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Solomon Lau On the Kowloon island of Hong Kong, a new community center is being opened in the Mong Kok district. A major shopping area, a combination of old and new buildings, and perhaps the busiest district in the world with an extremely high population density, it's easy to get lost here.

But getting lost isn't the situation today. The Portland Street Community Centre may be in a sometimes seedy district, but it's hoping to do good things, to try and reduce the more dangerous business in the area. The grand opening is supposed to be a big thing for the area, and so, there's a crowd of people around the building, which offers various athletic facilities, especially a swimming pool, along with meeting spaces and offices for various charitable organizations and NGOs.

The goal for those with Solomon Lau is, after the speech is done, to meet up with one Shaky Tsang, a pickpocket who knew his friend Jason Chen and was a contact for the conspiracy Jason was digging into. Solomon is dressed in a jacket suit, no tie, hands in his pockets, absolutely carrying hidden guns.

Throughout the community center are various people. Children in the main area looking longingly at the food table or the swimming pool across the way, older boys staring each other down and growling at each other to the amusement of the girls, a rabble of homeless around the door also gazing longingly at the food table, a shady man lingering away from others - probably their target. Big wigs and businessmen in fine suits stand at a podium, giving speeches about the community center and the future of tomorrow, to which everyone thanks each other afterwards.

Once the speeches end, everything's free game. The businessmen move to leave to their next engagements. People flock to the food, or go to take a look at the pool. The shady man waits for most of the people to get their first bite of food and dips over to grab a bite, before trying to retreat away to privacy. He could easily be intercepted.

Those with odd appearances or who are clearly Multiversal get stared at, hard. Some teenager mutters 'portal people' under his breath. Seems adjustment to the Multiverse may be difficult for some worlds.
Lory Thumper      Lory is used to getting stared at, really. She gets stared at even back home for being a bunny who is a cop. But, today at least she is undercover. She still has all her equipment, but a baggy hoodie a size or two too big for her at least lets her keep that equipment out of sight. She's standing near Solomon, hands also in her pockets. Though her eyes are scanning, always looking for people or things that might be out of place. She notes the shady man, but there really isn't a reason to stop him. If he is Solomon's contact, then they will meet him in a minute anyway. If he isn't, then there is no probable cause to stop him.

     So, instead she points him out to Solomon. "Hey, is that our guy?" she asks, pointing to the shady character headed away from the crowds.
Shigure     Shigure probably stands out like a sore thumb. Despite wearing more casual attire than her standard uniform. A white T-shirt with a stripy vest over top, and tan shorts with white sneakers. Her hair is done in a loose ponytail that hangs down her back.

    The main thing people might notice are her eyes. They seem to shift oddly, like camera shutters at times. She does try to mingle with the crowd, keeping an eye on how people move and react, murmuring softly into a throat-mic setup. <"Eyes on a shady character... he's heading away from the crowd now. Moving to follow unless one of you can head him off.">
Maya While she was unable to help Solomon Lau escape his former employers? She had heard of his problems and his world and something had caught her interest. So she had offered her aid, she's had the sense to not dress in something that screams off-world.

Though her outfit might be seen as a bit odd? Something for a day out or clubbing? The center seemed like a good step forward here too. She's happy to hear it out she looks over at the children who eye the food tables with a knowing look.

The children she raised often could get like that about festival time, lost in some of her more happy memories? She'll listen to the speech while keeping an eye out for their target she'll spot them.

She will snatch just a bit of food, as she'd long had a fondness for just the insane array of foods that Earth's wide array of cultures produced.

She takes note of Lory pointing the guy out and she'll take a closer look.

"Looks like it could be the case, Lory."

With this in mind? Maya will start calmly walking towards the figure, might as well get this started, right?
Tina Natsumi It hasn't been long since Tina's last brush with gangsters and death. Although she's managed to shake off the worst of the post-manslaughter jitters, the streamer is still a little on edge today even as she does little more than stand around and listen to speeches she's not particularly attentive to. It's all the usual junk, anyway, so she's got more important things to do.

Namely, grabbing some food and spreading her viewer count. "Howdy, y'all. It's ya girl, FreedomWithFries, and today, I'm at the openin' of the Portland Street Community Center! All the bigwigs finished talkin', so it's itme to get some grub on!" And so, Tina heads for the food table, gathering up a little bit of everything: Rice noodle rolls, fried fish balls, and some tripe to balance it all out.

She makes sure to get good video recordings of the food, of course. When she gets weird looks for being a Multiversal white girl, she just smirks and flashes the onlookers a quick peace sign before starting to eat and walk.

Her destination: Following the shady man. She doesn't try to intercept him, though, instead optin to just nonchalantly follow him while waving her phone around and recording everything. "Got a pool over there, a workout zone there, some... Borin' office junk there. Can you believe there's so many people out here? How busy do you think it's gonna be at the night markets?"

It's not entirely clear if she's talking to her companions or to her viewers.
Staren     Staren can be stared at. He's wearing a labcoat in public and has the tail and ears. But his just BEING here increases the chances things will get better on this world, after all. He spots Lory and Maya and offers them a smile and a wave, walking over and kind of following them as they go after someone. "What brings you here?"
Solomon Lau As the group slips in, various people in disguises or normal clothes, Shigure's eyes get some glances. Solomon looks 'local enough' that he slips through, radioing the others. <"Let's not spook him too bad, he'll probably bolt.">

Tina gets a crowd. Not because she seems Multiversal, but because she seems /American/. Some girl asks to take a picture with her, to tell all her friends in high school. A kid comes up and asks if her hair is really blonde or if she dyes it, while her mother comes and shushes her and tries to apologize. Meanwhile, another kid asks Staren if his tail and ears are real, and moves to pull on the tail before /his/ mother slaps his hand and pulls him away quickly.

As various people start approaching the shady man's direction and pointing him out, he absolutely decides to bolt. The poor pickpocket, Shaky Tsang, fears the police. He's a criminal, after all. Was he set up?

There's an emergency exit near the pool. He heads in that direction, trying to escape in the crowds. He's flight, not fight.

And then everything goes absolutely wrong.

The screeching of wheels can be heard right as it happens, as an armored truck, the type you'd see at a bank, crashes through the wall near the pool over the sounds of gunfire, smoking and burning, turned over and risking teetering straight into the pool. The driver is slumped over the wheel, a man in a leather jacket worn over a blood-soaked dress shirt, loosened tie over his shoulder, gun scattering out the door and into the pool. The back door has been blown off prior, but it's hard to make out the interior.

A black SUV roars towards it as chunks of cinder-block hurtle into the pool, before pulling over quickly. Behind it are several cars turned over completely, hit by the armored truck in what must have been a chase.

Armed figures disembark from the SUV, and more pull up behind it. Twenty gunmen in all, fifteen looking like regular goons, and five of them looking like 'leaders'. One of them, a man in a brown leather suit jacket and hat, holds up a rocket launcher. The other four leaders carry AK-47s and machetes, and them and their allies begin firing into the panicked and screaming crowd of civilians, indiscriminately killing anyone in their way.

A security guard fires at one of the attackers. A hail of automatic fire is returned further into the community center, eviscerating him and a bystander. Everyone is threatened. If the killers aren't stopped, there may be few survivors.

The man with the rocket launcher points it at the armored truck. His name is Fidel Lam. If he isn't stopped, he's going to finish the job.
Shigure     Shigure perks as the mark bolts, but before she can decide to chase, shit his the fan, and innocent people are threatened. She lifts her voice a quarter octave and speaks. "Everyone, please evacuate as calmly as possible. Make sure you have your children." She then steps out into the line of fire, summoning a backpack that sports two cannon barrels, and a smaller turret with two barrels onto her back. Torpedo tubes appear on her thighs as she steps forward, plucks a 'hand cannon' off of her rigging and takes aim at the rocket launcher man. She doesn't give him a chance to fire, opening up with a quick snapshot of an explosive shell, aiming it to land nearby and detonate to disable instead of kill.

    She then just jumps onto the pool, walking across the water instead of going around. She speaks, voice carrying even over gunfire. "Drop your weapons and surrender. I will not ask you a second time."
Tina Natsumi Never let it be said that Tina isn't one to showboat for her adoring public, especially when the attention is because of being SUPER AMERICAN. She poses with the girl, she smiles at the camera, and she even confirms the kid's question with the equivalent of "All-natural, pal!" in well-practiced Cantonese. The kid's mother, meanwhile, gets a grin and a more mellow "Smart kid you got there. Good work."

When those tires screech in the not-too-far distance, though, she's already twisting her phone around by the time the gunfire starts. "Get down!" She shouts to the civilians (still in Cantonese) as she flips her phone around once more, staring right at the reflection. "Time to get to work.. Uncle Sam!"

As expected by now, the red-white-and-blue robot appears in front of Tina, looking significantly larger and brighter than it normally does. The size is all an illusion, of course, as the real thing is only about a foot taller than the Persona user, but the gunmen don't need to know that. All they need to see is that a giant twenty-foot tall robot with a fake aerial hitbox just appeared with a bazooka pointed right at them.

"Surrender now! We're asking nicely, but this is the only chance you're getting!" Alas, Tina doesn't quite have the Cantonese equivalent of 'buckos' in her vocabulary, or she'd probably spit that at them as well before Uncle Sam fires off a concentrated blast of deafening air horn noises right at the more obvious threats with the rifles.
Maya Maya takes note of Staren and returns the gesture, he's looking good for someone who died recently. She will keep with the group as they go and she seems keen on the idea of not spooking the target. Tina meanwhile is getting mobbed thankfully Maya avoids it but shoots Tina a look of sympathy she's been there. Sadly it's too late the man bolts so it's going to be a case then, or that's what she thinks? Something is very wrong an SUV shows up, and a lot of gunmen show up, she already starting to move she knows weapons when she sees it. She's moving a hand goes into a pocket, she will cast a spell who cares about the opening use of magic right now.

Blue fire bleeds out of Maya's body and into the card she's holding and she pulls a second one with rapid speed.

She raises one hand sending a lighting bolt into the ranks of the men who have started firing on the crowd along with trying to interpose herself in harm's way that the attackers will have to get through her to get to the crowd or at least buy people more time to flee.
Staren     When things go south, and people start moving, Staren disappears.

    Low to the ground, a little black cat bounds between feet and circles around behind the people attacking civilians. And then it's Staren again, holding what looks like a pistol, which he fires at center-of-mass of the attackers. The bullets airburst feet short of their targets, exploding into lances of high-energy physics designed to put neat little holes in tanks.

    THEN he speaks. "I am the Hand of the Concord. Surrender now and you will LIVE."
Lory Thumper      Lory is a bit surprised when Tina draws a crowd but a bunny in a hoodie is barely noticed, but that just means Lory is free to chase after the shady character. That is until a veritable army breaks through the walls and starts shooting!

     Lory throws off her hoodie and charges. She leaps when she nears the pool and lands on the diving board, then uses it as a springboard to launch herself over the crowd of hostiles. As she somersaults overhead she drops a number of those discs she keeps on her belt. They turn out to be flashbangs and riot foam grenades. Lory lands in a crouch after, just riot shield and one of her gauss pistols ready. "Stand down and surrender or lethal force will be used! This is your only warning!"
Solomon Lau When there's terror, there's heroes. Shigure tries to get people to calm down, but the sheer bloodbath makes that difficult, as they're all panicking, shielding their children and trying to get them out. The hail of gunfire is making it difficult for them to leave, though.

Shigure fires an explosive shell at a range to disable Fidel Lam. It works, sort of. The blast knocks him back, preventing him from destroying the armored truck, but it doesn't disable him. As the smoke clears, Shigure is greeted with a missile to the face. Disposing of the missile launcher afterwards, and getting tossed an assault rifle from someone near the black vans, Fidel Lam is still standing. And he starts shouting, to the cheers of his allies.

"Down with fascists!"

There's a pause.

"Down with anti-fascists!"

"Down with motherfucking EVERYBODY!"

Well, there's their ideology, if you can call it that. Tina blasts sonic waves at the shooters, knocking several into the pool and her giant robot has multiple bursts of fire at it, before it gets focused on by a man with a machete. Nails Lee is a bad man, and his machete is similarly nasty, as he charges across the side of the pool, running across slippery water, and slides straight into Uncle Sam to carve into it with the machete. He briefly gets knocked backwards and against the wall by a sonic blast, which he responds to by getting back up, grinning with blood coming out of his mouth, and coming at Uncle Sam with the machete AGAIN.

As Maya fires lightning into the crowd, she gets a response in the form of fried soldiers, MP5 return fire, and Patti Lok blasting her with an assault rifle. Patti is zapped, but growls. "Go screw yourself, wizard! It's a new time for terror!"

As Staren fires at the attackers, one of them, Sheri Wang, shouts out. "WHAT THE FUCK'S A CONCORD?" As the HEAT bullets come flying, a few goons get exploded, but Sheri dives out of the way and behind a van, protecting her. She responds with a focused burst of assault rifle fire on Staren, trying to pierce through him. "Goddamn cosplayers!"

Lory tosses flashbangs and riot foam grenades, slowing several of the terrorists and blinding them. Rocket Tung, a big man with a big gun, rips through the foam before it hardens, and then charges at Lory, hoping to spook her into moving her riot shield. He fires directly at her, before drawing his machete and moving to charge it straight into the rabbit. "Aw, cute, a bunny rabbit. Guess I'm having venison for dinner!"

In the armored truck, the driver suddenly moves, groaning. It seems that he's bleeding out, but alive, and will need some assistance.
Shigure     Shigure takes the missile square in the chest. It detonates, and the destroyer girl skids back across the water she's already traversed, trailing smoke. "Fire in the engine room. Suppression team, lay to the engine room." She intones to herself, dropping to a knee on the water's surface. She's immobilized for the moment, but that doesn't stop her from shooting. As bullets come whizzing past, she hooks the handcannon to her hip, and unfolds her backpack rig. She brings the two 'cannon tonfa' up, and folds out a suite of smaller caliber nests which open up with tracer fire, trying to make the gunmen focus on her, rather than the civilians.
Tina Natsumi Of all people, Tina's one that has learned that charisma and rallying people under something is important. In this case, she's not quite sure what it is thee people are even trying to rally around, between just wanting to fight everyone and not seeming to agree with anyone but themselves.

"Hey! I hate fascists just as much as the next gal, but shootin' into crowds ain't the way to do it!" Snapping at Fidel, her attention turns to the madman with the machete coming towards her and Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam stomps forward as it thrusts an arm forward to catch that machete head on, sparks flying and steel creaking from the blade digging right into its hand. Tina clenches her fist to hide the bleeding that starts at her palm and spreads outwards from there as the blade digs into Uncle Sam further, but the sting is going to be hard to ignore for long!

"Dang nutty folks... If you wanted to send a message and get people on your side, this is just about the worst way to do it!" Criticizing their technique, Tina yanks her revolver out of her vest and aims low to start taking shots at Nails Lee's legs. Uncle Sam, meanwhile, starts punching downwards at the swordsman, trying to pin him down with a pincer attack!
Lory Thumper      Lory does move something, but it is not her shield. That she actually leaves in place for a moment, using it to deflect bullets while she goes into a roll. The machete does manage to cut her, but certainly not as much as Rocket Tung likely hoped.

     And given what has happened so far and the man's words, she doesn't hold back. That gauss pistol pops several times, the shots sounding more like a laser shot than a ballistic shot. "The only things you are going to be eating are lead and prison food!" She growls at the criminal.
Maya Maya gets an idea about the terrorizes they just hate everyone and want to see the world burn. Just lovely, she's going to have quite the time dealing with a group like this. She's drawn their attention and their fire are on /here/ now. She knows the driver is wounded and in need of medical aid, but she needs to disengage from these guys before she can do anything for the driver. She's able to get a barrier up about herself to lessen damage from the fire launched her way.

She's still hit she's still injured and it shows she's already bleeding a bit from a bullet that caught her in the thigh.

She's also not looking very happy.

"Sorry not my thing."

She quickly forms a plan with Shigure. She has noticed the driver is not doing well. They likely won't live much longer without medical aid. Maya can provide it so long as she can get to them. With the promise of covering from Shigure?

She's going to go for it she'll dash for the truck.

She may be very well drawing fire still and that would be a good thing for the people caught up in this.

If Maya makes it to the truck she'll take cover and speak to the man.

"Hold on I have you."

She'll pull out another card, casting once more, the driver will find the bleeding will stop in short order and their wounds condition will visibly improve.
Staren     Thrusters in Staren's shoes fire as he leaps to the side -- the shots glance off his forcefield at an angle, but still wear it down. It flickers a bit, and Staren stumbles as the force of the bullets is transfered to him. "Venison is deer, you nitwit." He drops one pistol and draws another, this one a sleek black space-age affair with two over-under barrels. He fires both of them at Sheri -- powerful lasers -- while running for cover. "Whatever you fight for, if this is how you fight for it? The future is better off without you."
Solomon Lau While this is all going on, Solomon is doing his best to help civilians. Shigure's tracer fire and focus on the gunmen allows him to get as many as he can to the hospital or out of the building, as he caps a goon that starts firing at him in the head.

With most of the goons down thanks to Shigure's tracer fire, Fidel Lam runs onto the diving board, and uses it to aim closer at Shigure, firing another slew of machine gun bullets at her, trying to damage her handcannon and hopefully in his mind, kill her. "The world needs us! We're the answer to boredom and order!"

Nails Lee gets shot in the legs and punched in the torso, sending him backwards, falling to the ground. While he tries to pull himself back up, the bullets in his legs not helping as he screams, he grabs a fallen MP5 and starts firing submachine gun blasts at Tina herself, just noticing the girl now.

Rocket Tung gets hit hard with gauss blasts, knocking him backwards and frying through his shirt, causing him to scream in pain. Machete still in hand, he lunges at Lory again, trying to carve deep swathes of flesh. "Whatever! You're as good as dead, portaller!"

Maya can get an easy attack in on Patty, who returns fire on her and her saved man, as she moves through to save the injured man. As she grabs him, he coughs, speaking fluent Cantonese in a hoarse voice, barely conscious. "The others..." He looks to the back of the van, and then closes his eyes and passes out, clutching something in his pocket. It doesn't seem to be a gun, but when his hand is removed to help carry him, it's revealed to be a police detective's badge. Johnny Zhu, HKPD. How...interesting.

A laser pistol is fired at Sheri, searing into her. It hits her shoulder, as she changes the positioning of her rifle to keep firing at Staren. As he dives for cover, she rushes towards it, trying to get in some final shots, maniacally laughing as she does so.
Shigure     Lam comes running up closer, and unloads into her immobily form. BUllets strike her body, some bouncing off harmlessly, but a few find purchase. Black ichor runs from the penetrations, one even strikes her in the face, making her recoil and come back with one eye squeezed closed, black fluid seeping out. "Rangefinder damaged... manual aiming."

    Shigure brings one of those tonfa up, brandishing its broadside, and unloads a return volley at Lam, aiming more for the diving board to dislodge it, than the man himself, if she can get him in the water, she can arrest him.
Lory Thumper      Lory hears the report about the armored car, and when Rocket Tung lunges again, Lory... goes into a spinning leap. Not only does she avoid his blow but she throws a kick at the back of his head as he passes.

     After that, she rushes toward the van. "I'll try to assist!" she calls out to Maya, then throws more of those flashbang grenades to try and keep the gunmen away from the armored car.
Maya Maya gets a quick attack on Patty, knowing things are far from over. She'll make sure she'll get him to cover and now he's not in danger of bleeding out? She'll leave him, she does notice the badge. Johnny Zhu, HKPD? She makes note of that as she goes for the van, she's not sure if anyone is left alive in there but she can check and with what Staren said? So long as the heads are intact? Maya mentally muses for half a second at this power Staren now has. It's not quite necromancy, no as in the end Staren unlike Lich known as Draxx? Draxx broke something, in reality, Staren is using what was laid out. Still, their long friendship has swayed her into trusting Staren still.

She'll be making for the back door of the van now to see if anyone's still. She takes a shot from Patty, it's luckily not a direct hit and she manages to keep Officer Zhu out of harm's way for the moment.

Patty? Patty now gets more magic from Maya, Earth this time, she conjures up large chunks of the earth and throws that at Patty along with a high powered column of water! Maya's also keenly aware that Shigure can not hold out forever either.
Staren     Staren grunts and stumbles back as he's charged, pushed away from the cover.

    He doesn't have witty words. There is no persuading someone like this. There is only pumping energy into them until they can no longer fight.

    Staren has plenty of energy at his disposal. He turns it to the end of disposing of Sheri.

    Pew Pew.
Tina Natsumi Can Tina try to avoid those shots? Yes. Does she? No. There's still too many people around, and jerking around to try and throw off the terrorist's aim would be too risky. That said, she also does not like being shot very much. Uncle Sam, thusly, is forced to fall back to cover the Persona-user once again, multiple bullets pounding away at its armored leg while others graze her leg and force her into a light stumble before falling back behind her protector.

From behind the large-ish robot, Tina braces one hand against it to steady her footing. Her leg is feeling somewhat messed up from the bleeding wounds appearing on her, only partially hidden by those goofy cowboy boots of hers. "Boredom and order... Shit, if you're bored? Turn on a stream or three! I got one runnin' right now, and you don't see me shootin' people up like some kinda psychopath!"

As Tina shouts that, she shoots her revolver at Nails Lee several more times. She still makes sure to aim low, at least, but Uncle Sam isn't quite able to follow up on that at such a distance while also keeping Tina defended.

That just means Tina has to improvise. "You guys said you wanted to stop bein' bored, though...? Alright. All eyes up here, then!" She starts advancing with the Persona, the hulking America-machine stomping along loudly while the light surrounding it grows, and it appears to grow bigger. It's pretty obvious that the Persona isn't actually that big as the stomping noises are all much too quiet for something seemingly twenty feet tall, but Tina's rolling the dice on trying to intimidate these people into submission while shooting from below!
Solomon Lau Shigure fires at the diving board. Fidel Lam goes sliding into the water, but fires off one last volley at Shigure, even as his rifle is ruined as he gets soaked. He's probably easy arresting, if Shigure can get to him, even as he shouts out one more cry. "We're the new terror! You can't destroy us, man!"

Lory throws more flashbangs, stunning the rest of the surviving goons, and gets in a kick to the back of Rocket Tung's head. He responds by charging her, trying to grab her, and slice into her again. His other hand moves for a grenade, but he doesn't pull it just yet. "You've made me mad! It's time to see you in hell!"

Maya goes to the back. The door is riddled with bullets.

Inside are not a bunch of cops. Instead, there's four individuals, all dead, all beyond saving, at least by Staren, bullets through their skulls. A willowy woman in a white Armani suit, a Caucasian man in a Pink Floyd t-shirt and blue jeans, a sinewy martial artist, and a Japanese man in a snakeskin suit. None of them have police badges on them, if checked, but neither do they look like prisoners - no cuffs.

Maya blasts Patty with earth and water. The woman is knocked back, unconscious, possibly with a concussion, but she's a terrorist who just murdered a bunch of civilians, so it's probably okay.

Staren shoots shots at Sheri. The energy tears into her torso, and rips her apart. "FUCK YOU, C-" are her last words before she slumps over. One of the stunned goons screams 'no!' and snaps out of it, pointing his MP5 at Staren and trying to get a final shot off him. He then turns towards Maya and fires a burst at her as well.

Tina shoots into Nails some more, and he can't walk any more. As Uncle Sam gets bigger, he screams, and just fires every shot he has into the Persona. A bunch miss in the illusion. Others make hit. This keeps going until he runs out of ammunition.
Shigure     Shigure brings her other cannon tonfa up, and uses the solid metal plates on the turret-like structures to deflect most of the incoming shots. A few still get around and riddle her midsection and legs, but the damage is minimal. A whirr sounds somewhere from her body, and she stands back up, 'skating' across to where Fidel Lam is floundering about in the water. She reaches down, grabs him by the scruff of his neck, and hoists him out of the water by one hand. "You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say can and will be used against you in a court of law." she reads out the littany, then skates over to the side of the pool, drops Lam down, then plants a foot on his back to keep him down while she scans the remaining terrorists. Anyone else still alive they could get answers from?
Maya Maya finds that its' too late for those in the back, while she's a powerful healer? She can not raise the full-on dead like this. She will mourn later, for now, the living must be cared for. With Patty down from her last attack? She'd be lucky? Maya would not be caught off guard by this final attack, and she's caught with a bullet as she takes cover again. This time she's back up, and she's got her a fate card at the ready.

She's bleeding now from her injuries. Still, she's got a spell card in hand and it's time to put it to use. This guy? Get gets whatever card happened dot be in hand, water in this case.

A massive column of water forms under him and will flip him up into the air if it is able to connect and he's unable to get clear of it in time.

"This is over."
Tina Natsumi Tina chuckles ligtly as Uncle Sam manages to pull off that show of intimidation better than expected, the Persona barely even flinching save for what's necessary to pretend that something is hitting the illusion above it. It's a relief for Tina, too, since even with the Persona being as tough as it is, the person behind it still doesn't particularly enjoy getting (sort of) shot in the head!

She might have gone a little overboard making it that big, but whatever. Stepping out from beside the Persona as they're both within mere yards of Nails Lee, she tips her hat back with her revolver while Uncle Sam crosses its arms over its metallic chest.

"If you're gonna fight for a cause, make sure it's somethin' that actually helps people. Otherwise...." She levels the revolver at Nails Lee, and Uncle Sam points at him as Tina's voice comes from herself and the Persona. "We shall be the judge!"

And then Uncle Sam leaps forward with a big elbow drop on Nails Lee, aimed square at his gut. Tina, meanwhile, makes a loud "BANG" noise with her mouth and pulls up her revolver at the same time. She's not crazy enough to ACTUALLY shoot the guy in the face!
Staren     One less danger in the world to threaten the future. It is satisfying. Staren eyes the gun the mook is firing at him, and his forcefield integrity meter on his HUD. He leans into it and braces for impact. The shots mostly go wild, deflecting off the field at angles. When the mook stops to reload, Staren fires at him.

    "Anybody else want to die today?" If there are no takers, Staren starts calling in robots to collect bodies with intact brains for revival. He will save as many civilians as he can.
Lory Thumper      Whoever they were, it seems the team inside the van is beyond help. Lory winces and shakes her head, then turns to face the charging Rocket. "In your dreams, psycho!" she exclaims. When he reaches her, Lory sidesteps just enough to avoid being hit by that blade, then tries to grab Rocket's arm and spins with it so that it will be driven into him instead. And when she sees him going for a grenade she aims a knee right at his wrist. "People like you are the reason I became a cop." she says, her voice cold.
Solomon Lau The guy shooting at Staren gets shot and flipped into the air. He's unsconscious and bleeding out when he lands, but not dead quite yet, unless someone wants to finish the job.

Shigure has captured Fidel Lam. Tina scares Nails Lee into surrendering, the man already out of ammo, just screaming at her as she takes him in. Lory takes out Rocket Tung, knocking him to the ground.

The police will be arriving soon. The group has the time to interrogate Fidel Lam before the police take him in. Johnny Zhu is unconscious and needs to go to a hospital, so those questions will have to wait.
Tina Natsumi After making sure that Nails Lee is sufficiently bound and disarmed, Tina sends Uncle Sam away and hides a limp on her way over to Fidel Lam.

"Hey, you. Where do you get off shooting into crowds like that?" She sounds legitimately angry as she approaches him, crouching nearby and giving him a stiff whack in the face if nobody stops her. "Is this really 'cause you were just bored?! People died because of your stupid bullshit!"

Another whack if not stopped. "What made you think that was even a good idea?!" A straight up punch, if she's still not held back by then.
Maya Maya sees that it is finally over for the moment she will check on Johnny, who should live she'll cast another healing spell upon him, just to be sure. With that done she'll look to the remaining Fidel Lam and narrows her eyes, there's a lot of anger there.

"Why? Why did you do this? What are your motives for something like this."

Once she gets her answers one way or another she's going to tend to civilians who need help.
Lory Thumper      After helping to cuff any criminals that are still alive and helping any injured into emergency vehicles, Lory approaches Fidel and crosses her arms. "I just have one question..." she says, obviously as angry as anyone else her. But, she still grabs Tina to stop the punches. "Hey now. He might deserve it but..." she shakes her head gently at Tina, then looks at Fidel. "And who were those people in the armored truck?" she adds to the questions already asked.
Solomon Lau Fidel Lam responds first. He was alone and purposeless, an insurance actuary from a long line (of insurance actuaries), until he stumbled upon the website for their group - the SLA. He doesn't know the leaders, they probably don't even have one. 'That's so 20th century, man.'

Their goal is the transformation of mankind through total violence against all stultifying order and boredom, nothing less.

Solomon eventually asks some questions as well, and the answers come out quickly. They raise moneys with bank robberies, gun running, and by ripping off drug dealers - and then selling the drugs, because there's no money in it otherwise. They're not mere dealers though. They're anew waver of terror, man, freed of all ideology, a grenade in a fist, blowing up forever.

Lory asks who was in the truck. 'Those stupid dragons, man' is the answer she gets, a team of do-gooders who've been meddling with their plans. The group was transferring a weapon shipment to a new hideout, when the Dragons, led by Johnny Zhu, busted in on them. So the SLA turned the tables, wiped them out - or nearly did, until Johnny commandeered the armored truck.

Nails Lee just laughs as Tina punches him over and over. "You can't fight fear, girl."

Staren manages to save most of the civilians. Many of them were only hit in the torso, so he can take their brains back to his lab to save easily.