Emily One had suited up in her lightweight armour before leaving and picked up the modified rifle she used for heavy duty work. Taking chances in the Rogue Islands were a good way to get killed. Waiting until the Helicopter came to a stop she hops down onto the ground and has the suit start looking for passive radio channels, filtering out all the rubbish as she tried to narrow in on comm links and Arachnos squad bands.
She makes her way over to Pious, the suits muscles making the faintest of whines as she goes. "We're all set then, lets do this and be gone before trouble turns up."
Stone turned to Emily, "We need to act fast if we do not wish the PPD to come to unfortunate harm...miss?"
"Alpha squad in position" came a voice on the frequency. "Bravo, in position. Charlie in position, Delta in position" both Paragon and Rogue Isles police departments were running this as a joint effort. The small warehouse was completely surrounded but there was no clear entrance. Just solid walls. "Stone Fist, how strong are you in that body?" Pious asked, his own skin undergoing fossilization. "I think we'll need to charge and make our own door."
"What? Why?" Stone followed Pious' gaze to one of the warehouse's walls, "Ohhh, I see..." A grin developed on his face and he looked back at Pious, "Race you"
"Stand back" Pious advised, as he charged for the wall. With a mighty blow, the area was showered with a storm of bricks, dust and debris. The police teams marched in tactically. The element of surprise was lost so they filed in proclaiming their presence loudly. "Freeze, Paragon Police" but they were met with a tsunami of gunfire. Row after row of officers were driven back by the sheer force of racing bullets, which tore at their body at random locations. "Mayday, mayday! We're under fire" came the distress call "I repeat, we're under heavy fire! This is senior officer Rick James requesting he-" was all he managed before receiving a headshot.
Stone brought out his rock armour and hammer.
"Pious, I'll cover the Police! You and the young woman take out the gunners from the sides and make sure a few of them are still breathing for interrogation afterwards."
He grabbed a few writhing Police from the floor, took them outside, and stood in front of the remaining able-bodied Police.
"Going to assume you can handle a little CS Pious" shouts Emily as her suits air filtering software comes on-line. Emily had undergone a transfusion of blood for a nanite substitute some time ago and one of the many benefits was an almost reflexive access to data streams. The under slung grenade launcher on her customized rifle crackled as a gas grenade was teleported into the chute and she let it fly over the heads of the retreating police, setting it to air burst ten feet from the ground. It burst into a white cloud that quickly started to obscure a normal view of the interior.
Her heads up display quickly and efficiently marked friend from foe and taking a few snap shots on single fire with the high calibre rounds at anything still standing she waits for a better target recognition before moving in.
"Gold, get the hell outta here, we'll cover you" came a yell from deep within the fog. There was a scuttling of feet and the sound of objects being knocked over. A police officer could be seen climbing out of the smoke, his uniform askew. He hurried across the firing line towards the doors, avoiding eye contact with the heroes.
Gnash hovered above the scene , his hightened perception tracking all movement , watching closely , ready to deal with anything ...
Gnash peered hard at the hurrying officer , shapechanger ? , gnash TPed in behind the officer ,
a target question was fired at the officer .." are you injured ? .."
"Er, yeah. Yeah I just need to get back outside for medical attention, please" he replied, hurrying along his way.
Stone pushed the Gold team through a doorway leading to a small closet, and crumbled the ceiling behind them.
"We need a line of communication to outside! Relay: ALL officers present are under immediate quarantine until further notice!
If anyone has a DNA analyser here, you better start using it"
"Don't worry about that, you won't be needing one" said the officer as his skin began to melt. He hauled a giant fist towards Stone's face with enough strength behind it to shatter a stone pillar.
Stone-Fist flew back into a wall. It crumbled ontop of him.
As the villain walked away, a hand broke through.
Stone-Fist rose up, his face half-crumbled and eyes glowing.
"That really p*ssed me off" He formed a stone mallet in his hands and started to bring it down upon the shape-shifter
Kwame was fast, he raised an arm to deflect the oncoming mallet but hadn't seen the fossilized fist coming at him from the other side. Pious's fist hit him square in the jaw, he stumbled back a little and Pious followed through with a flurry of ground breaking blows to the body. The whole building quaked as shockwaves recoiled through the walls and floors. Kwame instinctively spat out blood, his punishment was beginning to show. "By the powers vested in me by the City of Paragon and it's people, I hereby place you under citizen's arrest under suspicion of multiple murder, how do you plea? Be truthful and I shall be lenient with you"
"Nn.. not g-guilty" Kwame stammered, struggling to stay straight on his feet. "Too bad" Pious replied, swinging his arms wide and swooping in with a knockout blow that struck Kwame's jaw by the uppercut and sent him flying into a nearby wall, out cold but alive. "Search the warehouse" Pious instructed, walking away from the scene with disgust as Lieutenant Hicks and his men moved in to collect the killer.
"Thank you...Priest..." Stone-Fist dropped to his knees, magic leaking out of the cracks on his face, "If you would...be so kind..as to summon MAGI?"
The priest turned around just as Hick's men past him by, strategically searching the warehouse. "All clear" came the response, one after the other. The other gang members had ran or teleported out through a secret entrance. Pious produced a mobile phone from the inside pockets of his black trousers and dialed for the MAGI office. "Hang in there Stone Fist" said the priest, reassuringly. "I'll make an appointment with Azuria and I'll transport you back to Atlas in no time, you understand? You did a great job here today."
"Whoever those criminals are...They're alot stronger and faster than we thought. We need every piece of information we can get out of that one," Stone nodded toward the shape-shifter, who was now being cuffed and escorted to a meatwagon.
Picking through the rubble, Emily was busy grabbing mugshots of the downed gunmen and going over their equipment for Serial Numbers or other identifiers. She left the arrest of the Shape shifter to those with the strength to take it on, she could probably give it a hell of a punch but taking was another matter and cracked ribs were no fun at all.
((Over the holidays I will be revitalising this RP project, among others.))
Original post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...61#post4324361
Stone-Fist broke off the seal and patted Pious on the shoulder, "That was just purely amazing...Shall we get going?"