One Hell of a Town: Main Thread [Exploding Cars And Whatnot]

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

"No, that is probably not a good idea," As agreed, "Especially if some more security guards come. It wasn't a big deal, really. I was low on credits and look some food from a store. I didn't even take that much!" As looked around, her eyes darting, "Maybe we should go find someone to hang around with? You know, so if someone questions us, we could just say we were with them? Although,I guess that get's others involved. Your call, I guess."

[Travosh]

Someone else? I'm EVERYONE ELSE' Ran through Silas head as he grinned at the girl. "That can be arranged."
His skin shimmered for a second and began undulating, features even down to clothing swapping out until tall, muscular blonde man stood there in a green shirt and blue jeans. In another time, this man had been an arrogant bodybuilder whom attempted to push the frail looking Silas around. He lived to regret this nigh immediately, and Silas learned how to operate gym equipment. Opening his mouth to reveal his deeper, slightly European sounding voice he let out a "Done."

[Godbot]

Although truth be told, she was actually running from someone more dangerous than a cop.

Just a moment later, there was the sound of a muffled explosion - a sound that everyone The City became intimately familiar with at some point or another - and the second-story wall above the furniture store burst open in a fiery shower of brick and powdered mortar. Before the rubble had completely finished hitting the ground, a woman in green leaped out of the ragged hole in the wall, barely visible through the smoke. There was a flash of red light as she pulled back her sleeve, and she landed on two feet as if she hadn't just fallen two stories onto hard asphalt. Before anyone who thought this was eventful enough to actually bother to look had any time to consider why her legs hadn't shattered, Theresa was already racing after the supervillain in pink, her long wizardly coat trailing behind her.

"ANIMUS!" she yelled, pointing her hand at a car parked on the side of the street. As she ran past, thin stream of red light hopped from the car to her hand as she pulled the 'heavy' aspect data out of it. Theresa stumbled and nearly came to a halt as her slight frame suddenly took on the mass of four thousand pounds of metal, but she was close enough to lift the car off the ground as if it were made of styrofoam and hurl it at Animus. She pulled back her sleeve again, revealing a couple of rubber bands around one wrist, and pulled another piece of data out of one of them as she pointed two finger-guns at the car. Before it could land again, she fired three beams of green light at it, transferring the 'shock-absorbing' data she'd used to land safely, the 'bouncy' data she'd pulled from the rubber band a moment ago, and the 'heavy' data she'd pulled from the car.

When the car hit the street, it simply glanced off of its surface like a skipping stone, leaving a series of craters as it thundered its way towards Animus.

Auto insurance was kind of a thing in The City.

[Dragon Fogel]

In one swift motion, Barbam Gladio grabbed Mr. Rodrigo's throat, picked him up, and threw him halfway across the park.

"Ha! Is that the best a 'God of War' has to offer?" Barbam shouted. At the same time, one of the security officers decided to rush at him, hoping he was distracted; this desperate maneuver only resulted in the Zesto blade through the officer's heart.

"Did I not warn you already?" Barbam shouted at the remaining three officers. They looked at each other briefly, then ran off.

"Backup! Get some backup!"
"Backup nothing! I think we're gonna need a tank or two for this guy!"

"Hmmph. Cowards," Barbam muttered as they fled. He picked up the security officer's body and tossed it under the tree. "Somebody may want to pick that up later," he mused. "Now, do I still have any interested challengers?"

It was only a moment later that Barbam heard a loud rumbling noise that wasn't his own voice. He soon saw a car bouncing through a street near the park.

His smile widened.

"I'm afraid I can't accept any more challenges just now," he suddenly announced. "I believe there is a far more interesting opponent than any of you nearby."

And with that, he began rushing towards the bouncing car.

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

As looked at Silas and grinned.
"Well," She said, "I guess that must save you a whole bunch of time. 'Hey, did you see a guy here?' 'What, no. There wasn't anyone around, did something happen?'"
As laughed, "First you get rid of a flock of security guards, now you make it so we can find a good alibi in a matter of seconds, god you're useful." As started walking, "Anyways, I suppose we should introduce ourselves? You can call me As, just As, nothing more, nothing less." As stopped and looked at Silas.
"Am I talking to much?" She asked.

[Travosh]

"No, I am quite used to listening to people who talk much more than you do. Though you have lead us to the quandary of asking someone who can change what they look like, who he is." Most of his speel was simply to buy himself time to think over whether or not he should give this girl the name he had taken a shine to, or some other fake. Supposing it really couldn't hurt, as nobody else in the city knew him, he answered for himself "But you may call me Silas, As. A peculiar name, do I pronounce it like the common word As, or is there another way?"

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

"Like the word. One of the greatest things about it is that you hear all the different ways to pronounce it, even though it's just a common little word," As smiled, "It's odd, I know, but one thing led to another and everyone I know began to call me by it. And even if you can be whoever and whatever, I still needed something to call you. Silas is a bit odd as well, isn't it? But, I suppose it passes as an actual name, unlike mine." As shrugged, "Oh well, there are many names I can make up, if I don't want them to address me as As."

[Travosh]

Silas raised an eyebrow. "Them? Who is them?" So the girl has her own little posse... Sure helping save her might give him an in, but that also means more suspicion. He'd have to be more careful around them. He gazed around after speaking, noticing a rather frail looking man go spiraling through the air past them, and hearing the huge banging of a heavy object repeatedly hitting the ground somewhere behind him

[Pick Yer Poison]

The thundering noise of the rubberized automobile drew Animus' attention and she turned around, eyes widening as she saw the car bouncing towards her. She made to move out of the way, then paused, a grin spreading across her face as a lightbulb went off in her head. She raised her free hand to the car, gesturing as if to offer it something. A bright blue orb appeared in her hand and sped towards the car; when the orb hit it, the automobile glowed the same color as the orb for just a moment.

"Oh no, you're about to hit me!" she shouted dramatically, raising her arm up to her face in mock panic. The car began to turn inexplicably in the air and even bend slightly, so that on the next bounce, instead of continuing on its course towards her, it bounced into the wall of a nearby building, and began richocheting around the buildings lining the sides of the street. Animus grinned and opened her hand again; this time, the orb that flew to the car was a brick red. The blue orb peeled off the car's surface and flew back to Animus, dissolving as it neared her.

"Get her!" Animus shouted gleefully, pointing at Theresa. The car complied, angling itself to begin bouncing towards the witch, as Animus backed away. "Next time don't tangle with a supervillain, wannabe."

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

As turned sharply to face the noise, "Them being anyone who might be suspicious...," She muttered, distracted by the sound, "Everyone here has something they need to get away from, or something like that...." She looked toward the man, then back at the sound. Her eyes narrowed.
"Oh, won't this be fun," As said in a voice that resembled a growl.

((Just for the record, I have no idea what you wanted that sound to be, Travosh))

[Travosh]

"What, you're going to get involved in all that?" Silas asked, gesturing towards the car flinging chase scene away from the park. "Looks quite dangerous for someone of your... caliber." he attempted to not sound condescending, but she really didn't look very threatening to him despite the obvious off qualities.

'Maybe she'll reveal whatever is messing with her core temperature.'

[Nameless1]

Perrenia accepted Todd's handshake.

"Charmed" She replied. Giving her alias then straight up telling people it wasn't her real name might not have been the best way to make friends, but she didn't see any reason to lie to them and more importantly, her real name brought up too many memories which she'd prefer stay buried. As she pulled her hand away her glove slipped down a bit, not much, but enough so that a small band of light was just barely visible in the gap between her shirt and glove. Oblivious to the matter, she turned to see whatever was confounding Todd.

"Something the ma-" Her sentence cut short by the spectacle in front of her. Was...was that girl eating the flowers. Ok, that's...not normal. She thought to herself.

"Neither are you Perrenia, no matter how many times you tell yourself otherwise, you are NOT normal."

"Um, can someone verify that I'm seeing what everyone else is seeing, because right now I'm seeing that girl devour a flower patch and...enjoying it?

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

As blinked and calmed down, "No, you're right, that's a bad idea. Like, one of the worst of ideas." She shook her head, "In any case, you'd be surprised. I can be pretty... strong when I want to." He did show me his transformation.... I guess it couldn't hurt to have a fellow shifter on my side. Or something As mused for a moment, then grinned at Silas, her teeth as sharp as a wolf's.
"Let's just say you're not the only one who can change form," She told him, "Although, mine's quite a bit more simple then yours."

[Travosh]

Silas didn't seem all too impressed, but then again his face rarely turned away from poker mode in the first place. "Sharp teeth, 'simple' transformation... Predator form? Feline, Canine, maybe apelike?" he asked, making a vague guess as to the nature of her ability. "Useful in combat in any event I suppose."

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

"Canine," As grinned, "I keep some of my abilities even in this form, so I have a bit of an element of surprise. No one expects a teenage girl to be able to jugo throw a man twice her size" As pressed her mouth shut. "Perhaps I'm saying to much," She mumbled, mainly to herself.

[Travosh]

"Pity the man yelling and waving a sword around is double both our sizes together, I'd enjoy shutting him up." he remarks back, glaring across the field at the blade wielding maniac. He impulsively licks his lips for a second at the thought of harnessing that mans biomass.

[Sylvetic]

"Oh, hell." Elise continued to watch, shaking her head as the goliath man in polished armor grabbed a prospective challenger by the throat and fling him across the park with such force that the grass rippled beneath him. Another one of the security officers was soundly run through by the man's sword; the other officers, apparently demoralized, quickly fled the scene. Elise's prior resolution had been reached--this couldn't be allowed to continue. She jogged towards Glado, waving to get the crowd's attention.

"Hey! If you guys are going to--"

"I'm afraid I can't accept any more challenges just now. I believe there is a far more interesting opponent than any of you nearby."

His words were prefaced by a station wagon bouncing down the street adjacent to the park like a rubber ball; Elise paused in a moment of confusion, but shrugged and darted after Glado when he began his own pursuit of the vehicle.

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

"He is pretty annoying," As agreed, "And does need to be taken down a notch or two.." As shrugged.
"Someone will come along. People generally do, in this town," As mused for a moment, "It would be fun to scare him though..." She thought of the man with his mouth quivering, finally silent, and to scared to speak a word. She grinned.
"Ah, well. If we stick around, someone's bound to beat him up. And, if you're particular to fighting him, you could always jump in while he's nursing his wounds!"

[Travosh]

Silas nods at the last idea, but remarks "I don't think a man like that could be reduced to fear. Not out of overt bravery, I just think he's too stupid to understand it." As' idea to jump in as the man gets weakened firmly in mind, he begins to walk towards the rising actions in the streets, not particularly mindful of whether or not she follows him

[AbsolutlyAngelic]

As nodded, looking somewhat upset.
"I suppose you're right...," She stared at Silas for a second, shrugged, then followed him. It wasn't like she had much else to do, in any case.

[~|CptPorkins|~]

"Yeah. Certainly looks that way." Todd replied, unsure wether to leave Shannon to her meal and risk getting in trouble with the law, or to pull her away and risk losing a limb. Not that she looked as if she'd purposely hurt him, but with the way she was going at the flowers... Pulling his gaze away from the spectacle at hand, he absent mindedly glanced around the park, watching as various people went about their daily...things. He did see the fight, but large scale arguments divulging into a battle of powers wasn't uncommon. Todd found how different people attacked and parried, blocked and advanced, that kind of stuff. He watched as a station wagon bounced through the park, with the bouncy of a ball. Todd shrugged it off, putting the strange spectacle down to a slight disagreement someone had, and went back to debating what to do on the Shannon front.

[Travosh]

As Silas advanced towards the street, he called back towards As "How fast can you run?" Accompanying his statement was a series of black ripples as his body began shifting its mass around to heighten his speed, disguise forcefully dropping with the transformation.

[Dragon Fogel]

Barbam chased the car for about half a block before it suddenly began bouncing towards him instead of away.

"So, monster, you seek to challenge me after all."

He raised his blade.

"But you have made a grave mistake. For today, you have challenged the mighty Barbam Gladio! Wielder of Zesto, the Sword With No Name!"

And with a mighty blow, Barbam cleaved the bouncing car in two. The halves fell to the ground, then bounced into the air again. Barbam laughed.

"You know not when you are defeated, demon! Take this!"

Barbam leapt into the air, grabbed the two halves of the car, spun around, and flung them away. The two halves went flying in opposite directions, and the ground nearby shook as Barbam landed.

"The monster has been vanquished!" he declared loudly.

[Godbot]

Theresa didn't slow down as one torn half of the car hurtled towards her - she just pulled the 'bouncy' data back out of it and took a blind leap as it came crashing down in front of her in a deafening wreck of twisted metal. She managed to spring off of the car and shot forwards startlingly quickly, and when her feet touched solid ground, they just rebounded off of it as she raced ahead at an uncomfortably fast pace. She flicked her wrist, uncovering her arsenal of rubber bands as she returned the 'bouncy' data to its original owner, which let her slow back down to a comfortable, controllable running pace.

As much as it annoyed her to be repetitive, the cars lining the sides of the road were awfully easy ammunition, and a chance to slow down Animus was too good to pass up. She pulled the 'heavy' data out of the nearest car, slowing her down again for a moment, and fired it at the bag Animus was carrying, carefully curving the beam of light around the other half of the car.

[Pick Yer Poison]

Animus' gleeful grin crumbled as she watched Barbam "defeat" the car she'd sent towards Theresa, then turned to outright dismay as she saw half of the result rounding on her. She ran towards an office building entrance as the car bounced past her, the nearness of the impact making the ground shake under her feet, causing her to stumble unprofessionally.

She'd almost reached the sidewalk when Theresa's data transfer hit the bag. Gravity tore it out of her grasp and it landed with a loud thunk on the road. She pulled fruitlessly at it for a few moments before her mind put together what had happened. She whipped around and glared at Theresa, scanning her surroundings. After a moment of observation she raised her hands towards a pair of street lamps near Theresa. A red orb shot towards one, and a green orb shot towards the other. The street lamps immediately twisted towards Theresa, wrapping themselves around her and pulling her back and forth between them. Animus laughed. "I hope you don't mind my friends - one's clingy and the other's grabby!"

Still not satisfied with her work, Animus threw two red orbs towards a pair of cars. "Ram her! She's a bit tied up at the moment, but maybe you can force yourself into her schedule!" The two cars drove around to face opposite sides of Theresa, still trapped by the two street lamps, and revved their engines, preparing to crash into her.