As soon as Sel threw the salt knives at the two groups, a few binds wrapped themselves around his wrists and ankles to hang him in the air. The other hero has arrived, Binder, which was basically a person wrapped up in a bunch of rags but the rags were endless. He held him in the air and began the slow process of the capture as his binds started to wrap around the villain.
"Late...but here."
He only brought a pair of cops with him and those two went out to try and flank the gangsters.

The Bearded Bear Man shakes his head laughing. Sensing danger coming nearby, he quickly grabs a nearby car and chucks it toward the side of the cops so that they have cover against the salted knives. He himself swings at the knives that come at him, easily breaking them.
"You boys wish to face the Bearded Bear Man? By your lonesomes without backup? My chest hairs would love a challenge but I am here to protect all, and I can't do that without being nearby."
He seems to hear an order from a hidden earpiece...and nods his head slowly. The man prepares to charge but whether he hit the teen in his way wasn't going to be his fault.
"Last chance kids, before I take all of you out in one shot."

The cops with clearer views of the villains began to throw their tear gas grenades with more accuracy and shoot at the gangsters once more. They were relentless in their strikes and now shooting to kill over shooting to cripple due to how the gangsters showed no signs of giving up easy. Only 9 of them are left and one of them starts to head over to where a girl was nearby to check if she was okay/drag her into cover behind a dumpster. Another one starts to radio in some orders of sorts...

The TV inside now showed on its screen: 2 HEROES NEAR BASE

@pkken@sharksama @Barioth @Rune_Alchemist @Wasted Ink @FallenTrinity@Cuccoruler@Pirouette@Weird Tales@easy modo

As another hero approached shit started to hit the fan, "Shit Lance said. Only way he would possibly get the yakuza gangsters to go back is completely sealing them off from the area. Lance ran ahead and held out his hands in front, ice flew out from his hands fast as he soon began making a wall of ice the seal off the yakuza gangsters. As Lance continued using his quirk you could see his face turning white with slight pigments of blue. Finished the wall, standing at 12 ft tall and 6 feet thick. Lance used his ice to clear the jump, he started to feel the urge to kill, he swiped his hand and froze over a cop car in front of him. "Lets have some fun shall we." Lance said holding his hand out taunting the cops, they opened fire on him but Lance held his hand out as an ice shield intercepted the bullets. "If that's all you got you don't deserve to live"

Though he was out matched him and Gi were all that was there, Lance took out the cops while Gi went for the pro-hero. Lance held is hand out as ice shards impaled a cop into a wall, knowing another attack was coming soon he put his ice devils into a defense formation around him as they took the blows for him. ""As fun as this is, we bit off more than we can chew Gi" Lance said smiling, he was starting to enjoy the thrill as he danced with the police, his years of intense training beginning to show. Lances skin tone turning Snow White. His urge to kill growing, he started laughing psychotically, "Too bad you couldn't see what a monster you created father! You were so weak I had to kill you!Lance as he leaves the formation and impaled a police officer with shards of ice. He turned to another police officer who fell to the floor in fear "l"Don't be scared Mother,everything will be alright" Lance said as he constructed an ice sword, he swung but was intercepted by a flurry of bullets."I'll play with you next, wait your turn" Lance said as a bullet pierced his shoulder. He took cover behind a cop, he saw as a hero wrapped up another person who seemed to be causing all the salt in the area, hanging him suspended. "Another hero,this just keeps getting better" he said as his face lit up, he charged up an attack ready for the bandage hero to attack.

"Breaking news, Reporter! What we have here is some shocking footage of a villain, whom we shall take to calling him Ice Man at the moment, slaughtering police at the street right now. What do we know about this Ice Man, then?

We just don't know. But from what I've just heard recently, it appears he had murdered his father in cold blood back then, and there had been some really weird circumstances involving his mother. Talk about patricide!

We bring you today an interview with a cop on the scene. What say you?"

"HEY! YOU! GET YOUR SUICIDAL ASS THE HELL OUTTA HERE! We're having a shootout, and this is no time for media, pretend or not, to dive in!"

"...sheesh, Officer, chill. Fine. We interrupt this broadcast to return to safer grounds. We'll be back in a few minutes."

Masaru, complying with the cop's warning, headed away from the scene... and into the shipyard.

This program is brought to you by Green^tm Shipping Containers. Nothing shady to hide!

Kurt listened to the conversations, nodding towards Gi as he introduced himself. He was about to tell him his name when Lance made a comment about the banana. The shark-man snorted impulsively, coughing to regain his composure. He didn't mean to make fun of the kid at all; no, he was just amused that the kid was almost as inexperienced as himself. Though, Kurt actually knew what sex was, and knew how it worked, what it did… His face heated up and he took a sip of the bottle.

“Out of all of those…” He didn't really read the board yet, but judging by the words of his comrades, the second one sounded interesting to him. “My vote’s on the second one. I mean, killing a military official is difficult, but if he owns a large industry? That could cause trouble for us; more people would want to hunt is down that were in the military…” He shook his head. “I definitely don't like the idea of brainwashing, not at all. I'd rather kill a hero than brainwash them.” Staring at the three presents he tensed. “Um… How about that car one? The suitcase and crate could be bombs, but the big one might not… Though, if it is, that is one hell of a bomb.” He grinned toothy, only to realize that his words went unnoticed.

The alert shocked the male, causing him to jump out of his seat. “A hero and police? Better go-” He tried to stand up, but the wounds he still had from the last fight stung badly. He rested a hand not the arm of the couch, smirking to himself. “Well, sorry guys… Guess I'll have to sit out on this one.” He then limped off somewhere while they fought.

Later…

“Are they still fighting?” Kurt seemed to mutter under his breath, walking into the lounge. His clothes were soaking wet, and he smelled bitterly of a mix of salt water a dead fish. His wounds seemed better, though; just a few shallow cuts and some bandages around his leg, but he was mostly fine. Blood gleamed on his lips as he sat down on the floor, intently watching the screen. “I hope they're alright… Don't want them getting too beat up.”

Ryu’s question confused him. A bomb? Another bomb? He couldn't be serious. “Great. So this whole time we’ll be dealing with bombs a lot.” He didn't particularly like machinery after that robot fight. “I could try with the bomb. I once had a friend who was great at those kinds of things; I'm sure I picked up something from a long time ago.”

Masaru would end up finding a strange charred and mostly destroyed large green shipping container. The guards were all too busy trying to deal with the gang clean up that she had no problem coming into the shipping yard even though the cameras were all still working. However, another set of cameras did catch her...(@easy modo)

Sel would find himself now practically mummified except having small slips throughout the wrappings for air to be let in...plus a major hole for his mouth and nose areas so that the man wouldn't suffocate. Binder slowly looks at the other ice criminal and shakes his head as he starts taking out a pair of cuffs to get Sel with first...slowly bringing the salty villain closer to himself. (@Weird Tales)

Bearded Bear gets ready to charge at Gi.
"Sorry boy, time for something unbearable!"
He does a football charge of sorts with his shoulder forward, going straight toward him. If Gi moves, the cars behind him which were providing cover for his gang mates were the hero's secondary target. If he stayed still, Gi would surely break a few bones from how strong and how much momentum was carried behind the shoulder charge of the Bearded Bear hero! (@FallenTrinity)

Currently, Lance had a choice between two:
He could help out Gi and take care of the Bear Man if not at least provide some sort of aid to back him up. After all, Gi isn't one who could last that long in a fight, especially if he takes a blow from the man.
Lance could also help out the newcomer, salt Quirk-user, or at least the person being wrapped up who could be assumed the salt villain due to how the salt storm stopped when the new hero came in to take care of the person in wrappings. (@pkken)

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"Well...I could try to...phase through the boxes...and phase with myself the bombs out. Though I am not sure if the bombs will blow up as soon as I touch them and such like that. That's why I'm asking if anyone here is good with bombs so that I can phase their head through, so they can take a look at the bombs and probably disarm them from the inside or something. Then we can take all three gifts instead of just choosing."

Ryu was pretty serious about this idea and found himself leaning against the job board as he stated this. However, he didn't notice the button below the job for the Extorting from the Idol . Above the job board, another TV of sorts appeared that now showed a small Ghost emoji in the top left corner as if it was in a category on the left. In the middle, there was a category for Earned Points, and on the left it stated: Accepted Main Job. The main job aligned with his name...or at least Ghost Emoji was the Extorting from the Idol. There was...something odd about it though. Next to the Emoji, in parenthesis, it stated (2 months). He was looking at it very confused and slowly put two and two together.

"...so...anyone want to join me? Seems like I'm committed now, but not in a relationship hopefully. Would like to work with a few people on this who're into this stuff, I'm more of a follower for this stuff than leading since my experience is in...other fields."

@sharksama@Cuccoruler@Rune_Alchemist@Barioth

Vert looked at the TV as the bear man came in. She bit her lip as she saw him appear. In truth, she sort of had a thing for bears. They were her favorite animals after all, nothing like a big strong bear to take down a whole group. That she loved the fact that they were so fluffy.

"Uh yeah, I would rather do the extorting, never done anything like that before and sounds like a bit of a challenge." Vert stated as she walked up to the button and hit it, her name appearing next to the mission as well. Vert then heard the talk about the bombs. "He said to seperate them, the explosion can't be that bad can it? I mean if he wanted us to die he would have done it by now." Vert added referring to the kabuki mask man.

"So where is the intel on this idol? Do we have anything on them?" Vert asked hoping that the Kabuki man would hear her.

Sel found himself in a very annoying situation and a stupid hero had come in to ruin his fun. He was encased in what looked like wrapping and he looked like a person dressing up as a mummy for Halloween. He needed to get out of this and he had the solution. He focused his mind and salt began to appear on his skin and with a glare Sel had blades stick out of his body like the spikes on a porcupine. If his attempt worked then the wraps would be torn to pieces and he would be free.

For extra measure Sel would also have one of the blades extend out to try and stab the hero through the chest since he was closer now. Sel didn't like people getting in the way of his fun and he would make this annoying hero feel real pain before he went down. Sel hoped that the hero wouldn't go down too easy so they could have a fight on even ground.

@cloudystar

Straying further from the fighting, Masaru now found herself within the labyrinthine confines of the shipyard. It took a little while to travel through this city of neatly-arranged shipping containers and cranes, before she had finally got to the right place, the sacred Green Container.

Sacred, that is, if it wasn't a pile of green scrap and ash by now.

We further interrupt our news program to bring you the latest sneak peek at our new Shakespearean drama series, airing never:

"Greenie, O Greenie! Wherefore art thou a mount of ashen rubbish? Wherefore must thou be a trap, set upon by villainous serpents in the armor of honorable knights? Cursed heavens! Cursed hells! My chilly breath shalt eternally speak curses... upon these deceptive minds!...

...and they shalt learn their rightful place, not by this earth, but in the infernal pits! THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD OVERLOOKS NONE!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...Ahem. I mean, just look at this heaping pile o' scrap.
It's pretty garbage, I mean, but it's kind of a good place to sit and contemplate whatever I have done wrong in life... *sit*

...to be, or not to be..."

Gi prepared himself for what was to come. No other solution came to mind, no other way around it. He would, in fact, bear the full force of the attack.

He charged forward, hairy body and all. Flipping around the blade in his right, he waited for just the right moment before jumping up. He twisted his body at such a rate the sound projected from it almost was akin to the rotors on a helicopter. Gi tucked himself in closer and twisted harder in the air, changing the sound from that of a helicopter to that of a dentist's drill. On the tv, the once blur became nearly invisible minus the light reflecting off his blades, creating a full reflective circle right before-

"Crack! Ping! Thunk!"

The bear made collision course with Gi's death spin. The damage to him was unknown but Gi was sent flying up and into a building's fire escape, head first. All Gi could see after that was darkness. As for his blades, well, they had shattered, sending splinters everywhere with such speed and intensity that anything they touched would be ripped apart. Hopefully no one of importance, to him at least, got hurt.

Kurt stood up at Ryu's words, tensing a bit as Vert joined him. The girl wasn't his least favorite person; hell, he thought she was pretty useful in a fight. But... She seemed to get hungry very easily, and he didn't want to be her next meal, or a possible traveling snack. He prayed silently that she hated shark sushi. He had to ponder largely on his decision: Should he go with them? They seemed to be able to take care of themselves. But the other options... He didn't seem too found of. But wouldn't he just be a burden, since he wasn't fully healed?

Sighing to him, he nodded to the two with a smile. "Sorry. I think I'll take the first one with someone else." He stretched his arms in the air before continuing. "I'd probably be just a burden, with these wounds." He looked over at them with red eyes, looking bright and happy. "But, I'll wish you good luck. You both are pretty skilled, so you should have no problem."

@Cuccoruler@cloudystar

Lance was about to prepare his attack on the man with wrappings but his attention was captured by Gi flying into a building. "Shit Gi" he said. Lance stood behind the cop car taking heavy fire as police started closing in on him. "I have to go rescue him". Lance held his hand out and froze the rode, making it slippery. He then used his ice to shove his only cover from the oncoming police hoping to immobilize them. Lance used the ice to slide towards the building Gi was in, freezing the floor stopped most of the bullets since anyone that shot or ran would loose balance.

Lance climbed the fire escape and grabbed Gi who was about to become unconscious, he put Gi over his shoulder and ran with him at a slowed down rate."your heavy" Lance said jogging, adrenaline in his veins. Lance knew it wasn't gonna be easy escaping but that choice has the highest survival rate. He ran down a alley, freezing the path behind him. Lance had to dispose of the helicopter though if he wanted a chance. He held his hand out and shot birds made out of eyes at the helicopter pilot in an attempt to take him out.

Gi's buzzsaw-like attack managed to do significant damage to the Bear Hero's shoulder, almost ripping it clean off if he didn't turn a bit at the last second. He does stagger off now, a rather large cut gushing blood on his right shoulder blade thanks to the strike. The cops cover his escape as they too flee, seeing how they're main hero is going down...plus orders from the other hero. (@FallenTrinity)

Lance was able to retrieve Gi successfully and even escape with him a good distance. His cover used as a distraction actually aided in his escape and the other gangsters due to how it just made more chaos among the fleeing cops. There was no helicopter for Lance to shoot at, if anything, he shot at an advertisement board as they left that probably had a helicopter on it. There were no pursuing cops after them, for some reason had orders to pull back. (@pkken)

As soon as the other hero, Binder, saw the Bear Hero take a grievous wound, he started to move away from Sel to go help bandage his friend. Sel was able to easily break out thanks to the distraction but the Binder Hero was long gone to wrap up the other hero in the wrappings to cover up the wound before Sel can attack him. Binder orders an immediate evacuation for the remaining cops so that they can temporarily reorganize and regroup. The other cops follow his orders as they began to pull out of the area for now... (@Weird Tales)

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The Kabuki man was long gone but on the board to answer Vert's question stated:

• Katrina "Circe" Tera
• (unknown Quirk) A youthful girl in her 17's, blond hair and wearing magical girl clothing during her performances.
• Is constantly found in dress-up Cafes around the city, most likely those that are ranked #7 and #12.
• A bright out-going personality, she always seems very dedicated to her fans and makes constant references to her family during her performances.
• The organization she is donating her next concert to is ____________ (find out on your own you lazy butts! get caught up in the world!).

Also if Vert wants to tempt fate...go ahead and open a box. They're presents...what's wrong with them? (@Cuccoruler)

"Ugh...not much information to go off on. And geez...that fight ended pretty badly. At least those guys are okay...despite nearly bringing an entire police force on top of us. Vert, if you can think of any ideas on how we can prep for this, let me know. I think...there's someone in the shipping yard. Look at camera...9? Someone is near what appears to be the smoking remains of the green container. I'll go and grab her if you guys don't mind me doing so. She looks...friendly? I'll be right back, and someone make a decision on those bomb gifts...rather get that finished first before we do any legitimate jobs."

Ryu starts going out of the base and climbing up the series of ladders to come out in a strange alleyway. Shrugging as he heads off to the shipping yard, he smokes another candy cigarette as he searches for the girl near the remains of the green container. He eventually does find her and waves a bit.

"Oi, in the wrong place? Yeah that thing was like that this morning, melting into a pile of rubble. Definitely was not a green container...got an invitation here or wrong place, wrong time?" (@easy modo)

~Allison Hillard~

@cloudystar

"Banana's are delicious." Allison commented offhandedly as everything else was going on around her. She seemed wholly uninterested in the fight happening above, or the presents. She wasn't playing the Kabuki's man little game with them. She'd let the others get burned from that little deal. For the most part, she just listened and ate, humming a quiet tune to herself. She should probably decide which mission she wanted to go on.

Finishing the Banana, Allison got up off the couch, deciding to take the one with the military bio general or whatever. She wasn't one for messing with those who weren't connected with heroes unless they were just collateral, and brainwashing a hero? Hmm...fun and also somewhat easy, but this bio engineer lab guy sounded a hell of a lot more fun.

She wondered if zombies could be a thing?

That would be pretty hilarious. Equally bad for everyone, but hilarious.

"Right, guess I'll be taking the military lab guy." She walked over to the board and pressed the button.

Vert looked back at the board. There it had information on it which for some reason she hadn't seen before. She would have to look more carefully in the future. "I think it's always a great idea to challenge ones self. After all who knows what we will have to deal with the future. It never hurts to expand your skills after all." Vert added, she was directing this at the shark man too.

Vert headed toward the boxes at this point looking a little closer at it now. "You know, some times it's better to just do instead of over think something." Vert stated as she walked towards the largest of the box and opening it without considering the others.

Hm.

Would it do any good if she'll spend the next few hours just sitting, doing almost nothing, and contemplating on the nature of the pile of green rubble? Would reflections and meditations on the mysteries, philosophies and natures of the scrap heap change Masaru for the better? Maybe so. Maybe not.

But now is not the time to do that. Someone wants to have a talk.

yadda yadda...

"...Ahaha. Haha. Ha.

They made an idiot out of you too, haven't they...? They promised you, and all they give is your demise. Ha. Ha. You're lucky they didn't catch you in... whatever the hell made that thing turn to smithereens... but they still threw your time in the bin.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- Look at those poor souls! Unfortunate! Tragic! Hmmmmm... sniff that in the air? That's their ashen remains! They're dead! And they're never getting back! Ever! Too eager to think twice before trusting... too eager to be just in time to die in their trap! See this letter? It's the ticket for Demon Airlines Flight 666's one way trip to Hell! And we've just missed the flight!

...Ah. So what do we do now? Coffee before vengeance?"

Lance shoots at a billboard out of paranoia,"Shit, gotta hurry and make it back to base". Lance fixes Gi on his shoulder and moves up to a sewer up shortly up ahead. He uses his ice to pop the man hole and carefully puts Gi inside. Lance then removes all traces and evidence of him using by dissipating the ice. Lance enters the sewers closing it behind him, ""this place stinks" Lance said as he picked Gi up again,they made their way back to base as they took many twist and turns in the sewer eventually making it thanks to Lances great sense of direction. They return both all battered and bruised with tattered clothes. "We made it back alive, or at least somewhat" Lance says looking st the unconscious Gi. He places Gi in a bedroom that seemed rather neat, "Who can apply first aid?" Lance said.

@Cuccoruler@Rune_Alchemist@cloudystar@FallenTrinity

"...okay guessing you're part of the group since you appear to have the invite. Come along if you're still interested, guess that Kabuki man was serious about his threats considering the fact that this entire container was blown up to bits and pieces."

Ryu starts leading the way back to the hidden alleyway as he keeps a new perspective of the Kabuki man, don't underestimate his threats. He can only hope if the others didn't do anything crazy from the presents that were available, might not end so very well for the group if they opened one up without hesitation....(@easy modo)

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Underneath the car box was actually a rather large family van of sorts. It really wasn't much but for transportation and seemed to hold around 12 passengers, seeming rather similar to those fancy tourist vans that are more made for capacity than comfort. However, there seemed to be no license or any other documents inside...besides a pair of fresh car deodorants that were a frowny face and a smiley face hanging on the rear view mirror. The other boxes which were thankfully separated from the others...actually didn't let out that large of an explosion but did explode and light on fire...destroying whatever contents were inside them. Though one did let out a few dollar bills and the other seemed to release strange metal bits and paper.

After Alison accepted the other job, on the job board right next to the Idol Extortion popped up Assassination #1:

• Dylan "Dex" Dradle
• Around 62 years of age
• Has a large mansion resort near the edge of the city (unknown)
• Extremely well-known, can be found on the news networks sometimes or at top 5 clothing stores in Fashion District
• Extremely rich
• Expected to even be able to afford a D-C Ranked Hero for a bodyguard
• Expected to have high defenses (Dogs, Electrical Fences, Cameras, Etc.)
• Sleeps like a log at 6 PM - 10 AM
• Has a...strange...fetish

All information about the target was shown, even showing a picture of the old-like man in a fancy white tux of sorts.

(@Rune_Alchemist@pkken@Cuccoruler@Barioth@FallenTrinity)

~Allison Hillard~

@cloudystar@FallenTrinity@pkken

"Oho...strange fetish? Well, now I'm intrigued." Allison chuckled lightly as she read the listed information about her target. Something like this should be easy to pull off with a little planning. At least, it was simple in the end. The target seemed to be a predictable sort with a predictable routine - that was not something that anyone who was in public should ever do. That said, she'd still have to be careful. Before she could think about it further, a Gi and Lance both returned...with Gi looking more than a little beat up. Ouch.

"Trampled by a bear, Gi?" Allison commented, observing the injured kid. "Well, if its first aid you want I can help. I don't exactly have medical practice, buuut, I know my way around the human body. Perks of being the kid of some fancy wealthy biologist, heh." Hmm, she could probably patch him up well enough, but then again this was the consequence of him being a complete moron who suspiciously brought his own men to the area.

Well, whatever. At least if she did the others would probably trust her a bit more? Or they might be suspicious of her overt friendliness. Not that it'd matter, it'd be fun either way.

"Give me about half an hour with him and I'll have him about as good as new. At least, he won't die of blood loss, heh."

Vert looked at the car that she had unwrapped. "Well it's certainly better than public transit." Vert stated as she looked closer at the vehicle. She then turned to the others whom had made it out of the fight. "It's about time you guys got here. Taking on the police isn't exactly a good idea you know. If you wanna survive you need to learn how to kill quickly and then run, possibly with the body too. Haven't eaten any human for about a week now truth be told." Vert stated as she leaned back to look at the board.

"So, extorting an idol. They say that they can't have relationships if I'm correct. Who wants to post next to this one? Could be fun!" Vert added now coming up with the plan on how to extort this idol. They could take away all of her ticket sales too and extort an entire audience. Would take some patience but it would be fun.

Masaru, now suddenly finding herself bewildered, shot a glance to this strange boy, then hidden alleyway's entrance and back to the boy again. The girl's eyebrows were clearly furrowed, baffled at some of the puzzling words he had just uttered, and uneasy with whatever he had in store to show. Where the hell was this guy leading her? Who's this Kabuki man? What in God's name is he threatening? What in the darnedest is this "group"? What the fuck is even happening at all?

But patience could probably be still needed here. If what he had to show was worth something, then good. Besides, if this all turned out to be just another trap the Bad Guys^TM set up, all she needed to do was to ravage her way out, and blame herself for being a fool if she didn't make it.

"...so what's of this... alley, I suppose?" Her voice, calmer than it was a while ago but rather unnerved, echoed faintly.