The biker chuckled when the beam hit him. It clearly did some damage, but he was smiling.

"This is the kinda stuff i was waiting for!" he said as he charged at you and hit you with a glowing fist.

(OOC: That is a 28 DC toughness save.)

You can see the other two bikers moving along the walls, trying to give themselves and easy attack on you.

Terrible roll!  24.  But I'll take it.

Victoria noted the damage that the blow had produced-- more than she'd anticipated.

But she could still handle this, so far.

"You're apparently strong enough," she said.  "All right."

And she cut loose with a blow of tremendous force!

22 Attack, Damage 29

The biker with the glowing hands was stunned as the other two attacked. Both lashed out at you with chains.

(OOC: Two toughness saves vs DC 25)

Victoria shrugged off the blows.  Several of them-- this could be tricky.

But she was hardly going to give up.

"Metal weapons are unwise," she said, and electricity exploded out from her arms.

Damage 12, Selective Area, so just the bad guys.

One of the thugs went down, the one with the glowing hands is shaking off the last hit and that just left one of the chains. He was whirling the heavy looking chain rather fast before lashing out at you.

(OOC: Same Toughness DC as last time.)

Victoria let the blow strike her, grabbed the chain, and pulled the man into a mighty punch!

Toughness save Nat 20.  Punch: 28 is another crit, Toughness save 34

The biker went down, just as the one with the glowing hands got it together. He bellowed and charged at you. Striking at you and missed.

"This is really foolish, you know," said Victoria.  She kneed him in the solar plexus, so as to not risk breaking his bones.  "You should just surrender."

[ooc]23 attack, DC 29 Toughness save.[/ooc]

The man appeared to be stunned again, he was on his feet, but not making a move.

Victoria, taking no chances, locked him into a restraining hold.

"No trouble," she said.  "I'm calling the police now.  Children, you can stay or run; I won't follow you.  I'm only after these three.  But if you stay, I'll try and get you help."

The kids fled, leaving you alone with the bikers.

Well, that figured-- but poor or homeless children, even thieving ones, weren't the kind of problem Singularity was for, and she didn't really know how to help them.  Super-powered criminals were another matter, and she put a call in to the police.

It didn't take long for the police to arrive.

"Greetings," said Victoria.  "These three all have superpowers; be very careful with them."

"Superpowers, huh?" one of the cops said. "That'd certainly be a pain if more gangs got them."

"We need to investigate them," said Victoria.  "They were training young runaways to steal for them, and that suggests a certain level of organization."

"Hmm. That's quite the problem. We'll make sure to investigate," the cop said.

"I will as well," said Singularity.  "I assume that you'd like to be informed of what I find?"

"Yep," the cop said.

"I will, then," she said.  "I'm also concerned about these children.  More needs to be done for them, but that's not a problem that I know how to solve."

"Yeah, it sure isn't an easy thing to deal with," the cop said.

"...something ought to be done," said Singularity.  "I will have to research some options."

"Likewise," the cop said. "I've never head of these 'Brigands' motorcycle gang before."

"I'll see what I can learn about them," said Singularity.  "With luck, it will be a small club."

In her experience, such luck was rare.

"If they all got powers, they can't be that big," the cop said.