[IC] Young Justice; The Heroes of Today! [IC and OOC]

[twave]

Back at Mount Justice the heart of the moment that Sarah was in was shattered. Happy Harbor was under attack and the alarms started going off. Despite her reluctance to interrupt her other persona GA took control again. Her wings coming to life she lifted off the ground. It was evident the one Charles was more familiar with had taken over "Come on Charles. We're needed." The tablet that he translated disappeared and the angel flew to the Mission Room. Bringing up several displays she could see everything going on. Today was not a good day to be in Happy Harbor. It appeared that several villains were attacking at once. There was a metallic armed man that Casen and Torch were currently dealing with, a saw flinging Russian that was in the same area, and robots flying around and causing havoc and destruction. It was almost hard to figure out where she was needed most. She noticed there was also an angry mob dangerously close to the fighting. As Charles caught up she turned to him. "It looks like our friends need immediate assistance. Leave the robots to Morningstar and I." Here was hoping Morningstar was available. Getting on the comm she made an announcement through the facility. "Morningstar, Happy Harbor is under attack. You will be with me." There wasn't time to wait for them to respond. Her teammate would have to track her down by her communicator. Making her way out of the mountain GA headed straight for the nearest drone attack, using magic to boost her speed.

[Mtntopview]

"Now I have you", if Casan had a mouth at the moment he'd be smirking. With a proper grasp on Hunter the now symbiote Casan began to crawl up his arms and would soon envelope him. "This crowd is going to be a problem", despite not having eyes Casan could sense the crowd closing in on him and Hunter. If he didn't get this man under control and out of the area soon he'd be in serious trouble. Suddenly an explosion had gone off shortly followed by a smaller one. "Another problem to worry about". The situation was out of control, he had to end this now. He climbed further and further until he met the shoulders of Hunter. The part of Casan that was mot attached to Hunter made contact with his legs and began the ascent upwards. With the limbs restrained Casan began to move Hunter away from the crowd in a way that resembled a man being carried away by a black pool of tar.

@TheDarkTemplar

Now Hunter was pissed. Some asshole thought he could control his actions. Like some kind of annoying puppet master. As the black sticky ... stuff, slowly enveloped him, he fought with all his might. That said, he was caught off guard by the initial assault, giving the impression he was easily contained. That was about when he began rallying. Using his strength, Hunter managed to slowly overcome the annoying sticky stuff. Although it took a considerable amount of his energy, and likely he would tire out eventually. Not to say that he didn't fight like an animal. Lots of kicking, punching, and jerking in various ways in an attempt to remove the annoyance from his skin. By the end of his counterattack, he was breathing heavily, and noticeably drained of energy.

[paigesweetheart]

Cassandra didn't know what the fuck was going on ...! Seriously there was just too much, the children crying.. some attacks happening here and there. Now there was some kind of robot attack..? Cassandra shook her head as she flew towards the robot and grabbed it by the neck, breaking the shit off. The amazonian was pretty pissed off right now. But who was the case of all of this..? This was just plain havoc..! Seriously when have there been so many problems at once?! But who was the main target for all fo this..? Wonder Girl just shook her head and flew around destroying robots.

[KriticalKrab]

Daniel was busy looking over a map of close by cities when a loud explosion boomed nearby. Scrambling to his nearby window he stared outwards, witnessing multiple explosions happening across the town he continued to search for Happy Harbor's heroes who used to be so active. A breaking news report pushed itself onto the airwaves. The reporter on scene was talking about multiple explosions from a gas station, and a group of robots bombarding a supermarket. Are the heroes of this Earth on vacation? How could they get so lazy? Daniel rushed to a hidden closet and pulled out his outfit, quickly putting it on he realized that the daylight wouldn't help hide him, but he couldn't stay within the shadows of this world forever. Eventually he had to come out, and that time was now. Opening his window he quickly dived out in order to reduce the chance of him being spotted. This wasn't his Earth, but he still had an identity to protect. Pulling out his grappling hook he began to swing and jump off rooftops until he reached the nearby supermarket. It didn't take long for him to figure out the cause, a terrorist attack by a group of robots. Perhaps when he finds the regular heroes he would be able to gather more information, but for now he had to fight. He aimed his grapple at one of the robots and pulled himself up to it, moving at rapid speeds he aimed himself into a kick, colliding with the robot he swiftly left an small object on the robots head. The object itself looked like an owls claw and beeped rapidly until it exploded. Daniel extended his cape to slow his decent.

[Garrison]

(Just so everyone's clear, the metal puck that I threw isn't exactly as bomb but more of an Arc Lightning generator. It would be emitting large and wide spread currents that look like this:

Pretty much this.

Bolt watched as heroes and villains started coming out of the woodwork. It was strangely magnificent to him. He wandered over to a nearby tree and leaned against it to get a good view of today's presentation. Civilians were running in a panic at this point, screaming for their lives. A small chuckle left Bolt's lips as a woman yelled, "They're gonna kill us all!" This just incited more panic and fear. "Hmpf, if we wanted you dead. You'd be dead." said Bolt in an annoyed tone. With all that was going on, he felt as if he would go unnoticed. This didn't bother him though, it was fun to watch. Off in the distance a bit, Bolt could make out a flying silhouette combating robots. He made his was closer and realized it was the brunette from earlier. "Let's see if my seed of mystery has grown or if it needs some motivation." he said, running towards her at a good sprint. As he drew closer to her and likely made his presence known to her, he turned left on a dime and extended his palm out towards a drone. His hand emitting a strong electrical current, contact with the drone caused it to shut down and fall over. He practically rode it to the ground as it fell. "Evening." he said simply as he stood up, hoping to gain her interest.

[The Patriarch]

Nikolai was pissed that someone had gotten in the way and upon looking he saw that it was a gorilla. He was surprised at first by it's sudden appearance and the fact that it could speak, but then he guessed that it had to be some type of shape-shifter and the bastard had the nerve to tell him to step back. "Don't talk to me you prepubescent sounding ape! Stay out of my way!" he shouted at the beast as it went on the attack, then more heroes began to join the fray. he then saw the crowd of angry bastards march towards and he didn't think twice and threw a explossive sawblade which detonated and created a powerful blast that killed at least seven people and maimed several more. Nikolai smiled at their screams, serves them right for messing with him. "Don't fuck with a Russian you American pigs!" he shouted at the screaming people who had fled. He then turned his attention back to the shape-shifter and the metal armed man. he then threw another sawblade that would explode once it hit something, Nikolai had it aimed at the ground right in between them intending to kill them. Unless they dodge then they would have to able to resist a powerful explosion. --- Charles nodded to Guardian angel and began to summon a group of zombies from the ground when Comrade Saw blew up a good portion of the area and killed several people. "Shit! Zombies attack!" he shouted as the undead fiends went straight for Hunter and Nikolai, snarling savagely.

[twave]

Cassie and... Bolt? They seemed to be taking care of the drones at hand. GA's priority was people's safety. No one appeared to be around the burning gas station, putting it out would only allow the fumes to spread and possibly ignite in a bigger explosion. Turning toward the collapsing supermarket she entered the building and began assisting people. A few had been injured which her healing took care of. No one was getting out though while those things were firing at stuff outside. Things under control inside the winged hero made her way back out and up toward the drones. Wary that they could shoot her out of the air she drew her arm back as if for a punch. She was nowhere near close enough to land it until she teleported right in front of one and let loose a boosted punch to its head.

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque whistled a jaunty tune as he bounded up the stairs of his flat. The building wasn't far from the park, in fact if he wanted to Jacque could simply step out onto his balcony and see what kind of mayhem he'd wrought by riling up the fine citizens of happy harbor. The criminal fumbled for his keys, then cursed as he dropped them. As he stooped to pick up the keys, Jacque heard a series of booming sounds in the distance. It was like thunder and yet decidedly different, especially considering the fact that the clouds above looked normal. His curiosity mounting, Jacque pulled his phone from his back pocket and prepared to check his weather app for signs of an impending storm, but instead ended up clicking his news app as it had a new notification. Jacque read quietly, his nose crinkling as he sneered with distaste, "Robots attacking the city? What is this, national mayhem day!?" he growled. With a sigh, Jacque unlocked the door and stepped inside, wondering as he walked towards the elevator whether or not the robots causing a ruckus actually served a purpose beyond just destroying things. "Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I feel as though crime as a whole is declining in quality. I hope whoever's behind this is at least taking the opportunity to rob someplace important or something." he said as he lifted the little brown box and shook it a bit. After arriving at the elevator, it was just a short trip to the 11th floor and down the hall to the left before Jacque made it to and entered his apartment. "Daddy's home Remi. Dinner time." Jacque all but sang as he strode over to the massive plant filled terrarium that doubled as a television stand. The occupant of this tank was unable to hear Jacque, however the sudden vibrations resulted in a large scaled head to emerge from under a leaf. Jacque grabbed his snake hook from atop the television and stooped down to unlock the cage, scooting a bit to the side in case Remi came out biting. Moving with the sort of speed and fluidity forged from years of practice, Jacque unlocked the cage, opened the rat's box, opened the cage, tossed the rodent in, and closed and relocked the cage just seconds before Remi lunged out in all of his glory. The rat never even got the chance to explore the cage as eight feet of false water cobra bit down on it's face and coiled around it, chewing in venom as it did so. Jacque stood up and dusted his hands off, ignoring the squeals of pain as he walked towards his kitchen. Watching the heroes flail about could wait, for now he wanted a bite to eat.

[Alternax]

The drones at the supermarket were occupied with shooting at the supermarket. The GA's tactic in helping people escape as well as Talon's attempt to draw their fire were working. The attack on the supermarket had stopped. The bomb Talon left shattered the drone's shell and damaged a few key components destroying the robot. As soon as GA joined by teleporting she launched a powerful superhuman punch, the drone's head shot right off but it continued to shoot. Apparently the head piece was not important. The drone's at the gas station however had encountered far more resistance, in the form of an amazon and an electrical being. The robot whose head was torn off by Cassie continued to shoot at her, it's allies also began to fire at her. However their combat effectiveness was reduced when Bolt arrived on the scene, his electric blast sent the one robot crashing into the ground. Steam and electrical sparks fired off from the robot as it violently shook on the ground. However this was only one of four at the gas station, the remaining robots continued to shoot at Cassie and Bolt.

[TheDarkTemplar]

Casan: Havoc In Happy Harbor "This is getting out of-", before Casan could finish that thought an explosion went off between him and Hunter. While it would free Hunter of Casan's grasp if he survived the explosion was unknown. Casan on the other hand would survive as his symbiote form was simply broken into pieces and scattered over the area. It did not cause pain but what came next would. The puck to his surprise released, what seemed to Casan to be, bolts of lightening that struck one of the fragments of him. Despite being separate from each other all the pieces felt the effects of the shock as the heat from it burned Casan. The pieces of his symbiote form which at first appeared smooth and liquid became rough and angular like it had become a solid within seconds. "The city is under attack and I'm stuck having to handle this madman. I need to end this", he brought himself together and once again as a large mass of black tar-like liquid rushed over to take down Hunter. This time he didn't just go for the arms and legs but his entire body hoping to keep him down to tire him out. ---- Josephine: Back to Work The party was still going strong until the sounds and vibrations of explosions nearby were sensed. The nightclub fell into pure silence as everyone tried to figure out what was happening. "The city is under attack!", yelled a man within the crowd, "I'm on my phone right now and it says robots are attacking!". Everyone crowded around him to see for themselves. Once their suspicion was confirmed there was a variety in reaction. Some ran out trying to get home as fast as possible, others stayed for fear of being killed on the way home, while others still partied either out of indifference to the situation or because they wanted one last dance before they died. Sera's hallucinogen had worn off now and she looked to Josephine in fear, "Shit, what do we do?" she asked as she sat further back in their booth. "It's not safe here. My guess these people will get violent soon and you can't be anywhere near when that happens", Josephine got out of the booth and looked for the exit. "Come on, we're going to your place", she called out to Sera who followed close behind. Once outside they realised the severity of the situation. Humanoid machines were raining down lazer fire on the city below as people ran is fear. The explosion left a pillar of smoke which could be seen from where the girls were. It was madness and she knee this couldn't have been caused by any normal individual. No it seemed her quarry had grown in number. While she suspected the "heroes" had nothing to do with this she was sure there was a metahuman behind the attacks. "Follow me, this way!", she yelled for Sera to follow and the two girls ran through the chaotic city streets dodging lasers and explosions caused by the sheer chaos going down. It took some time but eventually they arrived at Sera's apartment. Once inside Sera sat down on the couch and switched on the tv, "Havoc in Happy Harbor as the hero team "Young Justice" fights an army of robots who have attacked the city causing a gas station to explode. The heroes have been seen combating the machine but unfortunately have been made the center of the city's anger as mobs have been seen throughout the city. When asked by our on scene reporter, Vincent Clark, members of the mob stated they are fed up with the collateral damage caused by the heroes and are saying no more to it. We'll have more information as the situation develops". Sera was infuriated, "Great, just fucking great! Not only do we have to worry about a psychopath going around killing supers but the whole city hates them too!". "The supers are a danger to the city Sera, people have a right to be angry" "We're not all like that though!" "No but you can be" "You sayin' I'm like those assholes who robbed the bank earlier?!" "No I mean that even though you aren't a danger now, things could change. And I'm not saying you specifically", that last part was a lie. Josephine did believe Sera could turn out to evil. She thought that every super had the the capacity to do wrong and so when she found one that did she executed them without hesitation. It was only by doing this that she could prevent them from continuing down their path of destruction. "Listen I need to get to my apartment, you stay inside and I'll see you soon", Josephine didn't wait for Sera's response. She dashed out the door and back into the battlefield that was Happy Harbor. Her house was still standing thankfully and she quickly got inside. "Those drones need to be taken out before I go after the ones responsible", she got into her costume and put on her mask. Once the mask was on Josephine was gone, The Pariah had taken her place. Grabbing the SWC-Volt Rifle from the closet she left her apartment and began her counterattack against the drones. "Stun setting won't be enough to bring down those drones, she thought before setting her rifle to kill. She aimed her rifle upwards towards the first drone she saw and fired away. The shot met its mark and the drone went haywire for a moment before plummeting down towards the her. She quickly activated her hardlight shield and braced for impact. The drone hit hard but the shield was able to withstand most of the impact. However the force caused Pariah to stumble back a few feet. "The one time I'd actually ask for the heroes and they are nowhere to be found", however her frustration was put to an end as she looked up to see GA fending off the drones. "Good. Some air support"

[twave]

...As soon as GA joined by teleporting she launched a powerful superhuman punch, the drone's head shot right off but it continued to shoot. Apparently the head piece was not important.

@Alternax

Fantastic, she just wasted an attack. Being right in front of the robot was not an ideal place to be while it was still firing either. Dropping down she circled around to the two other drones to draw their attention. She looked for the last one but it wasn't in the sky anymore. She saw it on the ground near some woman with a shield. GA would thank her but there were more pressing matters. Having drawn the things fire she flew at level or slightly above their altitude to prevent their lasers from hitting anyone on the ground. A couple of the blasts did hit her wings. It hurt like hell but she had to finish the job. Breaking she formed small barriers in front of the robots palms. Hoping they could hold up perhaps she could disarm the drones.

[KriticalKrab]

As another superhuman arrived on scene Daniel began to wonder if he had jumped in to quickly. Perhaps they were just busy. Observing the drone he had just taken down with an explosive, he noticed that it stayed down. The robot who had it's head taken down however was still moving, the obvious idea hit him at light speed. "Who ever you are, take out the body! The head doesn't matter, obviously the important parts are all inside the torso!" Daniel shouted to GA through his mask, he noticed that she was blocking their hands so they couldn't attack. But he couldn't be sure that would hold them. He took the time to examine the other meta human, who was currently holding a shield and rifle. She isn't a hero is she?

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque sat out on his balcony with a turkey sandwich in hand as he watched the havoc being wrought on the city below. The criminal might not have been willing to admit it, but while he wasn't usually a fan of mindless chaos, it did make for a good show when one could sit on the sidelines and spectate without risk to themselves. The sounds of gunfire could be heard in the distance, likely from people either fighting off the drones or capitalizing on the disorder and mayhem. The gas station down the street seemed to be particularly lively, as evidenced by the smoke clouds that billowed up from that direction. After finishing his sandwich, Jacque stood up and brushed some crumbs from his clothing. "I wonder if someone's got a live stream of what's happening up on the internet. I gotta check it out." Jacque said to himself as he stepped inside, only to freeze and spit out a particularly colorful stream of profanity as the mentioning of the internet reminded him of his destroyed laptop. Jacque scratched the back of his head and sighed, "Guess i'll go out and steal a new one while this crap is going down. Damn I don't wanna deal with this garbage. Ah well, at least I won't have to spend money.". Jacque went into his room and grabbed his bag, mask, a collapsible baton, and his handgun along with two magazines, then exited his flat once more, sparing a passing glance at Remi's cage just as the serpent finished swallowing it's meal. As he rode the elevator down, Jacque slipped his weapons into his coat and put on his mask, donning once more his Orb weaver persona. Once the elevator hit the bottom floor and opened, Orb weaver smirked beneath his mask, "Here's hoping those heroes are too busy to deal with lil' old me.".

[The Patriarch]

Nikolai became furious that he hadn't taken down the liquid freak and used his superhuman speed to throw another sawblade at Casan. this blade was an electrocution sawblade and was glowing and crackling with intense electricity. He then saw the Zombies coming at him and Hunter and tossed a super sharp sawblade at the undead fiends. the blade curved and sliced off the heads of three of the zombies causing them to deteriorate. --- Charles was now mad and created several ghouls and skeletons and made them run towards Nikolai and Hunter intending to take them down. The Ghouls would attempt to surround and tear at Hunter and the skeletons would try and slash at Nikolai.

[Alternax]

Theo watched his puppets work as he relaxed in an cafe calmly drinking his coffee. The news reporters were quickly on the scene of course and dutifully reported on the events. The news anchors switched between three screens, one of Cassie and Bolt fighting; another of Talon, GA, and Pariah, and a final one from a helicopter which was currently following the third un-attacked group. If they don't start shooting at something important I'll just blow them up. Watching the various broadcasts he noticed how quickly his robots fell to electrical attacks. I'm going to fix my suit to keep that from happening, this test was a good idea. -Supermarket Fight- With two drones down thanks to Talon and Pariah. The remaining two began to switch their fire to Pariah since she had recently claimed their own, but GA had quickly restricted their hands preventing their shots from leaving. Realizing their ranged weapons were down they flew closer to GA and attempted to beat her down with their covered fists.

[TheDarkTemplar]

Casan: Taking Flight The Skinwalker finally had Hunter subdued when another sawblade impacted him. This time instead of exploding it released an electric current through the symbiote Casan causing him to writhe in pain. Since he was wrapped around Hunter the current passed to him and due to his metallic nature absorbed the current and sent it into the ground((talking out of my ass here, this is what I get for not paying attention in physics)). The shock proved to be quite effective as Casan lost his grip on Hunter and the symbiote oozed off like mucus on a wall. Casan saw Charles' summoned undead and was grateful for the assistance. He shifted back to his normal self. To his surprise after the symbiote change his wound had been healed as a result of the formless symbiote. Despite the multiple brutal hits he took it seemed to only have injured him when he was a symbiote, "Thank the gods for symbiote durability. Looks like I'm back to full functionality", he thought before changing into a Eurasian Black Vulture. The sheer size of the creature should be enough to brind down a few drones. With a single powerful flap of his wings Casan took off and towards the attacking drones. He flew up as high as he could before nosediving towards one of the drones. About 3 meters away he put forwards his talons and prepared to claw at the drone. He made contact but it wasn't enough to bring automaton down. He clawed at the joints repeatedly until he realized it was not making a difference. "Perhaps..", instead of changing into another animal he simply increased this shape's size. By the time he was done his size was comparable to a pterodactyl. "Alright let's try this again!", he said to himself right before biting off the head of the drone with his massive beak. The drone, to his surprise, did not go down and was still trying to shoot Casan down. Unfortunately for the drone Casan did not halt his assault either. Clawing at the torso of the drone Casan finally managed to bring the machine down. As he watched it plummet into the raging city streets below his only words were, "May the gods help us all.." and with that he flew off to provide backup for his teammates. The Pariah: Unlikely Allies Pariah was making progress, one by one she shot down the drones and the ones she missed the heroes took care of. However she noticed a couple were trying to beat down GA and she quickly took aim and fired two shots at the drones. While the chances of GA getting hit with a fatal electric round was likely Pariah figured it would be to her benefit if either her or the drones got hit. Next was the gas station, Pariah ran as fast as she could(which was somewhere between 25-30mph)through town while taking down as many drones as she could. Upon arriving at the gas station she saw a huge pillar of black smoke rising towards the sky. "I'm not going to feel bad about killing the bastard who started this", she said before taking aim at the remaining four drones at the gas station. There she saw Wonder Girl and some electric humanoid fighting off the drones. "Looks like the whole gang is out tonight", she thought before blasting a drone out the sky near Wonder Girl hoping to get her attention. She waved and signaled for her to come down, Pariah had a plan.

[twave]

Unlike the drones GA's wings gave her quite a bit more agility. Managing to stay out of their reach she swooped down and grabbed one of the drones legs and was about to fling it toward the ground when the electric rounds hit their mark. The drones took the brunt of the shock but there was still enough traveling down to lock up her limbs. Tensing up she dropped with the bots and didn't break away until the shocking ended. Even so GA didn't have the motor control she needed to fly and plummeted out of the sky. Not having many options she created a barrier around herself to absorb some of the impact.

[Tidus]

Blue Arrow would have been all but astounded at the horrible burst of events that began to erupt throughout the city. His communicator was buzzing, his TACPAD was lit up like a Christmas display. And everyone burst into action almost immediately. He did the one thing he could in this situation. Everyone was in full panic, and he threw down his hover board and began zipping around, saving anyone who could be in harms way. He escorted them well behind the crowd that was now berating and calling them off. He sighed to himself. "When will these people ever learn!" He began making it more obvious that he was helping, until he realized that the crowd was pushing in on the action and trying to do... Something? Arrow couldn't help but get angry. He was a well known hero and was tired of being pushed around by the public. He preferred working in shadows than like this. Quickly thinking, as he had already pulled out his bow to deal with the drones, Arrow fired off a couple shots aimed at placing cables between the people and the action, effectively creating a taped off wall. He then fired a few flares into the air for attention, as well as a few more explosive arrows at the drones, straight into their bodies and destroying them a second later in a controlled blast that would destroy their insides. "People of Happy Harbor! We are attempting to contain the outbreak of attacks now! I have moved all occupants of the area away from he fighting to prevent further injuries. Please, I have to ask you all to calm down and move away from the park!" His voice projected from a loudspeaker as he strafed in the air in front of the people. "Yes this situation has gotten out of hand, but my new team and I are trying to contain it. We need your help as well! I don't have any super powers. That doesn't mean I'm not a hero. Everyone has to do their part to make it work, and I can't protect you if you continue to throw yourselves towards the danger at hand. Please, heed my words and stand back!" With the finality of his words, Arrow immediately began to circle the park. "Team!" He would shout into his communicator, "I need everyone to report NOW! I'm ready to create a plan of action, but I need you all to listen up and follow suit! Do you read?" He hoped the situation was still coherent enough to devise a strategy. "Anyone with a full view of the city, I need a report! What's happening and where!"

[TheDarkTemplar]

Casan was just finishing off a drone when his communicator went off. "Arrow this is Skinwalker, I have am aerial view of the city and from my observations there are three main groups of drones: some have gathered at the supermarket, another at the gas station, and a last group seems to be constantly on the move!", Casan would continue with his report when another voice chimed in on their channel. "From what I've gathered the drones have been programmed to fire at key points throughout the city but not to fire on civilians unless directly threatened. That means we just need to evacuate the civilians from those areas and we will be able too combat them without civilian casualties", The Pariah had managed to patch herself into their comm channel and was now in their circle. Whether or not they'd listen was up to them howeverz she'd get the job done anyway.

[Tidus]

Blue Arrow wasn't surprised that Casan reported first. He was a bit thrown off by the other voice, but knew that anyone who had info to butt in was useful. "Skinwalker, are you able to continue? Your safety is my top priority. If you're too injured to hold form, stand back and tend to the wounds. I can assist you, I have medical equipment ready and will set myself aside to attend. As for whomever you are, thank you. If you do wish to further assist us, I would be very grateful. Anything to draw them away or evacuate." Arrow awaited what he hoped would be more swift responses.