Purse Hunt

February 06, 2018:

Misfit runs into Astrea stopping a purse snatcher with extreme prejudice. Apparently.

New York City

Nondescript Side Street

Characters

Astrea

Misfit

NPCs: None.

Mentions: Batman, Impulse, Green Lantern

Plot:

Mood Music: [*\# None.]

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Fade In…

Log Commenced: 06-Feb-18 11:32PM EST

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The man was not having a good night. He thought it was gonna be a good night. He was gonna snatch that woman's purse and rush away. He had a good plan. She was wearing fur. Was looking pretty rich. She was holding that bag loosely and then he ran. He ran right by, shoved her, grabbing the purse, and he booked it. He ran right by some strange homeless person. He heard the woman scream, he heard someone yell out at him. He looked back just a moment and that homeless person had…a massive gun. Oh crap!

Outside looking in, that massive gun goes off with a crack and barely a kick as Astrea fires it into the man's upper left back. He spins around and slams into the ground. Another scream and she looks back to the woman who had her purse stolen and she looks horrified. Astrea looks, well, you really can't tell how she looks given she has most of her face hidden but her eyes look possibly confused even as the man rolls along the ground and comes to a halt.

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Charlie came to New York City to see Hamilton.

Afterwards since she was in town feeling peppy Misfit hunt around to patrol a little on an unfamiliar beat.

Gotham is just so.

So dark.

Skipping along rooftops Misfit bounces, teleports, towards the scream from the below. Right in time to see a purse snatcher get shot by .. a homeless lady with a absurdly huge gun. "Holy carp!"

A slash of purple and pink smoke is where the young woman stood moments ago on the edge of the roof. Reappearing a heartbeat later right by your left side striking out at the gun "Don't shoot purse snatchers!" well it is a good rule of thumb. Also she is stronger than she looks all pint sized.

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Whipping her weapon around, she spins it and lets it get struck. She doesn't appear that she's exactly homeless but the tri-corner hat, scarf around her face, and trench coat like thing does make her look like she might be. Of course, upon closer inspection it's better maintained and hiding under the coat is a classic business suit (classic like the year 1880 classic).

As she is hit, she turns a little with it and then performs a spinning sweep toward Misfit's legs and then states, "'e were a thief and needed to be put down." Her voice comes across as irish though it sounds almost older than expected as she then halts her spin and looks at Misfit carefully and says, "Why are ya so upset?" She stares.

Misfit may or may not notice right now but nearby, the purse thief is groaning and twitching.

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Misfit is an odd duck herself. Well odd bat. Not quite. Eh she is odd. Her costume has some signature bat-ness to it if one were to know that sort of thing. Which is probably not the case right now. Still everything is slightly askew from the color scheme, to the crooked ear of her cowl, and her colorful goggles.

Speaking of goggles the young woman's eyes are wide. "Because he was unarmed and .. you don't shoot people who steal purses… crackers!" at the groan and twitching she eyes you and then steps away closing the distance to the thief. Trying to figure out if she needs to stabilize the criminal or just call an ambulance. "What are you a pirate!?"

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A blink as she walks toward the man and slides the pistol away, "No, I'm a hunter." She then gestures, "And besides, 'e'll be fine." She nods her head, "It isn't lethal." She nods her head as the woman comes up to see that the man isn't dead and there's no blood and that her purse is fine.

"The man stole that woman's purse, so I gave him a hit that he won't soon forget." The man twitches a little and if Misfit checks, he's got a bruise and nothing more…though the bruise is easily at the level of getting hit by Ali or Tyson.

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Misfit huhs softly. She crouches down and checks him over. Then there is rumaging in the strange yellow belt of pouches and she swiftly zipties the criminal's ankles and wrists together. "Well. That gun did not look non-lethal at all… dang." she eyes the holster. "Good job!"

As Misfit stands she scoops up the purse and offers it out to the shell shocked woman it was stolen from. "So you are a hunter dressed like a pirate." she eyes the hat. "What exactly is it that you hunt?"

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Looking over at Misfit and blinks, "Dressed like a pirate?" She asks and tilts her head, "I don't know of what ya speak I'm certainly no pirate." She nods her head as she shifts in her spot, "And what I hunt are things that hopefully will continue to stay mostly out of this world. Beasts." She nods her head and then looks to the side, "Though, in reality, I have spotted a few." She frowns under her mask before looking over at Misfit, "I go by Astrea. What do I call you?"

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Bart Allen arrives from The Crossroads.

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Bart Allen heads out to Midtown Manhattan.

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Misfit shakes the purse at the lady then sighs and /bounces/ over to her vanishing and reappearing with a bit of pinkurple smoke. "Take your purse .. the .. nice ..lady .. didn't kill anyone.." and then she /bounces/ back appearing back in front of you.

"Beasts… like big game.. wolves lions tigers bears… i wouldn't hunt tigers though they are endangered.." yeah she totally goes on a tangent. "Oh right. Misfit. They call me Misfit. We should probably jet" gestures towards the subdued criminal. "cops are about to arrive… can you .. get to a roof top?"

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A look at Misfit and she blinks, "No, not like bears or tigers…" She states carefully and shakes her head a little, "Most certainly nothin' like that." She then looks over to the area around, "THe law men? Like the man in green with his glowing ring?" She then shrugs, "As for rooftops, I mean I suppose. Though the roof tops here are rather high up." She then runs over toward a nearby building with an attached fire escape.

With the run, she leaps…easily 10 feet straight up and grabs the side of the escape and pulls herself up. Then she's zipping her way up to the top rather quickly.

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There is a tilt of her head and then an appraising watch as Astrea ascends to the roof top. "Well she has speed.. zippy." she shakes her head then /bounces/ teleporting up to the roof top near where the fire escape empties.

"Law men. Not like the Green Lantern. Normal people who enforce the law and deal with more mundane criminals like that purse snatcher most days." a shrug of her shoulders as Misfit looks below thoughtfully. "So you ran into Green Lantern?"

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"Yes, he was rude but useful." She nods her head, "Ya know, you remind me of that Man Bat that roams the streets and such. The scary one. He gave me a phoen though. Useful. I figured I'd 'ave to shoot 'im." She nods her head as she then looks over at Misfit, "Turns out he's not a beast at all." She then shrugs and sighs, "You know 'im?"

She then looks down in time to see some cop cars pull up and men start running. She nods as she looks at them before saying, "Ah, they must be who you were talkin' about. I 'ave seen their vehicles. No idea that was who they were."

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Misfit leans to watch the ziptied guy try to hop fling himself away from the cops. "Those are cops. Lawmen. The square trucks that are red and white are the medics. The red long trucks with ladders put out fires." she isn't sure but she is getting the impression you are not from around here.

She leans back to look at you now. "The man bat… nice. He must have had no idea what to do with you. Well that or every idea." she ponders "Yeah he is the main hero keeping Gotham safe and I am part of his crew. No beast. Definitely not. So…. what are beasts?"

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A blink as she looks over at Misfit and states, "Beasts…" She then considers and looks to the side before she says, "Well, beasts are the ones affected by the blood in a negative way…and then some." She looks down, "More even than that. They are the product of the old ones. The terror that haunts your nightmares." She shrugs, "Not easy to describe." She nods her head and then looks back down, "I hope to never see them again but they already proved that they aren't just shadow and myth here."

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That definitely has Misfit's attention. "Okay they sound absolutely awful." her head tilts slowly to the other direction. "I don't think I have ever seen anything like that. I mean we have villains and bad guys but not terrors … wait I think I saw something about old ones in a video game. So where are you from and where did you see a beast?"

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"The city of blood." She then looks down, "Another world…away from here." She sounds distant for a moment, "Hopefully one that isn't fallen…" She closes her eyes, "I'm one of the view still sane hunters." She looks over at Misfit and then looks out again, "And as for the beast, the bat along with others helped me to deal with them. It isn't clear if they are something of this world or something else…" She sighs softly and then looks over to Misfit, "Also there's a zippy guy, fast as can be. Nice though, not like the one they call Zoom. Do ya know of 'im? I think called 'imself Impulse?"

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Misfit moves over to sit on the edge of the building now taking a break while watching you. This is fascinating really. "I do know Impulse. He is a lot of fun to fight crime with. Also just fun." she grins. "City of blood sounds pretty awful though." she has a vivid imagination. "Was.. it a euphamism or was there a lot of actual blood?" she trails off. "Well if Batman and the others are fighting these beasts. I'll probably help out as best I can. I mean I am not as good at this as Batman or Green Lantern but these beasts seem awful."

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After a moment, Astrea looks distant. Staring into the ground below them and then finally after what almost seems like too long. Her eyes go over to Misfit and they look huanted, "I don't think I should talk about it any further." If she is watching, at the moment, Astrea's breath is visible and the air seems to have dropped several degrees in temperature, "I did ney pay attention ta it before but ya have a way about ya." She nods her head, "Somethin' akin to magic." She nods her had, "I sensed earlier but I had no idea it was you."

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Okay that gets a slow blink there from Misfit behind those goggles. "Swhatnow?" then she takes a breath and watches your breath in the air. "I have a way of what about me?" okay maybe Charlie doesn't actually know that her bouncing (aka teleporting) is actually really powerful chaos magic. "Wait you do magic?"

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"Not exactly…but I can sense it and things that use it." She then nods her head, "AMong other things. Beasts are often drenched in it." She then licks her lips, "Ya don't look like no beast but ya definitely have a power about ya." She tilts her head, "Did ye not know? I watched zip about. Ya must know that is no normal feat." She looks surprised and reaches up to pull her mask down to reveal the face of a girl in her late teens, "Ya do know most cannae bounce about."

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Well Misfit is about her age then just a bit.. smaller. "I.. no." pause "I mean sure my bouncing around is not normal but I figured it was just a metahuman thing. You know. Like Impulse. He isn't magic and he sure isn't normal." she just seems to be boggled by all of it now. "I am definitely not a beast. I'm just a girl.." she hesitates then lifts her goggles up exposing her eyes. "I will definitely have to ask Batman."

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"Ye do what ya must but I know what I smell and sense." She nods her head, "And it don't easily get past me." She then shrugs and looks down again, "Well, I ought to get goin'. I still need ta find a permanent job and place within this world." She shrugs, "I hope perhaps we run into each other again." She then pulls out a cellphone, "Here." She unlocks it, "It says here what my contact number is."

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Misfit pulls her goggles back down and snaps a shot of the phone contact with a blink of an eye. Keeping it up on lens she pulls a phone out of a pouch. She sends you a text. ~Hi this is Misfit. Text me if you have an emergency or you need back up~. Then she pauses "Do you know how to text?" unsure. "Also have you had any luck finding a place to live .. like uh.. leads or anything?"

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A blink at the message and she stares at it, "No…I do not 'ave any messages like this till now." She nods her head as she stares at the screen and then looks back over at Misfit, "And nah really." She shrugs, "I 'ave had to work on things quite a bit."

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Misfit considers that now. "Well… can you read it?" she leans over to peer at your phone again. "Basically touch there.. and then type a message and hit send… it lets us communicate right away back and forth which is pretty cool. Did you have stuff like this in the city of Blood?" she mms "We should totally talk to Impulse about your problems I think."