Issue 1 - Bank Heist! (Team 1)

by **Narrator** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:44 pm

The transport van with the X-Team on board pulls up in front of the bank. Two police cars are pulled up already and a handful of police officers stand around a bit aimlessly. Probably because of the cloud of black smoke hanging over the front of the building. When the police sees the X-Men stepping out of the van one of them approaches nervously. "Thank god you guys are here. We tried to go in, but before we knew what was happening everything went dark. A couple of us made it out but we're missing two people who are still in there."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:52 am

"...so there might be hostages?" Sam asks.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:01 am

"Possibly, yes. We haven't had any communication with anybody yet."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:02 am

Tosh eyed the smoke suspiciously.

"Anything you can tell us that might help us in rescuing them?" he asked, trying to hide how nervous he was.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:08 am

"Nothing, really. That smoke is really thick, i guess? It's like pitch-black in there."

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:23 am

"Is there anything we need to know about the layout of the building?" Carlos said, in full business-mode.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:40 am

"There's an open lobby, offices on the left, tellers straight ahead. Behind them the door that leads to the vault. On the right there's stairs to the second floor. There's only offices there though."

by **Trev Anderson** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:17 am

"Sam are you able to use your teep to see how many people might be inside?" Trev asked, getting out of the van and not looking especially heroic in the form fitting uniform.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:00 am

Tereza's eyes glowed white and her hands steamed in the warmer air of the outside. "Depending on what that smoke is, if it has liquid in it, I can try to freeze it, get it to condense," she said to Carlos.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:26 pm

"I hope so. Big me will be useless in there with all that."

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:12 pm

Carlos nodded. "That's a good idea, Tereza. if we can't pinpoint their exact locations, we need to get rid of the obscuring mists.

That is, unless Sam can tell us precisely where everyone is?" he said looking at her.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:24 pm

Tereza raised her hands and began freezing the outer edges of the mist, evaluating any ice that was created and trying to get a feel for the substance.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:31 pm

There's some moisture inside the cloud but nothing seems to get trapped in the freezing water. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to have much (if any) substance.

Sam would be able to sense a couple minds inside. One bigger concentration further inside, which are probably several people and a single one close to the doors, probably just inside.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:47 pm

"Feels like we've got one standing guard, and a few concentrated further inside."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:02 pm

"How can anyone stand guard in that stuff?"

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:03 pm

"Learning to act without relying on vision is a common skill," Carlos nodded. "Albeit one that causes many bruises."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:23 pm

"And without breathing?" he asked, which gave him an idea. "Hold that thought."

He shifted and smelled the air.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:29 pm

The police officers around them take a couple steps back when Tosh suddenly grows into a huge bipedal shark in front of them.

The smoke doesn't really smell like anything at all as far as he can tell. While he's sniffing a small tendril of smoke suddenly shoots out and hits Tosh. It doesn't have a physical impact but it feels vaguely cold as it washes over him. Everything goes dark as it envelops him, but everybody else can see that the remainder of the cloud grows thinner, revealing the shape of someone standing in the open doors of the bank, smoke billowing out from them, arms pointed towards Tosh as he clearly controls whatever it is.

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:31 pm

"Take him!" Carlos said, leaping over the barricade and trying to close the distance.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:48 pm

"I would but I can't see!" Bruce answered, trying to get his bearings by sound and smell.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:09 pm

Sam grits her teeth and tries to make contact with the figure's mind, projecting a strong urge to sleep.

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:12 pm

Carlos would also try to make contact with the person's mind. In his case, it was with his fist, via the medium of the baddie's face.

by **Trev Anderson** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:32 pm

Trev squinted through the fog to try and follow his teammates to see if he could get in a focused scream at the guy controlling things and take him out--or at least distract them enough for someone else to do the same.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:37 pm

The figure looks confused for a moment, shaking his head and stifling a yawn as he tries to focus his attention on the approaching Carlos. He shouts a warning back into the bank that gets swallowed up by Trev's much louder yell, making him stumble right into Carlos' fist. He doesn't go down right away though, trying to pull himself together and gathering the cloud of darkness around himself as he reels back.

by **Trev Anderson** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:40 pm

Surprised he hit at all, Trev darted forward while altering the frequency of his scream to something he'd found to be extraordinarily painful in his practice, aiming a narrow cone of shrieking straight at the guys' head.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:42 pm

This would be aided by Carlos' roundhouse kick, as he fluidly moved from one attack to another.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:45 pm

But alas, Sam finds the benefit of planning your attack in advance, as she discovers it's hard to make someone sleep when they're being kicked and screamed at.

by **Narrator** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:28 pm

Carlos' kick hits nothing but air as it slices into the cloud of darkness into which the men disappeared. It's only about 10 feet wide so he can't have gone that far. Trev's scream pierces through the cloud but it's impossible to tell whether he hit anything. Sam can still feel the presence of the man's mind inside very alert and possibly in pain.

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:32 pm

Carlos closed his eyes and listen for tell-tale signs of movement, aiming his next attack at anything he could hear.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:11 pm

"Carlos! Fall back!" Tereza called as she began to hunt for the man by dropped the temperature in the whole cloud.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:04 am

Bruce shook off the blindness and began stomped in after the others. Inside, he was effectively blind again. Not too smart there Brucey. He smelled for a target.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:09 am

"Well, shit," Tereza hissed, the area warming back up as Tosh's charge made her attempt to freeze the area moot.

by **Narrator** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:35 am

Tosh stomps past Carlos and into the cloud of darkness, just as Tereza begins dropping it's temperature. He's a little bit insulated by his physique but it still slows him down a little. He can smell the man and gets the impression he's slowly backing up, but he too is being chilled.

While that is going on a young man in a punk get-up and a blonde girl run up from inside the bank. "Who the hell are those clowns?" the punk yells, pointing at Carlos who would suddenly find the ground underneath him extremely slippery as if it was providing no traction at all anymore.

by **Carlos Vasquez** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:37 am

Carlos stumbled. If there was anything near him, he'd push off if and try to slide towards the people in question, but he was no ice skater! He needed friction for traction.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:42 am

"Gimme some room guys," he called out as his nose locked on target. He charged up a shock bomb and launched it at Shadow Dude.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:45 am

Tereza shifts her focus to the blond, ice flying from her hands at the girl.

by **Narrator** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:44 am

Carlos manages to push himself off of one of the front doors that are standing open, managing to slide over to a section of the ground that actually provides some friction.

Tosh's blast isn't entirely on target but it seems to be close enough, the cloud he's in dissipating in a large bust of electricity that knocks the person who'd been controlling the cloud away and into the wall.

The blonde girl looks extremely angry at Tosh electrocuting her accomplice and claps her hands. The air in front of her shimmers and the ice-shards seem to disappear into thin air. She claps her hands again and the shards re-appear next to Tosh, having lost none of their momentum and slicing into his thick skin as they pelt him.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:08 am

That her attack ended up hitting Tosh didn't seem to phase Tereza. She gestured again and instead of ice shards this time, the moisture in the air around the blond froze as the ice gathered to make a grab for her.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:28 pm

Bruce growled, pupils dilating wide and feral for just a moment. "Hey! Watch it blondie. Don't make me taze you too."

He turned his focus to the punk and began walking towards him, brushing off the ice and cracking his own neck.

by **Narrator** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:51 pm

"Try me!" the blonde snarls at Tosh. She claps her hands with significant effort while accumulating ice slows her down. It takes a lot of effort but she manages to throw herself forward and into a hole in mid-air, disappearing. A second later a crash from one of the offices on the side gives away the fact that she presumably reappeared there.

The punk charges at Tosh himself in what initially seems like a suicidal move but the guy Tosh blasted into the wall manages to raise his arm and point it at Tosh, once again plunging him into darkness while the ground beneath one of Tosh's feet grows slippery just before the punk tackles Tosh's unstable leg, knocking him down to the ground.

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