[quote=@Balmas]I mean, look at this. They've got someone whose powerset is literally controlling metal, and they've got him--what is that, boxing gloves? Come [i]on,[/i] people, this isn't looney tunes. Box is right there! Rip the floor out, drop Angelica into the arms of a waiting jetpack trooper, and zoom out. Play the objective, people! You want Angelica, right? Throw just enough people at the worthless teenagers to bog them down, and then smash-and-grab! What are they gonna do, huh, call foul, ask for a redo? That's capitalism, baby.

[Tactical Genius: ...That's a 6. Marking XP.]
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Hell yeah! You're a hustler, Brainstorm, no mistake. You're on the make, action on the side, paid by commission, taking life by the horns and riding those animal spirits all the way to the jackpot! All you've got to do is break up the power couple and send the teenagers back to school. Easy for a guy with an army at his command and an assault carrier hovering above your head. Calculate the firing angles, bring in the big guns, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes! Who's going to stop you? The magic of friendship?

There's a certain interaction that happens when a vehicle runs into a building, and the building rarely comes off the worse in that exchange. Today you have confirmed that that principle holds in reverse. As you watch, the Gears Foundation - as in the entire multicomplex, supported by enormous thrusters and an attitude of casual disregard towards gravity - drops out of hyperspace and rams the assault carrier amidships with the same conflict resolution as a fly taking up residence on a windshield.

Okay. New plan. You've got this. 

That's when Angel-IKA hits you upside the head with a chair leg.


TEN MINUTES LATER, THE GEARS FOUNDATION JANITOR CLOSET/BRIG

Errant! @Saraphim! You've been picked up along with the Stream Team by Professor Gears, incongruously tossing a rope ladder off the side of her flying building. There isn't much time to hang out and exchange pleasantries - the priority is deprogramming Victor from his hypnotism. You two know him best, so you've been sent into the janitorial closet he's confined in to snap him back to himself.

Victor, you're still hooked up to the Spiral Mind and are drinking deep of the black nectar of capitalism. One aspect of this is that you've got a whole lot of data coming in regarding Victoria and her plans. But now these unemployed scrubs want to get your time of day? Tell 'em to get outta here, why don't you?

[quote=@eldest]She locks eyes with Victoria as she starts to get surrounded by guards, who are figuring out just how to get her down. "You're a human, a unique example of infinite possibility. I hope you realize how precious that is, the ability to make your choices and be yourself. And I won't take that ability from you. Totally could, but nah. But I will stop you if you chose to hurt others with your position. That said, it was nice to meet you! I do suggest some peppermint tea. Bye now!" And the door shuts. She turns to one of the guards. "What was her name again? I don't think she ever told me."[/quote]

"Oh, her?" said the megagoon, glancing back at the door as it developed a deep dent as it was struck by most of a table. "She's Turbo Knight 2."

You are taken through to an enormous launch chamber featuring a DOOM SATELLITE. It's a frightful amalgamation. AEGIS has dismantled, destroyed, or shot down a dozen of these over the years and this has been hurriedly constructed out of the various debris pieces that have been kept in storage. It's an inefficient and ugly piece of tech telling the stories of a dozen different supervillains. It certainly doesn't need three doomsday devices when it can only power one, and the fact that one of those doomsday devices will transform everyone on earth into adorable talking mice implies a very specific origin story.

But one of those cannons is a straight up giant laser, and it is to this you are tied, right next to the Shogun. She is not wearing her hat, which makes you taller than her. I'd advise you not to mention it.

"What are you in for?" she asks.