Vigilante
One year ago
The sounds of battle were all around Jack as vivid and loud as any time he spent overseas in the military. Explosions, blaster fire interspersed with gunfire and the screams of the dying or soon to be dead. Jack his armored costume smoking and burnt in multiple location spat a bit of blood from a mouth bloodied where his bodies impact with a car had shaken something loose inside him hauled himself back to his feet, and lashed out with a snarl of effort with his now broken baton at the last of a squad of Night Vipers, VIPER's answer to Ninjas and the more martial arts inclined supers. the stealthy assassins had tried to make an end run around the line of Aegis troops and Police officers desperately defending the courthouse to flank them and kill their intended targets.
Only he in his guise as Vigilante stood in the way. Six assassins had entered the building the last one went down when his baton filled fist collided with the Shadow Snakes jaw with a brutal crunch, causing the snake to make a very satisfying thump when it hit the floor.
He took a breath leaning back against the wall as every muscle and joint in his body screamed red alerts at him about the amount of pain he was in, only to hear an additional scream from down the hall. Cursing lividly he rushed to the source knowing hed been flanked again, there were just too many snakes and their accursed Power armored troops as well as the mech vipers.
Kicking the door down Jack saw a Steel Serpent suit that had fought its way inside most likely over the bodies of good men and women. The armored thug was busy strangling a lone female cop who was gasping and turning blue in the face as her oxygen was cut off. Jack could see the brave womans efforts as she had held off the suit and at least three other agents before the Armored villain had overwhelmed her.
With a howl of rage Jack lept on the serpents back with out hesitation and managed to surprise the armored villain enough to get him to drop his prey. A brief if brutal struggle ensued. jack doing all he could but unable to penetrate the suits armored hide in his current tired condition, still he fought on knowing that he was the last line between the snakes and their targets, ie the city council which included a friend of his, Janet Henry the school board supervisor and a long time friend of his.
Still he wasnt going to win this one, the armored suit was too strong and tough and he felt ribs break when the Steel Serpent got a hold of him and landed a brutal punch to the but that sent blood flying from his mouth.
as he lay there looking at the unconscious but sitll breathing form of the female officer--whose name was Elise he noted on her name plate-- he wondered if shed follow him.
"Good fight man, but its over Say good night." the Armored villain raised a hand where the energy blaster was primed and glowing and aimed it right at Jacks head. He saw the glow and made for a final leap of desperation.
He didnt make it, not because the Serpent armor fired but because someone else got in the way. His only view was of a blur of black and gold and a long flowing cape which appeared in front of him. the blast impacted against the black and gold figure which replied by casually backhanding the armored villain hard enough to send it flying through the wall like a missile.
The young woman her long blond hair a match for the cape looked back at him and gave him a warm smile that nearly made all his aches and pains go away. "Nice Job." she said in a warm tone "Stay here Ok Ill clean up."
then she was gone, with a flash, just as he saw the stylized Golden
"P" on her chest. Hr recognized her then, Prodigy the young heroine who worked as part of the Honor Guard, Oracle Incs Super team. She and two fo her teamates had delivered an incredible amount of new computers and other class materials to his school, shed shaken his hand with that same winning smile, and now shed saved his life.
The rest of the afternoon was a blur for him, andhe had watched as the Protectors Bay Cities Super Team had taken down The Ripper, as well as VIpers last gasp attempt to capture the President and force a surrender. Hed breathed a sigh of relief then and been treated to drinks by the very cops who had hassled him on occasion for Vigilantes actions.
That had been then.
Now
Jack looked down on a warehouse full of weapons, Viper Weapons to be specific. the weapons had cost a student of his their leg when a gang dispute had turned ugly, and he had gone all in to hunt down the source and shut them down. Now having tracked them back to this dilpaidated warehouse he saw an even half dozen goons of a local color gang the crazy eights with their distinctive 8 inside its black club insignia sitting around waiting for their seller to make an apperance.
A few minutes passed as he watched noting names, and weapons, when the back doors of the warehouse opened up to allow a truck to back into the warehouse. A Woman in a trenchcoat, and a man also ina trench coat stepped out of the truck and walked over to talk to the crew. they aregued a bit but the woman coldy shut down the argument by lifitng a briefcase full of what he presumed to be cash which she offered to the Crazxy Eights leader who took it greedily and started opening it as the woman and man watched.
Ok shuffle forward a bit Welcome macy feel free to introduce yourself to the six gang thugs by stomping their faces into the ground
No rolls are needed just have fun kicking gang member arse.
you only need Initiative if you Directly confront the two in the trench coats
their initiatives are as follows
Lady
_: 1D20+10 = [14]+10 = 24
Guy
_: 1D20+4 = [17]+4 = 21
Secret
_: 1D20+0 = [16]+0 = 16