Katy looks at MM. "I dunno... nobody else seemed to like me until now."

Annie smiles. "You mean... I get to burn more stuff? Cool."

  "I'm all set to commit laser related and miscellaneous offenses to whatever you point oh Space Bunny."  This said as the small army of more modern looking robots gather into the room.

  "And you must have dealt with many stupid people before now Katy.  This unfortunately is not likely to change and I may be a related statistic there at times.  Fortunately, as Annie said yes, you will both be burning things.  Don't make it a competition unless the results of such are awesome... So yes, make it a competition."

  The frequently renamed Assault Bot raised a gun for a hand.  "Yes, you can compete too.  You're so going to lose in the strictly Fire burning things department though."
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Garner nods and leads the way to the eastern part of Mercy Island with all the sewage treatment.  There's a mad scientist there doling out chores for the newly super-powered villains to do for him.

"I heard you have no love for a certain group of gene-splicing scientists," Garner says, "Me and some allies of mine could settle that score for you, but you'll have to tell us where they're hiding."
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Angel grins at the scientist. The mad scientist looks from Garner to Angel and back. "You two! I'm almost frightened you would offer your assistance, but honored would be a better term. Heee... and vindicated. Everyone knows you two mean business. I'll GLADLY tell you!" with that, he reveals where the secret lab is. "Can you keep one of the higher-level ones alive for me please? I'm hoping to keep him as a lab rat. The man's name is Julious Gremmer."

Angel nods. "Sure thing. We can do that."

Annie and Katy remain quiet.

  Metal Makes a note to not stick to close to the intended hostage, as wide radius stealth had the unfortunate tendency of making certain morons stop in place at inopportune times.

  "Don't worry, if they have a name worth mentioning then they can survive a sizable amount of burning before we take them with us."

This has the makings for a one mission arc, but Garner and his player both know better than to jinx it by saying "Well THAT was easy!"  He leads the way to the labratory.


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Many mutated freaks roam this run-down place, but the deeper Angel and her crew go, the higher the tech and the more organized the place becomes.

Most of the mutated freaks don't put up much of a fight. Especially compared to the likes of Angel and those who are with her.

Katy is pretty hecktic and doesn't seem to care whether she burns them or claws them to death. She seems to do both just fine and tears through her enemies with much energy and a good helping of anger. Not angst. That's different. Angst hints at brooding as opposed to taking action.

Annie seems to be turning this into a competition as she keeps count of how many she downs compared to how many MM downs. She doesn't bother keeping count of how many Katy downs because she knows Katy would care so little on the matter it would defeat the purpose.

  A kill count comparison between Annie and Metal Mettle is a complicated thing.  On the one hand, you have enemies immobilized by fire becoming well ventilated shells of their former selves through liberal usage of LASERS.  On the other hand, you have people the frequently renamed Assault Bot initially set on fire, really really set on fire by Annie.

  As well as of course, that whole 'Robot army of the Laser all killing things' angle compared to 'oh wow that's a lot of area effect powers'.  The robotic horde was technically just MM's nanocolony structure taking creative shape (like that shadowy haze granting stealth for the party within a radius, that was MM all over them... Don't think about it too hard).  However if you wanted to get nitpicky, Annie was outdoing MM's 'Main' body in carnage.  Even a Mastermind who has learned all of their attack powers is still a Mastermind.

  "Run, it makes the burning worse.  Theoretically.  I've never actually seen movement alter the effect of fire, or water put out flames for that matter."

Running for the enemy is slow and aimless due to the effects of caltrops.  Sadly, this incarnation of Garner isn't the one with the handy speed boost powers, but devices lend themselves more to being in character for a child sized alien wolfman with a machine gun.  Maybe.  Amid the chaos and lasery-burny-slashy-shooty-punchy carnage, Garner is tracking something more important to him than kill count: supergroup prestige.

"Anyone who isn't already in supergroup mode, please correct this before the next battle," he requests, "This will earn our group more prestige.  If you don't know how to enter supergroup mode, I can show you how it's done."

Katy and Annie comply, though Katy needs some help doing so. Angel looks over her shoulder at Garner and smiles at him. "Oh thanks, Garner... totally slipped my mind earlier..."

She pummels an enemy with her dark punching and then takes note of a door. Once opened, she spots the NPC they're supposed to kidnap. "Oh look who it is..."

The NPC says, "Metal Mettle?! I had no idea my old partner had such high-up connections! No matter! These others shall dispense of you quick enough."

The people surrounding said NPC go forth to attack Angel. She is holding her own, of course, but now all the leuts and bosses are out and it's all she can do to simply keep her HP from dropping more than a third...

  Metal Mettle along with the Butler so good at hiding they could hide off panel indefinitely had paid for most of the base.  And Oh sure, comment on one party member yet attempt to completely brutalize another...  Works for the Robot.  "Well, you know.  Helping people beat up capeless Heroes to steal the cape they did not have is something I've done for many people I don't remember the names of.  And people I remember the names of."  This guy was of the first sort until they viewed the name floating over their head.  They also now had an area debuff radiating from them, good times for all.  Well, all that worked for the Space Bunny.

  The killbot trio showed their glass cannon stuff as they Lasered one of the bosses hassling said bunny do death in all of one second (even accounting for MM's habit of making themselves equal to Angel when working with them) before Killbot Crush and Killbot Hugs were sploded across the scenery by a second Melee oriented boss assaulting Angel they drew aggro from.  "Melee enemies, I love it when they are far away getting shot but hate it when they actually do anything."  MM muttered as the Laser Pulsed it onto it's backside as one of the Protect Bot's repaired Killbot Kill.

  Crushington (The Assault Bot), just went on an area attack rampage across anything that had the poor fortune to be a Minion that wasn't dead yet, and Metal Mettle finally managed to pull off Heal Allying Angel Bard without the process getting interrupted.  They tossed a pile of themselves Tar Pit over to Angel's Area out of spite and/or teamwork.

  Elsewhere, the lair's Butler paid the rent and found that he was currently listed as 'Empress'.
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Garner adds to the boss frustrating chaos by throwing down caltrops on the tar pit surrounding Angel and lighting it on fire with his flame thrower.  Convenient that none of that harms her at all.  And how even bosses tend to go berserk when their feet are sticking to stabby burny viscous doom.  How DOES Metal turn himself into tar?  Perhaps that's a puddle of his waste product.  Best not to think about it too hard.

"Focus your most damaging attacks on the enemy Angel attacks," he tactics to the others, following his own advice, "The rest, distract."

He fires a poison mortar at the foes, causing them to vomit.  Once again, handy how it doesn't harm allies.  Once again, best not to think too hard on the resulting puddle.

Angel agrees with Mettle's assessment. "Well, Mettle, that's what you have me for now, isn't it?" she grins, panching one of the melee guys that was JUST about to go for MM. "Thanks for the focus fire! Hey professor! You'll wanna hit the floor!" When she gets healed and then sees the tar pit, Angel smiles. "Thanks, Mettle! That feels great!" spite or not, she approves.

No worries for BB, as he and Angel will sort that out later on. The paperwork monsters apparently give leadership status on their paperwork to anyone who's been minding the SG base the most. Angel considers changing the title from Empress to Supreme Ruler or something so it's less embarrassing for BB when it happens, but then all her male members would aspire to take the title. So she keeps it as is.

Katy throws FIRE at people. It hurts them. Oh, and Annie throws FIRE at people too. That fire? It hurts too.
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  Metal Mettle Raul Julia's  "Of course." in response to Angel's commentary of her use.  "Even our Butler can not beat you in a straight fight."  The faceless machine's 'bodyguards' tromp over to the fiery newbies and give them nice shiny bubbles before heading back to their usual distance.

  Metal observes the carnage caused by Katy and Annie, as KillATon and Killbot Kill join them with flamethrower and pulse laser "So, is this that pride feeling people keep mentioning, or do I just enjoy seeing my enemies burn regardless?"

Garner shoots at people.  It hurts them.

"I wouldn't know, Mettle," he replies.

He moves to stand next to the hostage so that when the last enemy drops, the NPC will latch onto him rather than inconvenience any of the others with the baby-sit hand-holding to lead the guy out chore.

"You'll be following me," he explains, "I won't kill you.  But if you don't keep up, you'll wish I had."

Angel loves Garner. He baby-sits hostages for her! She gives him an honestly endearing smile. "Thanks for taking care of that, Garner." she offers before looking to the others. "Time to get outta here." she says as the last enemy falls.

The professor is, of course, scared of Garner, but feels he has no choice but to follow. "What the heck ARE you?!" he asks, looking at the wolf.

Angel answers for Garner. "His name is Garner. And you will address him as sir, or I will burn science books in front of you."

The professor is even more horrified. "M-monsterrrr I mean, y-yes sir!"

Katy narrows her eyes at the professor, but says nothing. She heads over to Metal Mettle, fur standing on end.

Annie says, "All in a day's work? Seems too easy..."

Just then, an ambush starts showing up. "Get Garner!"

Angel huhs. "How about you get my fists instead?" she asks in a nonchalant manner before charging at the enemy.

  So, when you swarm someone with a layer of your nanite selt so light it is beyond physical perception, does it count as giving your teamates a hug?  It definitely counts as giving them several significant resistances and sad tiny defense increase though, even if the 'stealth' aspect is only good for making the Hostage not able to see you while ambushes deal with you just fine.

  "All work days are easy until the moment you get brutalized out of nowhere.  A fact of existence we share in the result, if not the frequency of those we inflict it on.  Scream in agony if you need immediate healing, slump into a pile if you need resuscitation."

  Every single robot including Metal Mettle... Well technically the are all him but you get the idea, shoot at the same minion at the same time.  It could be considered overkill, but when you consider the fact it kills a Minion in one go while attempting to do the same to a Lieutenant would take *gasp* more than one volley of laser fire, the options are 'overkill' and 'not enough kill'.

Even no-nonsense Garner can't help but chuckle at Angel's threat to the professor.  Fires a grenade into the mass of enemies followed by a handful of caltrops, not so concerned whether he takes any out in a single volley.

"I'm afraid most present are too proud to scream for help," Garner says.

"Oh god my foot!" an enemy screams!

"...I was talking about our allies of course.  Conveniently, your heads-up display will display most conditions of your allies.  In fact, it should display for you which enemy I'm targeting.  Stand close to my target for healing from my kinetic gadgets."

This said more for the benefit of the newbies since he expects Mettle to be used to the team list window and targeting off allies and such.

The ambush is dealt with readily enough. And the newbies listen to Garner's instructions as they follow him like ducklings. Granted, Annie keeps wanting to stay away from the fray, but Katy is just fine in the thick of things with Angel.

Angel gets in an elevator with the group and all the sudden the chaos is quieted to mere elevator music. Angel relaxes against the side of the elevator. "Good job, everyone. We should get about 1 or 2 more ambushes before we reach the exit."

She starts examining Katy and Annie to see if they are doing alright. Then nods with an impressed frown. She looks at Garner. "Do I know how to pick 'em, or what?"

The elevator opens. No ambush waiting... yet.

  "Terribly sorry if my health aids are somewhat indiscriminate to what team members are taken care of." Area Heals, good times.  More impressive is how the entire team + robot army is able to fit into an elevator without a horrible accident.  But, sometimes it's best not to think about those things.

  "I'd suggest the possibility of simply evading them to save time.  But that never works with ambushes, and I don't think most of us would care to save them the injury."

When traveling through trains and elevators, giant robot army probably goes the same place that Optimus' trailer goes.  Or where the gun type heroes keep all that ammo.

"Thanks, Angel," Garner answers, "You sure do.  And your health aids beat the heck out of no aids at all, Mettle."

He keeps an eye out for good places to force the ambushes through small openings such as doors, and points them out.  Should he see enemies approach, he scatters caltrops in front of said opening.

Angel heads down the elevator with her allies and comes out on the lower floor. Someone in the distance can be heard, "Get Garner!"

Angel chuckles. "They're like broken records, I swear..." before getting back into the fray and beating up some more enemies. "Don't worry, Mettle! We have plenty of time for these people! But if I find a way to save time, I'll be sure to let you know!"

  Gun type Heroes, Villains, (Misc. in between), and Summons don't even recycle.  Have you seen the mess Dual Pistols users or Mercenaries Summons leave? It's a disgrace.  Now Lasers? Toootaly better for the environment.

  Alas, the pesky annoyances of escort duty mean no group stealth with side benefits.  And his battle drones are being idiots and running up to punch people instead of using their LASERS.  Metal's gotten mildly less annoyed at this when he realized said punches hurt more than their lasers...  Not that he will ever admit this shameful fact.

  "The most swift course of action would be Garner temporarily self terminating as he is the focus of these ambushes, then I retrieve his body and revive it once we reach the exit.  Though I suppose the fact we do not employ such methods of logic abuse is why loyalty remains higher than average examples."

  OOC Style: Seriously, smashing being up there with Lethal on commonly resisted damages aside, looking at my Battle Drones I noticed their 'smash' melee does more damage than their pulse and heavy lasers -.o ... And also takes 16 seconds to recharge.  For the best, otherwise they would always be trying to punch things.

Garner makes with the shooting of enemies without comment.  The player considers it might be a good idea to think up a more talkative villain.