[center] [h3][color=571b7e] The Community Strikes Back [/color] [/h3][/center]
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[@Gardevoiran][@Spiffy]
[B] Chapter One: Lethal Force [/b]
[Color=skyblue]"Francine is dead by your hands. Your power trickery won't work here,"[/color] Sonika said coldly at the swap to Francine, sending a strong blast of air into Farce, sending her into the wall.

As Mantis unleashed his attack, however, things didn't go....quite how he wanted. Sonika's first reaction was to fill the room with turbulent, forceful air movement, which affected his aim. Xolotl, meanwhile, entered his breaker state with a thunderous, ear-splitting crack, moving faster than Mantis could shoot, before the TV exploded as he seemed to phase into and then out of it. Which was right when Sonika hit Mantis with a veritable wall of force.

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[@PlatinumSkink][@Spiffy][@BCTheEntity][@solokolos][@Lemonzest1337]
[B] Chapter Two: The Rockers [/b]
While the little meeting was going on down below, the two figures entered into the building proper. Inside they immediate ran into a guard who.... Waved to them?!

"It's about time."

[Color=khaki]"There's unknown people in the lobby,"[/color] one said quietly.

"Creep is dealing. Everyone else but this new guy is away. He's in his room, don't think he's awake yet, like right below us."

The second figure nodded, disappearing after a few moments, before he reappeared moments later.

[Color=khaki]"Done?"[/color]

They nodded.

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[@Belladonna][@Lemonzest1337][@Yoshua171](Open invitation to Independents to get involved)
[B] Chapter Three: The City [/b]
As Sylph crashed to the ground with a loud crunching sound, Eyeblight turned his attention to the fallen Case 53 hero, his eyes seeming to almost glow. He took one step towards her before being blindsided by Outsider. The kinetic blasts flattened him, literally, before he just popped back up good as new and turned angrily towards the newcomer... Just to have three tendrils come at him.

He evaded two of them, moving far faster than one might expect from a scarecrow, and opened up a hole in himself around the third before slipping away from the grasping appendages.

[Color=goldenrod]"No fair! No eyes! [B]LOOK AT ME, DAMN YOU![/B]"[/color] he screeched. One poor woman from Outsider's own office building screamed as she collapsed in a puddle of urine, the sound muffled by the windows.

Which was the call for more chaos as a car came speeding down and rammed into Eyeblight who cackled madly as they moved away from the two heroes. At least until the car smashed into a stoplight, sending Eyeblight flying further away from them.

In the distance they could hear a helicopter approaching...

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Meanwhile, Claire had decided to approach the two women.

The one who had destroyed the car glanced at her sideways as the two came to a stop. The one who had thrown the car was slightly closer than the other and had seemingly instantly drawn a pistol.

[Color=3ea055]"We were told to spread chaos, sister Celia."[/color]

[Color=893bff]"Likelihood of being a cape is high, approaching us."[/color]

[Color=3ea055]"Go ahead, sis."[/color]

Celia pulled the trigger nearly instantly, aiming for the gut.