Central Park Rampage

Summary:
January 03, 2015: Doctor Nemesis takes Nyx and Eventide for a Science Fieldtrip to the Park with ePocalypse

Central Park

Despite being January the Fair Isle of Manhattan is not covered in snow. It is in the Low 40s and dusk is startling to settle with a slight overcast that threatens rain.


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  • ePocalypse

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Central Park - NYC.

Despite being January the Fair Isle of Manhattan is not covered in snow. It is in the Low 40s and dusk is startling to settle with a slight overcast that threatens rain.

None of that is unusual. What is unusual is the fact that the few people out for a jog or just enjoying the crisp weather in the park are streaming out of it near the 79th street transverse. Making haste towards either the MET to the Natural History Museum.

The general consensus of the panicked citizens is something along the lines "OH MY GOD The Trees!" …. … Which might direct ones attention to the immediate foliage around Belvedere Castle which means to be rearranging itself and lashing out at tourists and New Yorkers alike clearing a spiral centered on the Castle itself.

***

Nyx never one to not respond to danger by going with the flow, makes her way up the Tranverse to see what on earth is going on.

***

"Good god of Science above," comes the hushed exclamation of Doctor Nemesis as he stands on an outcropping of stones just a few yards from Belvedere Castle, his eyes fixed on the moving trees and in full, white-clad getup. Who knows what drew him to the scene of… Whatever was happening, but he's here, and he's fascinated. Breathlessly, he remarks, "I need a sample," and promptly picks a quick path down from the rocks, drawing forth a bizarre needle-handgun and a magazine of green, chemical-laden syringes which he loads into the weapon with a well-practiced motion. "Everyone stand back!" he shouts, while pushing past anyone either fleeing or advancing on the scene, "Science coming through! Stand back!"

***

And now Eventide is running, but running at the problem. She's saving the day in her own particular way, such as by football tackling a bystander to the ground to avoid a plant-tentacle lashing them. "RUN FOR IT," she basically screams into their ear as she gets up.

***

The plant life, well it is an odd mix. It does seem to be native to the park itself. Brambles. Trees. Roots. Though it has been animated into mobility and is indeed lashing out at the people driving them from the park. Centered on the Castle itself.

The tourist that Eventide saves staggers to their feet looking like a scared Rabbit and runs for the road and safety from the park. While the young Sappling turned Weapon lashes at Eventide once more, and several brambles burst from the ground. These ones have thorns and seem to mean business!

Doctor Nemesis, well he is near the epicenter of whatever is going on, so not a lot of bystanders left here. Aggressive Green Stuff though. The ground ripples and roils around him as he runs out for a sample. More brambles spiking there way up and reaching for him even as he seems to want a sample. Which he is likely quite capable of getting, but will there be a cost.

***

Nyx meanwhile goes off road, mostly because the Tranverse near the Castle has been mulched by the plant life bursting up. So no safety on asphalt any longer. She vanishes into the brambles heading towards the center of this madness and for the moment is lost from sight.

***

The overcast clouds start to spiral counter clockwise to the greenery’s clockwise spread, above the Castle, little traceries of lightning lighting it up nicely.

***

***

Nemesis ducks, dodges, and rolls, showing off a surprising amount of agility for an ageless science nerd, but unfortunately, he's no meta-human and his mutation lies solely in the intellectual. A root boils up out of the ground and snags hold of his ankle, sending him tripping straight into a pile of vines and mud with a muffled string of colorful curses. For a moment, he's dragged beneath a pile of shrubbery and earth, falling silent for several long seconds before he bursts forth from the first, an energized scalpel in one hand and a rapidly firing needle gun in the other. Wherever the needles hit plant life, it shrivels and dies, and the scalpel carves through vines as they try to bring him down, "Die, you glorious marvels of science!"

***

When the thorned vines come at Eventide, she all but dares them to try it. She's got bulletproof skin. Unfortunately, she's not wearing bulletproof spandex — but the Comics Code Authority protects her sports bra, so even if her costume rips and tears, it's never too ripped or torn. "HAAAA!" she cries as she tries to fight the plant by grabbing the vines and YANKING with all her strength. How do you best a weed? You weed it. She hasn't noticed Nemesis yet, which is good, because she's already getting jacked up — the lightning is a nice Goetterdammerung touch.

***

Thankfully the plants, while all thorny and brambly, are just plants still. They aren't mutant abomination with iron bark and steel thorns. No sir just brambles. Grown super-fast and a bit extra-large but quite capable of being weeded, shriveled, plant killered, and scapeled. That doesn't stop them from trying really hard for a time though.

***

Nyx bursts out of a particular dense section of brambles near Doc Nemesis and yes thank goodness for the comic code authority because she just had another hoodie and pair of jeans shredded. She pauses and looks down at herself and makes an inarticulate angry noise, the sound of someone on a tight budget and not one possessing a awesome laboratory or super wealthy company to make them armor. "Bastards…" she mutters then spots Doctor Nemesis and steps over and snags a feisty tree that was about to thunk her and yanks it one handed out of the ground. "Sir.. you may want to get out of here… I mean.. nice gun but this is a mess…."

***

The thunder cracks again, good atmosphere, and then more atmosphere! A mist starts to roll, like a fogbank from the base foundations of Belvedere Castle and a glow can be seen in the increasing overcast dusk from the top battlement (which pro-tip is maybe two stories tall, its a cute little castle for show). With the rolling mist a voice echoes, carried by manipulated wind currents "A Ho! Science will not Save you!"

***

Nyx groans.

***

"Ma'am," Nemesis begins, practically shouting through his surgeon's mask as he fires a trio of armor-piercing syringes into a massive bramble trying to snake around his torso which promptly shrivels up and collapses. "Of the two of us, only one seems dressed for the occa-"

***

Then the blasphemer speaks.
"How -bloody- dare you!" Nemesis rounds on the castle and begins advancing on it angrily, slicing and needling his way through the brambles and roots that undoubtedly rise up to kill him more. "Come down here and say that to my face so I can show you -exactly- what Science is capable of you knuckle-dragging, over bitten Neanderthal!"

***

Another inarticulate angry noise carries, but this is more of a war cry. Eventide has taken the high ground, which is to say she's using the vines as her personal parkour course, staying on top of them and using their momentum against them when they try to lash her — precisely timed swings like something out of a mega-budget Tarzan remake. SHIELD judo: it'll mess you up. "ARRRRGGGGHH!"

***

Eventide can spot it from her high ground before Doctor Nemesis can. A figure has created his own thrown on the battlement from the stone and earth that makes the castle. He looks, a smidge elven, androgynous and complete with slight points on his ears. His chest is bared to the elements though, and a elemental tattoo denoting all of those elements is on it stylized. Currently the red branches and purple winds are glowing markedly.

***

The figure stands and leans to look down at Doctor Nemesis "A Man of Science. You are the Scum I will wipe from this Earth and Save this Planet from Your Meddling!" he is wearing an Earth Force jacket, a bunch of whack job Eco terrorists. Then he spots Nyx "You.. Abomination! Where is your FLash now!" okay now he seems mad

***

Nyx trots after Doctor Nemesis "Um.. Sir .. pardon me but I think this is a guy who…" then the shouting and she groans again. "yeah.. this guy… " there is some definite expletive out of the young woman there and she sets her footing. Her arms start to glow with brilliant white light, and almost under the glare seem to reconfigure. "I hate this guy.. but goddamnit I don't want to be responsible.. for blowing up the Castle… it has webcams for gods sake…" problems so many problems.

***

Speechlessness is a rare, uncomfortable feeling for Nemesis, but "You… Stupid… Science is… I'm going to…" is all he can manage as he stares up at the bizarre figure on the castle. For several more moments, he just stares up at him before he drops his scalpel back into the pocket of his white coat, whips out another, fancier gun, and points both at the elven figure. "SCIENCE!" he screams, opening fire as both armor-piercing needles and searing plasma hurtle towards the enemy of science.

***

Eventide's next move as she's running along the vines is to swing off one lashing at her and try to hurl herself at the elfin figure behind all of this. This might work out a bit wonkily considering that Nemesis is shooting his gun in that general direction. "RRRAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!"

***

The ecoterrorist hurls "Science is an abomination!" and wind and .. yes ice as the water portion of the tattoo flares and forms a wall of ice shards on the wind between him and those blasts "I WILL END YOUR REIGN!" damn the kid, if he isn't some ageless elf, is very dramatic. Of course right about then Eventide hurls into him from behind. He does not have eyes in the back of his head. They both go flying off the castle battlement towards Doctor Nemesis and Nyx now. All ePoc manages to say about that is "URLKL".

***

Nyx tracks and then lowers her glowing hands "And now I might blow up some lady…" frustrations from the girl as her arms stop glowing and she charges in at them ready to leap on the Elf Boy and probably punch the snot out of him once they land.
When the tattoo turns to a wall of ice shards, Nemesis just directs the plasma stream to try and melt through it, saving the needles for any holes he might punch through it. Once Eventide tackles the figure straight off the roof of the castle, he stops firing his plasma gun, but continues raining armor-piercing needles down on the pair. And if one or two finds its way towards the roided out engine of rage, no one will find him apologizing.

***

Eventide goes down swinging. Emphasis on 'goes down,' since her flying tackle sends the eco-wacko off his castle, and her down with him — and in mid-air, she's swinging her arm, getting in as many sucker punches as she can fit in before impact. When she lands, she pushes up with a growl to try to land another punch or two — but slower this time, because in addition to a shredded spandex costume (and some underwear that's oddly untouched), she's accessorized with four armor-piercing darts sticking out of her back. She's slowed — but not out yet. Somehow.

***

ePoc really needs to start keeping a sharp air wall between him and everything around him. Because he keeps getting sucker punched or tackled or tazered by SHIELD agents, even secret ones. He keeps punched several times, which is probably in a two story drop.. oh… half a dozen at least. He also sports many tranq darts. The combination causes him to fade to unconsciousness with a few whimpers about … cursed… science….

As the glow of ePoc's tattoo fades down to normal the wind, clouds, lightning, and violent shrubbery all start to drift to normal.

***

Nyx stops by Eventide and ePoc "Oh god… is he dead?" she crouches and stares at him "also.. score… no blowing up landmarks today!" that seems to make the teen happy. After going viral destroying the Time Square Billboard and the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree … this is a win.

***

Nemesis lets out a few calming breaths, his plasma pistol raised towards the sky, the needle gun still aimed straight at Eventide and ePoc. As soon as he lets out the last settling sigh, he fires another needle into ePoc's back and turns it on Ronnie, watching her carefully for signs of further rage. "Deep breaths. Calm yourself now. I will shoot you again, girl. I know what that drug can do, and I know just how much you can take before you're overdosing and you've got several more shots to go," he explains calmly, before looking over to Nyx, "I'd back up. That one's dangerous."

***

Eventide looks at Nyx and Nemesis as if she's trying to see the sailboat hidden in a Magic Eye graphic. Her goggles cover her eyes, so you'll have to take that on faith — her mouth is hanging open, and she's drooling. Her movements are sluggish, like a wet sponge, but she manages to force herself up to her feet. She takes an unsteady step, then another, but not in any specific direction. "Hhhhuuhhhhhhnnnhh," she says, which might be an attempt at speaking, but she can't articulate anything. And then she tries to stagger off, losing strength by the second.

***

Nyx looks at the Doctor and his gun and then at Eventide "Crap… did you poison her… or …well no he isn't dead he is sleeping…" she looks back and forth now "Uh hey Lady calm down and sit down… you look like you will walk into traffic or fall over into the lake or something." she sighs and steps into help, evidently not very worried the way Eventide is behaving despite warnings.

***

Nemesis follows Eventide's progress with the barrel of his gun for half a second, before it becomes obvious that she doesn't need any more shots. "It's a sedative. My own recipe. Perfectly safe. Probably," he remarks, holstering both his weapons before he moves along to follow Nyx and Ronnie, "She can get… testy if she gets worked up. I know where to take her." As she passes the downed form of ePoc, he gives a small kick towards his side, but otherwise hurries along to try and keep up with the departing pair.

***

Eventide is trying to depart, anyway. Like some movie or something, she makes it five steps — and then collapses to the ground like a Jell-O mold, quivering and wobbling but unable to use her body for much else. "Bluuuhhh."

***

Nyx steps in quick, not Flash fast but not human fast either and catches Eventide as she collapses and hefts her back up. "Crap well if we leave her here the cops will nab her with ePocalypse back there… god I hate that guy…" she looks to Doctor Nemesis peering at him. "So.. uh Science Guy.. what now eh?"

***

"Now," Nemesis begins, catching up to Eventide and Nyx, "I take her to someplace safe." With one gloved hand, he reaches out to take up Ronnie's other side as he looks across to Nyx. "Thank you for your help, but there's every chance she's going to kill me when she figures out I gave her a dose of science. Best not involve you in that." Plus, he needs to do some blood tests! Easier not to explain that…

***

Nyx ums and narrows her eyes "Kill you…. you are her like .. teammate or know her right…" not handing Eventide over quite yet. "Maybe we should just take her to a hotel and let her wake up Science guy." she has no idea what to call this guy after all. Really they both were acting crazy, and this is coming from a young lady who was charging up some sort of high tech particle beam technology with her arms.

***

Ugh. Nemesis knows there's some sort of red flag he must be setting off in Nyx's brain, he knows enough about social situations to recognize that much. Unfortunately, he simply doesn't have the time or technical know how to diffuse a situation like that.
"Yes, I know her. She's threatened me with a pipe. I responded with a pen. She stole my work. It's all very complicated, but I mean her no harm. In fact, I'm trying to help her," he explains quickly, still ushering her along before the cops get here. "A hotel works fine, but we need to move quickly. In about two minutes, she's going to become dead weight and with this musculature, she's very dense. What is your mutation, by the way?" Still speaking very quickly, his eyes scan Nyx quickly, running through a full gamut of sensors, "You've got some extremely extensive modifications as well… Very interesting…" Nemesis' steps slow, but after a quick shake of his head, he continues on as fast as before. "Wait, don't tell me. I'll guess on the way."

***

Right cops, she lets herself be moved along as she carries Eventide "Good hotel…" she seems to have no trouble with Eventide though "No worry .. light as a feather." speaking of the other woman "Lets just… wait.. mutation… what… modifications?" she squints at Doctor Nemesis. This doesn't stop her from moving though as she lets him lead her out of the park and hopefully a hotel. "We aren't too far from m-town" where no one will care about this and cheaper than fifth avenue central park hotel.

***

"Your modifications," Nemesis continues at his lightning fast pace, flagging down a cab as they reach the edge of the park, "They're extensive. If I had to guess, I'd say… some sort of technopathy? I suppose that depends entirely on whether or not you did the modifications yourself. If not, my second guess is not a mutation, but a clone. Whatever it is, there's something interesting going on with your genes. Very sciency. That's a good thing. Are you paying? Watch her head."

***

Nyx will shift and slide herself and Eventide into the cab "M-Town.. ur.. border of M-Town" knowing the cab won't actually go into M-Town "Yeah I'll pay if my money isn't shredded by the briars… or you can pay if you have cash… dangit…" she digs around distracted "I'm not a clone and I'm not a technopath…. wait what is going on with my genes??" a touch of alarm there also some evasiveness.

***

Nemesis flashes a smile at the driver, but it's false and fleeting and also completely invisible beneath his surgical mask before he slides the little plastic screen closed to shut out their conversation to him without another word. "Well you're something, even if you don't know what," Nemesis fires back, adjusting his slightly dirty fedora, before reaching over to open Eventide's eyelid and peer at her pupils critically. "I can help you figure it out, if you want, but for now… We need to get her to a hotel and get out before she wakes up and breaks our necks. She's extremely dangerous when angry. You /will not/ like her when she's angry."

***

Nyx watches the strange guy in the fedora and mask. "I'm… open to this idea about figuring out more about .. what is going on with me and what I can do .. for certain. Though I don't really know much about you." she looks down at the zonked Eventide "What is she the hulk…. I'm pretty sure I'd be fine but sure we dump her in a room and let her sleep it off then… she better not pulp the hotel…"

***

Nemesis looks up and glances at Nyx with a confused look in his eye. "The hotel? Why would she destroy the hotel? The hotel didn't fill her full of science narcotics," he explains, glancing from Nyx to Eventide, "Regardless. You don't need to know /me/. I just need to know you. That's how it works. Blood tests, maybe. Very sciency stuff. You wouldn't understand. Perhaps I should get a sample from her as well, make sure the sedatives aren't having an adverse reaction with… her… lunch. With her lunch." As soon as he says this, he flashes a wide eye at Nyx, staring straight at her as if waiting to see if she'd buy his excuse.

***

Nyx slowly head tilts to the right and then again slowly to the left. "I.. think you probably shouldn't…. or you should probably be honest. You are really not very good at lying Science Guy. Also yes before you start running tests on me I need to know more about you… cause last thing I need is someone to screw me over…got enough bad guys trying to mess with me these days like ePoc back there.. or the Rhino.. man he hits hard."

***

Nemesis makes an annoyed noise, looking away from Nyx as his carefully constructed lie falls apart. "Perhaps we should start with a name, then. Doctor Nemesis. Nazi hunter and Scientific genius of the highest order. I have no credentials to give you, so you'll have to trust me on this: I mean neither of you any harm. I won't give away her secrets, but I will tell you that her anger is not a natural state. I suspect she is using half finished work of mine that was never intended to be used. If I'm right — which I always am — she could be in some serious danger. You, on the other hand… Well I've no idea who or what you are, but I don't intend on harming you. Besides a bit of a pinch. Needles and all that. No lasting harm though. Unless you've been traumatized by needles in the past. Then it might be psychologically scarring."

***

Nyx forks cash over to the driver at the edge of M-Town and hefts Eventide out now and then looks to the Doctor "Doctor Nemesis.. is not the most endearing name.. but I appreciate the not wanting to hurt me. Or hurt her. If you mean it… how about we get her to the hotel. We can chat a bit and maybe I can google you and see who you are on Herowatch" yeah the hero fan site "And we go from there.. take it slowly… for uh.. science."

***

"It is not supposed to be endearing," Doc Nem replies, helping Nyx hoist Eventide from the cab and proceed towards the hotel, "It is supposed to strike fear into the hearts of evil." For a moment, he's lost in thought, his eyes drilling holes into the skyline as he walks, "Or at least it was… I have been gone a very long time, mutant girl. You will not find anything about me on herowatch, but you may find something in the newspaper archives." Sensing a moment, Nemesis drops his voice to affect a slightly more dramatic tone as he turns a wild, wide open eye on Nyx, "From one hundred years ago."

"Come along, now. If we dawdle too long, she'll turn our spines into bracelets."

***

Nyx directs them into a crappy motel, she patrols M-Town, a lot. She knows where to go after all. She throws down some money and gets a no questions asked key. "Ah…uhm… right okay I can google those too you know.. they have tons of stuff on the google…." she peers at Nemesis "Also you really are underestimating me a lot.. I'm pretty sure I could hold her down if you wake her up and then you could talk to her… but okay…" and into the room. "So where you been Nazi hunter Nemesis?"

***

"I'm doing quite the opposite, in fact. I'm not estimating you at all," Nemesis retorts, turning back to face Nyx after he discards his once-white trench coat on a chair along with his hat. "You're an unknown, and so I'm operating under a worst-case scenario which is you being completely unable to control her and her science-rage if she /does/ wake up." With that, he turns towards the mini-fridge and pulls it open, rifling through the various contents in search of… something. "I've been hunting Nazis, of course. Didn't I say that?"

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Nyx pauses "I… don't think you did actually you said you were Nazi Hunter not that you were actively hunting Nazi's… do you mean like Hydra.. or Nazi's… I thought there weren't any Nazi's anymore out there?"

***

Nemesis stops his rifling to turn back to Nyx and stare at her for a moment, "No… There aren't. Because I hunted them." Then it's back to the searching until he finally produces some very small bottles of very cheap booze. Slamming closed the fridge, he rushes to the bathroom sink and dumps the entire contents down the drain before setting each by the side of Eventide's bed. "Right. Are you ready? She's going to be stronger then normal. I've no idea how strong, either. Who knows what they did to my creation. Ruined it, I suspect. Probably added gorilla hormones from the look of her." Nemesis even sniffs the air, as if expecting to get a whiff of whatever manipulations were done to his 'creation' before he gestures to Nyx, "You'll have somewhere between thirty seconds and a minute before she regains full strength after waking up. Probably."

***

Nyx eyes Eventide on the bed "Ooh… well… we could just leave her here to wake up and you can approach her when she isn't spazzing like this…. wait Gorilla hormones… ok fine .. christ I will probably regret this but take your quick blood sample and lets bail okay. You can do Science and talk to her like a human later ok?"

***

"Oh good," Nemesis says, not at all surprised as he prepares an empty syringe he had clearly already been getting ready. Without pause, it goes straight into her arm and he begins his work, only pausing to speak once he's halfway through filling up the bottles with blood. "I was kidding about the gorilla hormones, by the way. Wouldn't do anything for her strength." As he fills the last one, he stoppers the syringe with a plastic cap and drops it into a pocket on his suit jacket while he collects the blood samples. "Smells more like Rhinoceros anyway. Shall we?"

***

Nyx sighs and hopes she isn't making a mistake about this. But well to late now "Are you kidding about Rhino hormones… because I’ve had a bad week for Rhinos.. seriously…. who keeps making rhino people.. it isn't right…" she looks down at the girl on the bed. "Crap. Also no blood samples from me until I know more about you.."

***

A moment or two after Nyx speaks, Eventide's arm twitches. Then her shoulder. Then her fingers. The fingers twitch until they curl into a fist, and that's when, behind her goggles, Ronnie Hautzig snaps her eyes open. "Wh— hrr—" She's still groggy from the sedatives, and she throws herself to her feet gracelessly, just in time for her vision to fix on: "/You/," she says to Doctor Nemesis.

***

There's a tense moment before Eventide, realizing that she's unprepared and very much drugged (and not in the good, fun way, like you'd want), against an opponent with god knows what at his disposal, turns and leaps out of a window, to the street below, already regaining her speed.
So much for her not wrecking the place.

***

Nemesis draws a simple white (of course) business card from his pocket even as he deposits the blood samples. On it, is a single phone number. No name, no address. "Call me when you decid-"

But suddenly Ronnie's awake and Nemesis has a needle gun in hand, but before he can retort or explain, she's out the window and gone. "Well…" he finally sighs, slowly lowering the pistol back into its holster before he turns to face Nyx again. "Surprising. Seemed only like five seconds until full cognitive function. I did only ever use it on one super soldier, so I suppose my estimations were slightly off… Oh well. Best be off. Do call if you decide I'm not about to turn you into a weapon or some such."

***

Thing is, she doesn't need Doctor Nemesis to turn her into a weapons platform. Nyx steps to look out the burst window. "Well crap…" she shakes her head "yeah we should jet.. and sure give me your number and Ill think on it..good enough?"

***

Nemesis offers up Nyx a shrug as he hands over his card, "I give you my card and offer you my help in discovering what you are and what you are capable of. What you do with it is your own business." Stepping over to the chair, he pulls his hat back over his head and slips into his trench coat again before planting one, white-loafered foot on the edge of the broken window. "Just don't take too long to decide. That won't be my number for very long." Then he too, is out through the window, but his destination is the fire escape and the roof, rather then the streets.

***

Nyx accepts the card and then nods "Sure…" and then he is out the window "Right… why is it people are allergic to doors…" she shakes her head and heads down the you know stairs, and then out the front door. This motel doesn't ask a lot of questions and it will be a while before anyone checks the room. In the meantime she needs to go buy yet another outfit… this really is expensive heroing.


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