[Aysu]

Audible gasps could be heard ringing out as the announcement of The Elementals' sentence was broadcasted. Some approved of it, and others feared for what it would mean for the future of Japan. The Elemental wasn't one to mess with, no matter what side of the argument you were on. As the moments continued on, alarm would set in over all of Tokyo as he made his board, rather alarming announcement.

"He's going to do it again?" A troubled woman would grab onto herself, looking up to the tv that was mounted to her wall. Another, downing his fifth beer of the morning, would raise his can to the idea of it, whilst wallowing away in his own filth in a nearby alleyway. As much as the average person would hope that such things wouldn't change their everyday life, but that was going to change in a matter of seconds. 

A light, metallic sound could be heard coming from every direction, slowly surrounding the area of Toshima. Rather than staying inside, people left their homes and buildings to look for any signs of alarm; immediately, there was nothing at all. Perhaps the humming was some sort of cicada, or some low playing music. With no danger in sight, people would go about their day until it became much louder and noticeable. 

Drones seemed to litter the skyline, peeking out in between any tall building and moving closer and closer to areas of Toshima. While they may have seemed harmless, a high pitched sound would spout from one, before a bright red laser would shoot down and cut through a small ramen food stand. As the first shot, others followed suit and slowly started to destroy the ground, billboards and many windows of businesses in the area. 

It put people in a panic; even without these drones hitting anyone directly yet, they distracted people from what they were doing enough to start causing chaos. People were screaming, clamoring to get into any building that they could to the point that they were tripping over others and the environment around them. Even though these metallic contraptions weren't targeting people, how long was that going to last?

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OOC: Welcome to The Alloy support thread! This thread is to be paired with The Tortured thread, where you are going to be fighting off drones! You can be anywhere, whether you are together or not! Please keep in mind that they are in the air, so you may not be able to immediately get to them! <3

[Shirayuki Mai]

Toshima was never supposed to be more than a brief stop for her. She had to transfer trains at its station on her way home and had gotten a phone call just as she'd stepped off the first leading to her missing the second. With the next one being an hour away Shirayuki Mai had decided to go on a walk to kill time and maybe have dinner as well. She was done with work for the day so it wasn't like she was in any rush. So long as she still got home by 9:30 pm of course. Otherwise it would affect her sleep schedule and Mai was not willing to break her rhythm just to unwind a little. Such a lack of discipline was bound to cause trouble in the long term.

She'd just finished dinner and was on a second, after-dinner walk to ease digestion when the noise resounded and drones began to show up en masse. Immediately she slipped into an alley and triggered her MG-pattern necklace. A flash of light signified her transformation into Yuki Onna and when she stepped back out of the alley her hair was white, her eyes had a far lighter color and her hero costume was on.

"Everyone! Please remain indoors, close all windows and stay calm. We are working to resolve the situation, there is no need to be concerned!"

The last part of her sentence was drowned out by the sound of lasers wreaking havoc and people screaming. Yuki Onna clicked her tongue. She had no way of getting to the drones without using her scarves and she highly doubted the cloth would stand up to the spinning helicopter blades they possessed. She hoped someone more capable of dealing with this threat was nearby to handle the offensive part of their current needs. In the meantime she would do what she could. 

Stepping atop the nearest bench to gain some height to be seen over the crowd she took a deep breath to take in enough air to be heard.

"Everyone, listen! Please evacuate in an orderly manner! Mind your fellow countrymen and take care not to get in each other's way!"

She scanned the area even as she talked, ready to jump into action the moment she saw anything that needed her attention.

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TL;DR: Shirayuki Mai was on a walk when stuff went down, ducks into an alley to Transformation Sequence^tm her costume on before doing her best to keep the crowd calm. Hops onto a bench while doing so to both make sure people can see her and so she can see where she's needed most.

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[Jackie Maradona]

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[attr="class","achee"] [attr="class","castleonthehill"] ❝ A buzz in an ear. Radio static hummed, crackling to and from transparency, disappearing and appearing again amongst the world's descent. The dial twisted, scraping and scrambling through semblances of coherence. Voices were, in one moment, a drumming of barks and commands; offbeat, and lacking rhythm despite their efforts, but nonetheless drummed. "Corral the people inside!" they bellowed in a panic, "get them away from the drones!" Then again, from the beating of their voices, they fizzled out into nonsense. Their sounds played on their radios, devoid of identity or understanding to the listener; in neither tempo nor sound did it make play anything known, and to the one listening in, it whirled a metallic cacophony through their head. In the trial of The Elementalist, Japan fell again into the villain's jaws. Was it his blaze of glory, perhaps? Was it a melodramatic symphony of mayhem set to the tune of the man's genius — of the man's wandering mind? As the scene plunged further into the depths of his machinations, his devastation raining down and drowning the people beneath, the earpiece was pulled out; the discord of it came only from a distance as they looked out toward the scene. "Got a plan?" Standing atop the ledge, not yet in the district noted for the swarm hovering above, Grinta finicked with her hood. Pundit embedded itself into the back of her cloak, lifting the vigilante into the air. "They're drones, shes?" She sat her cap atop her hood, gripping it by the brim and securing it to the top of her head. Along with it, her mask sparked to life. "We can 'andle that." Up in the sky, tracing above where Yuki Onna called upon the citizens, a new entrant soared through; following along and orbiting around this stranger, a trio of spherical creatures with grotesque grins kept pace. Breaking from their paths and shooting away from their star, the orbs aimed to fall upon a drone each, primed to latch onto their exteriors and burrow their nerves throughout the machines. And with their grasp of them, the vigilante — casting a shadow from her place in the sky, eclipsing the drones she now made her own — she called down to the public below. "Trample each othe' on shour own time!" she thundered to the crowd, flicking her gaze between the drones. "If shou can't fight, then get the 'ell out of the way!" The drones infected by her quirk would, assuming their control had been attained, lock in on the rest of the swarm. Each Pundit — alabaster spheres of mismatched eyes and grueling sneers — cackled with glee as their hosts turned towards their fellow machines. With the lasers equipped, the vigilante fired the drones upon their others, utilizing the same equipment upon their brethren. "'ow do I clea' out so many?" ✉ tag -- Aysu Shirayuki Mai ✎ 471 words ※ Turn the weapons on their others!

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[Shirayuki Mai]

Mai did not know who this new arrival was but given that they seemed to be on the same side she put that thought aside for now. Whether they had a license or not didn't matter as much as the fact that they stepped up to preserve order, especially in an emergency such as this. Hearing the high pitched whine of a charging laser near her she realized there was no time for such idle thoughts and slung one of the scarves attached to her costume out. A deft flick of her wrist caused the end of it to wrap around part of the drone just before it would've hit the rotor and a following pull managed to unbalance it enough for the laser to go wide.

Ideally she would've brought it down entirely but the scarf came loose too quickly, the drone's rotor having made it so she couldn't fling it far enough to wrap it enough for a good grip without getting entangled in the blades. Sending a second scarf out to wrap around the top of a lamppost she kicked off the bench she was standing on and used it as a rope to raise herself to the top of the pole at a pace more similar to a run than a climb. She did not have long before the drone restabilized so she had to be quick.

Leaping from the lamppost towards the nearest building she kicked off its side to reach the drone, her leg lashing out with a spinning kick to shatter the rotors, neutralizing the drone's threat level. The scarf still attached to the lamppost tightened around her wrist as she reached the limit of its range, her momentum carrying her down in a descending crescent motion ending in a roll while she flicked her wrist once more to pull the cloth loose. She straightened back up just as the drone crashed to the ground behind her.

"People of Tokyo! Please seek cover while we deal with this threat. It shall be handled momentarily."

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[Jackie Maradona]

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[attr="class","achee"] [attr="class","castleonthehill"] ❝ The hijacked drones continued their onslaughter against their former brethren, cutting through the layers of steel and wires, melting them down through their middle, and dropping them from the skies in melted pieces; their new commander, leading them with a brigadier cap sat atop her hood, kept her flight through. She, alongside her appropriated machines, became the greatest threat to the swarm's senseless destruction, and as such, she became their predominant target. "Ey, shou! 'ero or wha'ever!" As she weaved through the air, curving and twisting between lasers that shot at both her and her squadron, she shouted to Yuki Onna. "Shou 'ave anything else beside' fancy rope? Something, I don't know, mo'e capable of 'andling something like thi'?" As she shot off into the sky as the lasers came down on her again, a member of her squadron was parted in two, sliced down into a melted pine of leathery goo before crumbling into ashen particles. Even as the vigilante summoned another creature, swimming through the sea of lasers as she did, the quirk was immediately burned down its center. The forces she still managed, the two drones orbiting her at either side opposite the other, fired back at the swarm as they themselves danced through around their beams; just as was done to the quirk and the host it piloted, so too were members of the swarm dashed to pieces. "Come on, shour quirk ha' to at lea't be a little useful here! Surely, shou aren't ju't a 'ero for show, right?" As she darted through the air, the bottom of her cloak bared the blades it wore as its teeth, and with them, she punctured another drone set to cleave its way through her. "Wha'ever shou 'ave in mind, or e'en something shou don't — I don't know, something that could end thi' fa'ter!" One of the commandeered drones swooped down to the hero's level; the grinning face embedded in it, sticking out of the metal like a tumor upon its steel plating, opened its mouth. "Ya got a ride right here, comin' in!" ✉ tag -- Bakiri Retsu ✎ 346 words ※ More lasers, more destruction! Tis the scene to be!

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[Shirayuki Mai]

Unfortunately for both herself and the vigilante Mai very much did not have a quirk suited to dealing with this situation, nor anything more potent than her scarves. If there was a person nearby controlling these drones she could take them down to end this but unfortunately she doubted that was the case, these drones were acting on a scale that was too large and with reaction speed too slow to be operating on anything but pre-programmed commands. Which, perhaps, meant she did not need to deal with all of them. Yet it wouldn't do to miss out on the obvious due to false expectations so just in case she shouted back at the vigilante.

"Do you see anyone directing these drones?" 

Grinta was the only person both high up and combat ready, if anyone could spot a potential target it was them. Even so Mai didn't hold out hope, putting all of her eggs in one basket would be a deadly mistake to make. At present the drones were not yet firing at the civilians around them but that could change at any moment. So far there were two different kinds of things she'd seen them fire at. The first were flat objects with a large surface area: billboards, windows, the ground or the signs attached to a ramen stand. The second was threats, namely Grinta's hijacked drones. An idea came to mind.

Grabbing a kettle from the ramen stand next to her she removed the top while sprinting below the nearest concentration of hostile drones. With her hand held above the opening at the top she channeled her quirk full blast while throwing the water up over her head in an arc, flash freezing it the moment it came into contact with the cold air and creating a screen of snow in the center of the group of drones. Immediately the swarm turned, firing into the center of the white plane and hitting the drones on the other side setting off a chain reaction of friendly fire the moment the curtain evaporated less than a second later. If this 'glitch' could be replicated on a larger scale they might stand a chance.

Spotting a nearby water cooler with a five gallon tank as Grinta's drone swooped down next to her Mai flinched when the drone itself spoke but quickly caught herself and focused on the job at hand.

"Get me above them, if we can drop more curtains of snow between groups they'll take care of each other!"

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Tags: Jackie Maradona Aysu

[Jackie Maradona]

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[attr="class","achee"] [attr="class","castleonthehill"] ❝ As she continued to weave through the hailstorm of lasers and metallic bodies — striking some at their rotors with the blades flurrying about her figure — Grinta raised an agitated eyebrow. "Shou think I wouldn't 'ave gone after the controller if I the'e wa' one?" She spoke through agitated teeth, mostly to herself. Given the distance between her, who rose and dove through the air, and her grounded, impromptu ally, the vigilante figured it to be lost in the rest of the surrounding cacophony. "The drones aren't ope'ating off of a central sy'tem!" Unclenching her jaw, she let out her scream, one that clawed its way through the destruction to make itself known. "I can't communica'e to anything from the ones I 'tole; they only 'ave ru'imentary in'tructions, a basic di'ective! There's nothing new coming in for them!" The drone swooped down below to the hero, lifting her, alongside the cooler, into the air. As Yuki Onna got a better look at the device, she'd come to find the grotesque little creature, whose flesh stretched like a rubber ball over an orbicular skull and whose eyes moved with a notable twitch, sticking out from the metal plating. And now, with both the hero and the tank in its grasp, Pundit offered a grin with its cheery, unhealthily alabaster teeth. "Ya heroes really gotta invest in flight tech more. Ya know how useful it is? Yer missin' out, big time!" It laughed. "And yer all stuck on the floor all the time; if ya don't got any range, least ya can do is get up to where yer worth somethin'!" As Grinta kept their occupation at bay, dodging along with the trifecta of senses from herself, her AI, and her quirk, the carrier drone hauled Yuki Onna over the battlefield. They, too, darted amongst the lasers, with some even grazing and burning the hijacked machine as it hurled through the air, but ultimately kept their cargo out of the lines of fire. But they made it over the swarm nonetheless, rising above with the gallons ready to pour. And so, as they swept between the waves, Yuki Onna doused between them the same frosty mist she had before, cooling the water rapidly as flaking snow dust fell. In the winter-ful wonderland sprinkling down upon the swarm, their confusion set in. Whatever directed them was nothing more capable than simply dumping their offenses upon their immediate panic; and in this ignorance, turned their lasers upon each other. From the flakes of frost and ice, lights dotted the sky, accompanying the falling of scrap metal to the street below as the machines tore themselves apart. By this point, the civilians had hidden inside buildings while the pair brought the onslaughter to a silent, glittering end, keeping them from the storm made of their final moments. The only two remaining drones were the ones held under control by the vigilante. The first one, the one having raised the hero into the sky, swept low again and dropped her to the street. "Seriously, invest in flight; you'll thank me later." The creature let out one last, bellowing laughter as it, alongside the thief and her other stolen machine, shot away from the scene, disappearing into the distance in a flash of speed. ✉ tag -- Shirayuki Mai ✎ 546 words ※ A quick capstone to the machines!

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✓ Taking notes, invest in flight! Great job you two and thank you for participating in the Elementals event!!! [break][break]

+ 75 TOKENS!

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Mai - 0 // 0 not eligible for tokens[break]
Jackie - 50 // 125 = converting the 125 tokens to 12.500 exp as requested!

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