls around the rows of seats to rush them and stomp them, or otherwise kick them into the cieling, anything to destroy them. Even if it'll draw toy soldier fire at her, because damnit, that's what heroes were supposed to do, right?

Winslow Schott has posed:
The Toy Tanks are easily smashed by Jessica. However, there is immediate consequences in the form of most of the Tin Soldiers suddenly turning their guns at Jessica and firing their weaponry at her. Meanwhile, Nimball and company almost made it to the door, only for it to suddenly be blown open, revealing a group of men dressed up in prison stripes holding shotguns. One of the men grins evily as he lifts the gun and aims it at Nimball.

Peter Parker has posed:
A thin webline shoots out to snag the shotgun, yanking it from the guy's hands.

Peter has signed out. Spider-Man is on the job.

"Boys...at least you came dressed for the occasion."

Thatches of webbing spray out, trapping both the "convicts" and Nimball all together.
"Don't move. I have to go deal with some dangerous toys." Spider-Man gave them the stink-eye for a short moment, then turned to deal with the ant-sized artillery.

Jessica Jones has posed:
Jessica whirls at the door opening, but she already spots the webline flying in the shotgun psycho's way. This leads her to instead grab an empty chair and smashes it in a slam dunk over the toy soldiers, hoping that level of chaos will be enough to shatter them apart, even if it scares some people and a headline of an alcoholic P.I. causing mayhem in a courtroom may damage her rep for a while. "Fuck you, Toyman, you're not killing Kimball, you hear?"

Winslow Schott has posed:
Nimball and his cronies let out angered swears as they are webbed with the goons. As the Toy Soldiers are suddenly smashed the court house becomes errily quiet. The sounds of thumping is suddenly heard coming from outside. Something was coming, and it was big. Suddenly, another part of the court house wall breaks open, revealing a 10 foot minotaur robot covered in tribal paint and weilding a giant axe. Suddenly, it's eyes appeared to glow, projecting the now familiar holographic image of The Toyman, who was clad in his familiar three piece blue and purple-stripped suit, complete with his almost comically oversized bow tie. He appeared to be glaring at you both as he said in his British accent,

"Why are you stopping me from killing this lowlife! This scum put innocent children in peril using my gimmick! My gimmick! He deserves to die!"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man turns to see...well, a minotaur. Because of course it is.

Spider-Man eyes the machine, then th image of Toyman. "And he was about to be sentenced by a court of law until YOU jumped in with your toy chest! If you want satisfaction, sue him for defamation of character! Right now, you're not doing your righteous indignation any FAVORS!"

Jessica Jones has posed:
"Fuck me sideways that's a goddamn cow demon," Jessica gasps as the minotaur makes it's powerful entrance. She looks for a moment at Spider-Man, and sighs, she's far closer, "okay big guy, time to make the burgers," and against her better judgement, Jessica rushes at the beast like a linebacker, and thrusts her shoulder into him in an attempt to ram him right out of the courtroom. She'll let Spidey deal with the banter, he's better at it anyways.

Winslow Schott has posed:
The Robo Minotaur goes flying out the hole it made and lands with a very loud thud on the streets outside. However, it suddenly gets up on it's own and lets out an angered bellow before charging at Jessica, swinging it's giant axe. Meanwhile, the Toyman hologram was still there, now being projected by a toy plane the flew in during the chaos. Toyman scoffs and says to Spider-Man,

"True, he was being sentenced. But, what was keeping him from escaping. He knows how to make weaponized toys like me and those bloody idiots failed to capture all of Nimball's crew. He could escape. My way would've stopped that possibilty forever!"

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man webs the plane in an impressive display of non-lethal anti-aircraft fire.

"You kill someone, you take away ALL the chances they get to change their ways, Schott. Maybe you should think of that before you try the close-out sale option?"

He looked to the large hole, then ran to it to look outside.

Hey...she looks familiar. Where had he seen her before?

Jessica Jones has posed:
"Over here big boy," Jessica calls after the minotaur, as she rushes out of the hole in the wall, but rather than challenge the beast head on, she instead angles to draw him away from the courtroom. "You think you can take me, you stupid cow demon?" But she's not stupid, she's not about to risk a swipe from a battle axe, as soon as the minotaur is close enough, she leaps well into the air above it, landing well behind him, as she whirls and calls out, "missed me, dumbass!"

Winslow Schott has posed:
As the plane is webbed up, Toyman surprsingly says nothing. The second the plane crashes onto thr ground, it smashes into a million pieces, causing the hologram to disappear. Meanwhile, the Minotaur roars with anger and cahrges again, trying to gore Jessica with it's sharp horns.

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man points to the webbed-up crooks. "Don't go away."

Then he hass jumped out through the window and towards the roof of a nearby building.

Well...time to take away Mr. Mino's charge card.
He aims for the feet of the minotaur, hoping to slow it down, if not stop it.

Jessica Jones has posed:
Jessica isn't even sure if it will do any good, but seeing Spidey use his web to slow the minotaur down, she expects to get some safe space that the beast isn't counting on. In a rather unheroic fashion, she reaches for her jacket, takes out a small can of pepper spray and proceeds to spray the beejesus out of the Minotaur's eyes. Hope it works.

Winslow Schott has posed:
Spider-Man's webbing actually works and stops the minotaur right in it's tracks. However, the pepper spray does nothing to the robot at all. Suddenly, the robot powers down and it's head goes limp. Looks like Schott gave up this time. But, if you were to pay attention you would hear a faint beeping coming from the now lifeless toy.

Peter Parker has posed:
He doesn't hear the beeping, but Spider-Man feels a different pulse, right at the bas of his skull, and it is coming straight from Bull-puckey over there.

Spidey flips up and onto the roof to take cover behind the sill. "Take cover! That thing's gonna blow!"

Jessica Jones has posed:
"I'm going to hate myself, but...." Jessica reaches to grab the minotaur with all the strength she can muster, and gives it her best shot to throw it as high in the air as she can manage. Hopefully there's no serious damage to a skyscrapper or a plane, she really tries to aim for an open patch of sky.

Winslow Schott has posed:
The Minotaur goes flying up into the air and explodes in a massive fireball. Luckily, it does not hit anything when it explodes

Peter Parker has posed:
Spider-Man winces at the explosion, but no warning tingle, so...everyone got out of it alive.

He drops to land near Jessica, smiling under the mask. "Wow! That was awesome!"

Jessica Jones has posed:
Jessica gives Spider-Man a quick look, managing a weak smile, before muttering, "I got lucky, thanks for the assist, Spider-Man," and she turns to leave before anyone would hound her with questions or even notice she was there at all. Best if the media attributes everything to Spider-Man.