Scene #5489: Led Zeppelid

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Rhapsody	Location: Outer District Time: Noon Weather: Clear Much as the alert stated, a Stratozeppelid 'Taxi' has been taken over! The pilot, thrown from his perch near the head of the docile beast, can be seen drifting to the ground on a pair of transparent wings. Seeing as the little goblin is frantically yelling into a radio, it is likely he sent out the call. His black and white garb make it a little more apparent just who he works for. The Zeppelid, high above the city, is starting to bank to it's left. Whoever has taken it over clearly has a direction in mind, but it isn't clear just where it wants to go. Yet. The fact that there's a very large passenger area hanging below the beast means there's people likely onboard. Currently, there is no Rhapsody here! At least not yet.
Corona Arclite	As luck would have it Corona had just arrived at Ravnica herself. Initially her plan had been to talk to the Guildmaster about getting some Izzet assistance with building that canyon bridge. But that plan is put temporarily on hold when she picks up on the distress call for... "Welp, not quite what I as expectin'" is the fox's mutterance when she eventually catchs sight of the so called zeppelin between the buildings. Giving her steam-cycle a few revs for good measure she screechs around a corner to avoid a few random street-goers and race off in the direction of the coordinates being broadcast.
Bahamut	It is fortunate for Bahamut that he lives so relatively close to Ravnica. It is just a couple of gates to reach the huge city world, and when he emerges it is with a roar as he spirals through the gate before his wings spread and he is off toward the stratozeppelid. It isn't hard to spot, especially with the coordinates from the distress call. Bahamut makes his way there rapidly before he paces the big bio-balloon. He doesn't take action yet. Smashing and bashing as he usually does seems like a bad idea without knowing more about what is happening. "Do we know the situation within? Have they made any demands?" the big metal dragon says over the comm as he flies slowly around the blimp.
Rebound	Where goes Corona, so goes Rebound most of the time. Not ALL of the time, sometimes she has bad guys to punch in her own world, but you know in this case, here she is. Of course she's not riding Corona's motorcycle, that'd probably be uncomfortable. But she doesn't need it to keep up with her, hopping alongside the steam powered bike, "So what do you think, we'll need to punch whoever took over it and hope they can fly?"
Bahamut	Upon advice from the Guildmaster over the radio, Bahamut breaks off from the stratozeppelid for now and heads to pick up the goblin pilot. Once he has the little creature in one of his big claws, he rumbles. "Do not be afraid. I only need to know what is happening inside the transport."
Iria	Meanwhile, arriving on her glider is Iria. A scowl on her face and a look of determiination shows that this girl is eager to get things under control. While the others are gathering, Iria attempts to do a fly-by and see if she can spot anything unusual or worth reporting.
Rhapsody	A few more moments pass, the goblin lands in a heap along a tree-lined street. He's paniced, he looks like he just saw a ghost- or worse -and with the sight of a huge dragon, a kangaroo, and Corona's steam-bike, well that's more concerning! "AH LEMME BE I DUN WANNA DEAL WITH NUTHIN! TELL THE GRUUL TO JUST LEMME BE!" Well, his outburst gives a hint of what may be going on up on the Zeppelid. As the group starts to gather, a higher-pitched dragon roar can be heard... more like a trio of them. There's a few dots on the horizon, but they are coming in -insanely- fast. Rhapsody is actually riding ontop of a more feral looking dragon, with two coming in behind it. As they land, the goblin becomes a bit of a gibbering mess. To anyone that gives her a strange look for a dragon riding a dragon, she smirks, "What? They're faster than me!" http://www.artofmtg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Hypersonic-Dragon-MtG-Art.jpg
Rhapsody	As for the flyby Iria and Bahamut made, it's hard to tell what's going on up along the Zeppelid. The main passenger cabin, under the machine, has all the windowshades drawn. The little passage that heads up to the 'cockpit' doesn't really have any visible portals. A look at the head of the creature makes it seem like no one is steering it! Strange, seeing as the beast has stopped turning and is headed in the same direction Rhapsody came from...
Corona Arclite	"Wouldn't hopin' they bein' able to fly make wantin' to punch them outta the craft kinda silly?" Corona comments over her shoulder to Rebound. But the humor of the moment is lost when she catchs the goblin's yammering while passing his landing zone, and a bit of cussing follows both outloud and over the radio. But with that extra bit of info she doesn't bother stopping to worry about the goblin pilot, cranking the throttle on her bike to full and speeding off in the same direction the stratozep is still floating.
Bahamut	"Gruul." Bahamut rumbles as he hears the goblin. "Is that not the rampaging nature guild?" he asks Rhapsody before he looks to the goblin again. "Why did they take your transport? What is on board? Passengers? Cargo?" he continues the questioning, crouching down so that he does not look as intimidating. He looks the goblin over, then hmms. "Your colors...Orzhova? I am sure your employers would be quite upset if they found their pilot simply abandoned his contract? I suggest you give us as much information as you can so we may report you did all you could to protect their investment."
Iria	Even though Iria can't see much, she continues to fly by around it, hoping to find something unusual. Unfortunately she doesn't seem to have much luck. "Maybe it's time to make a cover entry?" She wonders aloud as she attempts to look for some way to get in.
Rebound	"Covert? Pft." Rebound shakes her head, "Covert is boring. Say Corona you got an RPG on that thing? I bet I can hit it from here.." She muses, as she begins to fiddle with Corona's bike a bit, looking for something with some bang.
Rhapsody	When Corona goes zipping by, you'd think the pilot would be relieved, but Bahamut's approach almost has him looking like a deer in headlights. The dragon's tone and posture helps to calm him down. "Passengers! Full load! A lot of off-worlders headin' in toward the Capital area to see all the guilds and such! I was just doin' my job! This big honkin' Minotaur just breaks down the door and threw me out! I didn't wanna leave!" Well, at least he isn't a coward. . . . or just isn't admitting to being one. "S'the Gruul, man! They do whatever they want! They're all bout bringin trees'n other things back by force! I dunno what they want with the Zeppelid!" Rhapsody wanders up about this time, the three Hypersonics looking around, heads up. They're both transports and the Izzet Guildmaster's current bodyguards. They may be among the more feral dragons of Ravnica, but they know who their leader is and would defend her to the death. "Do you know how they got up there? Did they get a hold of some dragons or .. worse?" "Nah, nah! Saw some -gigantic- birds a bit before take off though!"
Bahamut	Bahamut nods to the goblin pilot, then looks to the sky again. "So, what would the Gruul want with a floating transport creature full of passengers?" he asks Rhapsody as he spreads his wings and takes off. "I don't know much about that guild, I am afraid. Do they simply want to free the stratozeppelid, like some kind of eco-terrorists?" As he heads back toward the stratozeppelid, Bahamut looks around for the giant birds mentioned. It wasn't really confirmed, but it did seem implied that the Gruul may have used the birds as transport. And Bahamut has plenty of experience with huge, powerful, dangerous birds.
Corona Arclite	Corona Arclite would of appreciated the dragon ride potential normally, but she's worried about how little time they have to possibly deal with the problem. "Ya do realize blastin' it with a rocket would possibly crash it on top of the city, rawht?" she replies to Rebound. As she standing up on the seat of the bike. Then kicks a lever, activating the ejector seat to catapult herself airborn. Don't think too hard about why the hell anyone would put an ejection 'safety' device on a motorcycle. Just easier on the head not to. At least she doesn't put easily accessable self-destruct buttons pointlessly on her inventions like it's some subconcious self-defeat purpose. Back to the fantastic flying fox, whom at the end of the arc capable from the ejector, twists midair to pull out her energy shotgun, point it down the way she came, and fire off a charge to give herself the extra bit of boost from Forgesweeper's recoil to launch herself onto the gondola. Laws of physics can kiss my fluffy tail.
Maya	So Maya's in trouble again oir someone else is aroun thankfully she had her own way ho which would leave Razia grinning somewhere a pair of blue energy wings spouirt from her back and she looks all the part of a rather junky looking angel as she takes flight after everyone else. Though like hell she'll be wearing anything like the Boros outfit that Razia manged to get her into so long ago even if it wouldn't bother her too much now, it's just due to she got tricked into it last time. "Echo-Terrorists? Great so fanatics with maybe a good cause but they gone off the deep end...."
Iria	Meanwhile, Iria attempts to find a spot to slip in on, and she succeeds. She finds an entry and sends her glider back by auto-pilot. Once inside, she attempts to locate the passenger area, where she'll inform the passengers that she's here to help. It's a small area, though, so fighting may not be easy. To reduce the possibility of collateral damage, Iria is prepared to utilize hand-to-hand combat instead.
Rebound	"Yeah but then it'd be easier to get to." Rebound counter argues, but before she can finish her point, Corona is off like a shot, "Show off." She looks around, plotting a quick course in her head, and then tenses up her legs and jumps. She flies upwards, but not towards the gondola, instead slamming feet first into the side of a building, shifting her angle enough to push off of that, and fly up towards the gondola. She probably could have made it without the second jump but she'd rather make sure she gets there on the first try, because a failed jump from that height could hurt.
Rhapsody	"PLEASE just save the Zeppelid! ... And the passengers! The Orzhova will have me in debt for the rest of my life and the next one if you don't!" And he's not kidding. Debt to the Orzhova does persist... but that's a whole different story. The guildmaster makes a motion toward the hypersonic dragons who are quick to move over to her. She hops on one before the trio, plus Rhapsody, head skyward! "It's entirely possible they just want to free it, but I don't know how they are going to react to the passengers! If they're all off-worlders, this could be really bad! They may hate how urbanized the city is, but they really don't like outsiders!" As everyone starts to head skyward, the pilot's suspicions are confirmed. A long -loud- whistle comes from somewhere on the Zeppelid. From the bulidings near by, a bout a dozen huge avians take flight, various sizes and colors, but all of them clearly raptors of some sort. Hooked beaks, razor sharp talons, the whole package. "We got company!!" Landning on the Zeppelid is a complicated affair. The giant beasts are a little bit of flesh and muscle and a LOT of airsacs. They're everywhere, but along the top of it, near the spine, is a good place for something to land. Getting to the underside where the passenger cabin is, though, takes some time. It'll take following the thing's spine, to it's tailbone, dropping down, and finding a way to the cabin below. Once there, at what is basically the caboose, Iria would open the door to find the luggage area first. No people... at least not yet. That'll take another door, a much LARGER door, into the main area. A minotaur or small dragon could easily fit through this one. It DOES have a window, though. Inside? The Minotaur that the pilot mentioned, plus a whole lot of feral looking elves and humans. They have all the passengers laying on the ground of the cabin. Corona and Rebound? They shoot up for the Zeppelid like Superman, though this is easily the largest single bound that Ravnica has ever seen. There's a huge door on each side of the cabin, same size as the one Iria is encountering. Theirs, though, don't have any windows.
Corona Arclite	We're going to call the lack of a window a good thing. It means so one can see Corona weeze as she slams into it back first. Followed by a bit of awkward scrambling to find something to grab onto with one hand while not dropping her gun with the other, and something decently solid to brace her feet on. Falling off would really suck, after all. Next we find the handle of the door, and give it a good test jiggle to see if its locked or not. If it opens, that's dandy. If it doesn't, well, she'll just use one of her arc cutters to slice the lock and open it herself. Orzhova can bitch and send her a bill later like the grubby debt monsters they are, saving the people inside is a bit more important. Corona's dealt with enough hijackings on trains to know these sorta folk gotta be dealt with quickly. If things have already gone this far they're not likely going to be very open to negotiating.
Iria	As Iria gets closer to the door, she looks in the window briefly before ducking back down and scowling. "Damn, there's too many civilians there to risk running and gunning. Just as I feared. I can't throw a grenade either." She frowns. "Too bad I ain't got a slingshot to take out the minotaur with... oh wait, that's the cyclops." She shrugs. "Gonna have to think carefully." She glances again to see if there's anyone within range of the door. If so, she's not going to risk kicking it open...
Bahamut	Bahamut lets out a low, menacing growl as those birds take to the air. "Are they calling for an exit already?" he asks as he races toward the source of the whistle as well, trying to get a glimpse of the person holding that whistle. He doesn't want to start firing with hostages in the mix, but perhaps he can dissuade the incoming birds or the person summoning them. "I am holding off on attack for now. I am not sure how much help I can be with recovery within a vessel designed for human-sized creature. I will remain out here, holding off their route of escape." he radios to the others.
Rebound	Rebound slams into the side of the gondola a few moments after Corona, and slams the Impact Driver into the side to enable a handhold, "Gotta do things the hard way, huh?!" She yells at Corona, as she looks around at all the birds that are rising up after their unexpected appearance, "If you can't get that open I can!" She yells to her fox friend, as she holds on to wait for Corona to breach the door
Maya	Maya knows what her goals are here She flas her wings making for the Zeppelin, she knows there comes the birds and Maya has no real time for this she alredy has her rifle out and she's making ready to enage the birds while she's airborne She doens't open fiore just yet she's trying to land on the Zepplid but the Rocs are proving too much of an iassue. She readies her rifle and iopens fire with the nearst of them as she moves to dive away trying to get the hostile avians to follow her.
Rhapsody	Up, up, and up some more! Corona is going to find that the door is locked, as she feared. Cutting the door open, however, is a swift affair. It makes some noise, though, which gets the attention of the Gruul inside. It's when they start to move that if Iria is paying attention, she'll note they are -not- looking at the door she's near, and are looking -away- from it. If she moves now, it'll be her best opportunity! Hopefully Corona and Rebound have an idea for when that door opens. They're going to have a lot of angry hammers and arrows looking their way. Outside, around the Zeppelid, the Rocs are closing distance quickly, looking to put talons into Rhapsody. The hypersonics move in quickly to drive them away from the Guildmaster. She's not defenseless, but she also isn't taking her true form! At least not yet. She wants to make sure everyone has a way -off- the creature as well. A similar number of Rocs start to swipe at the dragon from Spira, seemingly very angry! ... Wait. One of them seems to have a passenger... and they are very much in the process of channeling a spell! With Maya being a smaller target, only a couple of the massive birds head her way.
Corona Arclite	Corona Arclite smirks a bit over her shoulder at Rebound. "Ah reckon ya'd be more interested in what's behind the door than openin' it," she replies. Shutting off the torch once the lock is busted she grabs the handle with both hands and swings her body out to open the door. So Rebound can jump in and do what she does best when it comes to getting close with the enemy. Are the arrows and hammers ready for an angry mixed martial arts kangaroo, that's the real question here!
Iria	"No time like the present," Iria thinks as she slowly opens the door, attempting to move carefully to avoid making any kind of noise. They're already distracted and Iria doesn't want to draw their attention again. "I just hope I can take them out with a little martial arts..."
Bahamut	Counterspelling is more an Izzet thing, but as it becomes clear that the Rocs are focusing on them and not coming in to provide an escape Bahamut lets out a roar and turns to face them. He is no hypersonic, but the big metal dragon is still as fast as a rocket. He races in toward the spell-caster with his many talons outstretched like a bird of prey himself. And he has four sets as compared to the bird's two. "I do not know what you Gruul intend for this stratozeppelid, but rest assured you will not succeed!"
Yuna Kagurazaka	And just before the Rocs get close enough to sink their talons into Rhapsody's dragon allies (including Bahamut) ... "LIGHTNING SHOOT~!!" comes a familiar (if amplified) voice, and a crackling blast of radiant concussive force tears through the sky, aimed to hammer one of the Rocs off-angle so that its claws will catch nothing but air. Yuna is very clearly NOT out to kill the giant birds - and when the Matrix Figure comes racing into close combat, it's even clearer: there's no sign of El-Line's sword, and Yuna just aims her robot's feet at another Roc's torso in one of the biggest dropkicks Ravnica has likely ever seen. "Sorry I wasn't here earlier!" Yuna calls out (again) as El-Line recovers from that flying kick. "Everyone holding up okay so far?"
Rebound	Rebound smirks a bit when Corona finishes cutting, and she swings outwards, around Corona, and jumps inside of the now open door and lands with a fist down, "Hey boys." She says, as she looks across at all the arrows and weapons pointed at her, "Now this just isn't fair." She says, as she gets back up to her feet, "I should have tied one of my arms behind my back." She immediately rushes forward, to get out of the path of as many arrows as possible, and sucker punch the closest melee weapon wielding hijacker with an Impact Driver shot.
Maya	Maya is flitting abotu all fo the world looking too be used to flyign abotu like this.Maya does what she can to keep the Rocks a Bay and zips around just tying to keep them on her, if she can't bring them down? Well she can keep them away and she calls out. "So you looking for a future in food?! I know some great places that fry big old chickens like you!" Taunting, yup Maya's certianly just trying to keep them going after her and help out Bahamut.
Rhapsody	INSIDE: With the door thrown open, and Rebound diving in, a number of arrows are just released. Seems the Gruul Elves inside are not playing around. When the roo dives away, and starts to introduce fists to faces, the rest of the Gruul in the cabin start to rush her. There's easily a dozen of them! The one minotaur, however, is waiting behind the lines, ready to move in if everyone else fails. He's not far from Iria... OUTSIDE: One of the Rocs nearly got a talon into Rhapsody, Yuna however, makes sure that doesn't happen! The surprised Guildmaster looks to Yuna, waves in thanks, then points to another of the Rocs that was now closing in on the singer. Rhapsody and her Hypersonic swing away, trying to give the Zeppelid a wide birth. She was there to provide an escape! Fighting was not on her menu, despite -really wanting to-. The Spiran dragon easily takes out the Roc with the caster on it. The clawswipe catches the avian in the leg, sending it spinning through the sky. The mage's lightning bolt spell goes soaring upwawrd into the air into nothing. "YOU DON'T BELONG HERE, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, OFF-WORLDER!" they scream before the Roc decides it doesn't want to deal with the large dragon and just keeps flying against the wishes of it's master. The last few, still chasing Maya, seem to want to make a meal out of Maya and just keeps diving for her. Their frustration is increasing! This little human should be easy to capture, and shouldn't even be in the sky to begin with!!!
Corona Arclite	Not that Corona is going to leave her friend to fend for herself (even if she's probably capable of it). But while she's still behind the door she needs a moment to put her shotgun away, which would be way too dangerous to use in a small contained space with hostages. Which would be why she goes for one of her smaller pistols instead. Then swings herself around to the other side of the door, pulling it partway shut with her as she does so. "Don't forget about me," she quips as she holds out the other arm with the pistol and fires off several shots seemingly with no discretion. Until the beams all abruptly turn in mid-air at what should be impossible angles to home in on the skyjackers only. Hurrah for homing lasers!
Yuna Kagurazaka	At Rhapsody's gesture, El-Line twists around to face in the indicated direction - and promptly unleashes another Lightning Shoot, this time aiming for the attacking Roc's face. It won't do much more damage than the proverbial punch in the nose, but that should be enough to make the oversized raptor back off and rethink whether this is a fight it wants to stay part of. Maya may get some help of that sort as well, although Yuna is erring very much on the side of caution - she's not sure if Maya is priming a spell and doesn't want to disrupt the Junker's aim too badly, so the shot aimed at Maya's would-be assailant is more intended to make it duck rather than hitting it directly. "So are these birdbrains part of the zepjacking attempt, or what?" Yuna wonders as she pulls up, removing the Matrix Figure a bit further from people's lines of fire, but not pulling away so far that she can't keep supporting her friends.
Bahamut	Bahamut is surprised when that lightning bolt keeps Rhapsody from harm, and even more surprised that Rhapsody was in harm's way. He growls in anger, but continues his assault. "Good shot, Yuna! We welcome your help!" With the spell-caster's mount retreating, Bahamut takes off after Maya's pursuers, leaving contrails from the ends of his feathered wings as he rockets through the sky. "Hold on Maya! Yuna, please provide cover for the Guildmaster! Boarding team, I suggest you hurry!" he radios to all involved. Then those talons come out again and Bahamut aims to pounce one of the birds after the junker. Unlike Yuna, he is used to eliminating enemies and shows little hesitation in going for killing blows. But, he isn't going to chase down enemies that try to make a retreat. He lets out a booming roar as warning to the remaining birds.
Iria	With the advantage as her own, Iria attempts to sneak up on the minotaur. "How did they kill the minotaur?" Iria wonders to herself, wondering if she'll be powerful enough to take down the beast using her hands and feet, or if she should go for her sword? After a moment, Iria draws her sword, the blade forming as chain links before solidifying. "Guess there's only one way to find out." She crouches behind the minotaur, waiting for an opportune moment to strike.
Rebound	Well an arrow is sticking out of Rebound's left shoulder, but she just looks more angry than hurt, "Son of a bitch!" She turns around to grab the shooter, taking his bow out of his hands and smacking him over the head with it. She growls in annoyance, even as several others swarm her, smacking her around and starting to overwhelm her. She's good but a dozen fighters is a lot when they attack all at once, "You guys are supposed to attack one or two at a time, damnit!" She slugs one in the body and then spins around fast, using her tail to try to get some distance
Maya	Maya finds the spiran dragon is a pretty good partner to have up here in the air she keeps flitting aorund she fashes around. "No, I'll not You brought this on yourselves with your actions!" That's all she got to say and the thing's still chaging Maya. She's getting them annoyed and that's making her grin. She might start flinging spells but an idea comes to her, she could use napalm but that could lead to fires when they go down. So she hatches another idea as her rifle's housing open and she stops trying tof ly around oddly the underbarrel glows and sphers of energy fire out seeking out the Rocs and will explode if they manage to connect. "Keep them going Bahamut!"
Rhapsody	INSIDE: Fight one at a time? What does Rebound think this is? A comic book? The Gruul fighters continue to pile on, wanting to take out the most obvious threat in the room. Such a big, loud threat that no one really notices Corona until the homing bolts are smacking into them! A few are knocked down, but a couple bigger ones, like another smaller minotaur and a viashino (reptilian humanoid) turn on the frontier scrapper. The minotaur that Iria has moved behind doesn't know she's there, and as Corona and Rebound start to get the upper hand, it starts moving for the fight. It's now or never! A few of the hostages, having seen Iria come out of the caboose, are looking at her and at the door, "C.. can we run?" one whispers. OUTSIDE The next lightning shoot from Yuna sends another one of the raptor off, turning tail and deciding, nope, not worth it. Only about 6 of them are left, but there is one, again, with another mage on it's back. This one had been circling well above the Zeppelid, out of view. A cascade of lightning bolts rain down all around the outside of the Zeppelid, not a single one striking the beast. "LEAVE! THIS BEAST WILL NOT BURDEN LAZINESS ANY LONGER!" With Bahamut moving to assist Maya, those avians will retreat, but one of them is even caught by the lightning raining down from above. Seems that wizard is more concerned about the wild beast than the tame one. Boooo. Maya's rocket manages to make contact with one of the large birds. The blast sends it -reeling- through the sky. It is not coming back any time soon! The only one really left, now, is the one above the Zeppelid! "Stupid birds! I DIDN'T SAY YOU COULD LEAVE, COWARDS!"
Corona Arclite	Corona Arclite gives the Starslinger a proper gunfighter twirl and blows some non-existant smoke from the barrel. "Wonder iffen that got anyone's attentio--" She notices the minotaur and lizard-person advancing towards her. "--Yup." But behind them she also notices Iria sneaking up behind the larger minotaur behind the crowd. So she better keep their attention. "Welp, only one thin' to do..." As the duo moves in the wily and smaller vixen ducks and dives, sliding between the larger lizard-man's legs. Rolling onto her feet she springs back up to jump on the minotaur's backside. "Take this bull by the horns!" Which is what she does, grabbing the base of his horns and jabbing her spurs into his back, trying to get him swing wildly around and take out some of his companions trying to gang up on Rebound. "Yeeehah!"
Iria	One minotaur is occupied, so Iria decides to take on the other one herself. With an evil smirk, Iria says, "I must be heartless to do this, but you're gonna be heartless too if this works!" With that, Iria attempts to drive her sword through the minotaur's back and pierce its heart.
Yuna Kagurazaka	A few bolts of lightning slam into El-Line, sparks crawling against the Matrix Figure's armor. Inside the cockpit, Yuna is protected against the electricity itself - but she still winces, writhing uncomfortably as she 'feels' the arcing electricity. "Oh, for ... 'Scuse me a sec," she transmits to her allies. Then El-Line just flies STRAIGHT UP and zooms in as close behind the mage-ridden roc as the Matrix Figure can get, mechanical hands coming up and together as the gleaming white-blue-and-gold robot cracks its knuckles. "Hey," Yuna calls out, her voice amplified via El-Line's external speakers. "You do realize those are my friends you're trying to hurt ...." Another knuckle-crack. "Don't you think you have something better to do ... such as something that won't make me mad at you?"
Bahamut	The birds leaving shows some intelligence on their part, which Bahamut was not expecting. He leaves them be as they depart, then looks up at the mage overhead. "Attacking your own troops? What sort of honorless monster are you?" Bahamut growls before he takes off for the mage. But, when Yuna goes to do some intimidating, Bahamut grins and turns to keep Rhapsody covered. There is no telling what sort of tricks they might have up their sleeves. "How are things going inside?" Bahamut asks over the radio as he keeps pace with Rhapsody and her dragon escort.
Rebound	Well with Corona doing her best to drag as many of the guys off of her with her bullish behavior, Rebound is able to start striking out at guys, heading for headshots with her Impact Drivers to try to knock them out with the strikes. That way she can move on to others. She's TRYING to not kill anyone, but if she accidentally punches someone out of the open door, well...They probably deserved it. She picks up one of the goons and hucks them towards that lizard guy that was after Corona, "Hey, scalebutt! Catch!"
Maya	Maya see the Avians start to fleebut not all of them are getting awya and she watches the energy blade go off. She looks to the mage and smirks for a moment at the mage and she says. 5R "Now you have a choice surrender, or face the alternative."
Rhapsody	INSIDE: Well, Corona certainly has a good idea! The viashino looks confused, the minotaur looks incensed, and the larger one is about to have a blade stabbed through it's chest! Problem is, with the hostages desperately looking for escape, one has reached the door Iria came in through, opened it, and the sound of the latch opening from the person rushing through gets its attention. It starts to turn, which saves its life, but the blade goes right through its side, causing it to roar out. A fist rises and comes down, trying to smash the bounty hunter into the floor before it stumbles backward, tripping over another hostage, before crashing into the floor. The one Corona's scaled is fantically swinging its body left and right, inadvertantly knocking out the Viashino, which leaves Rebound with the stragglers. OUTSIDE: The birds have turned tail, save only the one that Yuna zooms up toward. One would -think- the wizard would turn pale, but the Gruul don't really get scared. They get angry. "The best thing I can do is send you back to the ground where you belong!" That being said, the mage hefts a spear, red hot from magic, and swings it at Yuna before spinning and hurling it at Maya. "IF I DIE KNOW THAT THERE ARE TWENTY MORE LIKE ME!" he screams out in protest to what may come next. Rhapsody gives a thankful wave to Bahamut and his protection before glaring the wizard's way, transmitting something simple. <<Do what you want with him.>>
Iria	Iria struggles to clear out the passengers using a command to move as well as gesturing, but then the minotaur swings at Iria, and Iria can barely pull her sword out in time before being barely grazed by the minotaur's last ditch attempt to strike her. To ensure that it's truly dead, Iria takes out her pistol and places it over the beast's head before firing a few shots. "I should've done that instead, but that wouldn't have been fun!"
Corona Arclite	This rodeo ride isn't all it's cracked up to be! Sure it gets the job done, but the smaller minotaur (minitaur?) is thrashing around hard enough Corona is bouncing off his back while precariously holding onto his horns. "Almost regretting this!" As she's tossed around Corona does manage to get her legs under herself and hook the heels of her boots against his horns as well. Which lets her lean over far enough to get right into the raging bull's face. "Com'n big guy. Right in front of you here!" She's hoping his too mad and too dumb enough to lunge at her taunting, and slam himself into the wall for a knockout when she jerks back out of the way.
Bahamut	Bahamut is quite confident that Yuna can handle one blustering mage, he nods to Rhapsody then motions to the zeppelid. "Now, how do we get the creature under control? If it is clear perhaps we can bring the pilot back in." he says as he looks toward the ground for the goblin. He might still be nearby if he was that concerned for his debts.
Yuna Kagurazaka	The problem with looming that close over somebody is that you're even more vulnerable to counterattacks - and the Heat Spear actually scores across El-Line's cockpt, prompting a yelp from Yuna as El-Line backs out of immediate range. She tries to snap off another Lightning Shoot, to blast the spear before it can reach Maya, but there's a real chance of missing - partly because, again, Yuna doesn't want to hit Maya by accident and will, again, err on the side of caution. So she's at a loss for what she can do to make the big bird or its rider go away, particularly what she can do without hurting either the mage or his mount. After a moment's consideration, though, El-Line drops like a rock - not TOO far, just enough to get underneath the Roc's level - and then flies forward, bringing its arms up to try and yank down on the Roc's legs. It may hurt the bird a lot more than Yuna really wants to ... or it may have no effect at all. What she's figuring, though, is that it'll pull the Roc down a bit in the air, probably jouncing its rider for good measure, and MIGHT be enough of an added startlement to convince the mage that yeah, it really is time to leave. Anything more than that is up to her allies.
Rebound	With Corona's bull running around, and her taunting him to make him even more mad, Rebound gets an idea. She punts one guy in the chest and slams him into the wall, and then shifts her weight so she can put herself in front of the rampaging minotaur, "Corona dodge!" As soon as Corona follows her instructions, Rebound intends to clothesline the ever living hell out of the minotaur as he comes through. She knows Corona's seen this tactic before, so it'll work.
Rhapsody	INSIDE: Looks like someone is really bloodthirsty. That guy was down, out, but now? Yep. It's dead. Didn't have to be, but it is. As for the 'Minitaur' Corona's gambit works. Seeing his 'rider', the enraged minotaur charges ahead, right for the door that leads up to the pilot's area of the Zeppelid. Rebound's lariat, though, gets the smaller minotaur -right- in the neck. It does a full flip before landing on its chest, completely out cold. OUTSIDE: The guildmaster gives a wince, "Eh.. I don't know! From out here it's really difficult. The pilot would help but.." she glances to the ground. The pilot? Long gone! By his own power or Orzhova, who knows. Glancing back to the Zeppelid, she transmits, <<Someone needs to get to the pilot's area and bring the Zeppelid down, anywhere along a street! Just bring it down please!>> When Yuna drops, the wizard cackles loudly, "Yes, retreat! LEAVE COWARDS!" he bellows before him, and his bird, plumet a good ten feet in the air. The avian lets out a pained, surprised squawk, wings beating as it tries to not fall to the ground. The rider is so jolted he ends up hanging from it's neck, laugher abruptly cut off as the Roc flees the area. "NOOOO! GO BACK YOU STUPID BIRD! WE AREN'T FINISHED YET!" he roars, trailing off into the distance. Bird does not care. Bird done with this @#$&.
Maya	Maya has heroders she's going to take the jackass alive as much as she'd like to do her her world's way and put a bullet in the pyscho's head she will be flitting towards him intending to take him alive. At least thats her own plan with it. She'll look to Yuna and Then to Bahamut. "I'll be taking him into custody, Thank you Yuna, your better at that than I am."
Iria	Bloodthirsty? Maybe. But the reality is Iria didn't want to see the minotaur suffer. To those who are looking at her funny (possibly) Iria says, "I'm a bounty hunter, not a torturer. The last thing I want is someone who I had to take out to endure a slow, painful death." She runs a hand through her hair and sighs. "It would've been cleaner to give it an injection, but I dunno what kind of chemicals I'd need. I'm not a veterinarian!"
Corona Arclite	Okay, that's even better than the wall. Corona jumps off at the last second, letting Rebound's Mutant's Elbow or whatever you'd call that move finish off the mini minotaur. He was already going the way she needed to go, so as soon as she lands on the deck she darts for the pilot's cab. "Thanks Hoppy!" .... Okay, this isn't quite the 'machinery' she's used to, but well, hopefully she's been around this place long enough to fake it. She opens her C-Pad, then tosses it on the console with the radio on and grabs whatever looks like the main controls. "Windrose, Ah need some pilotin' advice!" The voice that crackles from the radio sounds a bit stifled, as if just waking up. "Piloting what? Aeroplane, gyrocopter--" "Zepplin-gasbag-slugthing!" "I.. wha.. I..," the skunkette can be heard stammering a moment, then finally an exasperated "Nevermind, I probably don't -want- to know what insane fracas you've gotten into this time." "Ah know it sounds weird, but it's magi-biotechno-whatever, just tell me how to land something! Preferably in one piece." Windrose, despite sounding tired and annoyed at her 'mentor', relents. "The main thing to remember is with most flying craft you have to go against the natural impression of direction. You push forward to go down and pull back to go up. Side to side is more of a long drift than an actual turn." "Well ya ain't gotta be so wordy 'bout it," Corona snips back, even as she's yoinking the controls. "Okay, downward is forward..." Grab and push then!
Yuna Kagurazaka	When the roc sets off to depart the area, El-Line releases its legs - although Yuna is still watching to make sure the bird keeps being done with this whole mess. "Glad I was able to help," is Yuna's comment afterwards. "Is everyone else okay?"
Bahamut	Bahamut rumbles as Rhapsody makes it clear the beast needs to be brought down. But, they need to bring it down safely. "The creature seems rather docile. Perhaps the El-Line and I can guide it down from out here?" he says before he heads for the head of the creature. He lands on top with considerable force, then takes a firm grip and with his powerful wings starts applying downward pressure, trying to direct the creature toward a wide, flat street. When he feels it start to respond as if under someone else's control, he stops pushing and just hangs on, ready to serve as a safety net if needed.
Rebound	Once they have everybody down and out, Rebound follows Corona up to the front, "Holy hell. How do they control these things." She says. Thankfully Corona knows somebody who knows how to fly..Sort of, "I'll keep any stragglers off of your back Corona, you just get this thing down safe."
Rhapsody	There's a giant pair of reigns, too, Corona, but yes, some of the instruments can help urge the large Zeppelid downward! Hopalong will probably point them out in some sort of silly way. Cause you know. Occam's razor isn't happening juuuust at the moment, but it's okay! It's been a long day. The hostages are safe, if not cheering, the Gruul Clan members are being tied up and held down, and all the Rocs outside are well on their way AWAY from the Zeppelid. Everyone's heading down, at this point. Even Rhapsody transmits some coordinates, a large crossroad along tinstreet where all the shops were closed. Perfect landing area! <<Everyone land at <Coords>. I contacted the Wojek and they'll be taking in all the Gruul for the Zeppelid heist!>> Between Corona at the controls, and Bahamut urging it down, the large beast gets the idea and starts to descend! None of the hostages, on a side note, are looking at Iria strangely. They're actually thanking her!
Corona Arclite	If anything reigns probably help the cowgirl fox. Something she's use to at least. Between that, the 'advice' from her assistant and some guiding help on the outside, they can get the thing down. Abiet probably not the smoothest landing, but its not a crash either so that's good right? Still probably the weirdest thing to date she's taken the controls of though.
Bahamut	Once the beast is grounded, Bahamut hops down and gives it a pat on the side before helping to ensure that all the hostages disembark safely. "Well, whatever their goal here, the Gruul did not stand much of a chance. Are all of their attempts at such things as successful?" he wonders aloud, then hmms. "And I wonder if that pilot will return."
Rhapsody	As the Hypersonics land, they start chirping and rawring between each other, communicating in their own way about what just happened. Almost like crows, but dragons. The guildmaster hops down a moment later, moving to greet everyone as they come down the ramp. Those that recognize her thank her for coming out personally. Those that don't still appreciate still thank her, but are more grateful to the others that came out. All the hostages will shower a lot of praise on Bahamut, Yuna, Corona, Rebound, Iria and Maya. Rhapsody, however, makes sure to take another step for them all. Personal invitations to the Izzet Spires and a free dinner at Dusk-17 are given to everyone for their troubles. The Wojek are quick to march up the ramp and take custody of the Gruul onboard. One of their own minotaurs carries out the one that had been killed earlier, earning a wince from the Rhapsody. She turns to Bahamut, "This is the most brazen thing they've done in a while. Honestly, if I had to make a guess? Someone put them up to it. I don't think we're going to find out who did, though. Generally the 'biggest' one is the leader and that Minotaur was the biggest one," she sighs. A shrug follows. "It can't be helped now. I'm glad you all came out. Zeppelid crashes in Ravnica are just.. ... damn awful."