[Heromux] Typoid Croyd: Reasonable Arguments!

yphoid Croyd: Reasonable Arguments!
Kiden makes a good point.
Location:	Soho containment zone.
Date:	2015.04.01
Emitter:	Croyd Crenson
Players:	Croyd Crenson, Cir-El, Nate Grey, Kiden Nixon
NPCs:	Stimpy the Earth Golem, Sentinels
Groups:	Stormwatch
Tone:	Heroic, Comedic
Rating:	Public

The city is looking much better these days. The walls aren't bleeding. Fewer and fewer are getting infected. There are giant evi...human friendly robots patrolling the skies to nab the baddies. A cure has been developed! A cheer moves like a shockwave through the exhausted federal and international workers in the worst disease outbreak in decades, possibly a century. The cure won't hit everyone but it will affect most. A massive plan of airships with disperance, and mass produced vaccine guns is all planned. All is well.
Until Croyd wakes up that is. It's a potion thing, you see, a last fit after he had gone to sleep, eyes blood red and completely fruit loops, he grows to his full size and has a giant earth golem pound the side of the police van the jar was kept in until it is made a hole. Croyd means to go to ground, some place secret, some place safe.
And he would have gone, peacefully.
Until the giant robots began to hover in the sky and say loud things through their megaphones. Croyd returned fire with plasma blasts which bounced off the robots that were prepared for it.
Cir-El has been keeping an ear poised towards STAR labs, not only did she leave Croyd there, but they are working on a new costume for her. So when she hears the sounds of combat and sirens and alarms, she is off like a shot. Literaly since she is faster than a speeding bullet. She arrives to se a gaping hole in the building, sentinels in the skies, and Croyd and a large rocky figure trying to leave...
Kiden was drawn to the area by your everyday FREAKIN' HUGE EARTH GOLEM. Okay, so maybe not so everyday, but despite being out of the loop entirely. That was one thing she couldn't miss, it just felt far too real for her to be tripping, and she cautiously approaches the vicinity for a better look, peeking across the wall of an alley way. She doesn't think jump into action, so much as where's my popcorn.
It was Nate who told the SRD Croyd was the cause of the outbreak and gave them a description. He hated to do it, but the Sleeper was infecting hundreds and crazy due to the MGH, and Stormwatch failed to capture him.
If he had known about the Sentinels, he would have kept quiet. Last time Sentinels were deployed, they murdered several mutants, including a couple children. The X-Men destroyed them, but clearly the plans ended in the hands of the US military. It is not going to end well.
The last few days Nate, as Scion, has been helping with the contention tasks, using his telepathy to knock out the new metals that couldn't control their powers, and other support tasks. But now the Sentinels seem to be attacking someone, he flies to the fight at high speed.
The Robots scan Nate, Cir-El and Kiden and bzzt, "Criminal Record. Negative." They seem to REALLY REALLY wanna do something to Nate though but aren't. Yet. "Back away mutant Scion. Back away mutant Kiden Nixon. Back away alien....quasi Kryptonian. The criminal Croyd Crenson is to be taken for trial. Interference will be a federal offense and marked with hostile retaliation. This is your only warning."
The Earth Golem tosses a giant BLOB of dirt at one of the sentinels who dodges out of the way with relative ease. "I Got ya warrants right here Robo Cobs!" Croyd laughs insanely.
Cir-El is not certain whatto make of the Sentinels really, in her prior encounter SHIELD considered them annoying, but seemed to accept their presence. She sould probably stop the golem or any one of the giant robots without much trouble, but should she? She decides that her place in this, for now, is to minimize collateral damage and casualties. She notes the other two identified by the robots, but neither is familiar to her. She backs away about a half a kilometer and waits, she expects to have to intervene soon enough.
Kiden hasn't an inkling who here is the good guy, and who is the bad, either way...giant robot or giant golem, both are very well equipped for Kiden smooshing. That is why she cleverly doesn't approach, who said you can't make smart choices in life if you drop out of high school!
Nate growls, "Back off your..." and then Croyd shows he is still crazy stupid. He catches the blob of dirt telekinetically. "Croyd, stop already. Where the hell have you been?" The blob of dirt gets dumped on top of the head of one of the robots. "Are you taking speed already? It is too early."
No one attacks the robots. They seem...shocked. Well. That's all good them. They look at each other and say, "Do not touch the target." Because you know, saying obvious things like that is something they do. Stun beams are shot in a prismatic ball of purple nastiness, with the earth golem (totally unaffected) roaring and shielding Croyd from a lot of it but still knocking him slightly senseless. Plasma blasts quickly return and...one of the robots is scorched a little.
Croyd looks at Nate, "It's the Martians! They're comin ta GET US!" He REALLY looks out of it, like if Croyd's insanity were a 3 on a scale of the Mwahahahahaometer, Croyd is now dialed up to a full 9, just short of Darkseid.
One of the sentinels goes, "Error. Error. Sensors."
The lead sentinel says, "Use Radar. Sentinel Beta Leader requesting instructions regarding Mutant interference. Understood." For now, they are ignoring Nate.
Cir-El says helpfully (shouting though probably not heard), "I thought you had concluded it was the Joker who was behind it all." Ok, so perhaps it was not THAT helpful. Still, so far things are not out of control. The Damage this far seems mostly limited to the stone giant, the robots, and possibly Croyd.
Nate stares to Croyd gone maniac. This time he is looking straight into his mind, because he doesn't want to lose his psychic signature until the man is sleeping this off. "Green Martians or Red Martians, Croyd?" He adds with a smirk. "Nevermind. Lets get out of here, so Void can find you a nice desert island in the middle of nowhere to spend a few days surfing or something." He hovers closer to Croyd, trying to catch him in his telekinesis while the Sentinels are asking for instructions.
At this point Kiden is starting to surmise that Croyd is a powered being that just so happens to be on drugs, technically, she gets that way sometimes. But at least she's responsible, Croyd seems entirely out of his mind. Kiden decides she might be able to calm things down, and walks out of her hiding spot in the alley, waving at Croyd, "yo! Tripping Man Dude Person...you think you might want to calm down before you hurt someone? I think it'll be highly appreciated!"
That never works right? I mean, seriously? Reasoning with the crazed out villain. But Croyd blinks and nods, "Wow. You know....when you put it that way, you're right. I could have really hurt someone this way." He looks at the Earth Giant and says,"Hey dude. It's cool. Why don't you like...go be at peace with the earth or something."
The Giant gives a giant thumbs up and begins to merge into the ground.
He smiles at Nate, "Well, that's an awesome idea...have Void take me to ...I dunno...Tahiti or so-"
GLOM. Croyd is engulfed in a holding pod which is semi opaque and strapped to the sentinel's back.
"Thank you for your cooperation citizens."
Well, that went fairly well. Croyd is placed back in containment, hopefully until he is no longer contagious. It is unfortunate that he will likely be in jail quite a while beyond that. In the meantime, Cir-El has some quick repairs to make to the Building so that it does not collapse...
What the hell? Nate's left eye glows with power as he prepares to blast the Sentinel to scrap metal. They put Croyd in a pod just as he was calming and now... wait a minute, he is in insulated pod thing.
Nate smirks unpleasantly to the Sentinels. "Thank you for your cooperation, rustbucket. Tahiti is it, buddy." He grabs the pod and pulls, up, flying away rather quickly.
Kiden blinks in surprise at what happens next, she was fully prepared to knock Croyd out while he was all confused by her. But to have him actually listen to her and chill? She looks stunned for a moment, then gestures a "that's what I do every tuesday" kind of pose, before muttering to herself, "guess a Young Ally saves the day...the awesomeness of me."