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dc_misc ([info]dc_misc) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-01-25 02:11:00


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Entry tags:inactive - jane doe-smith, npc - mia dearden, plot - "call of cthulu"

En Route to a show down
The actors for tonight's play were gathering.

Oh they weren't quite into position just yet. New actors had to be auditioned for new parts. It would remain to be seen if one of them would take on the mask of a hero or a villain while the stage lights up in the dark painting itself with vivid violent colors. Is the city freeing itself or is it falling into a trap?

Questions will be answered soon.

But for now a car speeds through the dark. The driver is on their way. One of the heroes, shining bright enough for some of the more dangerous element to find. The stage is set for this act.

The sky opens up and it begins to rain. The street lights flicker as the car continues weaving in and out of traffic. The driver is hurrying for a very important reason.


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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-25 07:22 am UTC (link)
Jane grips her steering wheel. She flips off another driver as she races through Gotham traffic.

"Yeah? Up yours pal," she barks like a New York taxi driver. She is in no mood to deal with such bull shit. She has to get to Arkham and these people are driving her nuts!


God. What she wouldn't give for something fancy that could fly or something. It would make this easier.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-25 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Mia let out a laugh from the backseat.

"You are aware that we probably could've just hopped from rooftop and rooftop and get there in half the time, right?"

A small smirk rests on her face.

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-25 10:22 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah but it's Gotham Mia. I don't want my car too far off," she says with an eye roll.

"Plus I'm not as good at doing distance roof hopping as you. I'm not exactly experienced at the hero-gig," Jane adds. Then she glances at her rear-view mirror.

"We've got a tail by the way. Not to worry you or anything..... Is that a Clown Car?"

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-25 10:38 pm UTC (link)
"This is true," she said as she looked over the arrows in her quiver. Fully stocked with plenty of taser arrows. Excellent.

"With practice, you'll get better."

Mia turned around. "Jokerz. Damn." She put her mask on.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 05:48 am UTC (link)
The car rumbles and bounces its way along the streets crazily, the driver obviously completely insane, and yet good enough to manage the risks he's taking.
As soon as they see the car ahead of them, two orange haired girls in clown makeup begin crawling out the passenger windows.
"Look Didi!" says one.
"I think that's our target, Didi." chimes in the other.
"And what do we do with targets?" asks the first, climbing onto the roof, grabbing her twin's hand, and leaning way to one side, staying on the car with perfect balance and help from her sibling. She pulls out a huge gun, and begins firing alternating streams of red and white acid-laced paint at the car with it to try and burn a target into them.
"We shoot them, Didi." says her sister, copying the maneuver, and pulling what appears to be a nerf dart gun, firing nerf darts with tiny explosives attached to them, trying to aim for her sister's target.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 06:02 am UTC (link)
Much as he wanted to take advantage of the insanity that seemed to be gripping the city, Valmont was a gentleman first. And gentlemen simply did not take advantage of a woman while she was drunk. It was rude. In this case, Gotham was the drunk woman and Valmont was out to make sure she wasn't violated this night.

He was on the rooftops, having just helped a mother of two barricade herself inside her home with her children to keep some thugs out, when he spotted the unmistakable vehicle of the Jokerz. They were always a little too loud in their appearances. His attention was caught when he saw the twins, those delightfully curvy and flexible red-heads that for some reason wasted their talents on chaos. Climbing out of the car and firing on another had his eyes flick over and with the increased vision his goggles gave him, Valmont spotted the masked face of what he could only presume to be a heroine.

Women fighting women. Had there been more mud and less projectile weapontry, the night would have been damn near perfect.

Valmont crouched on the edge of the building, breath held for a few moments while he waited for the clown car to swerve appropriately...

And then he was in the air, falling to land on the top of the car just behind and between the twins. His hands moved to grab their wrists where they held onto each other, "Hello Ladies, lovely night for a moonlit ride, don't you agree."

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-27 06:06 am UTC (link)
Jane swerved to avoid the shots. She makes a face and glances at Mia then back at the people chasing them.

"Wait. What the...? Do we have an ally?" She shakes her head as she tries to keep up with the fancy driving. There is smoke outside of her car and something is eating at one of the doors.

"Can you help him?"

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-27 06:11 am UTC (link)
Mia noddeding, knocking an arrow in bow. "You bet," she said, rolling down the window so she could get out far enough to fire an arrow at one of the girls.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 06:15 am UTC (link)
Anyone else would be totally taken aback by the surprise tactic and someone landing on their car with them. They were already being insane enough. Being who they are, the Didis take it in stride.

"Look Didi, I think he likes us." one says.
"I think he wants to hold our hand, Didi." she answers.
"One problem with that, Didi."
"What's that, Didi?

"I really fucking hate the Beetles." she answers, pointing her nerf explosive gun at Valmont's head in close quarters.
"Say hello to John Lennon for me."
It might have worked too, however inadvisable the tactic, except an arrow shoots the gun out of her hand.

"Damnnit, we're chasing them, they're not supposed to shoot back."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 06:25 am UTC (link)
"Ladies, ladies," Valmont chided, pulling himself closer to them after letting the gun flip past his shoulder and get lost on the road. "I'm a fan of the classics myself. Tchaikovsky, Handel, Wagner... Have you heard the Bugler's Dream by Arnaud?"

Hands closing on their wrists, he let himself fall backward, intending to pull them off balance with his own weight. Hopefully one or both would land on his chest. "I believe he must have been dreaming about you."

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-27 06:29 am UTC (link)
"Is he flirting with them?!" Jane yelps and goes around a car ahead of her cutting off the view for a minute. Car horns are blaring all around them.

"Never mind. I don't want to know. You hero types are weird enough anyways without hitting on people with guns," Jane snarks. She really shouldn't snark and drive but, what the hell. Her uto guy is still going to kick her ass when they get back to Star City. She can live a little.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-27 06:36 am UTC (link)
"Watch the driving!" Mia said, moving out of the way to avoid getting hit by a car, "I'd like to keep my head, thanks!"

She pulled out another arrow, a tangling one this time, and fired it at the direction of the twins.

"He's helping us get them off our tail. That works for me."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 06:42 am UTC (link)
"I think we're falling for him, Didi!" one shouts, starting to lose her balance.
"That's ok, let's have a whirl, Didi." replies her sister, throwing her weight a different direction, her sister quickly catching on to the teamwork as they try to pit their two sets of weight against his to spin and throw him in unison, trying to get him off the car.

The driver, meanwhile, tries to keep on the trail of the car ahead. When the girls ahead swerve, he hits a button, and the car pops up, and the wheels out, like something from a cartoon, carrying them safely over the careening obstacle.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 06:58 am UTC (link)
The spin is successful and Valmont goes flying... straight onto the hood of Jane's car. His body making a dent in the metal as he gave a groan and scrabbled for a hand-hold.

When he had one, he turned back to the twins and sent a grapple line flying to (hopefully) entangle their legs, "It seems we've gotten off on the wrong foot, my lovely ladies of lunacy. Allow me to correct this!"

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-27 07:00 am UTC (link)
The one thing Mia can do in this situation-shoot for the tires.

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-27 07:01 am UTC (link)
"My car," Jane bemoans. But their lives are just as important really. She'll just punch a Jokerz or whatever these clown faces call themselves right in the kisser a couple of times.

"Okay. So they can keep up with me. Does it look like they're herding me anywhere?" They want to get to Arkham after all.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-27 07:04 am UTC (link)
"Far as I can tell...no. But I'm trying to get them off our tail," she said as she continued to fire arrows at the tire. "A flat should slow them down."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 07:13 am UTC (link)
A grapple line lashes around the leg of one Didi.
"Uh oh."

The arrows hit, taking out one wheel, and the car goes into a spin. While the driver tries to get control back, what looks like a were-hyena leaps out of the passenger window, and goes bounding after the car.
Meanwhile, the Didis are pulled off the roof of their car by the grapnel line.
Didi one goes bouncing along the hood, then onto the street, skidding along the concrete on her butt, her sister in tow.
Her sister manages to snag a trash can lid on her way by, and with acrobatic flair, they manage to get righted, Didi #1 hooking a foot under the handle and using the lid as a waterski, holding onto Valmont's line and steering them side to side out of the way of arrows. The main sign of her encounter with the street being having torn out the back of her clown shorts, giving everyone behind her a peek at her Hello Kitty panties.
Didi #2 gets on her sister's shoulders while she water-skis, taking aim with the acid paintgun and opening fire on the back of the car.

The hyena picks up his pace, bounding over cars and dumpsters in hot pursuit.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 07:20 am UTC (link)
"Sorry ladies, it seems I've been spoken for so I'll have to let you go!" Valmont called back with a smile as the acid hit the car near his feet and ate away at the glass. He released the line as a second shot was fired and pulled himself over the side to avoid the next splash. He can only fight one handed at them moment, the other needed to hold on for dear life, but he could at least get a few knives out to throw at the hyena... thing.

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-27 07:26 am UTC (link)
"Jesus Christ! They're really going all out," Jane barks. She gets why. She just isn't used to people like this being after her.

Instantly she feels guilty because Mia is in danger just by being here. But she gets over it. Mia is a hero nyways, she should be used to this.

"I'm going to try and get us into the industrial section. Near the ware houses. I don't want us endangering civilians. We'll deal with them then head onto Arkham," Jane says suddenly taking command of the situation. So she does that to avoid any mess.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-27 07:33 am UTC (link)
Mia nodded. "Right," she said, climbing back inside the car. "I can't knock him out anyway. Too risky."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 07:38 am UTC (link)
Didi #1's eyes open wide as the rope loses tautness.
"Our therapist was right, Didi, we're backsliding."
"We still have a parting gift for them, Didi." her sister responds as the trash can lid continues to fly along, slowly losing speed and no longer having a control mechanism.

She pumps the squirt-guns attached water grenade launcher, and fires what seems like a water balloon at the open window of the car.
Whether it hits its target or not, it explodes, the liquid spraying over whatever surface it strikes releasing some sort of sweet smelling gas - laughing gas in fact. (normal, not Joker gas)

With that parting shot, the Didis go skidding, eventually hitting a dumpster, both ending up flipping and rolling into the trash.

"We've been dumped, Didi." one says sadly.
"Hos before Bros, sis." the other replies, with a comforting pat on the back.
"What?"


Woof, meanwhile, remains in hot pursuit of the car, giggling madly all the way as he races along on all fours.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-27 07:45 am UTC (link)
Valmont thanked whichever god was listening that he was as intelligent and well-bred as he was. If he hadn't thought to put a gas-mask into his costume, just under what looked like a simple cloth bandana, he might have had to deal with loosing his grip to an unbearable case of the giggles. Not a very dignified way to go.

But as he had the good sense to equip himself properly (another thank you was sent to which ever higher power might be out there for that intelligence), he was left still clinging to the roof of the car with one hand and tossing another volley of knives at that laughing lunatic. He was running out of knives. "Get back, Mongrel! These ladies are not your meal tonight!"

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-27 07:50 am UTC (link)
Jane could hear their friend of the night. She almost smiled before remembering that she didn't really care to be called a lady. Yeah sure she was but she wasn't delicate or anything.

It didn't matter. They were away from the other cars and pulling towards some warehouses.

"Think I should pull over so we can take care of that thing trying to get us?"

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-28 02:28 am UTC (link)
Mia rolled her eyes. Was this guy seriously for real?

"That....might be best. I don't want to shoot him to risk any pile-ups."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-28 02:41 am UTC (link)
Woof isn't the brightest, but he is fast, very fast. He evades side to side, dodging past the projectiles thrown his way, before one finally hits him.

As the knife buries in flesh, the hysterical high pitched laughter turns into a throaty snarl. He lashes out with his claws, tearing right through the hood of a nearby car.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-28 02:51 am UTC (link)
Valmont was all for heroics to impress a woman. But claws that could rend metal would do him greivious bodily harm and that was something he simply could not condone.

"Ladies, I would advise that you DO NOT SLOW DOWN! The mongrel seems intent on making us his meal and from the force of those claws I do believe he has a very good chance of that! Please, keep driving!"

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-28 03:01 am UTC (link)
Jane winced at the sight. Their new friend was right. She presses a button and her window rolls down just a fraction.

"Hey! Hold on tight. I'm going to see if I can loose them."

She glances back at Mia as she presses on the gas a little harder. "Hold onto your pants."

She starts taking turns as quickly and as safely as they can afford to. Weaving in-between buildings and onto different streets. She is obeying the traffic laws when she can but is bordering on dangerous to get the people and thing after them as confused as possible.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-28 03:14 am UTC (link)
"I can do that. As for holding onto my lunch....can't promise much there."

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-28 03:20 am UTC (link)
As long as there's something to chase, Woof keeps up hot pursuit. He bounds from car to car, even with them in motion, leaving claw gaps through the metal as he gives chase. A couple times he comes close - they're faster when they have open road, he corners better.
At one point he's close enough to take a good swipe, and with it, Jane is left with four long, deep clawmarks along the back of her car, and Woof, in turn, is left holding onto her rear bumper.

That's as close as he comes though, and as they near Arkham, with a different sort of conflict visible in the distance, he loses track of them around a series of corners.

Chase instinct dying down, he cackles, and heads back to the Jokerz with the bumper over one shoulder to show Ghoul and the Didis his new souveneir of chasing cars.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-28 03:32 am UTC (link)
Valmont, decidedly not pleased with heading toward the loony bin, can only hold on and be thankful that last swipe of claws did not, in fact, graze his legs.

After the mutt stops giving chase and it's clear that it has done so, he calls down, "Any time ladies. My stamina may be legendary, but even I have limits."

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-01-28 03:40 am UTC (link)
Jane pulls over and gets out after putting her car into park. She stares at the damage her car took then sighs. It could be much worse.

"Thanks for helping us. But we need to part ways. Don't think I can convince you to go where we're heading." She still offers him a smile and holds out her hand to offer him a friendly handshake.

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[info]redarrowmia
2010-01-31 03:59 am UTC (link)
Mia nodded, adjusting her mask. No slipping. Not here, certainly. "It's much appreciated," she said, her tone cool.

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[info]gotham_rogues
2010-01-31 11:20 pm UTC (link)
After slipping off the roof of the car, Valmont nods along to Jane's words, ignoring them mostly and pulling down his mouth covering to breath a bit better. And when she offers her hand, he takes it but draws it to him, flipping it elegantly so he can kiss her knuckles.

"It was an absolute pleasure to be able to aid you, madam," Valmont murmured once his mask was back in place and his voice sufficiently muffled. His fingers released hers reluctantly and he turned to give a polite half bow to Mia, "I am Valmont, might I have the honor of knowing your names?"

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[info]jdoesmith
2010-02-01 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Both eye brows go up and she blinks like a very startled deer. She doesn't quite blush but he has her flustered none the less. She won't dwell on it because she has him pegged as a grifter in her mind from the get go. Something about the way he presents himself just has her feel that way.

She flexes her hand once it's free.

"You can call me Jane." The look she sends to Mia says they need to close this up fast.

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