Ersa93
Blazion
Fading Memory
Single Malt
Simple Unicycle
Mixtape Ghost N
nymian
Joel Beck
Location: The street, forming a band
Tags:Kitsune, Bouncer
The rabbit girl was the first one Joel spotted. She was surrounded by frozen police offers, aiming guns at her, and a dead ant…person…thing on the ground. He knew better than to ask questions.
"Come on, we need to get out of here." Joel took the rabbit girl by the arm and pulled her from the firing squad. He released her to scan their surroundings for the other animal themed heroine. "I can explain once we find the fox girl, but these people aren't going to stay frozen like this for long."
At the far side of the makeshift battlefield, across an intersection, bodies were starting to unfreeze. Mindraker's hold on them must be weakening. One particular flurry of motion stood out. The fox girl had made some friends from the looks of it.
"Don't bother with them," He said as he approached. The two she was confronting didn't look particularly vicious. "I can explain everything, but we have to get out of here. They let all these things out as a distraction, probably so they have time to pack up and haul ass."
Joel started off at a brisk pace down the sidewalk. Images began to flash across his mind, tugging feelings of dulled panic with them. A clinic? A pain management clinic on…South Wood Street. The vision of the building made his stomach churn, although he couldn't remember why. That was probably for the best.
Joel fought through the creeping anxiety and began to explain, or rather, babble way too fast.
"Okay, so, Grim and I found out who's behind all the kidnappings around the city. There's a group of mad scientists taking people to perform illegal experiments and shit. We found a ceramics factory where they cremate the bodies to hide the evidence. Also, that Mindraker guy from before was there and he pushed me in a furnace and I burned to dust. But it's okay because I healed and it kind of fixed my brain a little. Mostly. Also, I found out that I died three years ago, and one of the asshole doctors brought me back to life and fucked with my head. That's when Reaper gave me this suit and I agreed to do superhero stuff. Mostly because my dead wife was a superhero and I think it felt like the right thing to do at the time…" He was getting off track here.
"My point is, I have some repressed memories about the place they experimented on me, and we can use them to figure out where they're operating from. And also to save Grim, I kinda' owe him one. Mindraker unlocked those memories and said he'll hold that army off and, uh, it's probably not gonna' end well for him. But that gives us a chance to find this place and put an end to this.
We should probably…call the FBI or something too…but we don't really have time for them to screw around with getting warrants and investigate what we already know."
He stopped walking and turned to face the other two. "I'm Joel, by the way." He didn't even try with the Wraith identity. Maybe he was subconsciously trying to distance himself from that persona. "I'm guessing you probably don't go by "Rabbit Girl" and "Fox Girl". At least I hope not."
Then he turned to Bouncer. "How far can you go with that teleport thing? Can you take people with you?"
