[rednblack]

At the destruction of the spirit, Inanna tops off her taser, and sends it back up her arm slide. She reboots her Erika Elite to find a slew of messages from teammates suffering similar obstacles.  She pauses a moment on the side of the road to ponder her options, and sends a message to James.

<<@James [Inanna] How do you want to play this?  If they could get a spirit in the car, it's almost certainly bugged.  Should we advance to the airport as planned, or do you want to see if you can catch this guy?>>

Inanna then reboots the car, and wishes she had a bug scanner, not that she'd know what to do with it if one was available, but still, it'd at least give her something to do with her hands.

[Siren]

As you lie in wait, the rider takes a brief glance at you and stomps the gas on his bike in an attempt to outspeed your fire.  A small spray of kevlar and cotton leaps from the shoulder of his armored suit as your bullet glances off his protective gear.



The fleeing man is quite slow, and you are easily able to keep up with him.  He doesn't seem to notice you as he stops and pulls out a small bottle filled with tiny gray pellets.

[Siren]

As you creep up for your attack, the man takes notice of you.  He jumps back out of range of your attack, failing to notice that it was not he that was the target of your attack, but the bottle he holds, which shatters into thousands of tiny pieces as your shuriken sails into it.  Hundreds of tiny gray pellets rain to the ground from his hands.

The man stares at you a moment, then glances toward Inanna. He is a young looking male elf; silver hair and wearing black synthleathers.  A black metallic medallion in the shape of a simple circle hangs from his neck.

"Alright, alright I know when I'm beat. Shit, who'd have thought you coulda beat that? I'm not getting paid enough to die over this bullshit."

[Siren]

You hear the roar of a powerful engine as your tail rapidly rockets up behind you with the speed only a custom engine should be able to muster.  At this range, you clearly see a thin cable trailing from his helmet to the console of his bike. 

Your commlink blips in with another message from Eun Ju.

[Looks like you've got company.  Stay alive, I'm cooking up something; just need a few more seconds...]

Eun Ju's voice is interrupted by a powerful blast as your opponent blasts ahead of you and turns sharply into your path, cutting you off by less than a meter.

[Siren]

As the spirit goes down, the biker takes a brief look toward Baro, then the rest of the team, turns sharply, and speeds the opposite way away.

[gilga]

The toxic spirit aura was dark and corrupted radiating negative emotions.  Within a split second Mr. T’s aggressive aura ‘kicked' the spirit sending it swirling and turning towards IT who lunched pure and uncorrected mana towards the spirit.  IT’s mana engulfed spirit, crushing it, shrinking it... until the spirit was only a tiny point. In the next moment  - pain, hatred and passion sprayed over the entire scene as  the spirit's essence exploded into million pieces.

Yako’s aura was clearly visible, it seemed soaking wet covered with remains of the spirit’s essence. She stayed in the mid air for a split second, before she begun a long fall towards the ground. Mr.T acted quickly – he caught Yako and gently carried her to the ground. You fight like a spirit mage he said with appreciation as the two descended to the ground.

To those viewing the scene with their own eyes it was even more spectacular and colorful. For no noticeable reason, the toxic cloud suddenly exploded spraying bits of water all over the place. It was a bit foggy at first, but when the fog started to clear, an armored figure carrying a somewhat ‘foxy’ lady were clearly visible, along with an over sized hammer that just floated next to them.  The three objects seemed defy the rules of gravity as they gracefully descended to the ground.

[ScytheKnight]

Yako was fighting down a swirl of panic as the spirit started lifting her into the air, suddenly an eerily glowing armored figure came flying out of now-where landing a punishing kick before the spirit suddenly... exploded, the central core rippling before tearing itself apart, the tendrils of greasy smoke holding Yako flying apart like incorporeal shrapnel. Yako only has a moment to worry about the fall before the armored figure catches her and glides gently to the ground, Yako finally gathers her wits enough to realize it's another spirit and looks into the Astral, from there she notices IT retreating from the Astral back to her car.

Message to IT via DNI: Thanks for the assist... outright combat isn't my forte, especially against hostile spirits like that.

Yako was a bit surprised at the spirit's words, fumbling a reply before her feet touch the ground again and she moves over to her bike, hopping on it she rolls forward to IT's car.

[Malevolence]

"Alright, alright I know when I'm beat. Shit, who'd have thought you coulda beat that? I'm not getting paid enough to die over this bullshit."


"No one pays well enough to die for." James pulls out the plastic restraints from one of his pockets and displays them clearly to the man. He wants to tell the man that he won't hurt him, but Jaws's influence redirects his words. "I really want to hit you until you fall unconscious, but I don't want to carry you. You are coming with us one way or another, but you get to decide how this plays out."


He proceeds to secure the man's hands behind his back. Once he is done, he firmly grips the man to guide him toward the car, only pausing to indicate the spilled contents of the broken bottle. "What are those?"

[Csjarrat]

[Looks like you've got company.  Stay alive, I'm cooking up something; just need a few more seconds...]

Terrified, Flea checked the rear camera feed to get a fix on her assailant.
His speed was incredible, Flea had pushed hard and was topping 80mph on the straights but he'd closed the gap in seconds.
He must have been pushing 200mph by the time he swerved in front of Kyoko.
Sensing the incoming attack, she pumped the brakes and neatly avoided his trap, letting his huge speed differential create some space.

[Siren]

The man complies rather easily, and without too much obvious concern.  When asked about the pellets littering the ground, he smirks.

"Uranium, omae.  Good shit, too; took me weeks to get it right; damn shame to see it all go to waste."



The masked rider blasts past Flea, apparently not expecting to have failed in his maneuver. 

[Csjarrat]

Having bled most of her speed dodging the psycho's stunt, Flea kills the rest of it and jumps off her bike, running for the alleyway in search of the safety of the rooftops. She knew she stood no chance against a rider like that and her blood coursed through her veins as she tried to get onto ground more suited to herself.
//Fuck! under attack, bailing on foot. help needed!//

[rednblack]

After re-booting the car, Inanna places another MARK on it from her car rental agreement message and starts to head after the fleeing figure.  As she approaches, she sees James come out of the trees, and shatter, well something, that the man was carrying.  Next, she sees the man hold up his hands, and James attach some zip-ties. 

Good ghost, what is he thinking?

She directs the car to pull over next to the pair, and Inanna opens the passenger door.

"Care to fill me in?" she asks.

[ScytheKnight]

Yako rests her bike near IT's car and takes a moment to go through the backlog of messages sh hadn't really paid attention to while facing the spirit. Feeling concerned about the talk of tracking devices and other tampering to vehicles she takes her helmet off and checks her bike over carefully, fox ears pricked up and straining to hear anything her eyes might miss.

[gilga]

IT did not even exit the trunk, insted once seeing Flea's message she was back in the astral with her spirits. She positioned herself between Flea and her persuer manifested and ordered TAKE HIM OUT!

[Malevolence]

<< @Inanna [James] Toxic mage. Big bounty. Thought I'd get your say whether or not it was worth the risk of keeping him. Can't transport him conscious, though. Thought maybe you might have tranq patches. >>

<< @Team [James] I've captured a toxic mage here. Any ideas on safely transporting a spell caster? >>