2898/Welcome to Super Snack Shack

Welcome to Super Snack Shack
Date of Scene:	25 August 2015
Location:	Strait of the Americas
Synopsis:	A Food Run Gone Horribly Wrong
Cast of Characters:	44, Blurr, 569, Sanary Rondel, 836, 858

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Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    Somewhere in a not too distant future, somewhere in time and America, there is a fast food joint called the Super Snack Shack. Apparently they hadn't heard of Superman, so they had this giant S on a Shield logo going for them as their logo. Their slogan: Stack Up On Snacks at the Super Snack Shack!

    Mojo Jojo was here to do just that. He was bored, had the munchies for something that was neither Starbucks, nor Eggs, which he has for breakfast, and not for the Munchies. The Munchies needed something special and it wasn't eggs.

    So it was that Mojo Jojo stumbled upon the Super Snack Shack, and after a few moments of assessing the menu, he considered his options, before reaching into his side pocket and pulling out a blaster rifle from someplace, and fires it up into the air, and then points it at the lanky looking nerdy cashier. Nobody special. "Alright, I want five Super Snack Packs. Five Stacks of Super Snack Packs from this Super Snack Shacks, you go that?"

Peridot (836) has posed:
    Caring for a human child was exhausting. Though Steven was not merely a human, he had human needs. And as Peridot soon found out, humans cannot sustain themselves on ice cream sandwiches in the shape of a cat head alone. So she had sent scout robonoids out to locate a more diverse variety of foods. It was there that she discovered imagery of large hamburgers, and fries plastered outside of this food shack. The broadcast she overhead on the confederate channel had reminded her that she needed to pick up food for the Steven.

    And so, she decided the best way to do that was to piggy back on the apes presence... take advantage of the situation. She surveyed the scene with her escort, Jasper high above the establishment. "Alright.. he's going in. While he draws attention to the front..." She tapped a few buttons lowering their flight-pod to the ground. From her gem, she holo-projected a device into her hand and stuck it against the wall of the snack shack, then walked back to the pod.

    "We... do this."

    An explosion rang out, as the device combusted and took out a large portion of the brick wall, exposing pipe and wiring. Peridot then proceeded to walk through the newly created entry way. She put her hands on her hips and cackled. "Nyaha ha ha! This will be a piece of cake."

Jasper (858) has posed:
     Jasper doesn't particularly care about 'caring' for the Steven - 'cookie cats' or otherwise. But where Peridot goes, she goes. She towers over the shorter, green Gem, a vaguely bored expression on her face. Her arms crossed, she watches Peridot set the device against the wall of the building. Hmph. She could've brought that wall in with a few punches!

     Still, it's effective. As Peridot makes her way inside, Jasper follows. She has to break off some of the wall that, given her height, might pose an issue to her and not Peridot. "I hope that wasn't your attempt at a pun, Peridot," Jasper snaps at the mention of cake.

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     Stealing food usually wasn't a thing Sanary did ever. She didn't abide by it back home since it was literally taking the fruits of others' labor. To that end, she's got a fairly dim view of petty bandits in her own world.

     America isn't her world, though, and it /has/ been a while since she last did... Well, anything outside of her usual work and study. Plus, it'd be a good opportunity to meet some of her fellow Confederates in person! And so, she arrives at the Super Snack Shack's front door with her usual gunaxe strapped to her side via a shoddy old rope. Around her shoudlers is an oversized backpack for convenient storage!

     "So this is the place? Huh. I've seen a couple of these before... How's the food?" She asks, pausing to stare at Mojo Jojo and adjust her eyepatch. "Also, you sounded... Taller on the radio." She looks over at the sound from the back of the building, peering at Peridot and Jasper before snickering lightly. "I'm surprised you know what a pun is.... Er. Jasper, right?"

Bitter Medicine (569) has posed:
     Bitter Medicine sets his hamburger down gently. Frowns.

     His synthleather jacket and jumpsuit have been ruined by a particularly noisome gremlin exploding. They tend to do that if you hit them enough, and it tends to take a drycleaner to fix it. He really, really wanted this to be a reprieve. He deserves those, right? Just every once in a while, a hamburger in peace. He didn't feel like going all the way home just to get a change of clothes, so he borrowed some.

     The table is flipped rather casually, the remains of his meal spread across the floor. He stands at full height, in red gym shorts and a sky blue t-shirt. "The kitchen is closed," he says, cracking his knuckles at Mojo.

Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    There's a moment as the nerdy looking Cashier just stares with a somewhat glassy expression at Mojo Jojo, who amidst being a little confused at the sound of the explosion somewhere in the back, prompting him to go, "What the--Was that an explosion?" He even pokes his head outside, "OY! What is going on, can't you see I'm trying to rob the place?!"
    And the appearance of a big tall giant Exalt doesn't help make the mood better, as he glares at the guy, and replies to Bitter, "Noooo, the Kitchen isn't closed. The sign outside says that this place is open 24 hours a day, and so if the kitchen is closed then the sign would be false advertisment. Do NOT defend False advertisment."

    To Sanary, he blinks before simply nonchalantly, "No idea, but it was here and I was hungry, so I've made my order and---"

    At this point, the cashier FINALLY says, "We have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. Please leave the premises."

    Mojo Jojo is just dumbstruck at that, so he tells the others, "Excuse me a moment..." Before pointing the blaster rifle at the cashier right in the face, "I'm Sorry, WHAT?! Are you really trying to refuse service when I have a 404 X-Carbonation Rifle pointed RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!?"

    "Yes..." From the cashier, before her reaches down and pushes a button.

    Completely out of NOWHERE, a mettle shutter drops down from the cieling, closing off the interior of the fast food joint kitchen from the exterior.

MEANWHILE IN THE BACK: Shutters, made of the same hard metal as in the front, Shut down the back entrance just beyong the hole in the wall that the Gems made. The lights go red, and the words, "Lockdown activated..." Proceeds to blare out on loop.

Peridot (836) has posed:
    "I've turned the humans term for confectionery treats against them!" She declared in response to Jaspers accusation. "Like a true genius tactician ought be able to." She stepped deeper into the food prep station, hopping down from a piece of rubble. She walked further, grabbing a fry cook by the lapel of his collar. "You! Tell us where you store the biological subsistence!"

    As the alarms begin blaring and the blast shields drop down. Peridot growls impatiently and begins shaking the poor kid violently. "Hurry it up and spill it!" She raises him off the ground. Her mechanical arms and legs whirring and clicking from the strain.

    With a shaking hand, the oily faced teen points to the large-walk in freezer. Until he is released by Peridot and crumples to the ground before scrambling to his feet and fleeing to the front room, to see her was sealed in these gem maniacs! At this, Peridot looks to the door, then to Jasper, and then nods. There was a large reinforced iron door between them and their target. Clearly there was only one course of action, and it wasn't 'take their time and figure out how the locking/unlocking handle mechanism worked.' She figured Jasper would know what to do.

Jasper (858) has posed:
     Jasper (very subtly) rolls her eyes at Peridot's back. No telling if her charge has some way of seeing behind her as she walks deeper into the store. She doesn't stop him from shaking the poor kid, who is now being threatened by a strange green woman and ominously loomed over by a titan of an orange woman.

     She ponders hitting him as the fry cook runs away and, evidently, decides against it.

     Jasper steps up to the freezer door. She takes a moment to look it up and down, not really so much as examining it as sizing it up as a prey animal. Yes, she should be able to handle this.

     Jasper takes hold of the reinforced door and /pulls/, putting her back and shoulders into the motion. The sound of squealing, tortured metal rings through the back of the store as Jasper tears it free from its hinges. With the door in her grip, Jasper hurls it aside without a care in the world.

     Which means that Bitter Medicine finds that he has a large metal door coming his way, hurtling at him from deeper into the shop.

Blurr has posed:
    Fast food restaurant with lockdown protocols? Isn't 'fast food' a form of very cheap and low-quality human sustenance? At least according to the internet it is! Blurr has been keeping track of Peridot's ship, which is likely how he's followed her here. But seriously, what is with these people robbing toys and cheap food? You'd think with all the technology they have, they'd go for something a little more...valuable? Powerful? It beats him, honestly.

    Maybe they're just stupider than they look.

    Anyway, Peridot will find that all-too-familiar teen has suddenly appeared in the path of the metal door and attempting to block it or at the very least knock it aside and away from Bitter Medicine. "Okay first toys, and now cheap human food? I know you don't eat that stuff yourselves. And don't deny it because I was in your systems. What the frag do you want with this stuff? Or do you just -enjoy- picking on people who can't defend themselves?"

Bitter Medicine (569) has posed:
     "I never thought I'd meet someone who took things more literally than me. What I mean is, submit to arrest or I'll hit you until you do--" Bitter Medicine watches as the door flies away from him, thanks to Blurr. He doesn't really care that it's hurtling towards someone /else./ "Thanks, comrade." The Exalt is in rather different digs than usual, hinting at today being laundry day. Flip flops, red gym shorts, and a blue t-shirt, all of which reveal his bulky Charms: he's always heavily augmented, but it's hard to see that with his usual choice of deliberately concealing clothes. In contrast to the green and orange women, Bitter Medicine's skin is shock white, but, like Peridot, there is very clearly a gem in his forehead.

     He clears his throat. "EVERYONE WHO IS HERE TO COMMIT CRIMES WILL REPORT TO THE DINING AREA FOR SUMMARY ARREST. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE INCARCERATED."

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     Now this is more like it! The last time Sanary was in America, there were plenty of people ready to fight at a moment's notice. From the looks of it, even this weirdly named restaurant was no different. They even had some kind of cyborg bodyguard to go with it, from the looks of things!

     "Gotta give 'em points for trying... But you know it'll go easier for everyone if you just comply." Grinning lightly, the healer reaches for her axe and has only a moment to notice that a giant metal door is coming straight at her.

     If it wasn't a giant metal door, she could probably take it and heal herself up afterwards. If she had her armor on today, she'd probably even be able to shrug it off. Unfortunately for Sanary, today is not her lucky day! Although she does try to jump out of its flight path, the corner just so happens to hit the ground in a way that swings it right at her!

     No armor, giant door, AND dodging right into it leads to a quickly unconcscious healer. One down!

Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    Mojo Jojo steps out of the flight path of the door when it first flys through, then ducks when it gets sent flying in another direction by Blurr, and winces as he watches dodge right into the flying door. "Eesh, not even sure of the physics of that, just now..." He stands up and dusts off his tunic for the moment, "Okay, LISTEN, people, I just want something to eat, and I'm too evil to pay for it.. And besides, aren't the corporations the real villains in this case? What kind of corporation has the sense to give a fast food joint a LOCKDOWN function!

    Meanwhile, the fry cooker in the back who got grabbed by Jasper and Peridot, manages to sneak away to where the cashier was, locking himself into a more secure location. This is followed by the following message from the loudspeaker: "Super Snack Shack kindly asks that you refrain from causing damage to the premises, and that you don't fight while on the premises. Anyone who starts a fight will be ejected. You've been warned."

    Then out of the cieling pops out several gun turrets in key positions, pointing at Mojo Jojo, Jasper and Peridot, as well as Blurr and Bitter Medicine.

    Mojo goes wide eyed, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

Peridot (836) has posed:
    "Whaaat?" Peridot grits her teeth and takes a step back. She points to the teen. "You again! Why do you keep following me!?" She had grabbed a box of wheat buns while Jasper dealt with the door, but at this new intruders presence, she throws it down and points at Blurr and looked to her bodyguard. "That's the creep who got into our system! He's not an ordinary human, he has a body similar to ours and he's been going out of his way to wreck all our plans!"

    As the turrets sprout from the walls, Peridot makes a panicked squeak sound and makes a dash for the meat-freezer, diving head first and rolling into it to give her something resembling cover from the guns. She didn't plan on fighting so much as robbing the place to begin with.

Jasper (858) has posed:
     Jasper looks the meddling teen up and down, and grins. "Well now," Jasper says, voice low and full of menace, "Then I'll take some time here to show him out." Jasper stomps towards Blurr's form as Peridot dives into the meat freezer. The turrets give her pause, though, because if Peridot's hiding from them then maybe they're stronger than they appear.

     Or maybe they'll take a shot at whover throws the first punch. Jasper grins. She thrusts her chin in Blurr's direction. "Go on," she sneers, "Take your best shot."

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr's avatar smirks playfully, amused at Peridot's reaction. "How about, you tell me what you're -really- after, and -then- I'll answer your question."

    Then the turrets come out. Whoa, frag! This place is serious business! Are they hiding something here? Who would pay for all that security if that wasn't the case? Hmm. He glances at once of the cash registers. Ignoring Jasper, he disappears suddenly and reappears near one of the computers, attempting to get into the system. Maybe he can hijack those turrets. Human code is usually not very complicated, but this place seems to be full of surprises so who knows.

Bitter Medicine (569) has posed:
     Bitter Medicine steps up to Jasper. She's got a good three feet on him, and looks like she's ready for a fight. The diamond in his forehead catches the red light of the 'Lockdown' warning signs as he sizes her up. He rolls his neck. Crack, crack. His eyes look to the turret on the ceiling, the metal shutters, then back to Jasper, particularly the gem in the middle of her face. Could she be one of Autochthon's chosen? ...No matter, even if she is. Only a gremlinized champion would act in such a blatantly anti-mortal way.

     The silence builds. Then, Bitter's heavily augmented legs propel him into the air. One be-sandaled foot swings around in a midair roundhouse aimed for Jasper, in spite of the turrets.

Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    What was initially planned to be a simple fast food theft was quickly escalating into a full on battle, with the victim of the robbery seeming to not be putting up with this entire thing, and as such the gun turrets proceed to fire upon everyone who isn't an employee at Super Snack Shack. In rapid fire, the guns unleash a hail of meatballs, firing upon the everyone at velocities that would most definitely hurt a person, and even give an Elite some bruises if they're not careful.

    On that note, Mojo Jojo has ducked behind cover, and is screaming, "WHAT IS EVEN THE HECK!? WHAT KIND OF FAST FOOD JOINT IS THIS!? I, MOJO JOJO, ONLY REQUIRE MY SUPER SNACK PACKS! A STACK OF PACKS OF SUPER SNACKS TO TAKE BACK! WHY INSTEAD ARE THERE GUN RACKS INSTEAD OF FUN PACKS OF SUPER SNACKS IN THE SHACK!?"

    Blurr isn't wrong, human computer security isn't precisely the greatest in the Multiverse, but his attempt to hack the Super Snack Shack computers to gain control of the gun placements are not easily made, as the secuity do give him a run for his money, the encryptions pretty strong. Might need a little time, but until then, he might need to dodge the ammo of meatballs.

Peridot (836) has posed:
    "Reveal valuable intel?" Peridot growled. "Never!" She had the same idea as Blurr, albeit her tools for doing so were a bit more sophisticated. Her floating fingers interlock to form her holographic interface. And she too began to wirelessly access the digital realm of the super snack shacks security system.

    Peridot was built for this kind of thing, though human systems were strange to her, they were archaic which in some ways made her tools far too advanced causing a slightly mix-match of compatible tech, but she had long began writing subroutines to compensate for this staggeringly different tech. She taps rapidly with her finger, until she detects another entry log in the system. Soon she recognizes it as the digital signature that had once access her flight pod. "GRAAHHHGRGHLE!" She bellows in indecipherable nerd rage. "Everywhere I go!" She types furiously to take over the turret system. As archaic as the tech was, it would only be a matter of time before it fell to the digital might of Peridot!

Jasper (858) has posed:
     Blurr's off meddling with the computers. Hah! Intimidated by the might of Jasper, surely!

     And then Bitter Medicine steps up to her. Okay,so, he's got a diamond in his forehead. That means that he could be a Gem, like that Steven that Peridot is always going on and on and on about. The clothes, though... "Is that your best battle attire?" Jasper snarks.

     She cracks her knuckles, just in time for Bitter to leap at her as the turrets open up. Peppered with their meaty firepower (and somewhat disgusted by it), Jasper is struck by Bitter. She stumbles, grunting, and goes to reach for him with one hand. Snaring him, Jasper turns on her heel, and just goes to throw Bitter against the the nearest object. It turns out to be the drinks machine - soda goes spraying everywhere.

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr grumbles at the rather slow attempts he is making at trying to get into the humans' system. This would have been much faster, but since he can't bust in here with his true form without destroying the place, that makes it a bit more difficult.

    Oh, oh, but then Peridot starts hacking it too, with her own signal. The Autobot attempts to hijack her frequency and use it to upload his own code. He'd gotten into her systems before, he can do it again!

    And then, he is being pelted with...balls of meat? Instead of shells or lasers. Well, talk about inferior ammunition...this place really -is- full of surprises.

Bitter Medicine (569) has posed:
     Bitter slams into the drink machine, which is really a shame. It was one of those neat ones where you can pick the flavors, and now the entire restaurant has been deprived of the joy that is vanilla root beer. To add insult to his injury, a meatball socks him in the eye as he wrenches himself free of his carbonated prison. "Shorts..."

     He digs his fingers into the towering machine and hefts it over his head. "Are comfy." Multicolored drops of wasted soda rain down around him, framing him dramatically in the light. "AND EASY TO WEAR!" He chucks the soda machine at Jasper, sending it sailing through the air.

Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    So while the gun turrets are firing at everyone and thus nobody specific, Mojo Jojo seems to finally have had enough of getting caught in the middle of this. From position of hiding, he's been grumbling and ranting to himself, cursing the Powerpuff girls for no real reason, and putting some work into modifying his 404 X-Carbonation Rifle to new specifications, and he's doing this on the fly.

    While this is going on, the gun turrets suddenly stop firing, as from within the safety of the Super Snack Shack bunker someone is freaking out that they had been taken over. But was it by Peridot or Blurr?! Which of them succeeded!?

To the terror of the employees, half the turrets got snared by Peridot, and the other half by Blurr, and can now be turned on other people. Thus, all the guns are still firing meatballs at everyone.

    That poor Soda Machine.

Peridot (836) has posed:
    Peridot cackled as she wrestled control of one of the turrets into her possession. She refocused it to target Blurr from the time being, from her relatively safe position of being in the freezer. Though it did have a gaping hole where Jasper had torn the door down. This thought jolted her out of her mad shooting spree, and reminded her that she had a mission to complete, and better yet she had access to a gun that was essentially shooting the very thing she aimed to collect. Surely there would be a way to take advantage of this situation.

    Her mind worked quickly and she shouted out over the chaos. "Jasper! Give me a hole in the wall where our ship is parked!" She instructed, suddenly shifting targets. Now was not the time to indulge in a grudge match--- She started focusing her fire on Bitter to give Jasper some breathing room to fulfill their new objective. "Eat it! Nyahahaha! Eat it all up!"

Jasper (858) has posed:
     "What-" Jasper begins to reply to Bitter shortly before she is hit with the drink machine straight on. Jasper goes sliding backwards under the blow, taking out the counter as she hits it, and slamming into the deep fryer. With an angry growl, Jasper shoves the drink machine aside, taking out what looks to be the staff break room. A bit worse for wear, and still getting pelted with meatballs, Jasper picks herself up.

    "With pleasure!" Jasper calls back to Peridot, and she's staring right at Bitter when she says that. Huh, wonder what that could mean. Vaulting the counter, Jasper charges Bitter. She goes to pick the Alchemical Exalted up and, grinning a shark's grin at him, goes to create the hole in the wall where Peridot requested.

     By using Bitter as a makeshift cannonball.

     What even are shorts anyway?

Bitter Medicine (569) has posed:
     After hurling the drink machine, the Exalt thinks to press his advantage. He runs headlong towards Jasper as she gets back to her feet, but is pelted by a meatball courtesy of Peridot. He has to admit, they do have something of a wallop--enough at least to hurt a little. He takes his mind off of the task at hand for a moment to wipe the splattered food from his face, and that's when his flip-flop fails to find purchase. His right foot steps into a puddle of cola, and all of that momentum flies up and over, sending him crashing to the ground.

     This makes him a prime target for Jasper, and before he realizes it, he's sent flying through a brick wall and out the other side. The Bitter-sized hole will likely serve a good exit point for Mojo and the Homeworld Gems, which would incidentally be a great name for a band if JoJo hand't already done that before.

Mojo Jojo (44) has posed:
    Mojo Jojo had been watching and observing the ongoing fight between the Gems and the Not-Gems from behind his cover, trying to avoid getting hit by stray meatball fight, noting that they now seemed to be all focused on each other, and no longer on him. With a few button presses and remaining adjustments to his 404 X-Carbonization Rifle, he flips it into activation, and proceeds to pop out of cover to fire upon the blast shield that was covering the area where the kitchen employees and thus his Stack of Super Snack Packs are.

    His adjustments were made to turn the rifle into a long ranged cutting torch, and he cuts a circle into the blast shields, before charging out from his hiding spot and leaping through, and tackles the workers inside, smacking them some upside the heads in his monkey rage, and yells, "I WILL BE TAKING MY SUPER SNACK PACK STACK NOW!!"

POW! WHACK, WHAM!

    And then Mojo leaps right back out, hauling with him a backpack full of snack packs from the super snack shack, so he can now head back... Home. "Screw you guys, I'm out of here!"

    Observing the escape route provided by the fighting Unionites vs the Gems, Mojo Jojo sprints on out of there like a bat out of hell, before pushing a button and igniting his jet-pack, and flying off.

    The Super Snack Shack is now in shambles from the fighting, with Mojo Jojo having bolted out, and nothing really keeping Peridot, Jasper, Bitter Medicine, or Blurr in the building... The employees poke out from cover, somewhat having been beaten up by Mojo Jojo, the guys groan, "Are they gone?" They linger for a moment, before saying, "You think they figured out that beneath the franchise is a secret lab to develop the Super-Burger?" The other guy shakes his head, "Good... Nobody can know yet." He looks on all sinister like, "Nobody."

Peridot (836) has posed:
    And that was the simple window of opportunity she needed. The mission came first! She redirected her fire, now that she had a clear line of sight to her flight pod. She blasted it with a torrent of meaty product. The Steven needed this stuff to survive, and she would be damned if that child was going to perish before she handed him over to Yellow Diamond.

    Soon, the pod was mostly full. She'd left room for a passenger, though it would not be a comfortable ride. It would be greasy.. it would be hot and meaty. Peridot hated the concept of food with a passion, so she had to leave a tactical amount of space to both make her get away, but also get an ample supply so she wouldn't have to waste time knocking over these trivial human shelters.

    She ran out through the hole Jasper created and held her arm up. Her floating disconnected fingers, which had previously formed her holopad begin to spin rapidly as they glowed and reformed into helicopter blades. Steadily they lifed the green woman off the ground. "The pods too full! I'll fly myself back to the warship. Keep the payload safe or this will have been a huge waste of time!" And soon, she was lifting off into the air.

    The pod had the coordinates already loaded in, but it seemed to be waiting for Jasper before taking off... full of meat, and waiting.

Jasper (858) has posed:
     And Jasper is out of there! With a snap of "Where're your shorts now?!" To Bitter as she glares at him through the Bitter-shaped hole in the wall, she makes good on her escape.

     She does pause at the sight of the pod, all filled with meat, though. She doesn't quite shudder but her lip curls in disgust. Between Jasper's size, the one-man nature of the pod, and the copious amounts of meat jammed in there with her... it's going to be one uncomfortable, disgusting ride back to the Gem warship. She does try to look as menacing as possible as she leers at Bitter through the pod window as she takes off but, well, the meat. It's so... everywhere. Eurgh, what is with the human need to eat?!