Echo Incursion 01 - Jurassic Gateway (August 10th, 2016)

[raisednpcs]

It's a particularly hot day in the Gateway City zoo. What else could you expect? It's not like it's not to be expected, it is the middle of August, after all. But there's plenty of things to see here at the zoo, and the visitors' center is air conditioned well enough.

Just a normal summer day in a typical summer vacation spot. Right?

Well, that's when things change. Those in the visitor's center would find the building changing around them. There's suddenly a dinosaur skeleton in the middle of the place, with the banner "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" hanging from the ceiling.

That's not all. The animal enclosures are now different. What used to be a pen for the african elephants now has very large, very long necked reptiles in it. A gigantic, meat-eating dinosaur just tromped its way out of the lion habitat it's too much too large for, and unfortunately for the people around it, its vision is based on movement. The monkey house? Well, those are velociraptors breaking out of it. The aviary? Now filled with particular aggressive flying pterosaurs.

These are just some of the creatures making their sudden emergence, and it's not long until they spill out of the zoo and into the city proper. Dinosaurs are now walking the streets of Gateway City.

Yes, indeed. Just a normal summer day.

[OOC: The new event is live! Please see this post for npc information and just what characters will have to deal with.]

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[raisednpcs]

As Raye swings at those jaws, they snap back down inordinately quickly, biting down with pulverizing, bonecrushing force. However, her sword cuts the beast's tongue and mouth, causing it to stumble back in pain, roaring in anger and inadvertently freezing Raye from her bite.

[raisednpcs]

What Emi immediately comes across is a grocer being raised by various dinosaurs. Compys, ever the scavegers, are attacking the frozen meats and ransacking the deli. Some of them are picking through the cereals, others are pulling bottles off of shelves, and still others are tearing at the assorted candies.

Meanwhile, the produce section has attracted the attention of a small herd of pachys, who have successfully knocked over store fixtures and are hungrily devouring the vegetables and fruit the store has to offer.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

As the two Precures land, Moonlight immediately moves the rip a door off the car, shouting and ushering the occupants to flee. There's a shout from above her as Cologne comes swooping down, while the Triceratops is still recovering.

"Cure Moonlight! Cure Diamond! These creatures, they're acting unnaturally! That darkness Raquel and I felt, it's within them!"

Moonlight grits her teeth and nods, just in time to see the beast charging straight for them. She bites back a curse and moves to dive out of the way, smacking her brooch to draw her Moon Tact at the same time. A flick of her wrist, and a wave of light, pure force and power of light, surges out for the beast's face. Her hope is to, at the least, temporarily blind it or slow it down.

From there, she's counting on Winter to back her up.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Moonlight's eyes widen a bit, mostly because she's not used to her sister... well. Jasmine Tsukuyomi has long been one of the bluntest of instruments in the All-Star Precure's arsenal, not that such a thing is to her discredit.

She lets out a breath, and focuses back down.

"There's a chance that my Forte Wave or Fortissimo could calm them, too. They're still living creatures..." She frowns, and then swallows.

Of course, that means asking Jasmine to play decoy, and even asking that is hard to consider after this last year.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

For all of Lily's own worries about herself, her friends and family, when she catches that little shake from Rakka something flips in her mind. She lets out a breath and extends a hand, reaching for Rakka's shoulder, trying to smile.

"Yes, we do. Because that's what we do, isn't it? When it comes down to it in the end... That's really all there is, right?"

She sighs. "It's not easy after all this time, I know."

[twinkletwinklesuperstar]

Cure Twinkle lands lightly just a second before the blast of wind and cold comes out from the hole in the wall. She dances back a step or two to stay well out of its way and watches it strike the dinosaur's feet, freezing it in place. That's a pretty impressive move.

She looks back to Diamond when she speaks up, smiling in a way that might be considered entirely too nonchalant for the situation by some.

"Oh, it's not that. It's just--" She trails off as a low buzz starts. With a sidelong glance, she pulls her phone from a pocket(??) of her dress and subtly taps the Ignore Call button before putting it away again. "... I kind of had to take that call."

But before Diamond can dwell on that too much, she's moving right along, turning to look at the city with her hands on her hips.

"So, I guess we'd better do something about all of this, huh? What's the plan, fearless leader?"

[jasminebloominginshadow]

"... We get out of this alive, and I will buy you a steak."

She looked back at the trike, and... nodded. That actually sounded like a good idea. "Alright. Let's try and use some of the telephone cable, and-"

Just then, a familiar sound caught her attention, and Jasmine turned, spotting an unwelcome sight: a velociraptor approaching them slowly, conspicuously out in the open.

"Ah hell, not these guys again!"

[guitar_case_vagabond]

The force with which those jaws clamp down on her is considerable, enough to squash her a little and threaten to cause a bone or two to snap. But before that can happen, the Scissor Blade cuts into dinosaur mouth and causes it to let up.

It's a relief but she winces a little despite herself. As big and nasty as this thing is, it's just an animal. An animal she'll take down if she has to but she doesn't really care for the idea of mutilating it. So for now, she folds up the Scissor Blade, reattaching it to her belt loop.

Then she plants her feet against its teeth, a hand on the jaw above her and pushes with all her might to wrench the beast's jaw open.

Then she starts punching the roof of its mouth repeatedly.

[jasminebloominginshadow]

"Okay then...!" Jasmine said, pounding a fist into her palm. "Do you think you can set Seles to hold the line, while we focus on the people in danger already?"

[billkiller]

That stunt bought Arlene a few extra seconds, but she's still being pursued. The much smaller pterosaurs are nipping at her ankles, and she kicks out at them in an uncoordinated but vicious movement. Since this is very far from safe, she starts to roll out from under the Hummer, staggering to her feet and taking off at a run again, narrowly avoiding getting hit by a truck with its horn blaring as she takes off across the street.

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Jasmine knows what Lily is probably thinking, and she's got a response ready.

"Whatever these things got, they've still just got teeth and claws, sis. If you're fast enough on the draw, I'll be alright."

She looked at Lily seriously. "I trust you, Lily. We can do this."

[speedpariah]

Running Man. That was actually fairly amusing.

"I'm afraid not," he said, looking back at the car full of trapped reptilians. "I'm going to gather information at my own... pace, now."

[speedpariah]

By this point, Weller had been separated from the localized crisis and was in his ski mask, going around in bursts of high speed, trying to gather more information on these beasts... when suddenly, he's hit by a wave of wind, knocking him off his feet.

The sight should be in clear view to Arthur, and he's left dazed, trying to get his bearings as he gets back up. "Ugh..."

[speedpariah]

"I see, well," he said. "Trust me, my intentions are to find out the absolute best way to care for them. Don't you think you'd rather trust another Numbered than, say... Factor Industries? They're more likely to see these animals caged... perhaps dissected!"

He smiled. "Questions like that are ones I hope to answer..."

You know what? Feel free to have raptors just chew her up for this one. FULL LENIENCY GRANTED

[guitar_case_vagabond]

"Cool! Dino war and then steak dinner it is."

She blinked, turning her head at the sudden cry and following Jasmine's gaze to. ... Another dinosaur. All five feet of one anyway. What the hell? Jasmine was worried about that thing? Sure, it had some nasty looking claws and teeth but after the big guy she'd just bodyslammed, this thing was a small fry!

"What, this thing?" She scoffed. "Pfft. I'll take care of it, gimme a sec."

And then, heedless of any warnings Jasmine might try to give, she lunges straight at the approaching raptor.

[switch_over]

The monster was certainly not prepared for this yellow clad girl leaping every which way, nor had it even been ordered to care about her. So when she flies through the air that kick connects without any trouble at all, sending the monster off course and into a nearby wall with a crash.

Alexandra's eyes narrowed on Cure Twinkle as the other girl called her out on her shenanigans. She managed to take it in stride though and gave the girl a careless shrug in response.

"I'm taking care of the dinosaur problem, obviously." As she spoke her Nakewameke slowly began to pull itself back up to it's feet.

Well, this whole thing just seems silly now

[willdareanything]

It's not stopping. At all. The last metal thing it attacked had been crushed and smashed under its weight easily, so why should this one be any different?

Driven onward by unquenchable anger it lunges again and again, slamming into the big metal hand. ... Marina might need to do something about this.

[scarlet_devil]

Well, not exactly a T-Rex, or even raptors... She's actually kind of disappointed, really! They aren't hurting anyone directly but she's going to give them a distraction in the form of something she uses rarely... Her danmaku.

The dinosaurs world is suddenly filled with balls of crimson energy, and each one hits with the force of a punch but... it's not too accurate. And maybe drive all the little ones away and disorientate those headbutting dinos.

[switch_over]

She couldn't help but snicker at that, she raised a hand up to cover her mouth as best she could. She had image to maintain here after all.

...But the Running Man was going to do things at his own pace, that was kind of hilarious. Once she had composed herself she lowered her hand and gave him a nonchalant shrug.

"Suit yourself, if you get bored you know where I'll be."

[twinkletwinklesuperstar]

She landed easily enough from the kick, only taking a moment to marvel at the speed and precision she'd landed that attack with. Up until now, most of her experience had come from jumping across rooftops just for fun but that just now... that had felt entirely different.

She didn't really get time to think on it though, before the girl started up and she turned on her, planting her fists on her hips as the people she'd just saved from squishdom quickly retreat to a safer place.

"Well, tell your... shoe to be more careful!" Seriously, what was her problem? "You could've hurt somebody just now!"

[twinkletwinklesuperstar]

She doesn't want to abuse the dinosaur. Just... smack it a little. That's allowed, right?

Oh, forget it.

"Great. Nobody told me I signed up for stuff like this." She sighs and gets to her feet, brushing off her dress and turns to face Marina. "Hi. Cure Twinkle. New Precure."

Not her most extravagant introduction, but she's still upset about the phone.

[switch_over]

Alexandra wasn't overly impressed with Twinkles skills, she hadn't fully tested the abilities of the form she was currently wearing but she felt it would be more than enough to match whatever this girl could dish out. Not that it would be necessary at all.

"It's not my fault they were too slow get out of the way." Her eyes drifted from Twinkle to her monster, which had just managed to get back up to it's feet.

"Maybe you could show them how it's done. Nakewameke, get rid of her!" Alexandra ordered and the monster responded. The Nakewameke quickly lashed out with one of it's shoe lace tendrils in an attempt to ensnare Twinkle and toss her across the block.

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Jasmine's eyes widened in fear. "No, don't!" she cried. "That's an obvious distract-"

Before Jasmine could finish, two more raptors sprang out from the side, leaping and tearing at Raye with the claws on their hands and feet. Jasmine cursed and sped forward, grabbing one by its tail and swinging it away.

That, however, left one more... plus the original raptor, who took the opportunity to stop being a decoy and jumped at Raye as well.

[twinkletwinklesuperstar]

"Wait-- what?!"

That brief, stunned exclamation is all she managed to get out. Twinkle may have been pretty quick and skilled for a rookie... but a rookie she is nonetheless! As such, she reacted a step too slow to avoid the laces grabbing her, lifting her off the ground and throwing her. Her path took her on a straight path, and she just managed a high pitched wail of sorts before slamming hard into a wall.

"Ow, ow, ow...." The dust took a few seconds to settle and when it did there was one dusty Precure in a rather unglamorous heap in a small crater, rubbing her head. She wasn't down for the count yet though, and after a sharp glare she quickly got her feet under her again. "Oh, you did not just try to kill me with your stupid-looking shoe monster!"

And just like that, she was off in a flash, rushing toward the Nakewameke with one fist cocked back to deliver a hell of a punch.

Nobody makes Cure Twinkle look like a chump!

[sakuya_izayoi]

Celine was more than a little startled as Rakka shot past her without warning, the black haired woman holding her knives and watch up as her energy spiked... but she didn't strike. Either her reaction time was great or something else was going on.

She was a bit less startled when the two spears of red energy rushed by. She dared to relax a hair, drifting back in her flight a little bit, looking back over her shoulder at Remilia. "Well I couldn't very well do nothing." To the heart of the matter indeed.

She drifted unsteadily back and took her place by Emi's side, knives once more at the ready as she faced the dinosaurs.