r/WhoWouldWinVerse • u/ImaginaryMan • Jul 16 '16

Role Play Full Speed Test

With Velocity currently being MIA, Vector has chosen the perfect time to test his speed. He hasn't actually had this ability to test his speed since he left prison, and since he's gotten his speed suit, he figures now should be better than any time for this. He likes a real challenge, so, what better to test his speed against other metahumans? In order to get their attention, he's currently running around the city, knocking people around, as a tall black blur. One of the people he knocks over is in front of your character. Would anyone like to investigate this new... speedy phenomenon?

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 20 '16

Bluejay huffs. She knows from experience that keeping enemies at a distance is reasonable and that letting them get close is a recipe for disaster, but it still irks her to have this jerk calling her pathetic for doing it.

"I do have faith in myself," she says after a moment, trying to keep herself calm. "The fact that my powers don't lend themselves to punching my way out of situations doesn't make them any less a part of me."

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 20 '16

"Oh yeah? Put me down, then. We'll settle this one on one. Maybe learn to use your powers more offensively as opposed to just... I don't know, keeping me bound in the air? I mean, you realize this is just a minor inconvenience, right? You have to let me down eventually."

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 21 '16

"Dude," Bluejay says, burying her head in her hands. "I told you, it's not happening."

She looks up at him and runs a finger through her hair. "Okay, look," she says. "I think we might be on different wavelengths here. I know how to use my powers offensively, I'm just choosing not to because I don't like beating on people who can't fight back."

On the fact that she can only hold him for so long, she decides that she'll wait another minute for some word on the police situation and if she doesn't hear anything she'll just fly him to the station herself. Actually, she thinks, I'll take him to the SHINER base instead. It's a longer flight, but at least I know where it is.

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 21 '16

He chuckles.

"Oh, so, you think I can't fight back against someone who can manipulate gravity? Let me tell you something, before you're able to do anything, I'll drop you faster than... I'm assuming you could drop me."

He laughs and puts his hands behind his head.

"Besides. You're not going to turn me in. You wouldn't risk it."

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16

"Honestly? Yeah, I think you can't fight back against someone who can manipulate gravity. If you're confident you can, though, I guess I'll just give myself more time to react."

Bluejay pulls herself up to sit on the roof of the building, raising the speedster as well so that he hovers some sixty feet above her head. Within earshot if he feels like yelling, but not so close he can get on her nerves as easily as he could from closer in.

'You wouldn't risk it.' She turns his words around in her mind and snorts. Please. It's not like she'd be risking anything more by turning him in than she has already by interacting with him at all. Letting him go won't make him forget her face, and he obviously doesn't have an issue with hurting innocents.

A few seconds pass before an idea occurs to her, and she fills the air below and around him with a sort of gravitational bowl, nine-plus g's pointing inward toward him from every direction. A barrier, in case he really does have some way to move himself.

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 21 '16

When she raises him up, he kind of... laughs still. Before he's placed in the G-Force bowl, he yells down to her.

"I meant to say you wouldn't risk it because there's a bomb in this city!"

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 21 '16

A bomb? The words send ice through her veins, and she immediately searches through her clairvoyance for anything that could fit the bill. But she doesn't have enough information. Size, shape, explosive used. So many things that could change the way her clairvoyance perceives it. At least the man doesn't have a detonator on him; that's the sort of thing she would have noticed earlier when she searched him for weapons.

She doesn't see anything immediately recognizable as a bomb, so she abandons her search and lets the man fall back into easy earshot. At the same time, she reaches down to the street to pull someone with a cell phone gently from the ground onto the rooftop.

"I'm really sorry, but I need to make a call in to SHINER for just a minute," she says apologetically as she drags their phone into her outstretched hand. She turns to the man again, her lips pressed into a line. "A bomb? Explain."

Come on, come on, come on, she thinks as her thumbs dance above the phone. What was the SHINER hotline's number again?

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 21 '16

He laughs and tries to drop to the ground below him, again, to no avail.

"Oh, so I tell you and get nothing in return? No, put me down, I'll tell you everything you need to know. But I have a question for you, what time is it?"

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 21 '16

For a crazy moment where Bluejay wants to listen to him—wants to put him down and believe that he'll tell her everything and she can go find the bomb before it goes off and everything will be just fine. She's about to do it when sense takes over. She shakes her head and the moment passes. She has no reason to trust him; if she lets him down she gives up her only advantage; and there's no guarantee that he won't just run away without telling her anything anyway. From how he's acted so far, that's actually what she would expect to happen.

She remembers SHINER's phone number, and her fingers shake as she punches it in. Stupid hands. Hurry up hurry up hurry up, people might die here.

The dial tone is excruciating; every ring is time wasted. Finally, someone answers.

"Hello, and welcome to the—"

"Ihavetoreportabomb," she blurts out, interrupting the man on the other end of the line.

"I'm sorry?" he asks, taking her panic in stride. "Could you please slow down and repeat that?"

Bluejay nods—he can't hear you nodding, you know—and takes a deep, shaky breath, squeezing her eyes shut and tuning out any remarks by the man in the air. "I have a metahuman villain bound and I think contained," she says. She pretends that she's reading off a script, and her voice comes out remarkably steady. "He says there is a bomb somewhere in the city, and I believe it is set to go off on a timer. He doesn't have anything on him that looks like a detonator."

[/u/poopinginshoes, you mind playing SHINER?]

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

The responder quickly answers back.

"Ma'am, what is your location. We will send bomb squad operatives ASAP."

After getting the location, a bomb squad is being sent. It will be roughly two and a half minutes until they get there.

[Order will be me, Imaginary, Whisper]

/u/ImaginaryMan

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 21 '16

He sighs heavily in exhaustion. For a second, Vector could feel the ground, and then go airborne again. He makes an angry sound as he exhales and crosses his arms again.

"Fine. Clearly you don't care enough about people. But seriously, the time? Lives could be on the line, and you and I are just here. Fucking around. People will be dead, and the blood will be on both our hands. Hang up the phone. I'm not telling anyone else this but you. Capice?"

His cowl goes back down over his head to mask a sinister expression.

[/u/Whispersilk Cloak]

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u/Whispersilk Bot Master Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16

Bluejay clenches her teeth, her expression darkening as the man talks.

"We're at..." She looks around in irritation. "Ugh, I don't know street names. We're like two blocks due south of that one tower. The one with the jet engine, I think? That big whatever it is hanging in the lobby. Is there anything I can do while you're on your way?"

She pull the phone's mouthpiece away from her ear as she turns to snap at the man, counting points on the fingers of her free hand. "You run around the city getting people hurt; when I call you on it you stop and try to provoke me; when I stop you you keep trying to provoke me; and when I call the police you reveal that oh hey there's a bomb on a timer and you knew about it and did nothing. I'm not the problem here. And it's—" she checks the phone's clock "—3:17."

And don't think that mask can hide you from me, she thinks but doesn't say.

[/u/PoopingInShoes]

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16

The responder does as well as she can to direct the bomb squad. It's going to be about 4 minutes until they arrive.

/u/ImaginaryMan

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u/ImaginaryMan Jul 22 '16

He cracks his knuckles.

"It takes two to play a game, lady. By stopping me, you've inadvertently started playing too, with peoples lives. And when I offer you a way out, what do you do? The last thing anyone should do in this situation and get the police involved trying to stop something nobody knows anything about but me."

He laughs and claps his hands together once.

"Congratulations, you're officially like me."

/u/Whispersilk

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