Placeholder: Confrontation

[basic_powers]

April 14th
Original Rainmaker Site, exact location unknown, Iowa.
3:30 pm

Minutes later, after the children went in with Doctor Irons, the high-end family car pulled up to park by remote. Seconds later, Tyler got out, hiding behind the car door to peer up at the abandoned and heavily damaged former institution warily...

"I'm here."
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"So... now what?"

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[npc238.livejournal.com]

Harold, like, the children, is still under Irons' spell, but, as with the children, it's a subtle, subconscious control and leaves the conscious mind free to otherwise act normally.

Harold catches the quarter automatically. He stares at it.

Then he digs into a pocket and pulls out another quarter, much weathered and tarnished, but minted identical. Oregon, 2005.

"It's him! He's the kid from the future... when we... traveled..."

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"And now it's time for you to stop all of this, Harold," says the boy leaning on the old examination table.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"Lyle! What're you doing out of your room? You told me it hurts to be out—"

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"My powers let me see that Doctor Irons was going to make you attack PS238," says Lyle, his voice strained. Although he's perfectly well physically, he's clutching the table for support. "Without my help, you'd be in jail or worse, the school wouldn't be secret anymore, and a lot of people would've been hurt. But now we're here, and it's almost over. So turn off everyone's powers. Now. Including mine. And please hurry!"

[npc238.livejournal.com]

It must be important. The kid's in obvious pain, none the less for it being mental.

"Oh... okay. I've trusted you this far..."

He raises his hands and nullifies all the powers in the room... including preexisting effects.

[justiceoverlaw]

The Revenant shakes his cramped muscles out as the vines slacken and drop him to the floor.

"Thank you. If you'll excuse me, I have a robot-cum-Frankenstein's Monster to chase down."

[npc238.livejournal.com]

Marvin reflexively points a hand at the Revenant. "He's loose! And... I can't make him sleep! Wait. Why am I trying to make him sleep?"

All the kids look bewildered.

[justiceoverlaw]

"Get back to me when you've got it figured out," says the vigilante as he departs at a run.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"Follow him!" cries Lyle. He grabs randomly at Zach's shoulder (receiving a dubious look in return), but he's addressing Moon Shadow. "He's going to need you! This place will be destroyed if you don't get out there and help!"

[basic_powers]

"Wh-what?!?" What did Lyle mean by that.

"What can I-"

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"Go!" Lyle insists. "I don't remember everything from before Harold turned my 'knowing' off, but I do remember that! Go!"

[basic_powers]

...You know what Moon Shadow really doesn't need any more prompting than that to start running back down the corridors.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

Seconds Later...

"Release the controls, you Gothic acrobat!" commands Doctor Irons through the helicopter's loudspeaker. "I'll eventually decrypt the security codes, but if you give me the password now, I'll refrain from vaporizing the building."

[justiceoverlaw]

The Revenant is dangling from his grappler below the chopper, and ascending rapidly. "This acrobat thinks he can knock you senseless before you can unlock the radio presets, let alone the missile launchers!"

[basic_powers]

"Omigosh
Omigosh
Omigosh.."

What could he do, the Revenant was already up there and even if he could get up there to the helicopter there wasn't anything he could do cause all he'd equipped his grappler with was that...

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"I must be out of my mind..." He started racing to get to the car he'd arrived in.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"I've gained access to the weapons systems," Irons informs the Revenant, now right outside the cockpit. "Last chance."

[justiceoverlaw]

Drat. He can't risk the children.

"Fine. You win. The code is—"

[basic_powers]

-K-CHUNK!-

HA! Moon Shadow'd like to see Dr. Irons escape while having a car attached to the helicopter by the electromagnet!

CLANK!

"I GOT HIM! I GO-"

Then he felt the defendium line going from his gauntlet go tight and the entire car shake a moment before the roof he was standing on made the smallest noise before bending up with the force of the helicopter's flight.

Krrummpt!

And becoming airborne.

...Tyler has never wanted his special armor back so badly than right this very minute.

[justiceoverlaw]

Well. That works. It's not going to result in a smooth landing, though.

The Revenant lets his grapple-line out while holding onto the new one, sliding down to join Moon Shadow on the car. "The copter is programmed to fly in circles if the security lockdown is in place," he warns him. "Unfortunately, having a car attached to it is probably going to throw its gyros off a bit. Hang on!"

[basic_powers]

"I can't not hang on!"

His gauntlet is firmly strapped onto his wrist!

And that gauntlet is stuck to the car's frame with a very powerful electromagnet while the car is getting swung around by the now VERY unbalanced helicopter!

[npc238.livejournal.com]

Whum... whum... whum... The vehicular bolas wobbles its way lower and lower.

Harold leads the children out of the building, the conscious carrying the unconscious with varying levels of difficulty. There is neither point nor appeal in staying here.

They're just in time to see the car hit the ground with a CRUMP! Then the helicopter's blades slice into the ground a few times before it makes proper impact.

Then the whole mess explodes, so close together that it's hard to say which vehicle goes up first.

[basic_powers]

What's not quite so hard to tell is that a mere second after the explosion, a ball the size of an adult bounces to a stop not far from the group, apparently made up of several inflated objects.

At least it's a ball until those puffed up sections start deflating and a little boy struggles to get out of them for a few moments.

Really, he's thankful for the airbags, but he really wishes that someone would fix the part where it feels like he's a beachball.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"Hey, kid," says Harold, shifting the unconscious Vern to one arm so he can help the costumed boy out of his cocoon, "what happened to your friend and Doctor Irons?"

[basic_powers]

"I don't know. My airbags went off and..." He replies, looking up at Harold.

[npc238.livejournal.com]

"There!" interrupts Lyle, pointing.