6037/Alchemax: Recouperating Losses

Alchemax: Recouperating Losses
Date of Scene:	25 April 2021
Location:	Chinatown
Synopsis:	Alchemax makes a grab for Gabby only to be thwarted by Blue Marvel, Hyperion, and a mysterious French woman known as Rien.
Cast of Characters:	Gabby Kinney, Hyperion, Adam Brashear, Rien D'Arqueness

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Gabby Kinney has posed:
New York moved along as New York always did. The evenings were no less busy due to the setting of the sun. Instead businesses light up with the glow of neon signs and street lights to lead the way down streets. Here in Chinatown the scent of delicious food wafted through the air luring in locals and tourists that were brave enough to try the more 'authentic' dishes that could be found here. All in all, it was a very pleasant Spring evening.

For most.

There were a few cammo dressed individuals positioned in various areas on the street looking rather out of place. The locals gave them a wide berth, and a few side eyes, while they crept along in apparent search of something. Or someone. Some even urged the shops goers to go back inside where it was 'safe' in an effort to clear the path as well as the streets.

This was not helping Gabby to get out of sight easily. She could blend in well enough usually but this was tricky. The teenager takes one last chomp of the bao she'd bought before tossing the rest into the dumpster she was currently crouched beside in an effort to not be seen. Now, how to get out of here. Glancing up she squints and debates her ability to climb quickly.

Hyperion has posed:
    New York City. If there is a better analogue to 'melting pot' in the world, Hyperion is not aware of it. He was overhead for a bit, just gazing down at the city with a smile on his face. Human behavior and all. Watching kids playing in parks thanks to the spring weather breaking. But then there was something going on in an alleyway. Something that he noticed was already on someone else's radar. A mugging that was interrupted by a local vigilante.
    And so Hyperion made a quick stop at his small apartment, changed clothes and went out into the night... into Chinatown as Mark Milton. But... he no sooner got a bag of egg rolls he likes.. than he heard things going a bit sideways. So he stood there, listening to the actions of these camouflaged in their preparations.
    Bite... there goes another bite of egg roll as his eyes shift frequencies and he tilts his head, "What are you guys stalking?" he asks softly to himself. "Or rather.. whom?" And so he looks for things like badges or any other indicator of authority on those stalkers.

Adam Brashear has posed:
Adam brashear was taking in some fine braised pork belly when he caught the sense of something off. He can't 'see' it but he can sense it He scans the area. His hyper awareness notices something. He says nothing but he keeps his guard not wanting to cause a stir with out cause.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
The 'soldiers' looked official enough unless you were familiar with the actual badges of the military. There's no clear guidance as to who they were. Flags were on shoulders, but so were odd slightly-off decorations. It could just be some rarely seen squad logo, but none of them seemed to match. If that weren't odd enough all of the last name tags they wore were very basic names. 'Smith.' 'Jones.' 'White.' 'Black.' Nothing was very easy to pinpoint as wrong but all together it was rather obvious.

It's while they're ushering the last few civilians inside that Gabby makes her move: She dodges out of the shadows with her hood pulled over her head. It's still easy to tell by her size and physique she's either a very short woman or... a child. Even being a teenager, her height didn't help her out any in that department.

"Target spotted! Get her!" One grizzled 'soldier' calls out as he draws his gun to start firing down the street toward her. There's a little yelp from her, more of surprise than anything, as she launches herself at the wall across the way. A quick jump has her grasp the lowest rung of a fire escape which she starts to clamber up.

"Aren't you dead yet, Captain Mooney!?" She calls out toward the one apparently 'in charge.'

"You'd like that, wouldn't you, you damn brat!"

"KIND of YES!" Gabby calls back. "There are people here!"

Adam Brashear has posed:
Adam has to make a choice, follow the girl or confront the armed goons. He hesitates, "No if i fight them I'll kill them."

Blue Marvel rushes ahead of the fleeing teen and seemingly apears out of no where. "who are you and why are armed gun men chasing you?"

Hyperion has posed:
    One thing that Marl Milton knows about the military. They do not operate in such deployments, in American soil. They do not perform police actions when the police themselves should be the ones doing such. And when they yell out about the target being spotted, Mark begins moving. His eyes traverse towards the target and his brows go up. They are after that girl? That kid? He peers closer as time distorts to his point of view. He blurs into motion, having changed into the black and gold costume as a part of the Hyper-speed antics. That done, he stops moving right in the path of the soldiers, "Pardon me. But it was my impression that the US military did not have the authority to perform police actions on US soil. Do you have a document granting such authority?" he asks... golden cape settling about his back after the ludicrous speed jaunt to get to where he is at.

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
New York, Rien has only recently come to the Big Apple for the first time. At least in this timeline, finally having been given the go ahead by the Time Variance Authority that her place in this timeline had become stable enough to interact with Logan without causing significant disruptions, though she had still yet to actually connect with him.

Still now that she is staying in the area for the time being there plenty of reasons for someone whose main hobby is hunting demons and monsters to come to Chinatown. Chinese legends record a wide variety of demons and other such creatures and you never know when a disgruntled Taoist sorcerer is going to try to summon one. The Dim Sum is also amazing.

When the soldiers begin to run after Gabby, one of them runs headlong into a blonde woman stepping out of a sidestreet and falls flat on his behind. What she lacks in height, she more than makes up for with a thick, powerful build. Rien glances at the soldier and then the others drawing weapons. "Watch where you're ...oh I see." She begins to say in French accented English. "Well this is clearly poorly veiled setup and for a child?" The man on the ground receives a painful kick to the groin before she turns towards the others. "If you're going to hunt a child with firearms in a street full of bystanders," She flexes the muscles of her left hand into a fist and three bone claws emerge from the back of it glowing with bluish-white light. "We're going to have a problem."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
It wasn't every day someone just appears in front of you asking who you were. Especially a few stories up as Gabby was now. She pauses mid-climb to blink a single time at Adam Brashear in his suit with a tilt of her head. Not one to shy away from questions though, she blurts out, "I'm Gabby. They want me back because I escaped their cloning facility where they made me because I didn't want to be an assassin." Hearing this Mooney hollers out his own response: "She's escaped property and she burned down an entire lab!"

"You killed my sisters! EIGHT OF THEM!" Gabby hollers back as she twists to flip him the bird in such a very mature way. There's a hint of rage on her face at this accusation of hers even though she had seemed rather calm up until now in spite of the running. She sucks in a quick breath, hesitates from climbing further... and then twists around on the fire escape ladder. "Sorry, I don't mean to drag anyone else into this. Could you help make sure everyone is safe?" Not that she even knew who Adam was but he had a suit. Generally that meant 'good guys.' Generally.

The soldiers that are approached by Hyperion hesitate as they look him up and down. One just blurts, "Get the hell out of here, none of your business!" While another fishes out handcuffs in an obvious, unspoken threat to deal with him. "You assisting an escaped criminal?"

It's Captain Mooney that seems the most irritated. "Don't get distracted! You now how dangerous our target is!"

Just as he says this Rien fells one of his men earning quite a few swear words from all the soldiers here. "SHIT! It's one of the sisters!" "Don't be stupid they weren't blonde!" "Well that one--"

Captain Mooney hollers, "Regroup! Situation changed! Lethal force, NOW!" Suddenly all guns are drawn. Several aimed at Rien, Hyperion, and even a few up at Gabby and Adam if only due to him being yet another unknown. The gunfire starts in the otherwise quiet streets.

Hyperion has posed:
    "Now. No need to be rude." says Hyperion. He doesn't even seem annoyed. More amused. "Seriously, since you haven't shown me a badge or any -real- authority, I am going to have to ask you to stand down. I do not want to harm soldiers who are merely following orders, but I cannot allow you to perform illegal police actions."
    He simply moves so as to be in the way of the troopers. And his ears hear Gabby's shouts and he inclines his head, "Is she right? Did you kill her sisters?" he asks as he folds arms over his chest.
    And.. as his ears pick up the sounds of gunfire, he shakes his head, "Tsk tsk. Drop your weapons and please do not force me to take them away." he offers... making sure to -stay- in the way.

Adam Brashear has posed:
"Don't worry Gabby. I won't let them do anything of the sort" Blue Marvel says trying to sound reassuring towards Gabby. "No one here is getting hurt on my watch."

Blue Marvel snatches the bullets aimed at him and gabby out of the sky. He lands with a flourish tossing out a valley a small volley of anti-matter bolts to get any stray bullets that would have hit by standers in their general direction.

"First and last warning Scease fire and put your weapons down. Or this becomes a very night for you" Blue Marvel says staring mooney in the eyes.

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
Something darkens in Rien's expression when Mooney says the word property in regards to Gabby, nevermind the insinuation of creating child soldiers. And then they start pointing guns at her and Rien has had enough. Another set of three glowing claws emerge from her right hand and she lunges forward towards the soldiers not waiting for Hyperion's conversation to finish. She's frighteningly fast and very difficult to get a bead on, the product of over a century of battle experience.

Glowing bone claws slice through the guns even as Rien uses her elbows and some save knees and kicks to knock the soldiers in her away aside. Yet she seems to be making a point of not actually killing them. They're not her real target anyway as she makes a bee line straight for 'Captain Mooney' with fire in her eyes, he might not be so lucky. Whatever he said really seems to have struck a nerve in Rien.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
The bullets plucked out of the sky just make it all the easier for Gabby who watches with a little bit of wonderment at that ability. Part of her debates saying it wouldn't have hurt her in the first place. The other part rather liked not having bullet holes put in her hoodie. There were some things that just didn't wash out. So she watches as Adam descends to join Hyperion leaving her clinging to the catwalk just watching below.

The soldiers nearest Rien find their guns falling into peices in their hands, and several are thrown aside due to her kicks. The calmness of the two in front blocking Mooney was not offered to them. It splits the group in two: Those that stand uncertainly around Mooney unsure of how to react to the obvious supers trying to stop them, and those fleeing from Rien's wrath. No job paid enough to be cut to shreds.

"Fine. We'll play it your way," Captain Mooney says as he lays down his gun and reaches behind himself slowly. "I'm just going to undo the strap," he says calmly keeping his gaze fixed on Adam and Hyperion. Only a fleeting glance to the side is made toward Rien making it obvious he knew of her approach. "We surrender!" He calls out, loudly.

Only for his hand to come around holding of all things a grenade with the pin pulled. Only the force of his hand around it keeps it from going off.

"Oh FUCK YOU!" The familiar voice of Gabby can be heard as she suddenly DROPS down on Mooney from above using only the force of her weight and gravity to drive the tall man to the ground for such a dirty trick. This time it's her hand that goes back to punch. With a shickt of parting skin a single claw comes out threateningly as if she might stab his throat. Instead her hand slam down to pin his wrist with the grenade right between the bones forcing the muscles to contract so he can't release his hold on it. "If anyone can handle a grenade that'd be really cool I do not like growing limbs back!"

Hyperion has posed:
    Sighing, Hyperion shakes his head. He already saw the grenade, and was ready to deal with it when Gabby did her thing. He was surprised that he didn't notice her as she dropped down. Even as Gabby is starting to ask about someone able to handle the grenade, he has reached out and plucked it from the man's grasp. At such a speed that the spoon doesn't even have time to release. He ends up holding it down. "I've got this. Now, if you would -really- surrender, that would really be good. I think that you might have more trouble than you wish if you do not." he says as he peers about and then blurs into motion... stopping with the discarded pin in hand. A pin that he re-inserts into the grenade.

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
With Captain Mooney at this point pinned to the ground with Gabby on top of him and seemingly surrounded by two very capable looking individuals who do not seem about to let him get away, Rien turns towards the other soldiers.

"Run." It is a simple command. "Run now and I might not chase you. Your captain is finished but you just might get out of this very grave mistake." Everything about her demeanor says the angry French woman is not messing around at all.

Adam Brashear has posed:
"This girl is no longer anyone's property nor should she ever have been." Blue Marvel says with all the bass he can put in his voice. "Nor should she ever have been. And If I ever catch you or those you work for hurting innocent people and treating them like property I will do some very very unkind things to all of you."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Heeding Rien's words, the other guards scatter. Some drop their weapons as they go while others just beat feet out of there. Either way they do a very good job of clearing out the street they had been working to clear out earlier. Thankfully it seems that most others had taken to hiding indoors well out of the way of danger.

"You can't do this!" Captain Mooney hisses in protest going so far as to spit up at Gabby atop him. She jerks her head to the side with an obvious crinkle of her face, and a 'ew' expression. A little twist to her hand is given causing him to groan in pain where she'd stabbed his arm. She could do worse. She could. Instead she lets out a sigh, and pulls her hand away leaving the bloodied claw out. "Not worth it... Even if I might want to," she utters with a shake of her head. "I made a promise." Lumbering off of him she steps to the side letting the three adults here do what they would with him.

"Um, I don't know your names, but thank you. This could have gone much worse without your help," she offers to Adam, and Hyperion, before finally looking over to the woman. It's here she pauses to stare unabashed with a difficult to read expression.

Captain Mooney scrambles to sit up clutching at his bleeding arm with the other. His face is just contorted with rage as he glares toward those who are keeping him from his target. Such hatred for such a little girl. "This won't be the end of this," he utters though it appears he won't try to attack further. He was wounded and his men had all but abandoned him.

Adam Brashear has posed:
"I'm Blue Marvel. you can look me up." Adam says with a slight smile feeling a bit awkward introducing himself.

When Mooney shouts at Gabby that it isnt over in a blink Adam's hand is clamped on Mooney's neck and he's flying straight up. High above the skyline it becomes very hard to breath for Mooney even if he didn't have a super powered hand on his throat.
"I said it's over. And I meant that. You will not come for this girl or anyone else ever again. And if you do you will find yourself up here again, And I'll let go. I'm allowing you to live because you need to take this message back to whom ever you work for. now look me in the eyes and blink twice if I'm understood."

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
Rien watches Mooney get dragged into the sky, the fiery anger beginning to retreat from her expression now. She really can't say she wasn't about to do something similar to the man. 50/50 odds she would have dropped him though if she were being honest.

With the danger now past, she glances around at all the discarded weapons making a note to perhaps call someone to clean up the mess. She then walks over to Gabby, "Are you okay?" No questions about why the men were after her, just concern for a kid being chased, as if these are just things that happen.

Hyperion has posed:
    Grenade in hand, Hyperion shakes his head, "Seriously." he says. In his mind, he's thinking that sure, it was violent, and people have died, but that's not a reason to treat soldiers this way. And then.. Blue Marvel moves at speed, and Hyperion's senses accelerate to catch up. His eyes watch the Captain being grabbed and carried skywards. There is a black and gold shadow following, because the anger in Blue Marvel's face did not bode well for the Captain.
    Marvel's words are spoken with Hyperion right up there with him. The grenade is still there, and Hyperion hooks it to his belt, "Captain. I think that you will be arrested publicly and openly by actual law enforcement officers with the legal authority to operate. Blue Marvel, can we move forward without further threats or violence please?" he asks.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Mooney was caught breathless without a doubt: He wasn't expecting to suddenly be in the air. Along with being held by the neck, the velocity they rose caused his stomach to drop out like any good roller coaster would do for someone. Dangling, cold, gasping for breath and staring the man in the eyes that held his very life on the line... all Mooney can do is blink twice as requested. Would he hold true to it? That was yet to be seen. For now though, he felt the very real fear of death at being completely without control of the situation. At least he agrees and for now intends to get away as best he can. If he can. When Hyperion joins them up there he attemps to nod hoping that the 'good cop' in this situation will prevail.

Rien's approach earns a slow nod from Gabby in response. "Yeah, I'm fine. I think." She twists around at that moment attempting to see her back with a frown. "I can't feel pain so I can't always tell, but I don't think any of them got me." Another twist. "Yeah, I'm fine," she concludes after her second evaluation.

While the other two were up there, Gabby moves forward to scoop up one of the fallen guns from the men that had abandoned them. With the skill that comes from familiarity she unloads it in a few quick motions. "So, ah... I know who they are now, I guess," she gestures upward with her chin. "But who are you? And thanks by the way."

Adam Brashear has posed:
"He called that girl property, They killed her sisters. The shot at her in public with out regard for human lives." Blue Marvel says. "I'm just talking his language. So that he understand. I wasn't going to hurt him. Just make him feel helpless and afraid. I have anger issues but I know my responsibilties"

Adam notices the blinking "See we've reached an agreement." Adam descends holding mooney by the shirt now and not the neck.

Hyperion has posed:
    "Just because he is a deluded idiot doesn't make it okay to act like them." starts Hyperion as he shakes his head, "But I don't mean to make things more difficult. Maybe when this is done, will you let me buy you a beer and hear your story?" he asks Blue Marvel as he follows the man and his prisoner down.
    Surely the gunfire has police responding. Police that Hyperion redirects towards to land slowly, hands in plain sight. "Officers. This man has committed many crimes. I will submit witness testimony, and audio recordings of the situation. He should be placed under arrest."

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
Rien gives Gabby a once over of her own as the small girl twists this way and that, "It doesn't seem like they managed to connect, they didn't really seem like the most competant soldiers." She comments as she looks.

Another glance is spared towards the trio in the sky for a moment before she looks back to Gabby, "My name is Rien. We should probably get you out of here in case that idiot had any more friends lurking about. Do you have somewhere safe to go?"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney tries to slip the purloined pistol in the back of her pants when not being noticed, hopefully, and tugs her hoodie down over it all. "Yeah, I attend a school in Westchester. It's not the first time these guys have come after me, but it'd been almost a year. I thought they'd given up," she explains with a slight clearing of her throat. "Thanks again."

Mooney for his part is at least compliant once they're down. Indeed the police do start to approach and given the few super suits there they seem reasonably calm about listening to what happened. Gabby glances around then looking for a suitable escape. "Yeah, I technically don't exist as a person on papers, soooo I might just get out of here while I can."

Adam Brashear has posed:
Adam sighs "Sure I'll take you up on that." he responds to hyperion. Adam releases from the tense demeenor. "I'm too damn old for this shit sometimes."

Rien D'Arqueness has posed:
"I know what that's like." Rien tells Gabbi is if not existing on paper or government records is also a perfectly normal thing. "Come on, I'll give you a ride out of here." She motions with her head towards a side street. "My bike is parked down this way." Because of course the badass blonde woman rides a motorcycle. "I have some business in Westchester anyway."

She waits to see if Gabby will follow, before she starts walking herself either way. Rien does not seem to particularly want to talk to the police either.

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney thanks the two again with a quick salute. Then she's dashing off after Rien deciding it best to beat feet while she can. One of these days she'd get back to that bao she was deprived of. Not tonight.