3004/Grand Theft Icecream

Grand Theft Icecream
Date of Scene:	12 September 2015
Location:	Techno Urbania
Synopsis:	Yari Takane and others visit Techno-Urbania to steal ice-cream trucks laden with illegal BTL chips in them. What results are disguises, crying children, and explosions.
Cast of Characters:	127, Blurr, 560, 626, 691, Sanary Rondel

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Yari Takane (691) has posed:
The Green Hare ice cream company is holding an event in Techno Urbania! One of the brightly lit parks has a good half dozen ice cream trucks parked, with throngs of kids of all kinds here! The company has spared little expense, with bouncy castles, vr games featuring the company mascot, prizes, and lots and lots of free ice cream.

And it's not just kids. A few adults are mixed in, mostly parents and workers, but there are a few odd figures. A few members of a local crime ring are monitoring things, a good six in all. Ostensibly, they're here for security. They look way too shadey though, in their suits with Green Hare logo pinned on them haphazardly, and various concealed weapons.

The Confederacy, and perhaps the Union members as well, would know the reason: illegal addictive cybernetic chips known as BTL's have been smuggled into some of the ice cream pints the workers are using. Three of the six trucks are known to have them. The problem? They're only easily detectible with hand scanners. One has to get /into/ a truck, avoiding security and throngs of ice-cream hungry kids.

Yari Takane, for her part, has slipped in. It was easy enough to knock out a poor commuting teenager and take his uniform. She's stepped to the man's truck.

She keys up her radio, her mission already going poorly.

"This is Centurion Takane! All other units, do you read?" She whispers, as she faces the invincible horde before her.

"Three scoops of vanilla, Miss Lizard!

"One rocky road! Eeeh hee heee!"

"Oooh your hair's so pretty Miss! And your scales! One chocolate! Now now!"

"One robo-parfait!"

As it turns out, children are one of Yari's weaknesses. She's dashing about, trying to satisfy the throng of orders, taking change, and handing out cute little green bunny plushies!

She pulls away from the window of the truck, her paper hat tilted sideways. "I'm in position, but encountering more resistance than anticipated! Disguises may not be the optimal rou...Coming, coming, one triple-decker swirly...Takane, out!" Is she...enjoying this!?

There's five other trucks to choose from!

Kirikou (127) has posed:
    Kirikou's hanging out, helping the operation by being in disguise as an ordinary person. With his glasses, bling, and generally-casual clothing, he probably blends in pretty well. Helping him out in this disguise is Fire and Thunder, who need take no special pains to appear like ice cream crazed children.

    "I hear ya loud and clear, Miss Lizard." Kirikou replies discreetly into his communicator. Which, if he heard some kid call her that, suggests either the kid's voice came through on the comms or ... he's really really close. The latter appears to be the case, if one looks out. Yep, there's a couple of kids out for ice cream that Yari might well find familiar. "One Rocky Road, one strawberry, one chocolate cookie dough, miss!" he says with a cheerful (and slightly mocking) grin.

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     Sanary's never had a consistent track record with kids. One minute, they're flocking to her, the next they're running home screaming bloody murder. Really, is seeing a fluffy bunny accidentally getting chopped in half /that/ traumatizing? It's not like she meant for it to jump on that log.

     Well, whatever. The important thing is that didn't happen anywhere here, and it's probably unlikely any of those kids ended up leaving that village, anyway. Besides, Sanary's got other things to worry about: Finding those BTL chips! Against her better judgment, she's even in disguise today! Rather than anything cutesy or celebration-appropriate, however, she's wearing a police officer's uniform from the 1920's. Surely nothing will go wrong wearing that.

     "I'm in position, Miss Lizard and Punny Man. You're... Having fun with this, aren't you?" Although it's not clear who she's addressing over the radio, it might just be that she's talking to both of them. In fact, she's actually not even too far away from that same exact truck! Instead of approaching that one, though, she simply nods in their direction before scouting out the other trucks. There has to be some way clue around here somewhere...

Blurr has posed:
    These 'BTL' chips sound a lot like the simultronics they used to have at the Circle back on Cybertron. -Those- were perfectly legal, if a bit frowned upon. But these are humans we're talking about, and humans are typically not as durable has Cybertronians, either physically or psychologically.

    Blurr has to assume there is a good reason why the humans' local authorities have outlawed them. Which is also why he's here, sitting in the parking lot near the trucks in his sleek vehicle form and attempting to scan for the chips. Unfortunately, they're just too tiny for him to detect from this distance. It's too bad there are all these humans around, otherwise he could just thoroughly destroy all of the trucks and worry about compensating the Green Hare ice cream company later. Now he's pondering whether it would easier to try to hack into the city's alarm system and set it off to get people off the streets then blow the trucks, or to just use the holomatter projector to get into the trucks and see if he could detect them that way.

    Eh, explosions are too messy in this case!

    He opts for the less noisy option, and activates the holomatter avatar, which appears in the back of the truck Yari is in. It appears to be a blond-haired teenager, who is maybe trying to take more than his share!

Kyra Hyral (626) has posed:
    Kyra's disguise amounts to...a different hoodie. It actually works for her because by now she's /pretty/ well-known for the "Hood Cat" she wears both in battle and out of it. Hell, she doesn't even wear a white hoodie right now, no doubt throwing everyone off. She does look slightly shady right now though but so do pretty much all the adults hanging around this ice cream event.

    She slinks around casually, edging near the back of one of the other trucks, her hands tucked in her hoodie's front pockets. She's pretty discrete but still pretty suspicious. Who hangs around the /back/ of an ice cream truck?

Emiya Shirou (560) has posed:
    Emiya Shirou had ALREADY BEEN ON THE WAY to this when he heard the report from Union informatives. Why? Well, to pick up some actual buckets of ice cream and stick them in the refrigerated boxes he's stuck on a little cart and cart them back to the kids at Dun Realtai. Illya and Chloe are also good candidates for treats!

    Well, that plan's ditched in a hurry when he hears the news. :(

    "Someone's really trying to mess with ICE CREAM?" He did in fact freeze and stare at his PDA, finding this one hard to believe. Not just that someone might pull a plot on kids, but... ICE CREAM?

    Really?

    The face he made.... yeeeeaaaaah.

    So he's unfortunately wearing street clothes instead of any kind of disguise, but still tugging along his refrigerated boxes on the cart.

    Which... he basically parks out of the way. "Why do things like this keep happening?" Grumble, grumble.

    Unfortunately for him, he doesn't have a scanner. Fortunately, he has magic.

    So he makes his way through the crowds and noisy, frenzied kids and finally emerges near a quieter side of a truck, feigning some exhaustion and exasperation when he claps a hand against it, leaning his back against it too.

    ONe muttered, "trace on," Later...

    invisible tendrils of prana flow from his body like waves of ultrasound, building a structural map in his mind of the truck's walls and seeking inwards towards any crates. If the crates aren't packed against the walls though, this isn't likely to work too well.

    His maximum range is maybe 3 or so meters, after all.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
Blink blink. Is that...yup. It /is/! Yari can't help but smile a bit, ducking back in. She remembers the two kids, and a /plan/ forms.

She leans out again. "Oh my, it seems like we're out of cookie dough! You be a good boy and wait just oooone moment while I check the back, okay?" Smile!

She opens the refridgerated compartment, and discretely pulls out her scanner. A show of fussing and looking, and she comes out with cookie dough ice cream.

She makes up the ice cream for Thunder and Fire!

She whispers into the comms.

"No go. This one's empty. We need to check the other five!" Pause. Why is the lizard girl suddenly blushing?

"Q...quiet!" Yari's voice actually /pouts/ here. Sanary must have hit a nerve.

Yari has a problem though! She turns back around, and there's someone /else/ scrounging in here.

"H...HEY! We might be giving out free ice cream, but hijacking it from the truck itself is rude! Boy! Front and center!" It's far, far, too suspicious, the way he just appeared, but she can't break her disguise now! Instead, she's reaching out for the young man's collar!

"Get out of there before I call security in!" She threatens, scowling!

Sanary might find herself a bit of a clue. No one seems to call her out....yet anyway. But there is something off with one of the trucks: several of the 'security' people walk over to one of the trucks near Yari's, and soon it's being closed down. The employee and the two suspicious adults converse in low tones.

Kyra too is sighted by one of those security people. A tall man walks up, and crosses his arms.

"Oi, girl! Whatcha doin'!? Go around and ask 'fer ice-cream like a normal person!?" He leans in, then blinks.

He looks over her plain clothes, and then whispers. "...Wait, that's the...hey. You the Green Bunny? We been waitin' for ya." What is this guy talking about!?

Shirou, as it turns out, has a slightly more direct method. His magic flows through part of the truck, and he quickly learns several things: one, the truck really needs an oil change. Two, it's back-right tire probably needs some air. Three: though they're not stacked towards the walls entirely, there are a few pint-crates shoved towards the wall he's near. Inside of one of a few of those pints, there's hints of something more than ice cream. Could that be...silicon at the very bottom? He might have hit paydirt.

But how many are there, and how to get it out unnoticed?

Kirikou (127) has posed:
    Aw damn, no cookie dough? Kirikou frowns at the news, but it's to hide the grin he'd otherwise be showing at Yari's reaction... to him and to Sanary's comment. "Damn right I am." he says softly into the communicator, allowing Yari to dodge the question if she wants.

    "Hear that, kids?" Kirikou says to his two Weapons - er, his two cousins. "They don't have our ice cream here. We're gonna have to find it somewhere else!" he claims. Yep, Kilik's totally the kind of guy who, when he has kids of his own, will pull the car up to an under-construction lot and say 'Oh look kids, they closed Disneyland!'

    "What's up, Yari?" Kirikou asks, once again discreetly into the comms. "Trouble from the local thugs? Need backup or a distraction maybe?" he asks, glancing around to see who might be trouble and what sorts of things might be shaping up. Between that and his earlier loud declaration to Fire and Thunder, he's making himself rather obvious. And, unlike many others here, he's really not in disguise.

Blurr has posed:
    As soon as the avatar appears in the truck, Blurr starts scanning the interior in search of anything that might seem out of place. Fortunately, though the avatars aren't designed to do deep scans, he can at least configure his sensor systems to at least do a quick one. Hopefully it'll do.

    Hm, well it seems this one is empty. Plus, from his true form outside, he's noticed one of the trucks getting shut down prematurely, which is certainly suspicious. He's about to leave when Yari shows up and starts berating him. Ugh, he could just deactivate the emitter and project the holomatter elsewhere like inside that suspicious truck, but that would blow -his- cover. Why do humans always have to get in the way of him trying to -help- them?

    The teen throws his hands in the air in resignation. "Uhhhhh, I was just about to leave, I swear! I was just uh, like, looking for something, I thought I dropped my, my co--I mean, my phone!" Oh he is definitely weird, if she's perceptive enough, she might notice upon looking more closely at him that he looks like a character from a cinematic video game trailer has been pulled off the screen somehow. -Too- flawlessly symmetrical. -Too- picture perfect.

         Meanwhile, Blurr's real form has also noticed Kyra skulking about. He opens a commlink to her; perhaps she's noticed him sitting there. << Kyra, it's Blurr. Any luck with finding the silicon? >>

Kyra Hyral (626) has posed:
    Confronted, Kyra lingers, expected to be chased off like a meddling teenager any minute. One of her hands slips out of her pocket and dangles at her side, slowly manuvered into a better position where she could grab one of her guns and pop a tranquilizer dart in this meddling man. If she did it fast enough, she might not even be noticed by the others here. Maybe she could roll the body under the truck and-

    The white mage lifts an eyebrow then promptly starts playing along. She lifts her finger up to her lips in a hushing motion before nodding to the "security person."

    "Yeah, sorry for the lateness, now keep it down." Kyra says through gritted teeth. "Is everything ready?"

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     "Well, don't have too much fun. Or... Save some for me." Sanary snickers lightly as she watches that little commotion by Yari's truck, eventually turning once she spots those 'security' people. "I got movement. Gonna check it out." That certainly doesn't sound anything like an AI security guard would say. At least it's helping Sanary fit the part, though! "Sounds like you've got some in there, too. Uh. Holler if you need backup?" She offers that truck Yari's in a worried glance before adjusting her hat and turning to the truck right next to it.

     Time to get to work. Approaching that truck, the not-a-cop steps right up to those 'security' people and gives them brief nod before crossing her arms over her chest to put on her best crooked cop routine. The one she's never properly practiced before and has actually failed once, even.

     "Hello, boys. Mind if I take a look inside? You know what I'm here for." She gives them another light nod before glancing behind herself again, just to make it look as if she's watching out for any actual cops in the area. Granted, that is a concern, but... Well, she'll deal with that if it becomes a problem. She does catch sight of Shirou off to the side and Kyra doing... Something. Is she in cahoots with these people? That will have to be figured out later!

Emiya Shirou (560) has posed:
    Well Shirou's not so sure at all about his allies' trains of thought now! He boggles at something or another, but then withdraws his hand.

    What should he do? There are definitely THINGS in the ice cream that should not be there. They can't be safe to eat, not with what he's heard.

    Every moment they delay, some kid could be getting hurt! urgh!

    But he's brought of his funk when he sees someone pass by and barge into the truck. Could it be?

    He decides to make a gamble on this one.

    Again his hand's placed against the truck wall...

    "Trace... on...."

    A tiny crackle of power flows through the metals and alloys, reshaping the inner wall. This idea is probably silly, but it might, just might work.

    A HAND OF METAL forms from the wall, with just a few inches of arm attached. It solidifies with index finger pointing at the contaminated crate!

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
"Sorry everyone~." Comes Yari's sing-song voice to the two 'kids' and the 'Dad' that are the Weapons and Kirikou.

"Understood, Sanary. Let's try to keep this one quiet. I don't want any kids getting hurt."

But she has more immediate things to handle. Such as Blurr.

That image is definitely suspicious. No human is that perfect. Still, she doesn't have time to ponder too much. She needs to get on with the other trucks.

"Well get out of here! I'm switching shifts soon, you know!?" She slams the ice-cream truck's back closed, and does the same for the door to the interior. She peeks around the truck.

"Sorry kids, I'm going on break! We'll be open in another twenty minutes!" She's all sweetness again, before Yari finds time to intone into her commlink.

"Just some idiot. Time to go 'shift switch' with one of the others. Follow me, make a distraction so I can knock out the other employee."

Meanwhile, Kyra gets a grin from the security guards. "Yeah, yeah, all ready. Here's the deal: we're closin' this event off soon. Gonna be a 'gas leak', ya see? You see smoke, start drivin' this beauty off to the drop-point. Talk to the girl inside, she'll give ya the keys." The guards motion to the truck Kyra's right beside. Seems she's found one! Between Shirou and her, that's two trucks of three!

Sanary's presence has the trio of guards and employee suddenly look very nervous.

They look at each other, then shrug. The employee leans in.

"what a terrible disguise! You were supposed to come as the mascot...oh well, the cop gig works too. Go on, go on. The 'distraction' is gonna start soon! Keys are in the ride. You'll know when to pull out when it happens!"

That's all three accounted for.

Unluckily for Shirou, while his spell works flawlessly, it does surprise the employee inside. There's a girlish shriek, and the woman inside bumps her head audibly, then comes stumbling out of the door nearly tripping.

As luck would have it, right into the arm of a suspiciously familiar looking Au'Ra. Yari catches the employee with a smile, too burdened with the real employee to note Shirou in his spot at the truck walls. Plenty of time to duck away and hide!

"There, there, you've been working too hard! Why don't we change shifts..." Comes Yari's voice as she helps the woman back inside, and proceeds to apply a damp, sweet cloth to her mouth. She lays the woman, unconscious, before opening the door to the refridgerated end, scanner in hand. It beeps affirmative. But what she's looking at is the odd finger pointing at the incriminating crates. She actually pauses.

"....What?" She mutters, peering for a moment.

Sigh. "Kirikou, Sanary, I found one of the trucks. Something is strange, though. We need to get out of here soon. Any ideas on a distraction? And any luck finding the trucks?"

Blurr has posed:
    Phew, Blurr has managed to get away from the annoying woman. As soon as Yari shuts the back of the truck, the avatar dematerializes. It seems Shirou has forgone the truck-purchasing plan, and--okay, seriously. He was -just- complaining about buying all the trucks NOT being discreet. As if turning the wall of one of the trucks into a giant pointing hand is any more discreet. It is totally discreet, especially with the screaming employee.

    But yeah, whatever works, right? As long as he pointed out the item of interest. So the avatar is quickly reactivated inside of the truck targeted by Emiya, and goes to grab the container he has caused the wall to point at. It seems Yari was correct about this guy being suspicious. But hey, the weird finger shape method did end up helping anyway, by way of causing Yari to pause, hence giving Blurr the opportunity to attempt to snag the objective before she could.

Kirikou (127) has posed:
    Distraction is Kirikou's middle name. Kirikou Distraction Rung. "Well, I could get somewhere discrete, punch something, make an explosion, everyone runs away." he suggests. This is probably not a great idea. "Or I could probably help the Twins whip up all the kids into a screaming fit over being denied their ice cream. That might work better, what do you say?"

    He doesn't much bother waiting for a reply. Instead Kirikou puts a hand on each Twin's shoulder. "Sorry kids, they're out of ice cream." he says in a perfectly normal, low conversational voice. That, along with the empathy between them, is enough to give the Twins the right idea.

    Fire and Thunder immediately sit down and begin bawling. This, naturally, prompts people to be concerned. Some adults, dragged into this by their own kids, ask what's wrong. "They're out of ice cream." Kirikou says, somewhat loud. More quietly, as if embarrassed, he speaks to the nearby adults. "They don't want to wait for them to get more from the other trucks, so they're throwing a fit. Kids huh?" he grins.

    Damage is done however. Kids have heard the magic words 'they're out of ice cream'. That, combined with the crying Twins, sets off a wave of screaming and crying tantrums.

Kyra Hyral (626) has posed:
    "Oh, good, good." Kyra smirks, slipping her free hand back into the front pocket of her hoodie again. She seems at ease, no longer plotting to reach for her concealed needlegun, and off to take complete advantage of the underinformed guards. "I'll look for the smoke." she says, moving to hop into the back and sneak up to the front where this other girl they're talking about is. Once inside, however, she starts reaching for that needlegun again, just in case.

    "Ey." she says quietly, seeking the girl within, keeping her voice down as if she's trying to prevent those outside from hearing the greeting and following 'confirmation.' "Green rabbit here. We should be seeing the signal soon so pass over the keys so I can get ready."

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     "And deal with all those kids? As if." Sanary scoffs lightly. It really would be painful for her to have to do that, undercover work or not. "Just keep an eye out for the real ones and I'll handle the rest." She lets out a tired sigh, then starts heading into the truck. The guards might even hear her mutter "I'm getting too old for this shit..." if they're careful enough!

     It's not like she enjoys watching those movies or anything.

     Once she's in, the one-eyed healer takes a deep breath before whispering into her radio. "I'm in. It's got what we're looking for, I think, but I don't think I'll have a chance to check it. Got word of a 'distraction' starting soon, and they want me to... Uh. Pull out?"

     She eyes the keys already in the slot as she gets in the driver's seat, keeping the hat on while she scans the area from the window. They're actually expecting her to drive this, aren't they?

Emiya Shirou (560) has posed:
    Aaaand that just triggered a sweatdrop. How in the heck did the worker happen to be looking at JUST THE WRONG MOMENT?! Shirou winces, but finally sighs. What's a magus to do here exactly?! Well, several options remain. But the boy's blood runs pretty hot and he can't just stay sitting there!

    If security comes, he'll just have to show his Union ID.

    So he just tromps towards the back of the truck since it was just opened and someone was set down!

    But once he sees hints of SUSPICIOUS STUFF happening he hurries back to his location and slips around the side.

    Okay who was that? He's really not sure...

    However they're not one of his allies.

    It's time to get... CREATIVE.

    Once again Shirou traces out a picture of the truck's innards, enough to find a small hollow within a metal cupboard. After a deep breath, he uses his powers of Alteration again. The metal 'skin' of the truck's parted like the work of moses effortlessly and silently and he shuffles quietly into the cupboard. Another tap of magic behind him and the spell's undone, returning the metal skin to its original position. Okay so he's sneaking aboard!

    And once he's comfortable he 'opens' a tiny viewing hole to scope out what's happening INSIDE the truck.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
Yari's round of surprise isn't over, as she notes the youth from earlier! How did he get in here before her!? She didn't hear the back of the truck opening! Between the metal hand and the young man there, she grits her teeth. She stands at the other end, glaring at Blurr's avatar.

"Ice cream thief!?" She calls to him, her hands tied!

Thank god for Kirikou and his two Weapons. The twins' powers of crying combined with a pure /wave/ of childish sorrow at FREE ICECREAM being denied them rolls through the crowd. Parents hug crying girls, comfort boys, and generally try to contain the chaos. More than a few start to leave, and soon enough, most of the ice cream trucks are free of children! There's some confusion, as several other trucks shut down almost at the same time. Did Kirikou do his job too well!?

Shirou, for his part, manages to rip himself open a proper compartment to view things, Yari none the wiser. He'll note the unconscious employee, and then the Au'Ra confronting Blurr's avatar.

The lizard woman, for her part, flicks out four kunai. With the wailing outside, no one will notice a fight if she keeps it small.

"I knew there was something off about you! Give up the crate!" Then she flicks all four kunai at Blurr, aiming for all four limbs. Then, she makes a handseal.

Four paralytic-poisoned kunai become roughly forty, most of them meant to hem in the youth. Normal combatants would fall by just a small scratch of those blades into paralysis, but at this point, Yari isn't taking chances.

Her tail, meanwhile, scans more crates. It beeps like crazy. Yup, this truck is fairly full.

This all gives Shirou a nice view of Yari's back. An opportunity!

Yari keys up her radio to the others.

"Found one, but we have an intruder! Get ready to go if you have a truck! Better to get some than none! Sanary! Get ready to drive off! Kirikou, support Sanary if anyone comes after you!"

As for Kyra? The signal comes very, very soon. From manholes in the park's sidewalk, there's bursts of gas! Screams echo through the park, and the security people go to work, ushering the kids away! It's total chaos!

Things swiftly get worse for everyone. Two figures dressed in Green hare garb come running up to guards. There's swift words!

Kyra and Sanary both get yells. "We've got imposters! Get 'em!" Calls the guards amidst the chaos, and begin to unload into ice-cream trucks with sub machine guns! Meanwhile, two more guards are making for the truck Blurr, Yari, and Shirou are contesting!

"PULL OUT!" Yells Yari into her commlink amidst it all as gunfire sounds.

Kyra Hyral (626) has posed:
    Fortunately, ever since the incident with Blurr, Kyra /has/ looked into driving non-Galiandan cars. It's important since they don't automatically take MP to move and instead run on a controlled series of explosions. HOW EXCITING! She happily relieves the girl waiting inside of her keys and climbs into the driver's seat. Just as she does, however, she hears shouting about IMPOSTERS. "Shit." she swears, her hand immediately whipping out that needlegun hidden in the holster beneath her hoodie.

    Looking over the back of her seat, she fires a pair of tranquilizer rounds into the girl she just took the keys from before flooring the pedal to the van. As she does, the back of the truck is promptly shot up by the guard-wielding guns, no doubt partially destroying their own merchandise and some GOOD ICE CREAM in the process. Fortunately, it does give Kyra a buffer to being shot herself.

    "OUTTA THE WAY, KIDS!" At least that part of their plan was retained. Kyra is not eager to run over a kid.

Kirikou (127) has posed:
    Kirikou's reactions go from pleased all the way though confused and worried straight through to panic. Pleasure at the wave of bawling chaos caused by kids. It's a great distraction. Then confusion and worry as Yari mentions the intruder. The panic, when guns begin opening up, is short and sharp and quickly mastered.

    Kirikou holds up his clenched fists and the Twins transform into streaks of energy which fly to the fists and transform into their familiar Weapon forms. When bullets start flying, he's not about to take chances with them vulnerable. He also, by that act, clearly marks himself as a threat to anyone in eyeshot... but so be it.

    "Sanary! On my way!" Kirikou calls vaguely in his comm's direction. He begins to run, and of course Sanary's direction is where the gunmen are. Kirikou doubles up his fists, running behind their shielding power, bobbing and weaving and zig-zagging like a champ as he charges the guns and presumably draws fire from at least some of the ice cream trucks.

    Kirikou tanks some shots and dodges more, starting to store up a charge of blue-yellow energy in his left fist. As he nears Sanary's truck he unleashes the charged plasma into some gunners before LEAPING into the air, coming down on top of the truck with a loud THUMP.

Blurr has posed:
    As it turns out, this truck is -full- of BTL chips. Blurr had neglected to scan at first, since Shirou's finger had only pointed out one, but that actually makes this easier as a matter of fact. Now he has an excuse to steal the -entire- truck.

    Except now, he's being attacked by Yari. The avatar drops the crate as the blades fly. He dodges some of them, but many of them still hit him. They pierce the holomatter matrix, causing it to crack, but the poison doesn't appear to have any affect on it. In fact, this kid apparently doesn't even have any blood at all. Instead, it just flickers a bit, then disappears, only to reappear in the driver's seat of the truck. If there's someone already in the driver's seat, it appears on -top- of that person.

    << Shirou, where are you? Get in here and throw this reptile lady off the truck if it's at all possible! >>

    Immediately the avatar begins ripping at the wiring behind the dashboard and searching for a way to get into the vehicle's electrical systems in order to hopefully seize full control of it.

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     "Understood. Just give me a sec to figure out-" Well, that didn't take long. With her cover blown and guns being fired right at her truck, Sanary will just have to take an impromptu driving lesson! Surely she's learned enough of the basics from watching cop movies, right?

     "Hands at ten and-SHIT. I'm moving!" She practically yells into her comms as she fiddles with the stick. Thankfully, she does know enough how to back the truck up and honk the horn repeatedly to warn anyone that's in its path! The truck's actually managed to avoid ramming into any walls or people so far, but that'll only last for so long.

     That could very well change quickly, of course, since she hasn't quite gotten the hang of turning or signalling yet. In her haste to just try out random levers to see what works, the emergency lights have been turned on and an ice cream jingle has started playing! How nice.

     If only there wasn't a significant risk of her running over somebody.

     Grimacing at the THUNK on the roof, Sanary winces as a few bulelts actually make their way through and graze by her arms. Not enough to keep her from messing with the controls, of course, but annoying nonetheless. "I got one on the roof, I think! Or someone killed a really fat bird. I don't know!" It doesn't take long for her to figure out that turning in reverse is different from turning when moving forward, at least. The real trick is figuring out how much to turn now so she can actually get the vehicle out of there!

Emiya Shirou (560) has posed:
    An opportunity for what? Backstabbing?

    Like he could face Saber or Bedivere after doing such a thing. But there is just SO MUCH CHAOS that he's stunned for a few moments. WHEN DID THIS TURN INTO A LOUD CRISIS WITH EXPLOSIONS?!

    WHY?!

    And when will his ears stop ringing from the gunfire?!

    The smart thing to do would be to BOLT and abort, just make sure the kids get away.

    "Dammit... here goes nothing..."

    Things get WEIRD inside the truck. Green lightning flares free of the metal cupboard... then it EXPLODES!

    There's the ungodly noise of metal shearing through metal just before chunks of it go flying all through the ice cream truck and Shirou bursts free... Kanshou and Bakuya in hand. "What the hell's HAPPENING HERE?!"

    He blurts at the first person around, which just so happens to be Yari.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
Whump! Down goes the unfortunate employee thanks to Kyra. She'll be down for quite a while! Enough to arrest after this is all over, if the truck survives!

Kids scream, and parents pull them away from the fleeing vehicle! There's more bullets aimed Kyra's way, but she has a decently straight path to the nearest highway and a pre-ordained drop-off point! At least until a tinted-mirrored black sedan pulls up, and a particularly shadey looking man steps out. He aims a weapon for the ice-cream truck!

Is that a rocket launcher!? It seems the criminals don't want those BTL's to fall into any hands but their own! Can Kyra avoid the rocket!?

Sanary backs up, Kirikou lands, and people are fleeing madly, and there's a cutesy ice-cream jingle being played! Also bullets. Lots of bullets and emergency lights.

Thankfully in all of the chaos, there's already sirens of policemen../real ones/...on the horizon! Some of the gangster peel off from Sanary and Kirikou, but another one of the rocket-launching goons from the sedan that's pestering Kyra gives them the same treatment!

Blurr doesn't bleed, then he's over to the car's controls! Grrrrr!

"An illusion! Damnit!" Curses Yari, before suddenly Shirou bursts into action. There's green lightning, and Yari throws herself flat into the back of the truck, dodging metal bits and getting her face scratched up. She's outnumbered, and probably outgunned. She grabs a convenient sack, and swiftly snatches up a few crates she remembers being positive from the beeps. And probably some regular ice cream too!

"Looks like the mafioso were more prepared than initially believed, Mister Shirou. I'm leaving."

Her tail holds the end of the satchel as she leaps back towards the back of the truck, kicking out the back door.

Her hand, however, tosses five round objects into the back.

"Five second fuse, Shirou. My orders have nothing to do with you, and I would rather not make Miss Saber lose a companion."

Then she's leaping out the back and into the cover of the gangster's smoke with her own haul.

Unless the two do something to stop it, in five seconds, the back of the truck will burst into flames as the incendiary ceruleum grenades reduce ice cream and BTL chip to slag. As well as most of the truck: seems Yari would rather deny the gangsters and the Union a bit of the prize.

Kirikou (127) has posed:
    Kirikou freaks, at least a little, when a rocket gets pointed at the truck he's on. That is NOT good! Those idiots might damage the ice cream and ruin Fire and Thunder's day!

    In truth yes, that's pretty much the Twins' attitude right now. They're not sure why Kirikou jumped onto the truck. They're just assuming it has to do with hijacking ice cream, which is fine by them.

    "Sanary! Rocket Launcher!" Kirikou yells out. What options does he have? Well, he could probably jump off and maybe even punch the rocket. At the speed Sanary's managing right now, that's probably not an impossibility. It'll hurt, but he can handle it. He can't blast the rocket with elemental power, not having enough soul energy or resonance ready for the move. Or... yeah, with Fire and Thunder imagining up an ice cream binge, he's not going to rely on them right this moment. Instead he goes for his relatively rare combat option. Reaching under his jacket, he comes out with a pistol in one hand. With a shrug and some slight annoyance that he's not dual-wielding, he empties a clip at the goon with the rocket launcher. Maybe he'll get lucky, or keep the jackass's head down long enough for Sanary to get them out of here. Or maybe he'll disable the goon's car or something. He doesn't much care, and spends more effort in squeezing out a hail of gunfire than actually aiming or anything.

Kyra Hyral (626) has posed:
    There are no 'pre-ordained drop off points' on Kyra's trip itinerary, especially since she doesn't really know where exactly the drop off points are supposed to be. She does, vaguely, know of enough highways that she'll be able to evade being run off the road hopefully /just/ enough to-

    "A ROCKET LAUNCHER?!" Kyra exclaims as the sedan pulls up into her way to disgorge a thug with a ridiculous weapon pointed at her van. Madly, she spins the steering wheel sideways, the van screetching as it jerks to the side to avoid a direct hit from the rocket launcher. The following explosion, however, is enough to knock it onto two wheels on one side for a few seconds while Kyra shrieks, and throws herself onto the other side of the van in hopes of righting the vehicle. Ice cream and the unconscious girl are flung around in the back though Kyra's movement does make the vehicle snap back onto all four wheels.

    While on the other side of the van, she grasps her own version of a grenade (a napalm flask) from beneath her hoodie to toss vindicatively at the van! "EAT IT, JERKWAD!" she yells out the window normally used to serve ice cream from. Shortly after she rushes back to the driver's seat to continue making her getaway.

Blurr has posed:
    Blurr's avatar had managed to grab control of the vehicle when he heard Yari say something about a five-second fuse. "Shirou get clear!" He shouts, deactivating the holoform. The Autobot is mostly concerned for Emiya's safety, and doesn't really care that the truck is going to blow. He'd probably just have done the same thing anyway if he'd gotten away with them, so the lizard woman has actually taken care of part of the job for him. Thanks, Yari!

    So, now that -that's- been taken care of, -and- now that most of the kids and civilians are out of the way, he turns his attention toward the truck Sanary and Kirkou are in the process of making off with. Better destroy these illegal goods before the Confederacy can use them for something up to no good! This time, he doesn't bother with the avatar, and the blue car that had been sitting in the parking lot with the trucks the entire time springs into action, accelerating quickly from 0 to hundreds of MPH after Sanary's truck and attempting to T-bone right into the front passenger side at a perpendicular angle, ideally tipping it over and sending it off the road. Sure, it'll hurt him, but with his armor plating the truck will take more punishment than he does. Can Sanary swerve away fast enough? You know what they say, experience is the best teacher! Driving test of a lifetime, yeah?

Emiya Shirou (560) has posed:
    This just about settles it! Yari tossing some BOMBS around gets Shirou panic. He doesn't even bother taking the same route as her. Instead he DIVES for the worker at superhuman speeds. Even though his legs ache from the strain of being reinforced to the limits. It's going to be a rough ride, but he scoops up the worker in one arm and PLOWS THROUGH THE TRUCK'S SIDE in the next moment. Apparently a single cleave from Kanshou is enough to EVISCERATE A HOLE through the truck. His passage SEETHES with magic, emerald bolts flaring wildly from wasted power. "There's kids around!! You idiot!" But ALL he can do is leap away. A leap that takes him soaring over to the roof of another ice cream truck and then out over the heads of several mobsters. He spots the rocket launcher and jsut boggles. How did they get THAT out here?!

    "I'm not dreaming everything, am I...?!"

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     Rocket launcher. That's... Supposed to mean something isn't it? There's enough context for Sanary to figure that that's probably a very bad thing, though, and it's all the signal she needs to increase speed! "Brace yourself, Kilik! I'm speeding up, I thi-YES I AM SPEEDING UP" So what if she ends up plowing through some gangsters? They knew the risks of the job as well as she did.

     Granted, the truck still isn't moving /that/ fast at a fairly brisk 20 miles per hour. At least she's trying to not hit any civilians on the way out, although her driving somehow still isn't that great even at that low of a speed."I-I think I got this! Holy crap holy crap why won't this thing stop swerving?!"

     The sound of sirens only sends her into more of a frenzied state, taking several deep breaths to try and calm herself even as she speeds aaaall the way up to... Twenty-five miles an hour! "You okay up there, Kilik? Yari, statu-WHAT EXPLODED?" And she's back in panic mode after hearing that explosion somewhere behind her! If only she knew Kyra was having even more trouble than she is.

     To make matters even worse, another car suddenly slams right into the truck! Clearly, Sanary made the rookie mistake of not checking either of her sides for cars heading straight at her. The truck tips at a dangerous angle, somehow managing to balance on two wheels! It's not yet clear just whether it'll fall over or come right back down on top of that car, although the healer is clearly praying that it'll just come back down on

     BTL chips or not, she's going to need a lot of ice cream later.

Yari Takane (691) has posed:
Kirikou pulls out a gun, and uses it to good effect. A wall of Elite-powered bullets slams into the rocket-gangster, as well as his sedan! He's defintely not going to fire any more of those! But can Sanary do anything about the rocket itself!?

Kyra chucks a napalm flask at her own rocket-based opponent, which lands neatly in the guy's pocket. He looks down, screams, and then it explodes. Not a few seconds after, his car cooks off, leaving more scrap metal everywhere. Miraculously, there's not been a single kid harmed in all of this thanks to the smoke and everyone evacuating.

Kyra is free to drive off!

Blurr bails, but Shirou is a bit more active! The worker is picked up, and the truck cut asunder! Both leap out at just the right time! He leaps off, but a voice calls out after him just as that ice cream truck goes up in a ball of flame!

"It was low yield!!!" Yari yells as she hotwires a convenient car, and gets away.

Wham! Blurr's and Sanary's impact is great indeed! But luck seems to be with Sanary! The ice-cream truck flips over, but ends up right back on its wheels! Sanary still has a chance at a getaway!

Who knows how poor Kirikou is faring, however. Sanary just needs to get to the drop-off point!

Blurr has posed:
    For what seems like several precarious moments that probably play out in slow motion or something, Sanary's truck teeters dangerously on two wheels. But it seems luck is on her side this time, and it starts to come right back down--on top of Blurr! He sees this coming and curses, but aims his altmode guns upward into the truck's undercarriage, putting as many hot lasers as he can into the vehicle's internals in the time that he has before it falls down on top of him. He -barely- manages to slip out from under it and speed away before that happens! Hopefully he did enough damage to take out the truck, but the Feds were going to get away with a few of these things anyway thanks to Yari.

Sanary Rondel has posed:
     The good news: The truck didn't flip over! The bad news: Blurr's lasers have practically killed the truck, and the incoming rocket is still a very big, very explosive problem! The worst news: Luck seems to have conspired against Sanary today in getting her hopes up from that first part. With what little life is still left in that truck (complete with an eery dying ice cream jingle), she does manage to swerve once to try and avoid the rocket!

     ... Except she ends up swerving directly into the path of the rocket. Thankfully, the explosion is on that already-wrecked passenger side from the initial hit, but it's still enough to turn most of the vehicle into a messy pile of scrap. Needless to say, whatever ice cream and chips are still inside that truck probably aren't intact any more.

     The healer's barely able to even drag herself out of that flaming wreck, groaning painfully and having trouble deciding whether to try and extract the glass from her face now, or to wait until she's back home. With the sounds of sirens steadily approaching, however, that choice is much easier to make.

     "Nngh... Screw it. Let's just get outta here! We did what we needed to." She grunts into her radio before ducking into alley, waiting for more opportune time to make her escape! Hopefully, nobody'll remember the eyepatch-wearing old-timey cop stealing that ice cream truck from today.

     "Stupid cars."