As the thugs are gathering the loot into large bags the electronic eye on one of the cyborgs blinks. He looks down and reaches into his pocket and pulls out the tracer. He looks at it a minute then crushes it in his metal hand. "Boss, check your pockets, everyone should check their pockets."

The boss looks at his subordinate then reaches into his pocket and pulls out the tracer, the rest of the thugs follow suit all pulling out their tracers and smashing them.

The boss turns onto the guests, his veneer of calm replaced by rage. "Who did this!? Which one of you didn't take my advice?!" He pointed his gun at the crowd. "Fess up and you'll be the only one getting wasted!"

A nervous woman's voice can be heard coming from the ceiling saying, "Th-thanks.  S-sorry 'bout the um... stuff." 

A quick eye would catch the ugly mug of Ray-John in the distance through the ceiling portal for a split second before it closes.  A moment later, the mostly dead guy with the caved in chest is replaced by Miss Adventure, the now world famous silly catgirl who was among the heroes who defended Weston from an alien invasion just the other day!    (Unless of course all the live news feeds were blocked or the world was flashy-thingy'd)  She's dressed in a very fancy black dress and is wearing an expensive looking diamond necklace.

"P-please don't shoot!  I'm on y-your side!"

Mits holds up her hands in a defensive posture.

"Hey John?  These two helped stop the alien invasion the other day.  I've gotta... go do something.  But they're way better at fixing things than me anyway.  Just give 'em a chance."

Wraith was just about to reveal himself when Mittens did so and painted a huge target on herself. He pulls out a propofol-tipped dart and loads it into a dart gun, looks for a minion that might be missed the least (or better still, won't be noticed sleeping on the job right this moment), but holds his fire, waiting to see if Mittens can successfully lead the guys away from the hostages.

These guys are paras, so there might be a chance the target happens to have impenetrable skin, but Wraith is hoping his luck isn't that bad today. After all, they probably feel they are impenetrable due to being cyborgs. He hopes.

Daniel was sitting inside of his room in the hotel hoping he could have a normal and relaxing vacation. He sat down on the hotel rooms chair and started reading a book about Japanese mythology, before he could finish the book he was interrupted by a loud gunshot coming from the party some rich and powerful folks were having.

"Damn it, I can't have a single day were I can read in peace... *sigh. I suppose it's just some crazy group that wants to make a big deal about this and besides I don't want to risk the lives of the hostages, I'd get fired from my job if an imporatant client died because of me."

He paused for a second. "Well, as long as they don't enter my room I should be fine and just to be sure." He put down his book in japanese mythology and seemed to do a small prayer.

A portal apeared infront of him and he pulled out a golden pistol with a cross embodied to the side and a text written on it's barrel.

"This should be good enough to hold off anyone coming into my room." He then picked up the book he was reading with one hand and sat back down to resume his reading while still holding on to the pistol and keeping an eye onto the door.

The members of the Lavish stared suspiciously at Mittens as she appeared. One of the men, who was unarmed but looked otherwise normal. "Did we have a teleporting catgirl?"

"Not that I know of" Replied the boss.

"Wait, I know her, she was on the t.v. fighting those aliens."

The men all raise their guns simultaneously aiming them at Mittens and pull their triggers.

CLICK

And stare dumbfounded as their weapons fail to fire.

Wow these guys are short-bus! Mits is thinking, But then, can't really say that I'm the most trustworthy looking superhero to a villain.

"See?  I would make for a powerful ally.  And as you mentioned, I kinda sorta already saved your lives once.  And now I'm gunna give you another tip.  I have a police scanner.  They're already on their way.  So allow me to speed things along for you."

With a wave of her hand, valuables just pile into the badguys' bags!  They're her own.  And most would take very close inspection to notice that they're "discount," valuables worth 4 figures or less each, not the six figure stuff the really wealthy folks wear.  But the ones that wind up on the top of the pile are worth a king's ransom and would earn her a lecture from the world's archeologists for putting such priceless historical treasures at risk even if they're legally hers under the Treasure Act of 1996.  So she's not actually stealing from the hostages, just making it look like she is.  (Though it'd be a hard sell for a public defender to prove she wasn't aiding and abetting by informing these guys about the police.  Hopefully this won't end in them getting away and she need not have to explain herself to a judge.)

"Merry Christmas!"

As soon as the thieves are done ogling over the contents of their sacks, the more valuable contents begin to replace themselves with fakes.

Wraith stares for a moment in disbelief. They really just shot at a super who they KNOW saved their lives? Oh, and the guns aren't working. He fires his knockout dart at one of them and begins loading another even as he sneaks off to a different location.

Mental note. Tell Mittens about a fun idea that could use her portal powers for a big bluff. Namely having a bunch of lasers to fool badguys into thinking they are being targeted by multiple laser scopes. Probably would require practice and such.

The collective villains stare in disbelief at Mittens. "A-are you high? You pop up out of nowhere, with some weird light show and voices, spout a bunch of bullshit then expect us to trust you AFTER we try and shoot you? Plus you got some kind of teleporting powers, not hard to figure out where our bullets went and where the tracers came-" The leader stopped abruptly as one of his men went down. "Shit there's two of them! Geode now!"

The normal looking one with no weapons raised his arms and there was a loud rumble from outside. Suddenly there is a large chunk of the street in the shape of a round platform outside the window.

Two of the cyborgs raise their arms their hands sliding out of the way to reveal machine guns in their wrists. They fire indiscriminately towards the crowd, trying to keep the heroes busy with saving people, as the rest of them rush toward the window, the leader in front. The two gunners moving backwards as they fire.

The Leader punches through the window with his glowing fist, shattering it, and leaps onto the floating platform of pavement. The two remaining non-cyborgs, apart from the leader and the geokinetic, leap on after him, each carrying a bag of loot, soon followed by the one called Geode.

The three cyborgs not laying down cover fire grab onto the edge of the platform the soles of their feet glowing as they powered up some kind of thrusters as the two gunners continued backing up towards their comrades.

After hearing some rumble and screaming from the Guests Daniel decided to go to his window to be able to see who these criminal are.

Once he took a peak he noticed two of the men had robotic robotic parts, possibly cyborgs. "Well well well, I guess it's my lucky day... guess this criminal group wasn't some crazed gang trying to cause some havoc." He looked back at his pistol. "You won't do for now."

The pistol dispeared from his hand and he began to do another prayer, this time it took a bit longer. Another portal apeared infront of him and from it he pulled out a Sniper with a similar style to the pistol. He went back to the window with his new weapon, he opened the window took aim on one of the cyborgs in the platform and before taking the shot he he said to himeself. "EAT SHIT YOU MECHANICAL MONSTROSITY!"

Of all the times for a badguy to pass out! Miss Adventure's thinking, So much for talking them into leaving without violence breaking out.  And now I'm the short-bus girl for not checking for bullets inside the cyborg arms!  DUH!

Thank goodness for Matt's influence protecting bystanders from any bullets Mits doesn't redirect fast enough.  Redirected safely down to the ground, mind you.  Waay too much risk of "what you thought was an evil cyborg was actually an innocent family man under high-tech mind control" for this heroine to allow herself to open the terminus over their heads pointed down no matter how tempting it is to taunt them with "stop shooting yourself!"

But as we all know, dismembering lethal cyber-arms is perfectly OK.  Zwoosh!  The crazy fast lightsaber wielding space samurai catgirl in a flowing black gown slices off one set of machine gun arms before moving onto the sec...  Eek!  Sniper shot!

"Um... thanks?" Miss Adventure directs at the unseen shooter.  Probably for the best she can't see him.  Well... mainly that she can't see that sweet rifle or she'd flip out fangirling.

"Citizens!  Please find cover without killing each other!"

(( Look.  Just because I'm wearing black, doesn't mean I'm Dark Side.  Here's proof!  https://www.deviantart.com/ric...e-Geonosis-450966164

...boy it sure was hard to find black dress lightsaber girl that didn't look evil.))
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Wraith inwardly curses. He was careful to target someone who wouldn't be noticed falling and he had thought with Mittens distracting them... he'll remember next time to just wait until either hostages aren't a thing or until bad guys are already shooting anyway.

He makes another mental note; obtain an electrocution style grenade to fry circuitry and such. EMP grenade? If there is such a thing. For now, though, he begins stealthfully following where the boss is going. That's one baddy he doesn't want to lose track of.

He doesn't chance firing another dart, though. The guy is on the move, so Wraith worries he could wind up losing a dart while drawing attention to his location. Better for now to follow undetected.

Wraith also makes a mental note of where that sniper shot may or may not have come from. But tracking down allies is low on the priority list compared to tracking down current threats and where they like to hide.

Mits hears Ant through the tiny listening opening she put in her ear earlier.  So she opens up another one to communicate with her.

"Things just got really violent over here, Lifelight.  But someone's picking off the baddies, so I don't expect to take very long."

Daniel Shot another shot at the cyborg but was unable to kill him. "Dammit even with this they are very tough, *sigh, guess I have no choice."

He made his sniper disapear and he went back to his room and started a prayer, this time it was different.
"Father Zeus, Help me do what I must
be with me as I walk in the world"

A Ble portal appeared infront of him, he put both hands in and pulled two thunderbolts ready to be thrown. "This should take care of cyborgs."

He went back to the window and aimed one of the thunderbolts towards the cyborgs. With no hesitation he threw the Thunderbolt connecting with the three cyborgs.

He then moved his attention to the platform. whispering he said to himself, "You might not be cyborgs, you are sinners,AND SINNERS ARE SMITED." He threw the second thunderbolt at the other criminals in the platform.

You know that moment when you can't really see the meteor coming, but you can kinda see it coming because it turns night into day?  (( Like on February 15 2013: https://youtu.be/fBLjB5qavxY?t=128 ))  This is like that.  Only it's lightning.  Traveling at 3,700 miles per second!  That's 21.4 million kph for you metric folks!  One would have to have lightning reflexes to get out of the zap zone.

Mittens may have cat-like reflexes, but we're pretty sure that's not enough to dodge lightning.  Its times like these that justify the many hours spent meditating to learn Zen space samurai precog.  For before Miss Adventure can even think she's already teleported 100' away.

Oh.  It wasn't aimed at me.  Of course it wasn't!  Haha.  Why would I think myself a sinner?  Its not like I just kidnapped someone with the uncertain intentions of maybe rescuing a mad scientist from the radioactive monstrosity he claims to have accidentally created.  Nor was I tempted to crush a dozen men under the 4,581.5 metric tons of Fort Knox's gold for the dark irony of it.  Not Mittens!  That would be crazy!

Is now a bad time to make a pun about the villains being smitten by love?  SINNER!  Only sinners are tempted to make puns like that, you naughty kitty!
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The gun armed cyborgs cry out and swing at Mittens with their other hand as she 'disarms' them, but she gracefully ducks under their fists.

One of the cyborgs shifts but manages to hold on as the sniper shot hits him. When the lightning strikes however he falls to the ground, sparks coming off his metal frame. The other two 'rocket-footed' thugs are struck right after, falling with a loud crash directly in front of the police cordon.

The leader shouts "&^%$ it, go go go!" And the one called Geode waves his arms and the platform begins floating away, albeit slower without the added thrust.

One of the remaining thugs on the platform raised his hands and ice flowed from his hands covering  the platform in a dome of ice.
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Wraith makes a mental note to get a grappling hook that can attach to the underside of a platform. So many things he needs to remember for the future. The enemy is leaving and getting away and he can't fly. But having followed the enemy, he sprints for it and grabs hold of the edge of the platform, slips from the ice, and falls to his butt.

Under his mask, he has a look of relief. Although he didn't manage to hold on, one of his tracers did. He turns to look at the police and then looks at the platform. Then looks in Mittens' direction. Wraith is now very clearly in view of Mittens (and Daniel).

For Daniel: Wraith appears like a 4'6" tall figure who wears black clothing covered in a black hooded cloak. The cloak blends with writhing shadows and both the cloak and shadows seem to phase in and out of existence. His face cannot be seen.

Daniel sees as some of the other criminals escape in the platform. "Ugh, by the time I a weapon that can destroy the platform they would br long gone. Well, I think I should get out of my room someone must have seen me." He had also notcied people around him including a kid whose face he couldn't see and a woman with incredible agility and probably high of her ass.

He packed up everything he had, closed the window and made his way downstairs to try and help out any hostages if there were any alive at this point.

Mits smiles waves to the police, "Ohai, Weston's finest!  Can someone please call an engineer to tell me exactly how many 3' diameter concrete footers it would take to hold up that hunk of pavement once the para making it float is knocked out?  I'd really rather not have to just guess.  Worse comes to worse I can ask my friend Matt to make sure it safely crash lands without destroying anything, but I'm sure everyone would prefer it not crash at all."

She then smiles and waves to Wraith, "Ohai, Wraith!  I can get you up there.  And provide ice cleats so you don't fall off the dome."

Quick-snap ice cleats and portal to top of dome are offered.  Why not just open a doorway to the inside of the ice dome?  She wants Wraith to be able to get in on his own terms.  Also, her portals aren't 1-way.  Opening a door to the inside of the snow globe would put police and EMTs in danger.

Mits then looks up to the window where Daniel was.  "Hey up there!  If you still wunna smite villains, I can teleport you to 'em.  No problem!  Just say the word."

Meanwhile, since ice face's ice dome has effectively eliminated the badguys as an immediate threat, Miss Adventure lines up the defeated baddies nice and neat for the police to restrain and EMTs to treat for electrocution.  "To my knowledge there's only one civilian casualty, and he's being treated by Lifelight.  As always I have full video of the whole event and will be happy to make copies and testify at the DA's convenience."

Then opens a small portal just within the ceiling of the ice dome to pipe in some travel music for the villains: https://youtu.be/L0MK7qz13bU?t=157  She's sure to have the origin pointed away from her nice stereo (that's at her secluded secret lair) in case they decide to try and use her portal to destroy it.

The Platform keeps floating away.

The police look at eachother from Mittens' question. One shouted "If I was good at math I wouldn't have been a cop!" Some of them start heading in and soon show up in the ballroom and begin cuffing the perps while EMTs look over the partygoers.

"Fair 'nuff.  Just a thought.  You guys have knockout grenades, right?  I know it's illegal for me to borrow one, but if it was you who dropped it in that little snow globe...  I'm pretty sure they didn't bring gas masks with them."

She gives the officers an impish smile and wink.

Wraith takes Mittens up on her offered portal and cleats. After quickly fastening the cleats, he hops onto the dome. To the badguys, they see what looks like a mini version of the ring wraiths, warped by the ice.

Wraith decides now would be a great time for drama, so he slowly scrapes his skeletal claws along the ice. He wants to say something witty or scary, but figures letting his scraping fingers do the talking is probably the creepiest for now.

Is it getting him closer to the enemy? Not really. But boy is it worth it to just spend a few moments on intimidation. Assuming it works. After all... aside from maybe being mentioned in the news as having shown up at the museum, Wraith hasn't gotten much exposure, so he doubts these guys know about him.

Daniel had finally reached downstairs and saw the cops cuffing all of the remaining criminals. Daniel only thought of bashing the faces of those criminals into the walls until they didn't have a face anymore. He couldn't though because then he would be noticed and even arrested so he resiste dthe urge to do it. He had also seen the woman who seemed to be high of her ass and also saw the kid, he still couldn't see the boys face. He started walking away pretending to be nervous or else he would become too suspicious.

Mits gets an idea for a harmless way to slow the villains' escape.  Wind power!  She licks her finger then opens a small portal to Wellington, New Zealand, the wind capitol of the world for nearly year-round high winds.  Light breeze today.  Huh.  Let's try Mt. Washington, USA, world record holder for highest surface windspeed of all time.  Light breeze.  Seriously?!  Didn't want to have to resort to this...  CommonwealthBay, Antarctica!  FWOOSH!  Gale force arctic winds!  Nearly freezes her wet fingertip instantly.  Yeowch!

Miss Adventure opens one portal after another on the forward side of the giant flying snow globe with the origins at the source of that bitter gale to sloowly stop the massive escape "vehicle" from getting away.

"I can technically do this all day, but I don't think the environmentalists will be too happy with me causing an arctic micro-climate in the middle of town for very long, so please make with the knockout grenades quickly.  Say when your ready and I'll open up portals for you to gas the inside of that snow globe."

If the police make ready the grenades, she'll make small up-facing portals to the inside, hopefully minimizing the goodguys' exposure to any danger of nasty ice-daggers or sharp rocks flying out.

(( Looked up actual current windspeeds in said locations. ))
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The cops look to each-other then to the commanding officer who gave a silent nod. The cops head to their cars grabbing tear-gas grenades from the trunks. They prepared to heft them as Mittens opened the portal tossing a few into the portal and thus the icedome.

From atop the dome Wraith hears voices from within the dome.

"I'm gonna kill that B&#$%"

"It is kinda funny..."

"Shut up M-" the voices were cut off to the sound of hissing gas followed by coughing fits.


Blending in with the rest of the crowd, David has no problem remaining unnoticed.

Mits gets a huge smile and offers high-fives to the officers.

"Thanks a bunch, guys!  Always best to take the non-violent option whenever available."

Wraith finds a properly sized gas mask appear nearby, and a convenient portal for him to get into the snow globe to finish up detaining the villains.

Meanwhile, Mits begins to carefully redirect the giant rock and ice dome back to where it came from, opening up several portals underneath that lead to concrete footers as a  safety net for in case Geode passes out and the whole thing suddenly starts to drop.  If that does happen, she's prepared to immediately close the wind portals.