Town Hall, Saturday, December 19, 2020 [Morning into Afternoon]

[fh_extras]

Fandom, at this point, was a bit of a disaster. The chocolate lava, flowing since Wednesday, had spilled out of its rivers and frozen to the already icy cobblestones. The sugar icicles had gotten longer and more dangerous to unwary pedestrians, the marzipan boulders were deadly when they picked up speed coming down the stairs, and the choking fairy lights had teamed up with the sharkicanes to drag people into snowdrifts--now up to shoulder height--forever.

The inflatables that hadn't been knifed, shot, or blasted to pieces yesterday were out roaming again, fruitcakes were still lying in wait to crush toes and bark shins, and the less said about the terrifying new reindeer and their mesmerizing red noses, the better.

The island needed a few heroes right now to buy time for the science team holed up inside Town Hall. Fortunately, it had a lot to choose from.

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[magnusrushesin]

"OH MY GOD, YESSSSSS!"

Yeah, you introduced giant bears. Magnus was down for this.

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[betterthanaplan]

Yeah, Duke was just going to shoot Magnus a Look for that one.

“Whelp. Glad I packed the explosives.”

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[weirderthanthou]

"Right," Jesse said. She glanced back at everyone. "It's heading towards the school," she called, "So let's stop it before it gets there, all right?"

And because there wasn't any feasible way she was going to get out of this without using her powers anyway, she leaped up to the roof, and then into the air, gliding towards the caves.

And the giant fucking bear.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"What the actual hell?" Starlight stared up at the giant bear, eyes glowing bright. And then Jesse started flying, and that was pretty new.

Whatever. There wasn't time for what-the-hell-ing - she held both hands out in front of her, drawing power into herself as she ran towards the giant bear.

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[thatwaslucky]

If anyone was flying that shouldn't have been, Rey didn't notice or care, which mainly had to do with her already charging towards the bear for immediate stabbing purposes.

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[sparkinyou]

"You think if we got the bears brand name cola they might chill out?" Miles asked as he flipped up onto a wall and started to web a couple of the smaller bears.

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[knife_bender]

Diego was kind of caught staring at other people do cool stuff at first, but quickly got with the knife flinging at the bears. He could multi-task.

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[1000yearstoolate]

"Aatr's tits, I didn't think the bears here could get any worse."

Seivarden started running, activating her armour as she did so, giving her body a thin metallic surface. She fired at one of the smaller bears, causing it to roar in pain and stumble.

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[superjoanjett]

Jessica groaned. "Seriously," she muttered under breath. "No amount of bourbon is worth this."

But she jumped into the air. Much higher than a normal human should and landed right in front of a few of the smaller bears.

"I punch bears now. This is what I do," she said shaking her head.

And hoped she fared better than Leonardo DiCaprio.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

So there were maybe a few more people on the air game than she'd have expected, but that was actually fine and great for Summer, because ground cover was what she did pretty well, and she was particularly paying attention to sniping anything that might think it was cute by using the chaos to its advantage, especially anything that might be thinking it was cute by thinking she didn't totally see it coming up behind her there.

Pew, pew, bitches. Summer had a shit ton of blaster bolts and she was really looking forward to using them all.

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke was just going to assist with that ground cover, there. Though he was rather wishing he also had a blaster to use, since he was going to run out of bullets on these smaller bears pretty quickly.

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[heroic_jawline]

"Think we can herd the littler ones to fall into the lava?" Steve asked whoever was nearby.

You know, for given value of both little and herd.

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[firstofitskind]

“Nina had some luck doing that to the snow angels the other day,” Liam confirmed. “It’s worth a try.”

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[notallbluemonks]

Beau had arrived back here with Yasha in tow, sporting a few new scratches and cuts from the snow icicles, just in time to catch this new development.

"Oh, fuck yes," she said gleefully, cracking her knuckles. "Time to really fuck shit up, Yasha, let's go!"

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[notarockharpist]

Yasha just nodded, grateful that it at least gave her an out from having to talk to strangers, and drew the massive length of Magician's Judge from her back scabbard.

Her eyes went unfocused for a moment, the cords in her neck started to stand out as her jaw clenched, and foam started to form at the corners of her mouth as she unleashed an absolutely feral roar.

Surprise, anybody who'd only seen the quiet awkward side of her.

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[grenadesandohana]

Steve startled badly for a second. "Well, that's different," he said.

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[betterthanaplan]

And Duke was just kind of openly staring.

"Yeah, that's -- one way of putting it."

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[hatesparadise]

"I told you this was a dumb idea," Danny snapped. Because it was. It super, super was.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

Starlight - who, yes, was pretty startled by Yasha there, though it was pretty dope seeing her actually use the giant sword - paused where she had just blasted one of the smaller bears away from herself.

"Which part is a dumb idea?" she had to ask. Because there was a lot of dumbness going on right now, even if Yasha and her like, foaming-at-the-mouth trick was pretty scary in what Starlight was thinking was a good way.

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[magnusrushesin]

"Oh, all of it," Magnus supplied helpfully as he stretched out his arms to get some real good chopping energy built up. Not, like, Monk built up, but more like good calisthenics. "Soup to nuts, all bad."

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[sparkinyou]

"Honestly, I think someone forgot to give somebody a holiday gift," Miles grunted as he swung a bear caught in his web at another bear knocking them both into a Sharkicane. "Of somebody really hates their gift. Maybe there's a gift receipt somewhere on the island we need to find?"

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[grenadesandohana]

"I love my Christmas cattle prod," Steve said, using it on a wayward reindeer trying to sneak up on him.

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[firstofitskind]

"There's a sentence I never thought I'd hear," Liam remarked, although yes, Steve, you were getting a lot of side-eye for even being out here at all.

As if you didn't already get enough of that from Danny.