[IC] K.N.I.G.H.T.

[QT]

Tiger - Slums Alleyway - Light

The cowboy lowered his weapons as she told her side of the story. She said she had been stabbed, but here was no sign of blood anywhere, nor any distress on her body. But what took him off guard was what she had said first and foremost. She stated that she was at the scene of the battle with the metas. This caused Tiger to put two and two together and figure out she was also a meta - due to the whole, throwing a man over buildings and stuff.

"Okay darlin', but you can't throw an ordinary human across the sky and stuff, it could kill'em!" the cowboy started. He had a code he lived by, one that gave him the desire to keep living people alive. You may call him cliche with the whole hero thing, but it was just his person, not his alias. It might have started opposite to that theory, but Anthony has learned to be good - at least that's what he believes.

Anyhow, Tiger continued to speak to this lady. "Next time, just.........I don't know...........knock'em out or somethin" the cowboy stated, scratching his head through his hat. Light then commented on his home and the people of it. It was true, nothing much ever happened in the slums. There were never metas around, just thugs who stole from stores and killed when they didn't get what they wanted.

"These are good people out here, they won't call the cops, nobody does nowadays. They're scared of snitching. So........they ain't gonna do anythin' to you don't worry. But regardless, we have to get out of here. The guy you threw, he has a gang, a rather large one. Follow me" he said, running out the alleyway the way he had entered. On the other side of the building, one could hear 'thug slang' from numerous people. "See, there they go" Tiger said, walking normally since the thugs couldn't see them. He then opened the door to some random rundown building. "After you ma'am." He wasn't gonna take her to his house, she would know who he was if he did that.

It was already night time by the time the gang had disappeared and found no trace of them. The cowboy sat in a chair just staring at Light for a couple minutes. "So, you've got super strength. What else can you do?" he asked her, curious of her abilities. He never really envied metas, just saw them as strange. It seemed all metahumans had it rough in this new world, well, except for the ones in the Justice League - the ones labeled actual 'Heroes'.

"I'm Tiger" the cowboy finally introduced himself.

[Archmage MC]

Slums Alleyways

Light listened as the cowboy talked, first berating her about how she handled the mugger, then his explanation as to how dull this area actually was, and finally requesting that she follow him to a hide out to avoid some gangsters. Light didn't care much about gangsters, after all, what were they going to do, shoot her? Shrugging to herself, she entered the building and sat at a chair adjacent from the cowboy, who introduced himself as Tiger.

"Hello Tiger, my name is Light." she said giving a small bow. "And to be fair, I'm not scared of gangsters, I'd probably take a bunch of them out before they got me down, and even then, good luck killing me." she aid with a smirk, taking off her mask since it was just the two of them, and he didn't look like one of the usual fragile minded people that roamed the city. Her appearance without her mask was somewhat close, but more alien looking with pure white skin, a pencil neck, a large ball like head with similarly large black and orange eyes, pointed fin ears, short blue hair, large forearms/hands that ended with 4 spiked fingers, a blue tanktop,, pointed legs, and now her dress looked to be attached to her instead of part of her attire like before, as well as having a different style with an open front and a pointed tabard section.

"As you can see, if I don't wear my illusion mask, I'm pretty sure I'd scare half of them with my... as some people say... demonic appearance. I'm no demon, but I've been alled as such sometimes thanks to my hands and eyes. But hey, now you can sorta guess why I have Super Strength." Light said, standing up and gesturing at herself to prove her point, sitting back down afterwords. "And as long as you don't panic I don't think we'll have any problems. I get tired of people panicing..." Light said with a sigh.

"anyway, I can see your a crack shot, I'm more of a melee fighter myself. Super Strength, faster attacks as I attack, and of course my favorite ability." Light said, skewering her own thigh with her sharp fingers. After a short grunt, she pulled out her now bloody fingers, and gestured for Tiger to stay where he was. Remarkably little blood came out form the wound, and after a few seconds it began to shrink, sealing closed after half a minute. "See? Injuries hurt, but its not like they can cause permanent damage to me. Regeneration is so nifty. I get tagged with a stray bullet, I stay in the fight, while most heroes go down to the ground." She said with a wink.

"Now what was this about a league?" Light asked, hearing mention of a justice league, but not fully grasping at what it was besides a syndicate of heroes.

[Konica]

Momo - Dave's Family Apartment - Breakdown & Sarah

After finishing changing Momo caught a faint whiff of Dave's cooking. Whatever it was, it smelled good and made Momo' belly rumble not so quietly. All of excitement was finally getting to her.

Momo thought for sure Sara and Dave were a pair, which is why Sara's answer to her inquirie wasn't quite what she expected and had created a bright red and flustered Momo.

"A little nosy are we eh? Me and Davy here go way back, since he discovered his powers in fact. I was just a lab jockey then, running tests, cleaning beakers, organizing blue prints, that sort of thing. But when little 'ol Davis here started turning everything he touched into dust, including the floor which I might add is very difficult to replace, I was placed as his official nanny." With a mischievous little grin and a gentle elbow, Sarah said "I ain't gonna get in between you two lovebirds."

"Oh! No no no no no no no no! It's not like that. I-I'm no bird! I was just curious is all, just curious!" she waved her hands in denial as she said so. Quickly she changed the subject to one that was less embarrassing. "So you're a nanny? I am too, sort of. My parents are servants of the 清水 (Shimizu) family, and so I am except I only answer to their daughter: Shimizu Kimiko. She's only a little older than me so I'm more of a maid than a nanny. I'm not sure if I'm very good at it though, sometimes it feels more like she's taking care of me instead of the other way around... do you know what I mean? Ahh, sorry, I'm rambling."

Conveniently enough, Momo received a call from Kimiko shortly after. She knew the fight was near their apartment and wanted to make sure Momo was okay. Momo told her the short version to save time. About how she saved some people but wasn't really in the fight, and about how she learned to fly (sort of). She could tell Kimiko was worried so she assured her everything was alright. She didn't have the spine to get involved with those brawlers anyways.

Afterwards Momo's maid-instincts told her to help Sara set the table. In the kitchen was where she found Dave adding the finishing touches to their meal. "Hey D-Dave, it smells delicious." she said politely, still embarrassed by what Sara said about lovebirds.

[QT]

Tiger - Abandoned Building - Light

"I bet you could. I didn't hide you in here for your sake, I hid you in here for theirs" the cowboy returned, talking about the gangsters. It was surely obvious at this point that this girls strength was way beyond humans. Therefore, that group of gangsters wouldn't match her at all, regardless their weapons.

The cowboy fixed himself on the seat, but as he returned his gaze to Light, his eyes widened. "Well butter my butt and call me biscuit! I was not expectin' that" tiger exclaimed, taking off his hat to get a better look. "Woah Nellie if that ain't cool!" The cowboy then put his hat back on and couldn't help but stare at was coming.

Light proceeded by taking her sharp fingertips and running them across her fragile skin. Blood goosed out like a regular human, but the wound started to heal itself instantly. It was cell regeneration or something like that. That little demonstration answered one of Tiger's questions. Apparently she did not have indestrutibility, so if anything went wrong, he could always shoot her, though it may not be the brightest idea.

The unexpected continued as she asked about the League, something Tiger hadn't even mentioned, only thought. "Can she also read minds?" Tiger thought too himself, wondering how she knew what he had been thinking. But anyway, he went ahead and started to share his knowledge on the JLA.

"The Justice League is the world's most notorious group if superheroes. Unlike the people you saw this mornin', the JLA is known by everybody. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Aquaman. These seven heroes saved the world from a villain named Darkseid - the fella could Hoedown! But you know what they say, never kick a cow party on a hot day" Tiger explained, getting off the chair and sitting on the ground, back to wall. "Not all if them folks have powers though. Some are just like me, using technology they acquired. For example, The Batman just got a whole load of gadgets in that Bat-Belt of his. GL just has that fancy ring, but without it, he's just human. So it's just heroes comin' together for a noble cause, real cowboys if you ask me. Wish I could join them one day, but I don't like space. Well, I've never been to it, but I doubt I could ride up there. There's nuthin' better for a mans soul than being free to ride. Best remember that" he finished, slouching down a bit and slanting his hat doe to cover his face. "I think it's time to hit the hay darlin', I think were gonna have a wild mornin' tomorrow" Tiger yawned.

[Pathfinder]

Breakdown- Dave's Apartment- Fairy

As Sarah lead Momo to her closet, Dave was busy in the kitchen making dinner. Since he had broke the pot earlier in the day he couldn't make spaghetti like he wanted to but he had other things he could cook. Plus, Dave wasn't no loser who couldn't cook for themselves. On the contrary Dave was working to become a chef before his powers kicked in and while a new calling grabbed his heart, he would always be passionate about cooking. Now, Dave looked through the pantry and the fridge, finding the ingredients to one of his favorite meals.

Now it wasn't the best ingredients he could get, the tomato soup came from a can and the cheese from one of those bags with individual slices separated. But he could work with this, he just needed to roll up his sleeves. Checking to see if his gloves were engaged and satisfied to find they were, Dave went to the sink and washed his "hands" and got to work. Opening two cans of tomato soup and putting them in a small pot, Dave let it simmer before moving to the grilled cheeses. It was now that Dave was faced with a choice, there were two types of bread he could use. Dave had wanted to use the Shokupan for awhile now but he hadn't enough knowledge on it to know if it would grill good enough, plus the slices were pretty thick. Then there was good ol sourdough. Stumped, Dave decided to stick with the devil he knew and grabbed the sourdough.

Spreading out the slices, Dave spread butter on one side and then put the cheese slices on the other before putting them both on a pan to cook. Setting a lid over the pan to let things cook, Dave stepped back and let his thoughts drift to what happened today. Dave knew his powers weren't good, they were definitely bad guy super powers. Hell, Dave couldn't even touch anything without it turning to dust and plus even on his lowest levels he disintegrated a large part of a wall. If it had hit a normal guy his skin would have probably just disappear if the whole guy didn't just poof out of existence. Yup, these were bad powers... Just like those guys from the t.v. said. With a sigh Dave stepped out of thinking and checked the sandwiches, finding them a nice golden brown he flipped them over.

A couple minutes later the sandwiches were done and the soup was hot. Taking out two plates and bowls, Dave placed the bowels in the center of the plates and the grilled cheeses on the side of the bowls. Adding the soup and a crack of pepper in each, Dave brought out the food and placed one if front of Momo and got the usual "I already ate." from Sarah. Sitting down himself Dave took a second to get a look at Momo, quite frankly she was adorable. With the clothes just a tad to big it gave her a look almost like a puffy dog or something but a little closer look and Dave saw she was as red as a beet, almost guaranteed to have came from Sarah.

"Hey D-Dave, it smells delicious." Momo said, pretty politely he might add. Dave puffed with pride, living with a snarky android and having no taste buds himself put his confidence in his cooking pretty low at the moment and getting at least some positive feedback was a nice change of pace. Giving his thanks, Dave decided to ignore her blush for her sake and said "Do you say prayer at your house? We don't usually do it here but you know, whatever you wanna do." Dave had never been one for religion, having been born from a scientist. That's not to say that they never said prayer, it was more of a skepticism then actual refusal that god was real. Dave and his dad were under the same impression, some things man just can't know.

[QT]

Downtown

"We have you surrounded, hands up NOW!!" the detective called out as he pointed his pistol at the criminal. There were three cop cars, one being the detectives - the other two merely NYPD. Total of five force members with their weapons loaded and prepared to fire at the.........'thing'.

'thing' [+]

During this little raid, a helicopter flew overboard with the ABC7 channel news logo on the side. It circled the area, taking footage of what was happening in front of the New York Community Bank.

"~BREAKING NEWS!!~ Story of the hour for the City of New York. After today's mesmerizing events, these 'meta-humans' continue to cause destruction. We have Sofia Lee at the scene-"

"Thank you Sheryl. I am here in our helicopter flying above the Community Bank. It seems yet another metahuman - as we call them - has decided to go rogue and steal from the bank. The NYPD has apprehended the criminal, but no success yet. It seems the convict here refuses to cooperate. Back to you Sheryl-"

"Thanks Sofia. For those at home, we at Channel 7 recommend you stay at home for the time being. We will continue to broadcast updates as they come in-"

---

Tiger - Abandoned Building - Light

The cowboy at the moment was snoring. He had his hat tipped forth to cover his face in addition to his bandanna. He didn't dream much though, or maybe he did - maybe he just doesn't remember his dreams anymore. The only dreams he does remember - if he has any, which is once a month or so - are actually quite simple. Last dream he had was about his old baseball coach and how he was training with him - yeah, that's it.

But anyhow, suddenly and unexpectedly, Tiger's watch started to beep. The sound made the cowboy jump out of his boots. "Dang, Young Whippersnapper! What is the world is that?!" the cowboy called out as he placed his hand on his revolver's grip. He stood there looking side to side, ignoring Light whom didn't seem to fall asleep. Did she even need sleep?

Anyway, after a couple of silly seconds, the cowboy noticed it was HE who was actually beeping. He removed his hand from his gun and pressed a button on his watch. "Bank Robbery in progress. Backup is mandatory. All units respond" the watch responded. It was plugged into a certain police cruiser - from an old friend of Tiger's, a rookie cop. "Don't stop kickin' till the clock stops tickin' right darlin'?" Tiger sarcastically asked as he fixed his hat and bandanna.

He then started out the old raggedy building and headed to his home where he left his bike. Unfortunately, he was gonna have to show her where he lived, something he feared. Because she followed him, she now knew where he was staying and could tell anybody. "Best not tell nobody honey, unless you want a head full of lead. Now mount up" he said, pulling out his bike from the garage, closing it on his way out. "Lets ride!"

[Archmage MC]

Watching the cowboy sleep, while not the most boring thing to happen her today, was pretty boring. She was about to take a nap until the cowboy's watch began to beep. He mumbled something about a bank robbery, and gestured for her to follow him, apparently he was going to try to stop it. Seeing how that would be more fun that sitting around, Light followed him to a garage where he pulled out a motorcycle and barked something about not telling anyone about this spot or else, which she cared little about either way, then telling her to get on.

"Well, since your in costume, it would be weird for me to wear my mask I'd think, can't pull off a civ appearance if I'm tagging along with a hero." Light said, curling up her dress so it wouldn't get caught in the motorcycle's tires. "Unless you want me to." She continued, hopping on the bike and grabbing his stomach with one of her massive hands.

"i should mention, I'd prefer running. I've got my dress caught in a motorcycle wheel before. It hurt, a lot." Light said as they were riding towards their destonation, attempting to make some conversation on their way to the bank robbery in progress.

[World Traveler]

Devin made no effort to stop the hot head girl with a hard punch as she left for her date. He was all too good at recognizing a teenager in a fit from having been one as well as babysitting his sister. Instead he sat down on the fire escape and drew a very long and very tired breath. The weight of his costume seemed to crash down on him. A moment ago he had been moving around in it as if it was a second skin. That was different than now. Before it was reactionary with little thought. Here he was alone with only his thoughts.

He wasn't nearly as confident as he was when he set out on this little crusade. That wasn't surprising as he jumped at it much quicker than he would have guessed the day before LISA contacted her. He also began to worry over the unknown that seemed to be the enemies pit bull. Despite what anyone said the people involved had no answer to whatever it was. 'None of them have faced something like that.' Devin though as he looked down at his hand. 'I've only shaken hands with one of them and that was enough to feel defeated.'

Thankfully Devin's thoughts were dragged out of the well by his radio cracking in and out. moving to the roof he could hear LISA's voice clearly. "I apologize for my lack of understanding the enemies capabilities Devin." Had emotions been possible Devin could almost hear an honest amount of self loathing. while making no difference he thought some encouraging words would be nice.

"You arn't a magic eight ball LISA I never expect you to have all the answers just help me navigate the map to where they are hiding. Now how about we draw up or next move." Pulling his grapple gun out and making his way away from the scene of the fight the Vituvian man made a stop at his favorite sushi where he got an order to go. He arrived back in his dads old hideout under the raised subway tracks.

Inside he began to cure his empty stomach and listen to LISA draw up responses. They mostly fell in line with what Devin thought would be best; however with one major difference. "You want me to what!?!" He shouted at the screen.

"It is my opinion that learning as much about the enemy as possible would be the best step after gathering the desired pieces. Waiting will only keep you on them defensive and therefore losing side."

"So we go after the corrupt companies. Going after that unknown without any sort of teamworkmsounds like a suicide mission." The two continued tomdebatw with LISA winning over the hero. "So all that's left is action. I want to meet the people we saw fighting again. Use your big smart brain to contact them. Let them know I will met them on the roof of the old abandoned hospital in the east side." Devin put his outfit back on and once again left via the train overhead.

"Already done." LISA said in his ear piece.

[Konica]

Momo - Dave's Family Apartment - Breakdown & Sarah

"Do you say prayer at your house? We don't usually do it here but you know, whatever you wanna do."

"Oh no, we just say いただきます (itadakimasu) sometimes to be polite." Momo wanted to maintian her manners, but couldn't help herself as she dug in and scarfed the food down. Fighting crime really gives her an appetite. "おいしい (oishii). Umm, I mean its delicious!" she said after finishing the meal. She was just beginning to relax when she recieved a mysterious text from Vitruvian telling her to meet him on the roof of the old abandoned hospital in the east side. The fact that he knew who she was and somehow managed to get her phone number unnerved her. She didn't know what else to do but turn to a seasoned hero for advice.

"Dave look, I think that guy from before wants to meet me" she said, showing him the text. "What should I do? I mean, how does he even know who I am? If anyone finds out... no no no no no I should've never got involved!" Shortly after her little panic attack was underlined by a sense of foreboding not unlike the one she felt before. "Oh no, I think something's happening. I think we should check the news"

"~BREAKING NEWS!!~ Story of the hour for the City of New York. After today's mesmerizing events, these 'meta-humans' continue to cause destruction. We have Sofia Lee at the scene-"

"Oh boy..." she said, suddenly feeling like she was overwhelmed with trouble. "We need to help, right? But what about this message? What should I do?" she said with a stressed-out expression.

[Pathfinder]

Breakdown- Dave's Apartment- Fairy

Dave didn't really enjoy his food, not having taste buds would do that. Shrugging, Dave just pulled the grilled cheese apart and popped the pieces into his mouth and let them dissolve into nothingness or something. It was surprising how fast Momo ate the food he cooked. Either he was a better cook than he thought or she was really hungry, hopefully a little of both. As they ate in relative silence, Dave had time to reflect. How can he be a hero with powers like these? Even when he brings his powers down to their lowest levels, they are still powerful enough to kill people albeit in a slower, more painful manner. The only plausible situation he could be useful in would be against robots and their hasn't been a threat like that in years.

Giving a little sigh, he was knocked in his brooding by Momo getting panicky about a text she got. He was about to say something before his own phone buzzed, stealing his attention from Momo. Looking at his text, he was surprised to find that it was a message from Vitruvian Man. Now the puzzle came together. Looking over to Momo as she turned on the news, something about Meta's and destruction.

"We need to help, right? But what about this message? What should I do?" Momo said worriedly. Seeing her distressed made Dave a little anxious, he didn't have much expertise in this sort of thing. Scrounging up everything he had on support, Dave said "I think we should go. Vitruvian Man was a great hero before he vanished and I don't think he would contact us directly unless it was important....I saw you today Momo, you may not believe it but you truly have the workings of a great hero. You just need a little faith in yourself." Dave meant every word he said. while everyone else had super strength, suspiciously familiar laser guns, or destructive beams of death. All Momo had was far as he knew was silk and wings and yet there she was, in the thick of it with the rest of them. Placing his gloved hand on her shoulder, Dave said "If you don't want to come with me that's fine, I get it. I'm not going to guilt you into doing something that you don't want to. Just give me the word and I'll call you a cab."

Giving her a moment to digest that information, Dave went to his locker and put in a combination before stepping inside. The machine came to life and began connecting the armor to Dave's body. Dave gave a little wince as the armor connected to his nervous system and stepped out as he pulled the hood over his head, giving a hiss as it sealed with the armor. Giving a little diagnostics check and satisfied that everything was optimal, Dave said "You know what you want to do?" His voice now having a robotic filter to it.

[Konica]

Momo - Dave's Family Apartment - Breakdown & Sarah

Momo wasn't sure what to do. Going home now would be easy and safe, but it would make her look like coward. On the other hand, going along with this could kill her. Like, permanently. But unless she did something, other people could die... Well who cares? There are millions of people out there, people die all the time. What chance did she have against that thing on the news, and Kimiko would get really mad. Yet, if Kimiko were in her position she would go... For the longest time the little angel and devil on her shoulders went back and forth, convincing her one way an then the other. In the midst of her struggle, Dave finished suiting up in his hero outfit.

"I think we should go. Vitruvian Man was a great hero before he vanished and I don't think he would contact us directly unless it was important....I saw you today Momo, you may not believe it but you truly have the workings of a great hero. You just need a little faith in yourself.... You know what you want to do?"

He was like the opposite of her, he knew what to do. He was prepared, confident, and ready for action. Seeing Dave decked out in his suit gave Momo a burst of confidence. She didn't want to be a scared little caterpillar anymore. "はい。 (Hai)" she said with a decisive nod. "I'm going with you. I'll help as best I can." Unlike Dave or Vitruvian or the Cowboy, Momo didn't have a cool suit. She didn't even have cool sunglasses like Boomstick. But still, she needed something to hide her identity for Kimiko's sake. Grabbing her butterfly patterned pajamas, she tore off a strip and cut eye holes in them before tying it around her head and wearing it like a mask. "Call me... Sparkles. Wait no, that's stupid. Umm, just don't use my name. Cuz, y'know, secret identity and what not..." Despite the makeshift simplicity of her disguise, it somehow made her feel brave and confident in herself. "I'm ready, let's go!"

[QT]

Tiger - Towards the Bank - Light

"How in the world did this fella get a hold of me?" The cowboy urged as he continued down the road. He was both impressed and irritated that Virtuvian man found a way to find him. Since he started the gig as a hero, he's been keeping his secret identity safe, and now done random person just hacked into his watch communicator. It made him believe he was no longer safe under the mask, that the get-up was all for nothing, just show.

But anyhow, not only did Virtuvian echo through his watch, but so did the robbery in progress. Tiger looked through his side mirror and caught Lights eyes. "Robbery first darlin', then Virtu.....axletreehoggerman." In the young heroes mind, the crime was more important than a get together. Though he wanted answers on how the guy hacked into his watch, he had a duty to protect the people.

He roared his motorcycle quickly through the red street lights, evading vehicles from all directions. He felt a little slower as he rode, but figured it was due to the passenger behind him. He wasn't used to having company - especially not alien company.

But anyway, as the two rode in close enough to see the crime in progress, Tiger fixed his hat and removed his revolver from its holster. "Here comes the rodeo!" He called out as he left his bike and ran towards the cop cars.

Some cops had already been injured as they attempted to confront the meta. The shadowy-figured creature had the ability to use it's own body to fire dark orbs of aura or something. It could also fly, do that didn't help much. "Y'all stay back here officers, me and my deputy here'll take care of business" tiger told the detective in charge of the apprehension. "So that what, you can destroy more of out city?!!" The detective yelled back as the two remained in cover behind the vehicle. "Tsk" Tiger said as he slid over the cop car and pointed his weapon at the Shadow.

"How bout we calm down partner, nobody's gotta get-" he said, running to his left as the Shadow stretched it's aura arm and nearly stabbed him in the chest. "That's not the cowboy way" Tiger said before opening fire. The guns bullets were merely being sucked into its body, doing no damage. "You shall all perish!!" The Shadow responded with a deep virtual tone. Tiger couldn't believe this thing was robbing a bank.

[Archmage MC]

Light was pretty passive as Virtuvian seemed to contact Tiger via his watch as they approached the crime scene. After all, she didn't know much about either person, and was more interested in smashing whatever they were about to fight in the face. Soon after they were in sight of the scene where the criminal they were going to fight, some sort of shadow thing, had already taken out some officers while others cowered behind their cars, not shooting at it for some reason. The officer in charge was annoyed at their appearance, mostly Tigers, but let him help anyway. Light followed soon after, her appearance bewitching some officers, but mostly spooking the others who had already been dealing with the shadow creature.

It soon became apparent why the officers weren't shooting, as when Tiger returned a few shots after the creature had attempted to stab him with its shadows, the shots went right through it with no visible damage being done. "Well, guess it can't hurt to at least try." Light said as she jumped to reach the flying creature on its left side, getting a clean punch into its center. She wasn't surprised to notice that her arm had gone clean through the thing, and not too shocked to lose said arm to the creatures retaliatory strike. Light fell back down onto the street below, landing on one of her feet, shaking her fist angerly at the creature, shouting. "Hey, I need that to punch you in the face!" while the stump of where her arm was splashed a bit of blood onto the cop cars behind her before it stopped bleeding, most of the cops who were watching unsure if they should wince or cheer.

Light wasn't as stupid as she was letting on though. It took a little bit, in which Light dodged progressively slower strikes from the creature, before the creature tossed her arm back at her, showing a bit of discomfort. "Well, its not from the void, thats for sure. I dunno how we are going to beat it though, short of outlasting it or me just playing catch with my own limbs." Light said, picking up her arm and reattaching it in a roll, dodging an overhead swing. "I dunno if its shadow, shadow like, or what. If its the former, couldn't you kill all the lights or flood it with a bunch of light to beat it?" She said at Tiger as the creature turned its attention to him.

[QT]

Tiger - Battle Scene - Light

As the Shadow thing turned towards Tiger, the cowboy's eyes widened. The Shadow flew straight at him quickly, finally moving from its initial position. "Sacrifice!!" it screeched as a giant shadow talon ejected from its torso and attempted to cut Tiger into pieces. Unfortunately this time, Tiger didn't move fast enough to fully evade the strike. One of the shadow claws from the talon cut Tiger's left arm, causing him to bleed rather quickly.

The cowboy turned to his wound and attempted to stop the bleeding, but as he looked down, the Shadow followed up with another strike. Tiger turned up to watch a dark-aura fist come for his jaw. "I reckon this is gonna hurt a little" he thought to himself as he was finally punched. His body flipped backwards and landed on the roof of a cop car, his arm still bleeding.

The Shadow continued to hunt him down though, giving him no time to do anything. "Sacrifice!!" it screeched again, echoing through the city. Yet another talon came from above and attempted to snatch the cowboy. Tiger was fortunately - this time - to dodge the strike as he rolled of the vehicle and crashed against the hard road. "City-Slicker's faster than a six-legged cattle" Tiger said to himself as he quickly stood and opened fire on the Shadow with no effect.

As he shot he listened to what Light had to say, about using light to kill it - which made perfect sense. "You ol' Galoot! Yur name is Light, can't ya summon any?!" he questioned the void creature as he continued to fire. It was awesome that he never ran out of bullets - as long as he had his glove on of course, but nobody knew that. The creature then struck again, missing the quick cowboy and his quick feet. "Annoyance!!" the creature called out as its talons left large scrapes on the ground.

"Fast is good, but accurate is better!" Tiger smirked under his bandanna as he shot the wire of a signal light, causing it to come swinging into the Shadow. But like before, it would seem that any solid object faded right through its body. "Dagnabbit if that ain't cool, wish I could do that!" the cowboy said aloud, not really meaning it, but believing he had to talk. Maybe the monster would die of annoyance, who knew?

[Pathfinder]

Breakdown- Dave's Apartment- Fairy

To say Dave was proud would be a understatement. Momo just went from a meek girl he met on the street to a , albeit adorable, badass. Sure her suit could use some work, so could her name, that issue would have to be dealt with later however. With a laugh, Dave said "That's the spirit!" As Dave said that, he couldn't help but notice his eyes doing the flashy thing. Sometimes his eyes would pick up an aura from people, Dave didn't know what it meant but it was cool to look at. With this new boost of confidence, Momo's looked like an unidentifiable shape, maybe wings? The edges were a light blue while the inside was a mish mash of different colors that seemed to fight for dominance, for some way it seemed to convey the message of potential. And in a flash it was gone, like it always did.

Giving a shake of the head, Dave gave a second to ponder what that meant. Stumped he decided to save that thought for a later time, maybe he could find the answer later. With Momo now apart of the due for now, Dave decided to bring up an urgent issue. Mentally preparing for any embarrassment that would inevitably fallow, Dave said "Now that we know your going, I need to know if you can grow those wings again. 'Cause if you can't then I am going to have to carry you... bridal style."

[Konica]

Momo - Dave's Family Apartment - Breakdown

Even though Momo was pumped up and ready for action, she had to wonder how they were gonna get there. Did Dave have a Breakdown-Mobile? Or maybe a motorcycle. Or better yet, a jet! On second thought there's no way he could hide a jet in this apartment. How did he get to the other scene? Did he just walk? Somehow that felt less epic than she imagined. Maybe he had a jet-pack hidden in his suit.

"Now that we know your going, I need to know if you can grow those wings again. 'Cause if you can't then I am going to have to carry you... bridal style."

"I-I'm not sure if I can grow wings again. I've only done it twice, and the first time was an accident. But even if I can, flying is out of the question. We have no choice, I guess you're gonna c-carry m-me" she blushed and briefly looked away as she said so. The idea was a little embarrassing, but she'll live. "O-Okay I'm ready" she said, hopping into his arms on his signal. On the bright side she was small and not very heavy.

[Archmage MC]

"Is this thing a projection or something? Well, I can hold it off, Tiger, not so much...." Light said thinking to herself as her light plan didn't work at all. Getting the creatures attention, Light yelled at tiger. "Hey, look around for something projecting this thing then or something. Could just be a person behind a curtain for all we know." as she dodged the creatures retaliatory strike, only getting a large gash on her dress bottom.

She backed the creature away from Tiger and the officers, throwing rocks at it to get its attention whenever it turned its gaze somewhere else, and occasionally getting hit by glancing blows, the creature keeping its distance from her and unable to land a clean hit, apparently remembering what had happened when Light had gotten her arm stuck in it for a moment.

And if her projection plan didn't work, Light would have to bite the bullet and probably just hope that she could knock it out with her atrophy ability, but that would take a lot of time.

[QT]

Tiger - Battle Scene - Light

It seemed like a probable hypothesis, but if it was merely an illusion, how was it hurting them? Tiger could finally breathe normally as Light took lead in the battle. She decided to distract the creature and give Tiger a second to figure out what was going on. Tiger turned right and left, looking at the buildings around them. The problem was that citizens watched through their building's windows as the battle continued. Tiger couldn't make out who was controlling the beast - if any.

Tiger looked at the Shadow, watching as every single strike nearly hit Light. Luckily, she evaded them with good posture and maneuvers. But she wouldn't be able to keep that up for too long, so Tiger had to act as quickly as he could. He continued to use his near eagle-eye vision to search the scene, trying to find something, something that could help them. And as he turned towards the bank, he noticed an irregularity. The Shadows own shadow was stretching from under it, then up the bank wall towards the roof.

"Going up, keep it busy!" the cowboy called out to Light as he started through the alley way to the back of the bank. He found the fire escape and started towards the roof as quickly as he could. His stomping feet would probably inform the criminal he was coming, but stealth wasn't an option right now - not as long as the creature continued to fight Light. Once up there, Tiger took a deep breath and pointed his weapon at a mysterious figure. "Partner, ima need you to put yur hands up and turn around" the hero commanded, but his words went to deaf ears.

The mysterious person used its hands like a puppeteer. It was obvious it was he/she who was controlling the dark figure below. "You asked for it partner" the cowboy said, shooting a round. The bullet flew towards the criminal at miraculous speeds, but right before it hit him, right before it made contact with its shoulder, he/she spoke. "Evanescunt" it whispered, completely being sucked into itself and disappearing. "What the-" the cowboy said to himself, running towards the front end of the roof. He looked down to Light to find that the dark creature had also vanished.

Because the dark creature disappeared, the cops became confused for a second, turning towards the detective for further instruction. The detective looked to his understudies and then back towards Light. "Fire upon the alien!" he called out, pointing his weapon and shooting. "Get out of there darlin'!!" Tiger yelled as he shot the detective's gun off his hand, but unable to prevent the other cops from shooting. Soon enough, he shot out the surrounding light, making it dark again and hard to see anyone or anything.

"Let's get out of here" he said, running back down the fire escape and pressing a button that called his bike to him. The motorcycle made its way through the cop cars and through the alley to find its master. "Hurry, hope on!" Tiger yelled to Light. Now they would escape and meet up with Virtuvian man, hoping the cops wouldn't follow. If they did, they would put him in danger as well, a bad first impression.

[Pathfinder]

Breakdown- Sky- Fairy

As Momo hopped into his arms, Dave noted how light she was. With a shrug Dave decided to not say anything else on the subject, seeing as Momo was about to burst into flames by the look at her cheeks. Giving Sarah a goodbye, Dave made his way to the roof as the jets on his back and feet began to whir to live. Feeling a little jokey, Dave said "Welcome to flight Dave, I will be your pilot for this flight. Please keep arms and legs on the ride at all times and all that jazz." With the jets reaching flight ability, Dave was about ready to head off. The weather was all right and the temperature was ok, but flying through the sky would change that to freezing.

"Ok, I would suggest pulling that hood up Momo. Its about to get a whole lot colder." Giving her a moment to pull up her hood, Dave said "Now whatever you do, don't panic. Just trust me and we will be just fine." Before she could respond Dave ran across the ramp on his roof and jumped off the roof. Within seconds the jets activated and propelled them high into the night sky. Activating the GPS, Dave found the location Vitruvian man told them to meet up. Changing course, Dave went slow for Momos sake. While he had a high tech containment suit, all she had was a hoodie. It couldn't be very comfortable. Pulsing his powers through the stabilizer in his chest would distributed the destructive power into a heat that spread itself across his armor. Its original function was to add an extra layer of protection by super heating his armor, but for now it would work well with just adding some warmth.

As the pair flew through the air, Dave looked down at the city that never slept and let out a happy sigh. He never got tired of seeing the city like this, "Quite the view eh?"

[Archmage MC]

Light was doing an ok job dodging the shadow creature, getting a few gashes here and there, but nothing she couldn't heal up in time. As it started to get more accustomed to her dodging style, and was about to get a good hit on her chest, it disappeared, tiger apparently finding the source of the shade. a few moments later, the head officer devided to order the other officers to shoot her, and got a clean shot in her stomach before Tiger shot the gun from his hand and shot out the nearby light, causing the other officers to shoot wildly into the darkness, tagging her occasionally but mostly missing.

She found Tiger on his motorcycle soon after, and hopped on as they escaped, pulling up her dress so it wouldn't get caught in the bike tires. "Well ,I guess thats that." Light said as she picked out the bullets she could, while the rest were stuck in regenerated wounds, those would come out later. "Sucks though that I got shot. Man do center of mass shots hurt." She said as she scratched where the detective's bullet had hit.

"Oh well, no permanent damage, what about you? And where the heck are we going anyway?" She said as she grabbed the last bullet she could.