GoesBothWays (goesbothways) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-11 20:19:00

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Guns, guns, guns... and hamburgers
A girl needs to eat. After that whole Weapon X thing went belly up, it took her a while to tap into Daddy's contacts to find a job, but Rose Red, whoever she is, pays awfully well. Right now Crosshairs is being paid awfully well to keep track of a meeting between some people working for the Kingpin. Dangerous business, but what does she care?
Sure, odds she'll get to play with her babies on this one are limited, but c'est la vie... that'll come once she proves herself on recon.

And hey, as long as she has to keep an eye out for a particular couple of thugs, she might as well wander across the street to some burger place. Big Nick's - smells good, but she doesn't know the place. Plenty of window seating, anyway. After all, now that she has a source of income, and needs to do stakeout duty anyway, a girl's gotta eat.

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lady_hood
2010-03-12 07:10 am UTC (link)

The crimson eyes under the hood widen in shock as Crosshairs takes a bullet to the head. This wasn't supposed to happen. King and his people were supposed to die, not Kelly!

But just when Melissa thought she herself had cornered the market on weird shit, she sees Kelly sit up from a head shot and...spit out the bullet, before joining her behind cover.

"Holy Shit." says the woman wearing the demon cloak and boots in that still modulated voice.

"You just joked about taking a head shot. Even I have to give props for that." Melissa says, listening for her guns to give her the ready signal. There is an audible click, and Melissa smiles underneath the hood as she knows her guns have reloaded.

She peeks out from their hiding place to see that one of the thugs now has a submachine gun.

"Can you draw their fire for a moment? I'm going to take care of the guy with the heavy weapon." Melissa says. She takes a deep breath and vanishes from Kelly's sight.

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goesbothways
2010-03-12 07:16 am UTC (link)

Kelly waggles her brows. "Yeah, don't worry, my boo-boos have this way of getting better, no kissing or band-aids needed. Only holes that stay in me are the ones that came factory installed... and if you want to kiss one of those, you have to buy me dinner first... or, you know, say please." she replies cheerily.

Draw fire, yeah, she can do that. She bounces up from behind cover again, opening fire til her guns run out, staying up just long enough to get attention before dropping, rolling, and popping back up, sticking her tongue out at the guy with the heavier artillery.

"Compensating much?"

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	nextgen_baddie 2010-03-12 07:35 am UTC (link)
	He opens fire on her -- they all do -- opening fire on her and ignoring the woman behind cover. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lady_hood
2010-03-12 07:41 am UTC (link)

Melissa's invisibility lasts as long as she can hold her breath, so the moment she vanishes from Kelly's sight, she moves around the room as quickly as possible (she's up to three and a half minutes on breath holding) and tries to get in position behind the guy with the semi-automatic.

When she's behind them as best she can be, she exhales, and opens fire on the man with the machine gun, followed by his friends, trying to take down as many as possible and alleviate the pressure on Kelly and give her time to heal.

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goesbothways
2010-03-12 07:45 am UTC (link)

She's target practice right now and she knows it. While she keeps firing back, its hard to aim when you're being pelted with submachinegun fire. Particularly since she isn't actually invulnerable in any way, she just gets better from pretty damn near anything. Eventually, she falls under the hail of gunfire, but is pulling herself back up, holstering her empty auto-pistols and drawing her Colt Python as she regards her full-of-holes shirt.

"A for effort, apparently BBB for accuracy... damnit, my new girlfriend probably wanted first shot at those." she pouts, firing into the gang, making sure not to shoot 'Jane'.

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	nextgen_baddie 2010-03-12 07:47 am UTC (link)
	Outside, they can hear a car rev, even as the bodies in the room are hitting the floor. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lady_hood
2010-03-12 07:55 am UTC (link)

Melissa wants to kill King so badly she can taste it. But Kelly wasn't supposed end up as Swiss cheese to facilitate that.

King would get off lucky tonight, but he couldn't escape her forever. She'd find him, and she'd kill him.

One of the hoods gets the drop on her, and feels two bullets hit her in the back. They don't go through her cape's enchantments, but they both feel as if someone just hit her the kidneys with a sledgehammer. She groans in pain, then turns and unloads on the guy.

As soon as their attackers are lying on the floor in pools of her own blood, Melissa limps her way back over to Kelly and removes her hood, looking at her.

"Good shooting, gorgeous. We need to go, though. I can already hear sirens."

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	goesbothways 2010-03-12 07:58 am UTC (link)
	Kelly taps her head. "Follow me, my employer showed me all the ways in and out of here." she replies, pausing to check one of the dead suits, going through his pockets real quick. Looks like King had what she really wanted, but this will do for now. "Ok, got part of what I came for, and I've seen your boyfriend's face, I'll keep at it. You going to be ok?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_hood 2010-03-12 08:01 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, I'll be fine." she pains, ignoring the twinge in her back. "I've got spells for this at home. This is a good night compared to some of the others I've been in." "Lead the way." Melissa says, hurrying to keep up, despite the pain. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-03-12 08:06 am UTC (link)
	She heads off into the back alleyway, then heads up the fire escapes to rooftop-to-rooftop it, giving 'Jane' a hand up here and there. "Good night? Not yet." she replies impishly. "I dunno too much about your voodoo, but I got a safehouse near here and plenty of vodka, if that'll do for now? Wanna come over and compare war stories?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_hood 2010-03-12 08:10 am UTC (link)
	"You just said the magic words." Melissa grins. "Yeah, my place is too far tonight, and I could botch the teleport to get there. Your place on our first date. Technically, I bought you dinner. Jimmy didn't charge you, did he?" she asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-03-12 08:13 am UTC (link)
	"Huh, so that was you? I thought he might'a been paying me back for the floor show. Or too dumbstruck ta ring it up." she agrees cheerfully. "So first date we took apart a gang deal... does the fact you're counting this, and keeping track, mean on the third date you go all the way to high explosives?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_hood 2010-03-12 08:15 am UTC (link)
	"Why wait for the third date for what we can do on the next? I know a warehouse the Kingpin owns on Pier 34. I say we start the 4th of July a few months early. You in?" she asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

goesbothways
2010-03-12 08:20 am UTC (link)

"Normally I'd say yes, or rather, yesyesyesyesyesohgodyousexybeastyes." she replies in an even tone.
"But let me check with my boss. Because she might just like that kind of celebration and give us a fireworks budget. I could give a rat's ass one direction or the other about the Kingpin, but if I can blow up a pier and get paid for it, even better. I'll also check with the boss, have her check you out... after I'm done checking you out, of course, and see if she'd agree to putting you on the payroll. Beats stripping or waitressing, right?"

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	lady_hood 2010-03-12 08:24 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, definitely beats those." Melissa said, not having any knowledge of either. Her mother left her a ton of money, but getting paid to kill the Kingpin's people will make this even more worth while. "You talk to you boss about me and I'll make it worth your while." Melissa grins, following Kelly into the night. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-03-12 08:28 am UTC (link)
	Kelly tries to keep her free-running tendencies down to help Jane keep up, heading for her hidey-hole and making sure not to get too far ahead. "I can't wait to hear how you plan to do that." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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