A physics defying sequence of events takes place within moments of each other. A chunk of hatchback car door that was laying around slides over to Diren then pops up in front of him just before the big kaboom. An out-of-his-mind teen plummeting to his likely doom slows midair just enough for Liberty to catch up. Joe, the athletic teen who seems to have a propensity for reckless actions to save the day, zips past them head first, flips midair to hit the ground hard (at least it was his feet and not his face), then hops right back up at them to collide with them both midair, slowing their decent a little more! And just before they hit bottom, a Jamaican man baseball slides to the spot they'll hit and transforms into a giant worm!
WHUMPF!
Three people make a comparatively soft landing considering they just fell 6 stories! This of course happens right behind Emerald as she peeks into the entrance of the burning daycare. It hasn't been but a few minutes since the fire started, but it's already blazing hot.
"Back up, kid!" a firefighter clad in protective clothing designed for such intense heat tells Emerald, "Let me find your friend. This place will melt your face off!"
The guy is probably younger than Emerald, but she's so short, how's he supposed to know? If Emerald had decided to use the megaphone, Haalima probably heard her from the back side of the building.
The kids and adults move away from the burning building as requested by Haalima, but a different group of people approach her. Different in more ways than one. One is wearing a bikini and her exposed skin is marked with a meat cut diagram. (
http://wizbangpop.com/images/2...n_peta_poster_00.jpg ) Another is wearing a full body pig costume. A third is wearing a PETA shirt.
"The poor thing!" the bikini girl says.
"She's hurt!" pig person says. Hard to make out the gender.
"We'll help you!" T-Shirt guy says.
On the other side of the street,
Paladin Mittens regains consciousness when touched by her bro.
"Thanks again, bro!" she says, trying hard to not look like she's in immense pain. She knows he hates it when she's hurting.
"Draggy fall down go booom! Anything else need kamikazed?"
Firefighters and emergency workers swarm the scene and begin doing their emergency thing. The driver of the SWAT van decides to push the car blocking the road aside with his vehicle. Anybody's guess if he'll be praised or reprimanded for messing up the van for that.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:43, Fri 19 Nov 2010.