“Vance McGregor” he said offering his hand to the stranger
Thelryn shook Vance McGregor’s hand. “Pleased to meet you, Mr. McGregor,” he said.
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Vance may appear slightly taken aback at the stranger seemingly having not heard of him or at least his family.
“What’s it about politics that has you disinterested?”
Answer glances to his left and sees the suspicious pair. He parks his sedan down away, before heading into the alley. He pulls his pistol and primes it, keeping it low and pointed at the ground, until he knows they are a threat.
“STATE YOUR NAMES AND BUSINESS!” He states as he walks into the alley. His eyes trained on where they must have gone.
“Pretty much everything,” Thelryn replied. “At the very least, it’s quite boring…”
OOC: Come to think about it, this is starting to border on political discussion, so maybe we should find a way to change the subject…
Adelaide came out a nearby office supply store, her meal for the day in her hands. She quietly came up to the edge of the StandFaster crowd blissfully unaware at who they were and what their purpose were. Her human appearance slightly fading, revealing that she was a mass of paper, her human features tore off and crumpled back into her body. A mass of vaguely clumped together paper stood there behind the crowd. Opening up a packet of paper, Adelaide quietly swallowed sheets whole before quickly becoming uninterested and heading away. Swiftly ignoring any contention she might’ve caused at her display of her anatomy, Adelaide slunk away, almost drifting through the wind. She hadn’t been in the normal world long enough to even really understand power politics anyway. Whatever happens, just happens. With a shrug as she realized that her persona had dropped, she quickly walked away with a spring in her step, her human figure coming back along.
Adelaide headed down the street before perking up at a loud voice. She peeked into the alleyway, holding her bag of “groceries” tightly to herself. Was this random a possible druggie? Or was it a cop? Though cops usually didn’t look this disheveled but everyone had their bad days.
ooc:is it if it’s in character though.
OOC I think if we’re talking about whether we like politics and don’t touch on opinions (character opinions in this case) it’s probably fine, but we can change the subject.
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“Pretty much everything,” Thelryn replied. “At the very least, it’s quite boring…”
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“Well one could argue many things worthwhile are boring at times” Vance said with a laugh
Vance would catch a glimpse of her paper form and have a very confused look as he observed her until the went out of sight
Predictably, neither of them did either of these things, and continued to hightail it out of there, possibly with more vigour than before. Fortunately, the bystreet only had one other exit: out onto the street on the other side. If he was quick, Answer might still be able to catch them.
Hayden would probably be able to hear a loud shout from somewhere on the streets below. In the direction of the shout, two figures had scatted out of a sidestreet off in different directions. The path of one of them was bringing them towards Hayden, before they ducked off into another alleyway.
One of the staff notices him bent down over the outlet, and gives him a funny look, “Hey, what are you doing down there?”
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A jolt causes the outlet panel to fly up into the air. The next second Iosif is on his feet, ducking past customers as he scrambles for the door.
Great. Great. Great. Won’t be able to come back here again.
Being at the back of the crowd, Gideon did a violent double-take as he saw her drifting away. Whoever she was, she was more than your average person, and he was going to look into it a little bit closer.
He quietly walked after her, trying not to close the gap until he needed to.
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Answer wouldn’t notice her as he was pretty focusing with the two escaping individuals.
Answer unloads two rounds at one of the escaping individuals. He aims at his torso, hoping it would cause the individual to fall down. He only needed one of the escaping persons to get answers.
Hayden heard some sort of commotion and saw a suspicious person running.
“Normally means some sorta trouble is happening.” Hayden thought as he flew towards the alleyway the person had went down. As Hayden flew into the alleyway, he erupted his body into blue flames.
“You better come out!” Hayden yelled
Not very observant, Adelaide never quite noticed Gideon on her walk. She aimlessly walked through the city, exploring the area.
Adelaide panicked at the sight, watching a grungy costumed man aim and shoot a gun in an alleyway was fairly new to her. Well… At least she wasn’t the one getting shot at. It wasn’t her job to stop the mad man anyway. What if he turned to shoot her? Adelaide never got shot before so what even would happen with her body.
Questions filled her mind as she cowered away, not involving herself with the situation. She continued eating her paper as if it were a bag of chips.
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Ugh…
The police would be alerted to the gunfire soon enough, but he would have to ensure nobody was hurt. Any day except the Luthor rally… Why do I always have to do something stupid like this?
Gideon walked up to the alley, placing himself in Adelaide’s line of sight. Tossing the cigarette away, he smiled at her as he turned to gold.
“Try not to get hurt.”
Entering the alley, the clicks of his shoes made his presence obvious.
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She simply put, swooned a bit. Oh, he’s so cool! He can turn into gold? Gold is super sparkly and cool. While I’m just paper… Looking down at herself, she glumly sighed as she inspected herself. I wish I could alchemize or something.
Stepping back to allow the man to pass, she stepped on the ashes of the barely lit cigarette, lighting a foot on fire. She panicked, shaking her foot all around. Grabbing her bag, she used it to attempt put it out. I take it back, he’s an a-hole.
Giving a kick, she discarded her lower leg, watching it burn. Breaking open two packs, she drove one towards her stomach and using the other to morph a cast where her foot used to be.
Wait, she was loosing sight of the situation. Was she supposed to help the gold guy out? Letting some guy shoot up people wasn’t the best for society but… Who cares anyway. She could watch.
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Answer misses, as both of the men have pretty much already turned the corner into the main street on the other side of the alley in opposite directions.
The man freaks out, throwing his hands up in surrender and screaming, “I’M CLEAN MAN, I’M CLEAN, I DIDN’T BUY NOTHING YET, PLEASE DON’T HURT ME!”
That same member of staff, shocked at the sight, quickly calls the police, specifically the SCU. Since it’s all weird and metahuman-y, the story is quickly picked up by the media and starts sharing airtime on breaking news bulletins on the TV and radio with the Luthor rally, for anyone that cares to see it.
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“Alright, that’s enough.”
Gideon speaks loud enough to assuredly get the Answer’s attention. “Look, let’s talk this out.”
No. No. No no no no no nononononono NO.
Iosif tore down the street, ducking into an alley and crouching behind a dumpster as he started shaking violently. This can’t be happening. It isn’t. I’m asleep somewhere.
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“What was going on?” Hayden asks, then flys out of the alley, sees some others going after another guy, and zips back to where the first guy was.
Vance would hear the action and possibly some of the Dusha Bomba story. “These meta-humans. It’s wild,” he’d say to his new friend after being started
Answer curses to the ground, putting his firearm away, under his overcoat in its holster. He’s clearly frustrated that one of them got away, but at this distance he couldn’t catch up. He hears the scream of the man saying he’s clean and that he didn’t buy nothing yet. His original suspicion was correct, well about something illegal happening. He turns his head hearing the clang of metal footsteps, some gold man was walking his direction. saying something about that’s enough and they should talk this out.
Answer tilts his head inquisitively, “I assume you mean you’re interrupting my drug bust. Otherwise I don’t know what you mean, so do explain.”
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“You’re not an officer of the law,” He responded with a cool tone. “You’re also unloading a firearm into an alley at individuals running away from you, and you have nobody to defend your case besides yourself.”
He smirked. “You make for an awfully poor superhero, relying on bullets and the like.”
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