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Gangsters and chainsaws and antiquers, oh my!

Who: The Dians (

vetala), and probably Skyler

strikeraid
When: Semi-late on the (probably) 18th
Where: A distance away from ice cream shops near Dead District
What: Gosh darn Blood Keys, ruining happy occasions.
Warnings: Blood Keys, violence, maybe blood.

Long story short, Mrs. Harvent is a stressful person to be around. The closer it gets to Christmas, the more irritable she gets. Isaac and Miria do care for the old lady, really, but they tend to use any excuse they can to get out of the house.

But they care. Really.

Nonetheless, Isaac does realize that helping out their new buddy (and introducing her to Miria) was of top-importance! He had promised their buddy ice cream and by-golly, Kanti was getting ice cream!

So, he quickly sent off a text in her direction:

"Hey good buddy! Isaac here. Wanna get that ice cream?"

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"I-" Kanti cuts herself off and clenches her jaw, holding a hand to her head. She's been here before, full of rage and the desire to pay what was owed. She remembers his face and her rage and how easy, how preposterously easy it had been to rend him in two. How good the blood had tasted. It had felt good to kill him. Right. She's thinking too much, but she doesn't have time to respond because these armed thugs are reminding her of something else.

She squeezes her eyes shut in preparation for the oncoming headache when she feels that now familiar throb of a memory squeezing into her skull. But the hurt never comes. Instead, the second echo drops like a pebble into a pond, sending small ripples and rearranging things before letting them settle. She finds herself looking at the Blood Keys with clearer intentions.

Is killing them bad? They're trying to hurt her. They're trying to hurt her friends. They're trying to impose their will on her through force. It's fine for her to fight back, to hurt them, to kill them and show no mercy. It's natural, and it's just how things are done and how they always have been. It's no more than they deserve, after all, for their attempt on her life. Except she knows that it is most certainly not how things are done here. They're done like that somewhere else. Somewhere she doesn't know yet. It doesn't keep her from gripping her chainsaw tighter, like it's an anchor in this storm. She presses down on the clutch, letting the blades spin wildly.

"Don't act like you know me. You have no idea what I'll do to you."

Skyler had nothing to do after school today, what with finals week, and his first assignment from the Keys was to thoroughly explore what was their territory. It was hard to believe that he was now one of the people who made this district mildly shady after years of taking the fact for granted. The shops looked peaceful enough today as he stuck his hands in his pockets and slouched through the streets, thinking about what he'd have to start doing to keep his two (three?) lives separate - start being careful about who he was seen with, and start talking to people less, and start acting differently around his new crowds, and that definitely was the sound of someone revving up a chainsaw in the middle of a shopping district. Ok, that's conspicuous.

He moves towards the sound, making his way towards the ice cream shops, curious to see what the commotion was about until he actually gets there and nearly nopes right out of there when he sees that it's the Keys roughing up a group of people. Yes, he's technically a part of them now, but he's got more than one reason to keep his real identity a secret from anyone except his own squad. Might as well just walk on by, right? He almost does before the sight of the panicking couple from behind makes him swear and find a hiding place - Network people. Oh, hell.

... What does he do? He doesn't exactly want to get caught helping a bunch of Keys - way to blow his own cover on the first day, yeah, no - but he doesn't want to just stand by while the girl with the very real looking chainsaw kills a bunch of people he's supposedly allied with. God damn it, come on, other him, what good is having memories of all kinds of powers if he can't actually use any of them? At this rate, the only plan he can think of is somehow incapacitating them all before she'd actually need to use that thing for real, but if it was a matter of many versus just the four of them, he'd need her help, and there wasn't enough time for him to talk it out.

So he does the next best thing. He turns on his fists, crosses of hard, white light orbiting his hands. These people aren't on his squad, and hopefully won't remember his face after this. And to make sure they won't remember his face afterward, he goes for a charge at a third person in the Key's group, hitting him with his shoulder and forcing him away from the rest of the party and into a nearby wall. As they hit the wall, he rams both fists into the brick behind the guy and it explodes, making the impact seem a lot more dramatic than it actually was. Before the sound of the explosion leaves his ears, he grabs the guy by the collar and pulls him right up to his face, saying in an urgent whisper that he hopes no one else can hear: "When I put you down, stay down. I won't kill you. She will."

So, hey. Cavalry. Here.

WELL THIS IS TERRIBLE! EVERYONE IS ANGRY AND GLARING AT EACH OTHER AND THIS FEELS LIKE THIS COULD BE GOING MUCH BETTER.

They can't just... stand on the sidelines. If they wanna make sure that Kanti stays safe, they need to act. Eventually, they both step forward.

"N-Now guys..."

"We could just... give you our money and no one gets hurt!"

"That's a great idea! All in favor of this idea?"

AND THEN THERE WAS A NEW FIGHTER AND EXPLODING AND OH MY GOD WHY IS EVERYTHING AWFUL.

At least the man in question seems to take Skyler's advice, although he seems a little... disgruntled by it. He gives a quick nod, small enough that no one can see it but his "attacker".

The knife lady and the guy that appears to be somewhat of an authority don't appear to take what they do see well.

"You piece of SHIT!"

They both charge. The knife lady makes her way toward Skyler and the other man with the pipe heads toward Kanti.

SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL PLAN KINDA WENT UNDER the Dians, almost without thinking, stand between Kanti and the attacker. Because protecting someone with a chainsaw from someone with a pipe, while possessing no weapons, seems like a solid plan.

Everything happens so fast that it's difficult to get a bead on. Sudden skill with her weapon and a chance to come to terms with killing and death haven't given Kanti the opportunity to learn the skill that comes with naturally fighting. She raises her chainsaw and pulls down on the clutch, but stops before she slices horizontally.

The Dians are in front of her. They weren't before and they're not supposed to be there, but they are.

Kanti shifts her chainsaw back into a lipstick tube with that invisible-catch trick immidiately. This is a weapon to hurt people, but her friends aren't ordinary people. Nonetheless, the weight of it carries her around and she has to struggle for balance a bit after the twirl.

"What are you- No! Don't!"

Her balance is still off, but Kanti throws herself onto the Dian's grabbing their wrists and trying to pull them away. No one is allowed to get hurt because of her.

Skyler nods before pushing the guy towards the wall, letting him drop before turning holy SHIT that is definitely the chick with the knife coming his way. He puts up an arm, trying to catch the arc of her blade on something that wasn't his face or his chest, and gets the blade glancing off his forearms for his trouble. His sleeve rip open and he has to really focus on ignoring the pain of a new slash opening on his wrist. Hey, he's cybernetic, not a robot.

He barely knows what's going on with the three Network people, but as long as they're only dealing with one thug, he's pretty sure that he can get there before there are any serious casualties. In the meantime, he takes his other arm and hits his opponent hard in the stomach, using his newfound strength as conservatively as he can. He knows he's a match for her, but he doesn't want anyone else here to figure that out.

The couple gasp loudly in surprise as they feel a sudden tug away from their position. They each utter a quiet whimper before they realize that Kanti just saved them from a broken bone or two.

Speaking of which, ATTACKING BLOOD KEY ATTACKING BLOOD KEY. He keeps advancing on the trio, swinging the pipe left and right. He's angry, but he hasn't put his whole force into the attack yet. He wants to save that energy for when he needs it.

The Dians decide to once again take Kanti's lead as best they can while sill trying to protect her. This clearly translates to GRAB KANTI BACK AND GET A MINOR DISTANCE AWAY FROM THIS GUY.

Meanwhile, the knife lady is practically seething at the mouth. She's using more energy than her partner, but lunging with a knife takes much less force than swinging a pipe. She takes a moment to jump back from her first attack and lunge once more at Skyler.

The chainsaw was a stupid idea in retrospect, but it isn't really all she has with her, just what she has that she was confident enough to intimidate with. It's not really working anymore, since she's folded it up again, and she can't take it out with the Dians in front of her. She jams her hand into her bag, hopping out of the range of pipe swinging, rumaging around until her hand finds a familiar rectangular shape.

It's an effort for her to squeeze between them, but Kanti manages it with a depend amount of shoving. It's rude, and she'll apologize for it later, but right now she's a little busy.

She didn't really see the point of her taser once she had her chainsaw, but old habits die hard and it isn't like it make her purse any heavier than her chainsaw made her pockets. Whether she sees the point or not anymore doesn't matter, because it's what she has in her hand, and it's what she's jabbing towards the Pipe Guy when she sees him pause for a backswing.

Skyler is prepared, sort of. He's never been one to overthink a fight, but the woman had taken him by surprise and it was taking a moment for his brain to keep up with the rest of his body - yes, lady, knife, gash on his arm that is bubbling up with blood, ok, he can still do this. When she moves in to swing again, he raises both arms in the same move as before. This time, one of his hands has another Spark charged up around it. He's aiming to either knock the knife out of her hand or get close enough to grab onto her arm with his charged hand. He knows that contact with the light causes things to break, but truthfully, he's never used it on another person. No time to really think about that, though!

The Dians are suitably startled as Kanti pushes through them. WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT IS DANGEROUS THIS WAS A GOOD PLAN. They both reach out to grab their pal and continue running away, but she's already made her move. The taser connects with Pipe Guy's torso and he jolts backward in pain. He immediately collapses onto the ground, the pipe flying out of his hand down the block. He chooses to use this moment to swear and curse in pain.

"God fucking... you stupid bitch, jesus christ!"

The couple choose to take the opportunity to do something logical. Miria races down the block real quick to GRAB THAT PIPE SO NO ONE CAN THREATEN THEM WITH IT. Isaac chooses to take this chance to, once again, pull Kanti AWAY FROM THE GANGSTER. Sure, he's injured but why take a chance?

Their attention starts to turn back to the Mysterious New Guy, and his fight with Knife Lady. She is momentarily distracted by her partner's collapse, leaving Skyler the chance to knock the knife away and grab her if he is quick enough.

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Gangsters and chainsaws and antiquers, oh my!

TL;DR TIER 2 ECHO

dynamic entry right in here hello!! if it's too godmode let me know

Cycling through Dians, Kanti, and Skyler then?

Yup!

Roger that!

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