Event - Confrontation with the Enhanced

[bravenewmods]

With the revelation of the presence of the Enhanced, Union was able to quickly mobilize. As the strange conditions continued to worsen, the Trainers of Union once again set out to bring order to the chaos.

This time however, they do not walk entirely alone. A small, dedicated team remains behind in Union, sorting through the dossiers and information that Crystal and Rory have collected. Connected to those in the field via Warp Band network, hopefully they can identify the Enhanced and find a way to calm them before a tragedy occurs.

[OOC: There will be a thread for each active team based on the sign-ups. Any areas that did not have any sign-ups will not be present and will be addressed later. As per our usual standards, moderators and NPC helpers will progress the log at least once every 24 hours. The Union log will work somewhat differently from the battle logs in that the participants will be collecting information concerning the Enhanced; when enough information has been accumulated, they will be asked to tag into the battle threads to provide guidance and support to those out in the field.

Characters participating in the Union log will function as support staff for this event. They will have their own log interacting with Rory and Crystal and as characters in other logs encounter the Enhanced, they can use the observations made to try to find out more about the Enhanced in the field and help the people in the field determine an appropriate situation. Because of this, players in the Union thread may threadjack any ongoing log to relay information as needed.

The outcome of this event will depend very much on player decisions and the ability of the characters to respond to the threats at hand, so we would highly encourage you all to tag as regularly as possible. Thanks!]

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[faithfulflame]

"Ami-chan!" Rei cries her friend's name in a panic and leaps off of Olympus' back, casually dropping to the ground despite the distance and running over to her friend's side. With a flick of her wrist she calls for Ravi. The Xatu explodes into the air with a warbling cry, flapping to hover near the "battlefield."

"Deimos, keep healing! Get Ami-chan in your bubble if you can! Ravi, Power Swap! Weaken Sierra however you can, and then heal her too! We need to get her pain under control!"

The odd bird complies glowing purple for a moment and Power Swapping his own abilities with Sierra's, and then he proceeds to Wish upon a star. Deimos does as instructed as well, her hands held up to continuously send out flares of healing light.

[pocketmobster]

Kazuichi was calling him. Fuyuhiko clung to that, Shifting back to his more human form with both hands pressed over the right half of his face, slick with red. The repeated Heal Pulses were helping, but nothing had ever hurt this bad in his entire fucking life, he couldn't think, something vital was damaged beyond salvation and his head was screaming--

He opened his other eye, breath rasping in his throat.

He could see Belaire standing guard, and he was aware of Souda nearby, but Oba-san was ahead, weaving in the air, ghost arms dangling like crepe paper ribbons in a breeze. Further up was the woman, still stuck in the rock like some asshole had planted her there.

"Kh..."

He couldn't deal with Oba-san right now. He lifted one hand away from his face and, closing his fingers into a trembling fist, brought O-Ren the Crobat to the field. Before she could start to panic, he used the Warp Band's bond to tell her what he wanted.

"Get her out..."

Her legs. The ground. He pressed those images on the Crobat, and, after a profound hesitation, she took to the air to fire a swift pair of Air Slashes at the ground around Sierra's feet. If extracting the woman ended up hurting her, or making her powers go crazy, well, that was just too damn bad. Leaving her like that wasn't doing anyone any good.

[creamsouda]

"Fuckin' move your hands, bro," urged Kazuichi in his tearful panic (cursing himself under his breath because no one else had enough time to shame him for crying at a time like this) as he lifted the seam of his over-alls to his sharp teeth, bit, and pulled. There were only two things in this world Kazuichi really considered himself good at, and one of those things was fixing shit. He was a mechanic. He could help to fix this.

Freeing his torn sleeve from his arm, Kazuichi did his best to get Fuyuhiko's hands out of his way long enough to use the sleeve as a tourniquet around his head. Sure-- cauterizing the wound with Belaire's abilities might be better; he'd used it to prevent profuse bleeding from shop wounds before, but there was no way he could even think of getting Belaire to do that at present. Instead, he helped to hold the tourniquet in place, praying they could solve this all in time.

"J-Just stay still, man, don't move," he muttered with a sniffle. Head wounds bled profusely all the time, but moving would only cause more blood flow.

[bnw_wighty_npcs]

The two Power Swaps are actually quite clever, the first having sufficiently weakened Sierra prior to her outburst that she didn't send the whole mountain crumbling down, and the second now causing some of those streams of magma and ice to run dry. Her overactive strength was both fueling her uncontrollable powers and the damage she was inflicting on herself... To some extent, it was also a factor in her self-control, but the mitigation of her power certainly made things more manageable, even if she felt her grip weakening

In the meantime, the continuing Heal Pulse certainly doesn't hurt in keeping the pain at bay.

Kuzuryuu's Air Slash very possibly would have resulted in terrible things had those earlier Power Swaps not happened, but now, the effect released as she is cut out of the earth is akin to being caught in an Icy Wind and a Fire Spin. Painful and irritating, but hardly deadly.

[allergictoloveletters]

Ami stood up, panting, her legs shaking. The Heal Pulse certainly helped the situation for the medic, and wished more than ever that she had healing abilities at the moment. She still had some wounds but her focus was on the Enhanced and Fuyuhiko and getting everyone home and healed. She took a deep breath and went over to Sierra.

"Please, give me your hand. Can you walk?" she asked as she tried to take in as much as she could. If not, she'd fashion a wheelchair out of ice, if necessary. She already pulled out bandages and other medical supplies from her bag. She wouldn't let anyone die. Not if she could help it.

[faithfulflame]

Rei didn't say anything, she just stayed close to Ami for the moment, trying to use her pyrokinetic abilities to divert some of the heat away from her friend. It's about now that Xatu's Wish probably goes off too, starlight dropping out to ease more of the pain. If that's possible.

[bnw_wighty_npcs]

Sierra lies prone on the ground for a few moments after she's released, the streams of ice and fire very, very slowly beginning to fade with the removal of their source. There comes a long exhalation as she lies with her head against the earth, continuing to feel the vibrations of those on the mountain...

But she will control herself. She has to, after all this...

"...I can stand."

She will not touch Ami if she can help it, unaware that the woman is resistant to her icy portion. Sierra will, after a few wobbles, slowly lift a rock up from the ground upon which she supports herself.