4167/Trouble in Manhattan

Trouble in Manhattan
Date of Scene:	18 November 2020
Location:	Manhattan
Synopsis:	Flash and Glamour stop a bank robbery in quick fashion.
Cast of Characters:	Wally West, Glamour

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Wally West has posed:
Why is Manhattan always the site of a bank robbery?

Always. Without fail. Its like these guys don't have anywhere better to rob!

But there's roughly twenty gunmen. They had taken the Manhattan bank by storm and have hostages, while three of them have taken to the vault, getting ready to grab everything they can carry and book. Wally West was in his room in Titans Tower when he manages to catch the situation by watching the news, before he uses his super speed to immediately get dressed in his Flash attire and get moving.

The way he runs, he gets from the Titans Tower to the scene of the incident within seconds, dressed in his red and blue suit.

He skids to a stop next to the cop cars. "Flash here, what's the situation?" THe police proceeds to inform him of the situation. "That's it? Hah, this'll be done in a Flash. Be ready to receive the hostages."

Glamour has posed:
"When will they get tired of robbing banks?" says Glamour to herself.

"When they stop building them, of course! Ha ha ha." She pinches the bridge of her nose. In truth, this is the first bank robbery she's ever been en route to, and frankly, she isn't quite sure what she's supposed to do. Sure, she could punch the ... quite... large gang of thieves that've stormed the building one at a time, but that felt inefficient.

"...dragon illusion storming the place? No, that won't work. There's, like... *hostages*. Oh right. Hostages. I should probably save those." Slipping into the bank through a tiny open vent and through the air conditioning system? Easy enough to do when you're six freaking inches tall. There *are* advantages, after all, to this.

... just... you know... not very many.

Wally West has posed:
Flash adjusts his facemask for a second before he takes a breath and gets moving. He moves in a blur of red with blue electricity following his path. Suddenly, inside the bank, hostages start disappearing when the guards arn't looking.

"What the hell?!" one of them calls out, only to get punched in the face while the Flash was on the move. More hostages appear next to the police officers, who have some of their own come and whisk them away to a safe distance away from the crime scene in play.

Flash seems to still be dashing in and out. Perhaps Glamour could start taking out some of the bad guys?

Glamour has posed:
Wait, where did the hostages go? Welp, that's good! They're vanishing because it's the Flash being the Flash. Glamour might catch onto that eventually -- in fact she probably will -- but that's okay. Soon as she's out of the vent, she's suddenly a six foot tall fairy, wings buzzing. "Heya," she tells one of the robbers. Who she punches in the face. Who flies into a wall and lands in an uncereminous heap. Pretty soon, she's drawing attention.

A lot of attention. A lot of gunfire, too.

Wally West has posed:
"What the hell was that?! I don't know, shoot her!"

The gunmen start firing at Glamour as soon as she puts one of their comrades to sleep with a well-placed punch. Thankfully, the Flash is right back in listening to 'Time in a bottle' by Graham Blvd in his head as he starts literally pushing bullets away with his fingertip, since they appear frozen in air to him.

Thankfully, it doesn't take him long to speed up and take care of the rest of the hostages before he zooms back in to Glamour hopefully being bullet-free.

"Alright! here to help take out the baddies now!" he then speaks like he would a child to the crooks. "Didja miss me?"

Glamour has posed:
Glamour is not immune to bullets hitting her. Fortunately, she is pretty durable, so she prepares. Hre arms go up in front of her to protect her face because getting shot in the eye REALLY stings and it takes a while to get better from that. She was ready for the fullisade when ... nothing ... actually ... happens.

"Gentlemen," she says, "I know you're all staring at me and the Flash, but the SWAT team behind you is already in place, oi?"

Illusion powers are a go -- where'd that swat team comeq from?! Them, and their little laser pointers. Of course, they're not REAL, and if any of these criminals pay attention to them, they'll notice they're not ... fully substantial. It's a quicky, okay?

"Drop your guns and we'll go easy on you." A look at the Flash. Distracted.

"OH HOLY SHIT! YOU'RE THE... THAT ONE.. THE REALLY FAST GUY!"

Wally West has posed:
Flash gives Glamour a pair of fingerguns and a wink. "That's me, don't wear it out, I mena, there's already a few others Flashes, so let me feel special." Flash smirks, before he's running, literally lookling like he went from a standing position and teleported. The ones who look distracted by the illusion get sped into as he starts beating them up, a punch a piece pretty much does it considering velocity.

The others on the other hand, immediately drop to their knees in surrender, giving into the illusion from Glamour.

"We surrender! Don't shoot!"

"Well, that pretty much wraps things up, I think." Wally says with a cheeky smirk.

Glamour has posed:
So there's Glamour, wings buzzing, a soft blue glow emanating from her. She's dressed in similarly blue spandex with a domino masks actually. It's all illusionary but seems real enough!

"... I don't think I broke any of them! You got the hostages, then? Awesome!" No concern about their trauma. Just a fistbump being offered to the Flash. The illusory swat team is just gone.

Wally West has posed:
"Yup! They got in and out really quickly." Wally informs of Glamour as he accepts the fistbump with one of his own. "Wow! Illusion making. Nice." Flash tells Glamour for that moment as he speeds over and zip ties the surrendering crooks at the wrists and ankles. Yeesh, tough break.

Literally.

Then he's right back beside Glamour. "Ah, man, that was fun. Need anything else or should I scram, Femme Fatale?"

Glamour has posed:
"Shhh," says Glamour with a finger going over her lips. "If everyone knows I can make illusions, it won't work out! I'm Glamour, by the way."

What the hell, Glamour. You're trying to keep illusion making secret with THAT name?

"Nice to meet you, Flash! I should get outta here, sure you've got pressing engagements too! You know. Saving kittens falling out of trees or something."