Post by Ninmast on Apr 17, 2007 19:59:44 GMT -5
The setting is a crowded mall. From the normal, name brand shops that ran through the sparkling white halls, its easy to see how the culture of earth seeped into the tiny population of Atamos. It was difficult to tell the entire city from somewhere like Sanfransico. In less than a year the buildings were refurbished and the lands were purified, turning the whole little area into a economic gaint of a port city, a cross roads for any other traveller coming from another part of the world to Atamos. There was only small strands of lands purified of nuclear waste, and this city acted as a gateway. Anyway, not to ramble, but, The happy chatter of the mall was broken as a group of 5 men stormed into the entrance on the third story and charge through the crowd, one of them carrying a massive brief case, all of them armed to the teeth with modern technology, an anachronism in the city, but still effective at ending lives and causing fear. The whole group was being chased down by the police, and after their car's tire was shot out, they made a break for the crowded mall, hoping the mass of bodies could bring them saftey.
Loki is minding his own buisness, in the food court, loading up a tray with massive amounts of orange chicken and noodles at the food court... companys like Panda Express and McDonalds didnt take long to expand out to the new Nations. He hasn't seen the group of intruders yet, but they'll be coming by soon. He sits down at a table and begins stuffing his face.
A poorly disguised alien was walking backwards through the mall when the five men powered by, nearly knocking the off-balance girl over. After they'd passed, True spun around once, taking off after them. It was reasonable to assume, after all, that people running with briefcases were obviously... well... doing something more interesting than she was.
Mark Auvern had been walking through the mall for some time. He had been looking for some time on a missing person, some kid, who had run away to see the "New World" Without their parents consent. He had a picture of the person, came in handly to. Some say they saw this person here, hopefully they were right. Strange things was... they didnt want him brought back... just found... and watched.
Viviette Bellerose was shopping through some of the brand name stores, not with much luck and by the look on her face quite bored, but still looking anyway...Nothing around here seemed to be her style, but then again, she was rather picky when it came to...well...a great many things in life. There was only a small range of colors she shopped for, and then within those colors an even smaller style range...Oh well. She'd find something if she kept looking, right?
As the men rush past true, one knocks into her rudely, but pays no attention. They seem to duck behind large groups of people rather than through them, trying to screen themselves from the entrance. Moments later a group of police officers storm into the mall, all with guns raised , shouting, charging past true once again, one knocking into her as they chase after the crowd of people. People in the crowds begin to scream and take cover in the shops as expected, including one Vivi's in True continued her persuit of the 'cops and robbers', treating the chase as a game of tag in her mind, though she'd think twice before actually 'tagging' armed criminals.
Vivi blinks when people start to take cover in the shop, a little startled...She moves through them to the front, immediately interested, craning her head to see what was causing the panic; at the sight of the police officers she raises an eyebrow, pushing past more people to get into the hall...What was this?
Mark heard the commotion, seeing law enforcers move onto the scene immediately gained his attention. He began to tail from the behind, staying. conveniently a good distance behind... careful not to get too close, not yet...
It wasnt long before most of the people in the mall had taken cover, as the robbers split into two groups, 2 of them heading along the path they had taken. One man ducks into the shop with Vivi, his gun raised high. He speaks loudly, and says " Out of my way!" as he charges through people, moving right past vivi, heading twards the back room. The police begin to open fire as civillians are out of the way, and the two remaining men, both grab onto the railing of the walk way and leap foreward, jumping across the area to the second story, with ease. One grabbing onto the other side's railing, the other throwing the breif case down, landing, grabbing it and continuing to run , about 5 shops from the food court. Loki is still eating, ignoring the commotion. He was hungry.
Mark continued to follow, keeping his distance... he was armed, a heavy and light pistol, but he would be a fool to even so much as pull them out here, best to continue to play it safe...
True determined her target to be the man with the briefcase, as that would most likely have the "prize" inside. Though she doubted she could catch him, she matched his stunts with relative ease, continuing her pursuit.
Vivi starts as one of the men ducks into the shop, and she stops her advance toward the hall; watching him run for the back room, she decides that the police must be after him...And, well, he was only one man. Nothing she couldn't handle, right? She turned around and started pushing past the civilians to follow him, increasing her pace to a run.
The Civilians duck to the sides, making a path, not wanting to cause a scene... all but the owner, a bronze skinned, slightlty fat european, weilding a broom, speaking loudly in unrecognizeable language as he tries to block the man’s path. The man frowns, and the whites of his eyes seem to flood brown as he lunges at the european man, his hand snapping the broom handle in half before wrapping around the mans neck, and breaking it with the ease of the broom. The two on the third floor duck around a corner, and the police continue chasing after them, while the ones turn to look to true, hearing the heavy thump of her landing. The one without the breifcase turns to the other and says, " What the fuck?"
True glanced down at her feet, recognizing the mess of cracked and broken tile she'd just created. The alien sprinted toward the men again, now really having something to run for, unless these people didn't notice the vandalism.
Vivi watches the man break the owner's neck and stops dead, eyes wide. That was most definitely not normal. She thinks for a long moment...What was the best way to take down someone like that? Seeing as he'd just murdered someone she couldn't very well let him go...But...Oh well. Taking risks was good for you, most of the time. Unless it was a really stupid risk. This was probably stupid. Loki had been rubbing off on her. The young woman sprinted forward after the man (assuming he'd gone on) and extended a hand towards him; the floor beneath him suddenly slicked with ice...
Mark continued to follow around, he was able to take a shortcut he had seen on the path the criminals were running, he'd be able to get out ahead, it would take a few minutes to get to, but he didnt waste any time, and went forward in full sprint
True is actually faster than the men shes in pursuit of, as they rush past the food court, she catchs up to them. When the cops move around the corner, they hang close to make as much time as possible... They vanish from marks veiw, but a moment later he sees one of the 6 officers in pursuit go flying through the air, crossing the gap and hitting the wall above a shop on the other side. When mark rounds the corner he sees another officer get thrown down to the bottom floor as he lands in the fountian. below, and a loud snap, presumably the mans spine, as well as more screams. A third officer is thrown twards the other 3, and they all duck out of the way. The suited men duck into a game store
The man Vivi is near stumbles slightly, but catchs his footing. He swivels around, pistol drawn, Looking for whoever could have done that. He spots a pair of cops that are making their way in, and blows one of their heads off in a heartbeat, as the other officer opens fire on him. He dosent seem to notice that Vivi created the ice.
Loki spots the men, but dosent quite notice what they're up to. He continues chewing on chicken and slurping up noodles
"Woah... one of them is strong." Mark muttered to himself, well knowing it was painfully obvious so, just to display his own wit to his favorite audience, himself. Mark checks to see he has his pistol loaded and ready to go, which it is. He proceeds cautiously, if he has to use his weapon, he cant use lethality, way too risky, especially in a foreign place such as this. There might be a secrte entrance into the store through another one of the nearby shops, one next to the one they are in. He proceeds into a Music store that is right next to the game shop, there might be a door connecting the two. He draws his USP expert, and places a silencer on the end, he could incapitate them if he needed to.
Vivi stifles a squeak as the man kills the police officer...Wonderful. She'd just gotten a cop killed...Not that anybody knew that. Made her feel terrible though, and angry at the guy who'd done it, feelings that caused her next action: She hid behind one of the clothing racks and lifted a hand, the slick ice beneath the man suddenly spiking upwards towards his gun hand.
As True caught up, she mentally flipped a coin. These men were obviously armed, it would be stupid to just dive in there and-- The short train of logic cut off as she summoned the Forgetful Fork to hand, pushing off the ground to add lift to her attempted crash-tackle.
The man's gun is knocked out of his hand. He ducks away from the ice, behind a wrack of clothing, spotting vivi now. He kicks a wrack of clothing to her with enough force to send it flying through the air.
True lands on the man without the breifcase.
Loki sees all this and seems a little freaked out... flying 11 year olds and resivoar dog wanna bes running through a shopping mall was enough to make him hold his plate to his face and shove as much food into his mouth as possible, swallowing it quickly before he begins to chug his massive coke, ready to hop into the fray if things got weirder, though not with neglecting his lunch.
Mark finds another entrance to the game store, but the door was locked and painted over. He would have to force it to get through
"Hmm hmmm hmmm" Mark hummed to himself as he brought his silenced pistol up to the locked door. But then he had a thought, there might be a key. he quickly went up to the front desk of the music store, and began opening drawers, looking for a key to the lock.
"Gah!" True got off the man, speaking quickly. "Hello! My name's Lulu. What're y'all doing?"
Vivi shrieks as the man kicks the wrack of clothing at her, and she dives out of the way, scrambling to find more cover as the ice from before vanishes and a wall of ice is raised behind her, trying to establish a barrier between the man and her. Panic didn't do well for her powers, panic didn't do well at all...Hopefully this wouldn't take too long...
Mark is unsucessful at finding a key, and he sees one of the cops go flying between floors again. He was wasting time. The man near Vivi, seeing the wall pop up, moves to retreive his gun, which he points near her, waiting for her to react. The man true jumps onto grabs her by the arm and attempts to throw her away, twards a bistro in the food court. Most civillians had pillied out of the doors by now, or taken cover behind upturned tables. Loki was observing, waiting to see what would happen
"Oh well..." Mark said as he walked up to the door again. Bringing the gun to bare against the lock, firing off a silenced round...
The lock splits open. One of the men in the room turns to face the door, but cant see it, as it's behind a rack of games.
Vivi stops running for a moment to look back, quickly, though she stops completely when she sees that the man hasn't broken through the ice, nor is he coming after her...She squints, seeing an outline of him through the ice but nothing else...What was he doing? Well, if he was going to give her time, she might as well set a trap...She began to concentrate, focused on the wall of ice as she started to elaborate on it...
Mark opens the door, noticing he's behind a game wrack, he sneaks in and shuts it again, he attempts to peak through the game wrack, to get a glimpse of the situation..
The man looks to True and points his gun at her. "What the fuck are you doing, kid? Get out of here or we'll have to kill you."
The man in the game store spots Mark and locks eyes with him. Raising his gun and winking at him before firing at Mark.
The Man in the clothing shop moves twards the back, heading into the back store room, not getting into any unessacary combat with Viviette.
Mark was able to sidestep the shot, the bullet ripping through the arm of the coat, cutting a good gash against his arm, but something he would survive, quickly he fired off a shot to the thugs leg, aiming to incapitate him, wary of any counter attack.
"Well so-o-or-ree!" True backed off, hands up in surrender.
The thug was already moving out of the way though , away from any angle mark would be able to retalliate from thanks to the narrow doorway. He ducks behind the counter, vanishing from Mark's vision.
Mark sees another two cops go flying, as the last one high tails away. Near True, the man that she jumped on continusing glaring at her, before his partner punchs his shoulder and they continue running away. Loki was getting to his feet now, moving closer so he can see them better
"Aw dont be like that... come out and play!" Mark said through grit teeth, the sting from the bullet still fresh, as he began to charge anti gravity into the bullet in the gun, he aimed at the desk, hopefully the force from the bullet would transfer along with the anti gravity into the desk, thus making it become a threatening projectile to the thug hiding behind it. His other hand prepared a flash bang grenade, as he moved his foot to the slightly ajar door, prepared to kick it open, in case the thug counter attacked....
Vivi had already finished the trap by the time she realized the thug wasn't there anymore...She looked around, not seeing him, and frowned...then got angry, yelling, "Hey! That's not fair! I set up a whole freaking trap for you! You can't just run! That's...that's...I dunno, it's rude!" The young woman sulked, then shook her head. Nobody made her waste her energy like that! She ran after him, into the back storage room...
The man was twards the back, throwing boxes off of a storage shelf, making his way twards a window up to, obviously planning on heading out of it. He dosent notice vivi, once again.
As mark is waiting for the thug behind the counter, the other that was dealing with the cops turns and charges into the music store, aiming a punch for Mark's jaw
True flipped another coin in her head, then resumed her chase, this time keeping a mild distance.
Mark was surprised at the desk not moving, he suddenly recalled that there were two crooks, quickly he turned, opening the door in front of him to protect his back, seeing the front one charge. He wouldnt be able to get a counter attack off fast enough, quickly he pointed the gun to his left, and fired off a round while lowering hs weight, causing him to suddenly fly at high speed away from the attacker, he crashed over a small rack, but it would have been better than taking a super punch to the jaw, quickly he recovered, his pistol in one hand, and a flash bang grenade in the other, assesing the situation.
Loki moves after the group, moving to catch up with true, trailing behind the men. " What the hell are you doing, kid?"
"Hi! I'm..." True looked ahead, pausing both to mark the criminals' progress and to make up a story. She didn't really know what she was doing. "I'm chasing them because they kidnapped my grandma."
Loki is minding his own buisness, in the food court, loading up a tray with massive amounts of orange chicken and noodles at the food court... companys like Panda Express and McDonalds didnt take long to expand out to the new Nations. He hasn't seen the group of intruders yet, but they'll be coming by soon. He sits down at a table and begins stuffing his face.
A poorly disguised alien was walking backwards through the mall when the five men powered by, nearly knocking the off-balance girl over. After they'd passed, True spun around once, taking off after them. It was reasonable to assume, after all, that people running with briefcases were obviously... well... doing something more interesting than she was.
Mark Auvern had been walking through the mall for some time. He had been looking for some time on a missing person, some kid, who had run away to see the "New World" Without their parents consent. He had a picture of the person, came in handly to. Some say they saw this person here, hopefully they were right. Strange things was... they didnt want him brought back... just found... and watched.
Viviette Bellerose was shopping through some of the brand name stores, not with much luck and by the look on her face quite bored, but still looking anyway...Nothing around here seemed to be her style, but then again, she was rather picky when it came to...well...a great many things in life. There was only a small range of colors she shopped for, and then within those colors an even smaller style range...Oh well. She'd find something if she kept looking, right?
As the men rush past true, one knocks into her rudely, but pays no attention. They seem to duck behind large groups of people rather than through them, trying to screen themselves from the entrance. Moments later a group of police officers storm into the mall, all with guns raised , shouting, charging past true once again, one knocking into her as they chase after the crowd of people. People in the crowds begin to scream and take cover in the shops as expected, including one Vivi's in True continued her persuit of the 'cops and robbers', treating the chase as a game of tag in her mind, though she'd think twice before actually 'tagging' armed criminals.
Vivi blinks when people start to take cover in the shop, a little startled...She moves through them to the front, immediately interested, craning her head to see what was causing the panic; at the sight of the police officers she raises an eyebrow, pushing past more people to get into the hall...What was this?
Mark heard the commotion, seeing law enforcers move onto the scene immediately gained his attention. He began to tail from the behind, staying. conveniently a good distance behind... careful not to get too close, not yet...
It wasnt long before most of the people in the mall had taken cover, as the robbers split into two groups, 2 of them heading along the path they had taken. One man ducks into the shop with Vivi, his gun raised high. He speaks loudly, and says " Out of my way!" as he charges through people, moving right past vivi, heading twards the back room. The police begin to open fire as civillians are out of the way, and the two remaining men, both grab onto the railing of the walk way and leap foreward, jumping across the area to the second story, with ease. One grabbing onto the other side's railing, the other throwing the breif case down, landing, grabbing it and continuing to run , about 5 shops from the food court. Loki is still eating, ignoring the commotion. He was hungry.
Mark continued to follow, keeping his distance... he was armed, a heavy and light pistol, but he would be a fool to even so much as pull them out here, best to continue to play it safe...
True determined her target to be the man with the briefcase, as that would most likely have the "prize" inside. Though she doubted she could catch him, she matched his stunts with relative ease, continuing her pursuit.
Vivi starts as one of the men ducks into the shop, and she stops her advance toward the hall; watching him run for the back room, she decides that the police must be after him...And, well, he was only one man. Nothing she couldn't handle, right? She turned around and started pushing past the civilians to follow him, increasing her pace to a run.
The Civilians duck to the sides, making a path, not wanting to cause a scene... all but the owner, a bronze skinned, slightlty fat european, weilding a broom, speaking loudly in unrecognizeable language as he tries to block the man’s path. The man frowns, and the whites of his eyes seem to flood brown as he lunges at the european man, his hand snapping the broom handle in half before wrapping around the mans neck, and breaking it with the ease of the broom. The two on the third floor duck around a corner, and the police continue chasing after them, while the ones turn to look to true, hearing the heavy thump of her landing. The one without the breifcase turns to the other and says, " What the fuck?"
True glanced down at her feet, recognizing the mess of cracked and broken tile she'd just created. The alien sprinted toward the men again, now really having something to run for, unless these people didn't notice the vandalism.
Vivi watches the man break the owner's neck and stops dead, eyes wide. That was most definitely not normal. She thinks for a long moment...What was the best way to take down someone like that? Seeing as he'd just murdered someone she couldn't very well let him go...But...Oh well. Taking risks was good for you, most of the time. Unless it was a really stupid risk. This was probably stupid. Loki had been rubbing off on her. The young woman sprinted forward after the man (assuming he'd gone on) and extended a hand towards him; the floor beneath him suddenly slicked with ice...
Mark continued to follow around, he was able to take a shortcut he had seen on the path the criminals were running, he'd be able to get out ahead, it would take a few minutes to get to, but he didnt waste any time, and went forward in full sprint
True is actually faster than the men shes in pursuit of, as they rush past the food court, she catchs up to them. When the cops move around the corner, they hang close to make as much time as possible... They vanish from marks veiw, but a moment later he sees one of the 6 officers in pursuit go flying through the air, crossing the gap and hitting the wall above a shop on the other side. When mark rounds the corner he sees another officer get thrown down to the bottom floor as he lands in the fountian. below, and a loud snap, presumably the mans spine, as well as more screams. A third officer is thrown twards the other 3, and they all duck out of the way. The suited men duck into a game store
The man Vivi is near stumbles slightly, but catchs his footing. He swivels around, pistol drawn, Looking for whoever could have done that. He spots a pair of cops that are making their way in, and blows one of their heads off in a heartbeat, as the other officer opens fire on him. He dosent seem to notice that Vivi created the ice.
Loki spots the men, but dosent quite notice what they're up to. He continues chewing on chicken and slurping up noodles
"Woah... one of them is strong." Mark muttered to himself, well knowing it was painfully obvious so, just to display his own wit to his favorite audience, himself. Mark checks to see he has his pistol loaded and ready to go, which it is. He proceeds cautiously, if he has to use his weapon, he cant use lethality, way too risky, especially in a foreign place such as this. There might be a secrte entrance into the store through another one of the nearby shops, one next to the one they are in. He proceeds into a Music store that is right next to the game shop, there might be a door connecting the two. He draws his USP expert, and places a silencer on the end, he could incapitate them if he needed to.
Vivi stifles a squeak as the man kills the police officer...Wonderful. She'd just gotten a cop killed...Not that anybody knew that. Made her feel terrible though, and angry at the guy who'd done it, feelings that caused her next action: She hid behind one of the clothing racks and lifted a hand, the slick ice beneath the man suddenly spiking upwards towards his gun hand.
As True caught up, she mentally flipped a coin. These men were obviously armed, it would be stupid to just dive in there and-- The short train of logic cut off as she summoned the Forgetful Fork to hand, pushing off the ground to add lift to her attempted crash-tackle.
The man's gun is knocked out of his hand. He ducks away from the ice, behind a wrack of clothing, spotting vivi now. He kicks a wrack of clothing to her with enough force to send it flying through the air.
True lands on the man without the breifcase.
Loki sees all this and seems a little freaked out... flying 11 year olds and resivoar dog wanna bes running through a shopping mall was enough to make him hold his plate to his face and shove as much food into his mouth as possible, swallowing it quickly before he begins to chug his massive coke, ready to hop into the fray if things got weirder, though not with neglecting his lunch.
Mark finds another entrance to the game store, but the door was locked and painted over. He would have to force it to get through
"Hmm hmmm hmmm" Mark hummed to himself as he brought his silenced pistol up to the locked door. But then he had a thought, there might be a key. he quickly went up to the front desk of the music store, and began opening drawers, looking for a key to the lock.
"Gah!" True got off the man, speaking quickly. "Hello! My name's Lulu. What're y'all doing?"
Vivi shrieks as the man kicks the wrack of clothing at her, and she dives out of the way, scrambling to find more cover as the ice from before vanishes and a wall of ice is raised behind her, trying to establish a barrier between the man and her. Panic didn't do well for her powers, panic didn't do well at all...Hopefully this wouldn't take too long...
Mark is unsucessful at finding a key, and he sees one of the cops go flying between floors again. He was wasting time. The man near Vivi, seeing the wall pop up, moves to retreive his gun, which he points near her, waiting for her to react. The man true jumps onto grabs her by the arm and attempts to throw her away, twards a bistro in the food court. Most civillians had pillied out of the doors by now, or taken cover behind upturned tables. Loki was observing, waiting to see what would happen
"Oh well..." Mark said as he walked up to the door again. Bringing the gun to bare against the lock, firing off a silenced round...
The lock splits open. One of the men in the room turns to face the door, but cant see it, as it's behind a rack of games.
Vivi stops running for a moment to look back, quickly, though she stops completely when she sees that the man hasn't broken through the ice, nor is he coming after her...She squints, seeing an outline of him through the ice but nothing else...What was he doing? Well, if he was going to give her time, she might as well set a trap...She began to concentrate, focused on the wall of ice as she started to elaborate on it...
Mark opens the door, noticing he's behind a game wrack, he sneaks in and shuts it again, he attempts to peak through the game wrack, to get a glimpse of the situation..
The man looks to True and points his gun at her. "What the fuck are you doing, kid? Get out of here or we'll have to kill you."
The man in the game store spots Mark and locks eyes with him. Raising his gun and winking at him before firing at Mark.
The Man in the clothing shop moves twards the back, heading into the back store room, not getting into any unessacary combat with Viviette.
Mark was able to sidestep the shot, the bullet ripping through the arm of the coat, cutting a good gash against his arm, but something he would survive, quickly he fired off a shot to the thugs leg, aiming to incapitate him, wary of any counter attack.
"Well so-o-or-ree!" True backed off, hands up in surrender.
The thug was already moving out of the way though , away from any angle mark would be able to retalliate from thanks to the narrow doorway. He ducks behind the counter, vanishing from Mark's vision.
Mark sees another two cops go flying, as the last one high tails away. Near True, the man that she jumped on continusing glaring at her, before his partner punchs his shoulder and they continue running away. Loki was getting to his feet now, moving closer so he can see them better
"Aw dont be like that... come out and play!" Mark said through grit teeth, the sting from the bullet still fresh, as he began to charge anti gravity into the bullet in the gun, he aimed at the desk, hopefully the force from the bullet would transfer along with the anti gravity into the desk, thus making it become a threatening projectile to the thug hiding behind it. His other hand prepared a flash bang grenade, as he moved his foot to the slightly ajar door, prepared to kick it open, in case the thug counter attacked....
Vivi had already finished the trap by the time she realized the thug wasn't there anymore...She looked around, not seeing him, and frowned...then got angry, yelling, "Hey! That's not fair! I set up a whole freaking trap for you! You can't just run! That's...that's...I dunno, it's rude!" The young woman sulked, then shook her head. Nobody made her waste her energy like that! She ran after him, into the back storage room...
The man was twards the back, throwing boxes off of a storage shelf, making his way twards a window up to, obviously planning on heading out of it. He dosent notice vivi, once again.
As mark is waiting for the thug behind the counter, the other that was dealing with the cops turns and charges into the music store, aiming a punch for Mark's jaw
True flipped another coin in her head, then resumed her chase, this time keeping a mild distance.
Mark was surprised at the desk not moving, he suddenly recalled that there were two crooks, quickly he turned, opening the door in front of him to protect his back, seeing the front one charge. He wouldnt be able to get a counter attack off fast enough, quickly he pointed the gun to his left, and fired off a round while lowering hs weight, causing him to suddenly fly at high speed away from the attacker, he crashed over a small rack, but it would have been better than taking a super punch to the jaw, quickly he recovered, his pistol in one hand, and a flash bang grenade in the other, assesing the situation.
Loki moves after the group, moving to catch up with true, trailing behind the men. " What the hell are you doing, kid?"
"Hi! I'm..." True looked ahead, pausing both to mark the criminals' progress and to make up a story. She didn't really know what she was doing. "I'm chasing them because they kidnapped my grandma."
