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Robbing a Home Depot
Topic Started: Jan 23 2010, 04:22 PM (720 Views)
Shaitan
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Tom wandered in through the sliding doors with some of his usual group of buddies: Jack, Billy, Bob, and Billy-Bob. They were all her with one goal. Get away with one of their usual heists.

They all moved toward the Appliances section of the store, where things were small, but expensive. Bob moved out to create a disturbed, while making others think he was drunk. Hell, they wouldn't think he was drunk. He is drunk. While Tom and Crew watched Bob knocked over a whole isle, they all swished over to the Appliances. Tom swished out a Desert Eagle and moved into the walkway between aisles, shooting a propane tank, effectively causing an explosion, which resulted in another distraction.

Just as they moved out, they saw the flash of a badge with a cop to follow run into their aisle.
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Jimmy couldn't help but hear the noise as he was browsing for new parts to build the newest add on to his armor. It was about then that he heard the explosion. Naturally, I don't have my armor handy the technopath thought to himself. It looked like Iron Lantern wouldn't be appearing today.

But, that wouldn't stop him. Jimmy was fortunately in one of the best possible stores for such a disturbance to occur. he focused, using magnetism and technopathy together to draw up every piece of machinery nearby as he moved to a secure location.

He ducked into the paint aisle. The entire store was clearing in the chaos, except for the area a few lanes down where those robbers and that one officer were. The officer was in over his head.

Somehow, Jimmy formed a replica of his armor, minus the hand blasters, out of the parts in the store. But, that wasn't all. He pulled together hundreds of tools, nuts, bolts and even forklifts, until he assembled a relatively large panzer and sent it rampaging down the aisle at the robbers.

Using technopathy, he communicated directly with the store PA system, synthesizing an artificial voice. drop your weapons and put your hands on your heads! the speaker warned the attackers as the panzer came slowly but surely rolling towards them. Above it, Iron lantern flew overhead.
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Alairis really didn’t have much in mind for the day. So she decided she was going to repaint her room – again. It currently was a number of colors. Each wall having its own little design. So once she got her dad to help move her furniture off of one wall, she decided to go find her new paint colors. She arrived at the Home Depot still trying to figure out her new color scheme. Do I want just plain color or a mural? Or a combination? She settled on a combination after more debating. So now all that was left was the paint.

Browsing the paint isle was like browsing a candy story for a kid. So many colors, textures, and brushes. She almost couldn’t decide on what she wanted anymore. She plucked several Color swatches from the various paint stands and compared how they looked next to one another. She was so absorb in her paint schemes when the explosion happened. Startled she dropped down into a crouch and swore as her heart skipped a beat. Her paint swatches scattering all over the ground at her feet as she stared at people screaming or running.

“What the hell is going on?” She growled. More noise rose up to practically drown everything out. She was torn with wanting to go check out what was going on and getting outside. Since, technically she wasn’t in ‘costume’ nor did she have her weapons. In her old, torn, paint dried on, seen-better-days clothing she had on wouldn’t be much protection. It shouldn’t hurt to look though?

Well if curiosity killed the cat, she thankfully wasn’t a cat. Slowly creeping her way towards the noise, she kept low and hidden. Peeking around shelves and the like.
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His motley crew of teenagers fled at the site of the policeman. Dumb pricks. Oh well, no need to get his identity ruined. He ripped off his mask, pulling on his Diabolus mask a second later. Using Wind Manipulation, he sent a blast of wind down to knock the officer on his bottom, and sprinted away toward the end of the aisle.

But today just wasn't his day. A tank came rolling down from all the way at the other end. There was another superhero in this store. Or more than one. But he could probably handle them, for this was uptown. He spread his arms wide and tensed his fingers, concentrating on the air on the sides of the shelves to the left and right of him. He compressed winds at the top, effectively keeping anyone else from feeling any gusts. The shelves weren't so lucky. They might be heavy, but they had no stabilizers.

The shelves fell over one each other, domino style. He hoped the panzer would be crushed.

Moving to the right, where untouched shelves were, he effectively starting climbing up, hoping to reach the top to see if there was any hero nearby.

"Screw off. I'm just trying to make a devious living!"
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Seeing the shelves start toppling over, Iron Lantern applied his power over magnetism, catching the shelves before they could topple down upon his panzer. Then, to make matters worse, he continued to use magnetism, making all of the shelves close around the masked robber, forming a large dome that would prevent him from escaping, and limit his exit options so that he would have to go through the hero and his panzer.

The panzer would open fire. Several hundred rounds of nails fired off, the artillery being composed of several hundred nailguns, all firing with semi-autmatic speed. The result was an ominous spread of projectiles thirty feet wide and the height of the half dome the criminal was now encircled with.

I told you to cease and desist!
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Alairis was definitely getting an eyeful when she got close enough. She watching from behind the protection of the shelves while one guy scampered up a shelf… avoiding…. A tank? Then she noticed a guy in armor. Holy shit. She’d never seen a hero/villain battle before, but wow.

She decided to keep low and unseen. Leaving those guys to beat at each other. No way I want to get in the middle of that. She couldn’t help but want to watch however this unfolded.
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"No, you told me to drop my weapons and hands on my head!"

He immediately fell to the floor on his knees while a dome was formed around him. The nails grazed his head through the opening that was just big enough for him to run through.

"Fine, fine!"

Immediately, he started condensing the air in the opening and a layer about an inch from him. The air in the opening would slow the nails down considerably and his own little cocoon would stop the nails, if they were still fast enough after getting through the hole, from seriously piercing internal organs.

"At least give me the chance to defend myself from your nails. I'm just a kid!" He cried as fake tears formed on the corner of his eyes. All the while building up his wind manipulation and his flame manipulation.
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You didn't do that either! the lantern announced over the loud speakers. He magnetically sent a few hundred bug zappers from one of the spilled shelves nearby up to the ceiling, using his technopathy to rewire them into the lights and sprinklers. He now had a massive remote controlled bug zapper in the ceiling.

This is your last warning the lantern announced, Surrender yourself at once, or I shall have no choice but to use drastic measures. The lights in the ceiling began to light up as the device charged, ready to be fired. He also kept the sprinklers on standby, in case he needed to amplify the voltage a bit.
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Things were definitely heating up as she watched objects flying around. I think I better move to a safer area. They’re really tearing the place up.

So she did. Slipping farther and farther away from them while still keeping an eye on the action.
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He fell down flat on his stomach, hands over his head, the wind in the opening finally being dispersed. He still had the layer around him and his power building. Be smart, be safe. His friends had always lectured him on the Golden Rule of Life which would apply to all situations.

He wandered into the house grabbing all the valuables he could while dawdling, watching the nice paintings. All of a sudden, lights from cops flashed outside. To cut the story in half, they barely escaped with his friend telling him. "The Golden Rule is..." He started. Tom rudely interrupted. "Do unto others as you would do unto you?" Bob flared. "No! Get in, get out! It served in more placed than just a robbery, he sniggered."

He wondered idly who was the one who had such magnetic powers.

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His foe did.... nothing. Well, The Lantern knew an opportunity when he saw one. All of the shelving around Tom began to curl once more. Each shelf he had tried to knock down now made layer after layer of armor around him, the technopath trying to capture him inside of a thick cocoon. If he was successful, then he would have his prisoner in a dome he couldn't escape.

He caught a glimpse of movement as Alairis moved further from the battle. Why had a civilian stayed near the battle so long? was she a reporter? It didn't matter. He just needed to be mindful of her safety for the duration of the battle, which he hoped to be over.
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It was hard to see the details of what was going on from the distance she kept, but it was worth it. From flying nails and whatever else they were throwing at one another. She didn’t want to be a pincushion. It was quite different to see others fighting, especially ones that had ‘specialties’. Though she sensed it probably would be wise not to stick around much longer. Before more cops or whoever showed up.
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He concentrated his built up wind power and blew over a part of his metal shell and dived through the shelves, effectively escaped his dome. He used his pyrokineses and flame manipulation to try to blow it up in the green man's face. He ran between the aisle that had been untouched by his own foolishness of the domino trick and hope to reach the crowd where the first distraction had gathered. Taking up a falsetto voice he screamed: "Oh my Gooooooood! There's a green mutant destroying the store!"

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the lantern raised a chunk of his panzer in front of himself like a shield, using it to stop the force of the flames. But, that wouldn't stop the retreating criminal. Using magnetism, he shoved a store shelf in the path of his fleeing foe, preventing them from making their way towards that corner of the store.

Which meant his target would have little choice. There was a wall stopping his immediate path, a wall to his left, and a hero to his right. If he went in the complete opposite direction, there was only the single bystander whom had been watching the two supers fight all this time.

The Lantern's first objective was protect the crowd. His second would be to defend the girl, should she need defending.
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Alairis decided it was time to get out of the way before she got caught up in their fight. She sliped back behind a shelf and then another. Weaving herself away and out of sight till she found an Exit. There she would get out and join the rest of the crowd, acting like a frightened civilian that had gotten stuck in a battle unknowingly.
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He glanced over his current surroundings as quick as he could. There was only one choice. He used his Wind Manipulation to quickly burst himself back while doing a 180 turn, aiming a lunge at the girl, trying to grab her. He snarled in disgust at the choices Green Man made him do.
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As the lantern had anticipated, the robber lunged towards the bystander. There wasn't a great way he could defend the girl completely, not like this. He was too far away, and an attack on the robber was a threat to the girl.

So, he did the most logical thing he could think of. He sent a command to the technology near the girl, making it assemble around her into crude armor that covered her body. It would be enough to protect her from his attack, but even let her defend herself with a few minor weapons (A buzz saw in the right hand and a nail gun in the left)

In the mean time, he would fly closer, intending to keep himself in the action.
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Seeing that the bitch now had some sort of crude nail gun and some saw, he did the most reasonable thing he could think of.

Using his Wind Manipulation, he stopped short, and using wind to propel himself forward toward the nearest exit, ducking and dodging over shelves in an attempt for the lightning to hit some shelves. The wind made him faster than he normally would have run. It was either lose all honor, or lose his life. He chose life.
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Alairis cursed herself and them when she saw something coming at her from over her shoulder. The one man lunging to no doubt grab her. It made her angry and afraid at the same time. That was till crap around her started flying and attaching itself to her. She screamed then. Flailing her arms like she was going to fling the stuff away.

The guy took off and she was still trying to get the stuff off. “Oh my god!” She was armored, weaponed, and freaked. “Get off, get off!”
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Ben was ahead of Phil-by alot. Ben knew all the best shortcuts, exactly which fence to hop and where...it was beneficial for Phil to just shut up and follow him rather than try to outrun him. Even with the shortcuts though, Ben and Phil would both arrive late to the party.

Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, depending on how you wanted to look at it, they arrived in time to watch the last few moments of the scene unfold-and as they witnessed a man making a mad dash-and man was he fast-towards the exit they planned to enter.

"Hey...umm...what should we do? We can't shoot him if he's just running, can we?"

"We...also...don't know...if he's...the culprit...how the hell aren't you winded?"

"I'm in shape, you're not. That's how. Now save the day, Zaulyl."

Phil made a quick decision-the guy running was wearing a scary costume. To the fast thinking, video-game and tv poisoned mind, scary meant bad. So, Zau decided that the best course of action was to slam and lock the exit the running man was heading towards.

That was the plan, anyways.

As has been demonstrated earlier, Phil didn't have the greatest control over his power at the moment. He held his hand out to the door and willed it to move, but it only inched forward-not quite the "slamming" effect Zaulyl was looking for.

"What are you waiting for? Close the damn door!"

"Hold on! This isn't easy dammit!"

At the last word, a few pebbles to the right of Zaulyl started moving. Ben, being the resourceful one he was, used this to his advantage. And punched Zaulyl. Hard. In the face.

"WHAT THE HELL?!"

"CLOSE IT!"

"FINE!"

The door slammed shut almost instantly-and though Zau wanted to be angry...he couldn't help but feel Ben's elation. Which made him happy. Unfair. I wanted to be mad. Ugh.

Zaulyl reapplied his focus, pushing against the door with all the force he could-not much, admittedly, but perhaps enough to slow the mad dasher down.

Ben drew his pistol and held it ready at the door, just in case Zau's power wasn't quite as strong as he thought it was. In addition to the door and the lock, there was also a force roughly equivalent to a ten year old's strength also trying to hold the door closed. Not exactly what I had in mind when I thought heroics, but whatever.
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