Scene #6878: The Petting Zoo (strong hands only)

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Remilia Scarlet	Manhattan is known to be sort of a hyperbusy mess, it's true. Central Park is a semi-famous sort of attraction as a place to get away from it, but even that makes it busy enough with New Yorkers that it wouldn't quite be relaxing even without the tourists. One of the central attractions, stretching across several acres, is the famous zoo bearing the name of the park, known to be a dense concentration of visitors especially. It's unusual, then, that Central Park Zoo could be ten times the riot while having zero visitors. Central Park, square in the middle of the dense, reachingly tall skyline of the island, surrounded on all sides by prickling walls of steel grey skyscrapers and stone beige-white towering buildings, is almost vacant. The leaves are only just starting to turn the colours of autumn, and the air isn't exactly chilly yet, so there are normal people here are all out with their phones, their friends, or both, trying their luck at getting a glimpse of the commotion while remaining at their own definition of a very, very safe distance --distance from the cacophony of bellowing, screeching, hissing, braying, and warbling animals that Do Not Belong. The gates are thrown open, the walkways immaculately clean, having not even a cigarette butt to be found, the stands are empty and theoretically full of treats and souvenirs for the taking, and wherever the original sealions and zebras went is anyone's guess, because the enclosures are packed with brand new fare that they were never meant to handle. Crags designed for birds of prey and mountain goats are host to a scorpion-tailed, lion-headed, bat-winged monster of massive claws, resentfully growling at a massive, dull green wyvern creature bristling with coarse spines and thick spikes, beating its wings and screechily menacing it from across a copper wire barrier plastered with paper sigils. A performance pool is half dark with the tremendous shape beneath the surface, occupying it like the sides of a yin yang, as a prehistoric creature of teeth and flippers circles in slow agitation, behind a sparse barricade of floating red crystals. Squat, waddling, fanged and furred beasts shuffle around fake rocks meant for penguins, sharing space with six legged lizards with multiple eyes, each the size of a motorbike, sunning themselves under an invisible dome. A strangely geometric cage of crossed chains walls off a section of lush jungle where something barely seen, with too many arms and tentacles to count, lurks deep in the center, clicking ominously like a Geiger counter. All this and more is the new order of the day at Central Park Zoo. There are only three people on the grounds: a tall, red-headed woman wearing an out of place green and gold qipao, currently in the process of piling a number of enormous rocks around a pit that, judging by the marks around it, wasn't quite deep enough; another woman in what looks like the lavender pajamas and white nightdress she'd gone to sleep in, buried in a book behind the desk of the visitor's center, with a number of crystal orbs having replaced the pamphlets and ticket check; and an even more out of place maid, wearing some combination of 'a real maid outfit' and 'saw it in akihabara', wearing a scarf and sweeping the grounds of leaves with a broom. All three seem completely at ease with the surreal mess all around them. In fact, once the former is done piling rocks, she starts hammering a sign into the ground (written in both English and romanized Chinese) with 'Lindworm' on it, and the maid stops to take the time to throw what looks like a cattle bone back into an enclosure from which it was apparently launched. They're the only ones not taking it seriously. The police cordon preventing people from approaching more than two hundred meters is pretty extensive.
Staren	Adding to the spectacle, a goddamn giant robot drops out of the sky. Because when you go on a monster extermination mission it's good to wear protective equipment. It approaches the three who appear to have taken over the zoo. <"What. Do you three think you're doing?"> Staren's voice asks, over loud speakers.
Note	If things are so bad that you tell the police 'dont bother, we will get Elites to do it', then the Godzilla Threshold really has been crossed... almost. Unfortunately sometimes those with Saiyan blood are Elites. Who knows if calling just Anyone and Everyone is really a great idea... Being of heroic inclination and itching for a chance to get some exercise and action, Note swoops in from the nearest warp gate, taking an aerial route down to the zoo. She's never been to a zoo before, and can only guess at what the place would look like normally. But as she swoops down into the walkways her stormy whitish aura cuts out and her flight speed drops with it. She just levitates past a few enclosures and looks at the informational plaques... Then at the beasts that currently inhabit the exhibits. "It's not what's SUPPOSED to be in here... looks pretty ticked off, too! Guess I'd be if I was in there, too... keeping animals in cages is pretty mean." Still, like some kind of monkey, she leaps over towards the nearest stranger-intruder... by chance or preference it's hard to say, but in no time at all the redhead in the qipao is treated to the sight of an upside-down Note floating down in front of her. "Why are you three storming around like you own the place?" She asks, a bit pushily, only to relent with a touch of uncertainty a moment later. "You don't, right?"
Sumiko	Mikoto, hanging on to the side of Staren's robot as it drops down. She hops off the side of it and lands blinking at the chimera and wyvern. Oh my god, is that an actually Chimera?! She runs over to the edge of the exhibit and stares at it while holding onto the side of the railings. "Oh my god, that is soooo cool!" she says, with a huge grin. Of course, Staren becomes as diplomatic as ever. She turns her head slightly towards him. "Well, obviously they took over a zoo and filled it with animals from other worlds," Mikoto pipes in towards Staren. "I mean, it looks pretty straight forward. Also by the cops standing around, I guess they didn't actually buy it." She goes back to staring at the animals, "Where did you even find these animals? You know, asking for a friend." She says as she won't totally try and find this place later for her own shenanigans. That stupid grin still on her face.
Alexis	Truth be told, Alexis wouldn't have a problem with the concept of a 'monster zoo'. Much with it's standard animal counterpart it would give the less roaming people a chance to see things they otherwise would not, and maybe learn something about the ecology beyond the reachs of basic zoology. Her main beef is the fact that this was done by trespassing, reckless endangerment, and most likely no consideration for the monsters now crammed into holding facilities never meant for them, or the animals that were vacated (or worse!) to make room for them. Who or what started this fiasco is going to have a few questions to ask... And when her ponytail was in a knot over something like this Alexis was more likely to ask the questions with her fists and lots of fire. That doesn't stop her from briefly adding to the monster situation, it's kind of avoidable when cuddly critters of considerable destruction was your lifelong forte. Right now it was in the form of said Trainer running up to the zoo on the back of a galloping equine. She may not be a the white knight of that one song but she's at least got the fiery steed covered as Rapidash's mane and tail blaze in his wake, little embers sparking in the air every time hooves hit the pavement like a staccato of flint strikers. Oh good at least the local authority has the sense to set up a police barricade. On the downside they don't really have time to stop, so instead Alexis puts her mount's phenomenal jumping ability to use, putting to shame most professional equine vaulters to shame as he easily leaps over the crowds with enough height to spare anyone from getting singed by his flaming fetlocks. As they pass overhead Alexis holds out her Pokedex to flash her monster tamer license and Elite credentials to the officers holding the line. Then as soon as they touch down on the otherside Rapidash turns with as much grace as he has speed to bolt through the open gates. At least the would-be rubberneckers got to see one monster up close and personal, if thankfully briefly. "OKAY WHERE'S THE ASSHOLES RESPONSABLE FOR THIS MESS?!" is bellowed as soon as they're inside the zoo boundry and get a good look at just what has been done for themselves. Alexis. Is. Not. Amused.
Remilia Scarlet	The informational plaques are a variety of things. Some of them are pretty plainly misidentified for someone with a decent grasp of paleontology and/or cryptozoology and/or mythology, but all of them are pretty bold claims. One enclosure, filled with evergreen rees, has one for 'sasquatch', but it looks like there's nothing inside. Staren's giant robot landing in the middle of the zoo, of course, throws a bunch of already ornery rare creatures into a howling and gnashing frenzy. The wyvern thing especially takes off to a hover and begins raking its claws across the wires, biting on them as well, though meeting little success. Something is spat at him from another direction, and quickly zapped out of the air by a floating crystal. He is actually met on the ground by the maid though, wearing her silver hair in a pair of partial braids down to her shoulders, and putting aside her broom to bow slightly to the robot. "Welcome to the Central Park Rare and Extraordinary Animal Exhibition." she says. She doesn't even slightly hesitate on the beat for his insistence. "We aren't supposed to be opening for another hour or so, but since you're already here, it'd be rude to turn away a customer. Parking validation is towards the entrance though. Please secure your vehicle before touring the exhibits." Yeah she didn't even pay the slightest attention to his obviously indignant tone about the whole thing. It's frankly impossible to tell whether she airheadedly didn't notice, or ignored it astoundingly well on purpose. Mikoto gets her response in the form of one of the exhibit microphones piping up with the dulcet tones of the chronically disinterested purple-haired woman in the visitor's booth, with the audible flipping of a page interrupting it. "Almost none of these creatures are indigenous to the same place. As I've read, that's the point of a zoo. Gathering rare animals from many different places so that they can be viewed conveniently is the idea." Rustle. Flip. "That animal was relocated from a Grecian mausoleum, circa 200 BC. Don't put your hands within three meters of the barrier. It was transported here on short notice, so there's no antivenom." The redhead, wearing a green cap with a gold star pinned to it, dusts off her hands after slamming the signpost into the ground with the bottom of her fist. She looks at Note, slightly boggled, like she didn't expect anyone to actually talk to her. "Huh? I'm not storming around! I'm doing exactly like I was told! All this heavy lifting isn't going to do itself." Leaning against the sign, deep in thought, she strokes her chin for a couple of seconds in contemplation of the question, before slapping her fist into her palm at the answer. "Of course it doesn't matter if we own it! The mistress will get bored of it after one or two tours anyways, so it'll go back to the people who were already here eventually! Ahh, but then I should make sure to try all of the snacks before they start charging for them . . ." Alexis is met by the maid as well. Somehow. The instant Staren glances away for a moment. The maid replies to her in the exact same airy tone as before. "Welcome to the Central Park Rare and Extraordinary Animal Exhibition. Please refrain from loud noises or 'flash photography' to avoid agitating the animals." She pronounces photography with the deliberateness of a foreign language word she's making sure to get exactly correct. "We don't have any managers for now, so I suppose I'll take any questions you have."
Sumiko	Mikoto is nodding, perhaps a bit too fast as she listens to the description. "Yeah yeah, that's what Zoos are!" She says but is placified by the actual information on the Chimera. Though she pauses, "Wait, it's not from this time? How did you go into the past and get it? Or did you clone it? Oh, that's cool!" she says, before then zipping to the pin with the Wyvern. "Oh man, I love wyverns. How did you get this one? You didn't steal it from Jeanne, did you? She'd get preeeeetty mad about that. Like, come down here and burn your zoo down mad." She's just absolutely ecstatic to be here right now, as opposed to mad that they've functionally taken over the place and are housing dangerous animals. "Wait, did you say antivenom? Are they actually really poisonous? Huh! I thought that was just something shoehorned into their profile. You know, like trying to shove more skills into your application so that your school and or job think you're cooler or more qualified than you are?"
Alexis	Alexis huffs indignantly for a moment... But the little prattle does at least get her to re-realize that shouting really isn't the best way to go about things in a zoo crammed with highly aggetated and dangerous monsters. Plus, you know, she's sitting atop a horse. That's on fire. And has a pretty sharp looking spike sticking out of his forehead, too. If he gets twitchy, it's not going to be pretty. "You want questions? Fine. I've got a question for you..." retorts the tomboy as she slides off the equine's back. "What the hell do you people think you're doing?!" Question of the night, isn't it? "You can't just take over a zoo and stuff the enclosures with a bunch of exotic beasts for your own amusement." The only reason she got down was to get up in the maid's face instead. "Have you even considered the type of environment they would be most comfortable in? What they -eat-? Or that maybe it's not a good idea to have things that can spit acid or -turn people to stone by looking at them- in open cages?!" Okay, she's not sure there's any basilisks or medusas here but considering the menagerie that is visible, it's a viable example. She waves a hand in the direction of the enclosure holding the wyvern and what is a mantigore or something like it. "Or how stupid of an idea it is to put creatures that are both high level predators in the same place?!" The 'maid' may be an airhead. Or good acting the part. Alexis is having nothing of it either way.
Staren	...Yeah, Staren's getting a feeling this is a sort of delaying action. Act like nothing's wrong and responders will feel uneasy. It's working. Not that that in itself is enough to stop him, but combined with having a couple of animal lovers here... Staren came equipped to put down monsters. He's not equipped to transport a bunch of dangerous creatures. So, he's hesitant to just open fire, but no other solution is yet forthcoming. Awkwaaaard.
Note	Note.... blinks a few times at what she just heard. Her eyes go wide and mouth opens crookedly as she tries to find words to splutter out in response, but... she simply doesn't. Instead she rights herself in the air and lands on one of the boulders, tail swishing in half-hearted agitation. "So I guess I was called here to 'save the zoo' or something from monster beasts but... the only thing I'm really good at's martial arts and if I used THAT to solve this problem, there wouldn't be a zoo here anymore. No fighting in cities unless things are REALLY BAD." Deflated, she looks down from the boulder at Meiling. "As long as nobody's getting eaten by the beasts."
Remilia Scarlet	The wyvern enclosure microphone crackles on with another dry pageflip. "They're extremely poisonous. You'll probably die in minutes. Also this one is from a completely different world. We exchanged for it with a particular guild. It's also poisonous. Honestly, just don't touch anything. The animals are for viewing, like flowers, or manuscripts." The maid is, even in the face of Alexis' well-reasoned outraged, utterly unflappable. This exceedingly dangerous farce is nothing at all like housekeeping, yet she seems to treat it exactly like a job, and like a perfect, professional maid would be, doesn't raise her voice or act surprised around a guest. "Naturally, the three of us, and the help, have been acquiring a menagerie of exotic animals fit to meet milady's standards. After hearing about the animal exhibitions famous in the outside world, milady intended to see one herself, and this one had an especially high reputation. Seeing as it lacked excitement however, we've updated it to meet more discerning tastes." After but a moment's consideration, she claps her hands together, and says "I suggest our guests avoid any enclosures that they feel might be dangerous to them. All measures available on short notice have been taken to ensure the animals don't become too problematic. Since we only had twenty-four hours though, I suppose I can't guarantee that humans are completely safe here . . ." "In the end, the whole exhibit is for milady's satisfaction. If you'd like to view it as well, you're welcome to, as an esteemed guest of milady's hospitality. Feel free to make use of the refreshments. I believe Lady Patchouli did something to rent the park for the week, so it'd be a shame to throw too much of them out." She really just cannot be put off her game on this whole thing. She's even treating it like visitors at the door. The redhead folds her arms and puffs out her chest at Note. "That's right! Since there's no humans here, there's no problem if someone gets bitten! Though, I'm supposed to be guarding the gate so that humans don't get in . . . Well, we're not supposed to be open yet, so I probably won't get scolded for not being there, right?" She looks less confident than she sounds. "A-ah, excuse me! I have to get to the front gate before opening! Otherwise humans might wander in!" It seems less that she doesn't trust the police barricade, and more like she's become suddenly nervous about not following orders. The redhead takes a couple of quick steps, and then with a "Hup!", jumps from the pit enclosure and goes flying over several other areas, sailing over to the entrance where Alexis is, bouncing once on her heels where she lands, light as a falling leaf. Holding out her hand, she proclaims "Hold on! You're human right? You could get hurt being here! Please turn around immediately!" "You're late, Meiling. This young lady is already a guest, since she had to invite herself in." "But-" "I'm sure it's fine if she only gets eaten a little bit." "Only a little?!" While Note is left alone, she can hear a slow, slithering, grinding noise from inside the pit. At the bottom, a huge, greyish brown serpentine shape has coiled itself against the rough walls, pressing its body to every side as anchorage, while a pair of webbed and clawed hands (or feet?) slowly haul the first five or so meters of its body up the side. A glistening black tongue flicks at the air, and a horned head with glowing yellow eyes turns towards her. It's a very steep incline. It'll probably just fall backward once it gets to a certain height and its weight is too much. Maybe?
Alexis	This whole thing is for one person's amusement because they found the normal zoo 'lacking'... Well okay she can kind of understand that, after being around Pokemon all her life she felt the same about most normal animal zoos. But to go flipflopping it around with dangerous easily provoked creatures was a bit... far reaching, especially for one person. And somehow 'rent' isn't exactly what Alexis expects the means of aquisitioning the zoo grounds was entirely for. She looks like she's about to give the maid another triade... but before she can a ribbon-like tendril tipped in blue and pink grabs her shoulder from the bag on her back. It is followed by the rest of the Sylveon, holding one of the other tendrils to her brow like one would a hand to shield their eyes while scanning over a location. "<< Oh, is there any dragons? I would love to see a dragon squirm in my presence teehee~ >>" "Now is not the time, Caddy. Now is not the ti--" Which is interrupted by a female Meowstic popping from her pokeball on her own. "<< How about a cockatrice? We can watch the expression of grim realization overtake the expression of someone being slowly, excrutiatingly being turned to stone. >>" she states in a monotone that still somehow manages to sound eerie discussing such a thing like it was a casual conversation topic. Alexis slaps a palm over her face. "Why did I bring you two with? Besides your incapacitation abilities." "Sylveon~ << Becuz yoo wuv us~ ^w^ >>" "<< Because you're a masochist >>" "I am not! Don't make me regret promising to get you out more during the Holloween season, Catalyst." And then Meiling arrives, and says something that gets the entire little troupe, even the Rapidash that's otherwise been stoicly standing aside, to stop and slowly turn heads to give the new arrival a collection 'Really?' expression. You're going to worry about the gal standing there with several bizarre creatures of her own just because she's only 'human'? Then snap out of it, as Alexis grabs the Meowstic by tuff to get her to follow as she starts to walk off. "Com'n you lunatics. Let's go make sure nothing is going to abruptly get out and cause a major mid-city disaster, and whoever this is can have their 'amusement' and then put everything back to normal." "<< But the dragon! >>" "<< Or watching them feed a giant serpent. >>" "You two are being worse than creepy and kooky right now." Which gets a chorused "<< Thank you~ >> in response.
Sumiko	"What, I wasn't going to jump in and wrestle them, no ma'am!" Mikoto says, with a laugh. A hand behind her head as she laughs a little at the thought of such a thing. With a wistful sigh, it was probably for the best...she isn't sure if the poison was strong enough to actually kill her or not. Then she hears someone mention a Basilisk. "Wait you have a Basilisk?! I've never seen a Basilisk!" She says, nearly yelling before running across the zoo to the area where Note is, looking out to try and get a view of the creature. "Oh my god, look at its legs! It's just like a snake with them. Oh! It has a black tongue too, just like a giraffe! A horn...and yellow eyes," She pauses, "Wait, how close does it have to be in order to turn things into stone? They can actually do that right?"
Note	'No humans here?' Note opens her mouth again to say something about that... Meiling looks pretty human to her. Her spiritual senses can't really tell one way or the other for most things either, unless the entity in question is Particularly FREAKY. "... I'm human!" She grumbles to herself after Meiling's about thirty feet away. "... part-human!" She picks herself up and is just about to float off or perhaps give half-hearted chase when... Her fighter's instincts scream at her to FREEZE. And freeze in place she does, only to then slowly turn her head down towards the pit, glancing down at the thing crawling up. "Hey hey, stay down there for now! It's safer for everyone that way!" She hollers down at the beast a moment later. Why she thinks it might be able to understand her is anyone's guess. The most likely reason? Well, she's a kid! Of course right about then Mikoto rushes over, drawing Note's attention away from the beast. Her eyes, at least. She's still paying attention with her other senses. Turning Mikoto's way, Note ascends a few feet via levitation, letting her tail dangle in the air, and splutters, "Turn things to stone? What?! ... this thing?!" She can only point down beneath her with a twitch of said tail.
Staren	"It's better NOT to see it!" Staren warns, as Mikoto excitedly runs off to see the basilisk. The mecha facepalms. It's time to move things along. The Star Hawk steps towards the basilisk enclosure. "We were called here to remove a public safety hazard. Now, I have one way to do that..." He moves the arm to an angle where they can see the end of the gatling railgun's barrels as the firing port opens and closes. "Do you girls have any /alternatives/? The city didn't call us here for sight-seeing."
Remilia Scarlet	Still somehow following their progress without being able to see them from the kiosk anymore (not that she was looking anyways), the purple lady activates the microphone installed next to the hastily hammered sign. "The basilisks are with the dobhar in the previous penguin exhibit. That enclosure is for the lindworm. It says on the sign. Can you read English? Or did Meiling skip out on her duties?" The latter is probably true, because the well-like wall around the pit is certainly inadequate. As the creature below starts to teeter from extending so much of its length straight upright, it finally reaches the rocks, and begins digging its claws into the crevices, not yet cemented in any way. In a few more seconds, it's managed to arch its neck all the way over the edge, and then it stretches its jaws impossibly wide. Its throat visibly convulses, and then a prolonged gout of red hot fire sweeps over Mikoto and Note, tinged a rusty green-brown, as if burning copper, and letting off a foul smell like burning swamp rot. After trying to cook them alive, it seems intent on dragging the toasty corpses back into the pit to swallow whole. The bulky, purplish, six-legged lizards sunning themselves on the flat, hot rocks, near the water, don't pay any mind to the railguns. They definitely don't even know what a railgun is. The maid seems to only baguely intuit it herself, blinking thoughtfully at the flexing mecha. "If that's why you're here . . . I suggest leaving." she firmly arrives on. "I can't allow you to disturb the animals. It was extremely difficult gathering this many since just yesterday. If you have no intention of enjoying your time as a guest, I will gladly show you to the door." the lady in a maid outfit says to the heavily armed giant robot.
Sumiko	"Oooooh, that's a Lindworm. Also, noooot really? I'm not very good at reading English. I can read Japanese just fine, though. Also, it's probably that Meiling didn't do her job well." She says, sheepishly. Noting the sign, and starting to think about pulling it up and hiding it so she doesn't look stupid. Then, of course, the Lindworm's mouth comes over the edge. "Oh crab baskets!" she says, diving for the ground and rolling along the ground to both try and avoid fire, and put out the fire on her back that she can't quite dodge. Flipping up to her feet, she... Summons something behind her. It's large, with a strange drama mask in the color of the emerald. Long arms covered in the faces of people and animals, ending in two shifting animal hands. It tears the sign out of the ground and proceeds to smash the Lindworm across the face. "NO! BAD WORM! BAD! Do not eat the customers! You'll get food given to you when it's time for you to eat! NO FAT WORMS ALLOWED! BAD LINDWORM, WE LOVE YOU!"
Staren	The lindworm (lindwurm? lindwyrm?) is attacking! The gout of flame, at least, is something Staren can notice even out of his peripheral vision. The mecha turns, so that its right arm can aim at the fire-breathing lizard while the left arm is facing the maid, forearm up. The railgun fires a burst, and an energy shield fades into existence; Staren's not sure just what the maid can DO, but clearly he's expecting that she's actually some sort of threat. She did say she somehow wrangled these monsters, after all. "The city has asked us to show YOU the door. If you cooperate, perhaps your menagerie can be relocated somewhere else. If not... sooner or later, practicality will rear its ugly and bloody head. If those customers had been local you'd have two deaths on your hands already."
Note	Oh of course, the creature doesn't listen to her. Note 'tchs' as it keeps crawling up and coming her way. She... doesn't look at ALL intimidated by the mythological beast. Only..... "....... ewwwwwwww!!" She's NONE too keen on the idea of ending up in the thing's giant maw. Hot, sticky, smelly, GROSS. Nope! ... And then the thing BREATHES FIRE ALL OVER HER. A choked off wail of some pain's all that makes it through the firestorm. But once it then tries to grab what it believes it's cooked crispy... Well, problem is, although Note has been rendered a bit crispy and charred, and her clothes are smoldering, she's making some rather AGGRAVATED twitchy noises, clucking her tongue and choking on some mean words. Her hair flickers briefly, rising upwards as if caught in an unseen wind... and then with a burst of sheer power she's engulfed in a storming golden aura. The power colors her hair in the same brilliant golden shade, hoisting it into an array of spiky locks and making her eyes shimmer a light green. She brings both arms back while leaning her body forward and then--- BZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF! In a split second she's... GONE? Before one has even a chance to register this fact, Note reappears right next to the Lindworm in some softer spot like it's belly, and delivers a SOLID elbow. She is TRYING to control her strength and only knock the wind out of the creature - painfully - but this might crack a bone. "I AM NOT YOUR MEAL! Keep that up and you'll be MINE!" She screams - only to then realize it's being shot at by Staren. This gets her wincing. That's way more lethal than she was going for...
Alexis	"<< So we're not going to shut it down and turn all the creatures loose on the city? >>" "No... and sweet Baby Lugia no! Dark humor may be your shtick Catalyst, but reign it in a little." There's a pause as fiery breath shoots in the air over the zoo. Staren has that covered, right? She didn't bring something awkwardly big and chunky like her Steelix. "Let's be real. Even if we could close this place up, we have no way to sort, subdue, and return this many different creatures. Logistics nightmare. But if this trio of weirdos got them all here..." Alexis pauses to peer down into what was the penguin site, huffs softly, and turns back around. "Catalyst, Caddie, I need a rundown of whatever may be here. At least they've labeled things." With haphazard signs, but still. Then Alexis clicks on her C-Gear and switches to the vidcom function, the Porygon-Z sitting back at home on the ranch appearing in the second screen. "Glitch, got a list of fantastical and supernatural creatures coming in. Need a cross reference on environment and dietary preferences. At least the basics, keep it quick and simple." "Porygon!" Sometimes you can't just completely set a situation right. You have to settle for damage control. So Alexis starts digging into some of the other resources she's gathered over the years of dealing with the Multiverse and more kinds of monsters than just the now rediculously high number of pokemon species. "Caddy, I need a notebook." With a yip the fae-fox ducks back into the bag, rummages through the inventory, and comes back up with the requested tablet and deposits it in Alexis' hand. Which she flips open and starts scribbling down things as Glitch transmits back notes. All while there's a fight between a giant worm-beast with a giant robot, a Saiyan, and whoever else. She's been at this long enough to just block out those sort of things if she needs to.
Remilia Scarlet	"That's the point of not allowing humans in!" Meiling exclaims to Staren, more than a hint of exasperation in her voice. "Well, that, and she wouldn't want to share the park with boring visitors, but- !!" Sensing something amiss when Staren swivels the Star Hawk, reacting seemingly without thinking, by leaping off the ground in an instant and high kicking the end of the mecha suit's railgun with the tip of her slipper, a dramatic "Hiiiya!", and an explosive swirl of energy that glows all the colours of the rainbow. Somehow, the blunt force of the high jump kick is enough to lift the whole mecha slightly, disrupting its carefully computer calculated aim, and sending supersonic slugs ripping through the air over and across from Note and Mikoto. Landing in front of the Star Hawk, she hops up on one foot and strikes an open-palmed martial arts pose. "Turn around now! I won't allow any intruders to intrude on a gate I've been given to guard! The invincible great wall will leave you in tears!" Oh. The maid's gone again. The lindworm doesn't fare particularly well though. Barely able to get itself to the top of the pit, being smashed in the belly and taking a blow to the face from a pair of superhumans sends it toppling right back in, smashing its skull against the opposite wall and dragging deep furrows down its height with its horns, screeching loudly and plaintively. The situation looks pretty resolved, until a deafening, rasping roar sounds out from across the path, striking like a wall of sound. Pockmarks that can only come from railgun fire line the partially destroyed high rock that the mottled and spined wyvern was perched on top of --'was', because one of the posts supporting the wires has been cracked in two as well, and the monster has just taken to the air. Infuriated and hungry, it sniffs the air, turns towards Alexis, and before she can do much more than verify the number of monsters in the park to be well over fifty, the wyvern tucks in its wings and dives steeply on top of her, flaring them out at the last second to lunge with its talons out first, attempting to snatch her up, kick her pokemon to the ground in the process, and carry her away. Even worse, with the wyvern gone, the chimera quickly claws its way out of the same hole, instead fixing on the two girls by the pit enclosure, and charging on them with a mighty roar. Its scorpion tail lashes out to skewer Mikoto, while the lion pounces on Note, to pin her to the ground and bite into her head. The general volume of the whole zoo triples with all the commotion, mostly between territorial and apex predators. The furred creatures are banging on the transparent dome over their pool. A slew of tentacles crawls out of the woods, before being shocked automatically by floating purple crystals standing sentry outside, keeping them at bay for the minute. Poisonous barbs come flying out of some sort of fenced off cave at the Star Hawk, smashing into the energy shield, causing the purple-haired woman to sigh, put her book down, intone "What a bother." into the microphone, and then place one hand on a crystal orb that activates a large, glowing cage over it. Even then, lightning crackles from a gigantic golden bird perched at the apex of a meshed aerie, suddenly struck by thunder out of a clear blue sky, met with an ear-piercing shrieking call as the bars turn orange and start to melt. Meiling looks to be the only one of the three concerned by this. "S-sakuya, what do I do? They're making a mess, but I have to guard the gate!" Only just now does she look around and realize the maid is gone. Instead, a squadron of . . . floating books, glides down the path, splitting up to head towards the problem areas. In the distance, the police cordon is hurriedly forcing the scattered spectators back, sounding emergency sirens.
Sumiko	"There! I hope you learned your lesson! Now if you are good, I'll talk to the keepers about getting you something nice to eat later. There's a good lindworm!" She says, before noticing that the gun managed to have unintended side effects. "Oh my god Staren, and you missed so bad we have a containment breach!" Of course, it's not ENTIRELY Staren's fault, but she's going to blame him anyway. With the strange 'stand' behind her, she can only watch the Chimera come for her, that tail trying to lash out for her body. Mikoto would rather not find out if that poison would actually kill her as a magical girl. Instead, she uses the sign to brace against the poison tail, letting it tear the thing apart, as she uses a portal of darkness to zip just right behind the creature, before her 'Eidolon' disappears, and appears to try and wrap around the chimera the best that it can, attempting to hold it in place so that she and Note could try and knock it out with a tree stump.
Staren	Well. Not only did he fail to stir anyone to action, stray shots made it WORSE. Oh well. Either another solution will be found, or the chaos will reach a point where people will be too busy to stop him. Poisonous barbs... manticore? Although, the only ones he's seen drawings of had a scorpion tail, not spikes. So many different worlds in the Multiverse, who knows? Staren hasn't got time to think about that, now there's lightning and a potential containment breach. And the kung fu girl is yelling at him... <"This was massively irresponsible on your part, but tell you what: Tell me how to help contain that damn bird and I'll delay the extermination. Maybe someone can still figure out a way to salvage this."> He earnestly will follow instructions to assist in containment, at least until things finally get critical and animals start running for the cordon. For the more immediate future, he runs over and grabs one of the bars, trying to give the electricity another path to ground. He won't let it reach the point that his machine is even lightly damaged, but maybe he can buy the cage a few more seconds for a better plan.
Note	Oh now THIS beast is interesting! "Whoah, it's a bit of everything!" The glowing Super Saiyan exclaims, calming down a bit now that the first beast is going tumbling. She's quite grateful that it DIDN'T get shot directly... nothing should be outright KILLED for trying to fill its empty belly! The great beast comes hurling for Note and easily bowls her over with barely a yelp getting out of her. But then its maw comes down at her head and-- And she instantly pulls a hand free as if the thing's great weight was nothing to her, and GRABS the lion-head by the snout around its nose, easily wrangling it with her own strength and holding off the advancing fangs. Note DOES get blasted with some of the FOULEST predator breath in existence, though, which gets her coughing and gagging. "Gross gross GROSS..." Now rather BOTHERED with this state of affairs, the girl - who's clearly short for even her young age - flexes her might and HOISTS the giant paw off of her, rising to her feet! The hand that's NOT holding tight to that snout is braced against the paw and forcing the creature's leg back, possibly even HOISTING THE BEAST ENTIRELY OFF THE GROUND depending on how it's deciding to handle it. The freakiest thing about it is that once she has her proper footing, the little warrior's posture isn't even trembling. She's rock solid in pushing back! And she steadily increases the force, bending the arm back and further back until the joint may taxed and starting to HURT... She's not out to cripple beasts. Just scare them silly and teach them the proper pecking order.
Alexis	The roar gets Alexis to look up from whatever notes she was making. Though considering her profession as it were, not looking all that horrified by it. Maybe slightly annoyed, because this is exactly the sort of thing she was working to avoid but someone went and got trigger happy. " <<No, I don't think so.>> " And a concentrated pulse of psionic energy is slung into the Wyvern's midsection by the Meowstic to intercept it's lunging attack with Sucker Punch. Her eyes are glowing, but fortunately she hasn't opened her ears. Yet. There is a rush of wind in the wake of the divebomb being cut off, which is enough to knock Alexis off her feet and into her Rapidash, both toppling over. Caddy yelps as she's almost fallen on top of, but manages to wiggle out of Alexis' bag in the process. She lands on the pavement, looking up at the beast quite larger than she is. But she's a Fairy, and that thing looks like a Dragon. "Sylveon! <<Hey! She was trying to work out a way to make you all more comfortable but you had to go and interrupt her, how rude!>> " As she barks that the pastel vulpine's colors seem to darken a bit and blue eyes turning red in a scowl. Followed by her volume escalating well into the 11+ range, to the point that there's visible 'sound rings' in sparkly glittery colors eminating with the scream from her mouth. " <<YOU NEED TO SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT YOUR INCONSIDERATE ACTIONS!>> As if yelling at it with Hyper Voice wasn't harsh enough, this Sylveon possesses Pixelate, the ability turning the move into an even more boosted attack matching her Fairy type. Even with pokemon attack typings not applying like weaknesses, that's one hell of a scolding.
Remilia Scarlet	"What's irresponsible is firing a gun in a zoo!" Meiling yells right back to Staren. "I'm nothing but responsible! I take my job with the utmost seriousness and fight until the end! You won't pass by me for at least two thousand years!" Yes, even though Staren is trying to help. The minute he tries to be constructive in a way that entails entering the park, with the aim of dealing with the thunderbird, the redhead leaps right into his way, drawing swirls of rainbow light in about her with alternating circles of her fists, striking three different stances over three forward stomps with snapping flutters of her sleeves, drawing her hands in, and then hitting the mecha dead on with a powerful double palm thrust, followed by an advancing shoulder strike. An aurora borealis bursts from the ground all around him, the strike altogether delivered with enough force to launch even the mecha sailing through the air. "Roc-Killing Fist! Whooa!" Jesus Christ how do these three get anything done at all. The great big wyvern is slammed out of the air by the combination assault from the pokemon, faceplanting ungracefully and grinding through the asphalt with its horned chin. Making a bestial groan, it shakes its head, gets its feet beneath it --and then is immediately assaulted by a wave of vines bursting out of the ground and coiling all over it.Powerful tendrils shoot up from a green spell circle, catching and creaking around its body and pinning it back down. New vines grab its jaws after it spits a raging fireball at Alexis. The Chimera is wrestled to the ground Between Mikoto and Note, thrashing and snapping at them in increasing amounts of panic, doing its best to bring its pointed tail down on the latter's head. Soon enough, it begins trying to jerk its leg out of Note's grapple, alternating with trying to get her head in its mouth, until the floating books show up all around it, circling about and opening themselves with a flurry of flapping pages. Blue spell circles open up inside, and the Chimera is instantly blasted with crashing waves of water, which freeze into thick layers of ice at their crest, trapping the monster inside. As for the girls themselves, they're already outside, somehow. The maid is with them, showily clapping her hands of dust. Apparently she'd grabbed them and teleported. "Thank you for your help. My apologies as well; it's the duty of the maid to keep the place clean. Forcing work on guests is incredibly rude. Please make yourself at home." She snaps her fingers and flourishes with the sleight of hand of a magician, suddenly presenting a tray of tea and sweets, which she'd apparently found time to prepare while all this was going on. No seriously, how does anyone here get anything done? The problem still remains that the great golden bird, easily the size of two buses parked bumped to bumper with its wings spread, has blasted its way free of its cage, taking to the air with a great, majestic bellow of fierce, avian pride. Pillars of coruscating electricity drop from the cloudless sky with rattling booms, falling on the Elites like rain.
Sumiko	Mikoto was getting worried that they couldn't keep this thing tied up forever until Patch-Adams-ouli puts the thing on ice. Taking a breath, she slaps the dust off of her hands. One dow-hey look they're outside now. Blinking at that, she wonders just how they got out here so fast. That's SOME teleportation! Looking at the maid, she rubs the back of her head. "Oh hey, no problem. I mean, I don't want anything going wrong with the zoo, either. Not the animal's faults that they're here..." a beat and an awkward cough. Oh hey, sweats and tea! She likes these things! Until lightning flies down from the sky! Everything is exploded with lightning, including Mikoto who is now on her butt, looking upwards, with everything standing on end. The crash has also deafened her for a moment. "Momp. Momp!? Momp! Oh ok I think I can hear again.." she says, dazed and then looks up. Sizzling, and looking more than a bit hurt, she and her 'stand' lookup. The stand raises it's 'hands' between them, and causes a strange eye to appear out of data. A ball of dark data like energy fires up at the 'huge as a bus' bird, aiming to try and sap it of its strength and eat whatever data she can get off of it. Hopefully, this works...and she yells out towards Patchouli. "Hey, Pajamas! Can you catch that?" She asks, still sizzling, though her magic was starting to heal the electrical burns, which sting thanks to exposure to the air. Dang, that means her dress is damaged too. Ugh, hopefully, no boys are watching, that'd be embarrassing!
Staren	Staren expects the punch to damage his machine. He doesn't expect it to punch through a section of armor and instantly crunch through internal structure like he'd been hit by a boom gun or the heaviest railgun batteries, let alone impart enough energy to LAUNCH HIS MACHINE INTO THE SKY. For a moment that feels like several seconds, the mecha with bits of metal and debris trailing from its new wound fly through the air. Fortunately, righting and steadying himself after being knocked around in-flight is something he's practiced so much that he does it reflexively, BEFORE the mech can crash into a building or something and make this so much worse. It transforms in a blur of tiny whirring parts, stabilization jets fire, and then the machine is hovering well outside the zoo in plane-with-chicken-legs hybrid mode. <"...ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"> He shouts at Meiling over the speakers, then lands. He keeps his railgun trained on the escaping bird, but doesn't fire. Waiting for it to actually escape the (horizontal) bounds of the zoo. They have somehow KIND of made this work. It's not acceptable to threaten the city like this, but clearly the assembled forces aren't capable of a proper solution; Either this situation will stabilize (for now) or it's going to reach critical messiness and then he'll do what it has to.
Alexis	"THIS is why I keep you two around," Alexis manages to quip, even as she grabs the two smaller pokemon and jumps over her Rapidash to take cover. "Stay down Nitro!" The fireball hits, leaving the area of impact scorched. But other than patting out some flames to keep from getting worse burns the group fairs through the moment fairly well. Alexis is a Fire type trainer, after all, she's use to this. It also helps that the Rapidash absorbed most of the heat and flame with Flash Fire, which is why she used him for cover. Unfortunately she dropped the notebook she was writing advice in during the falls, and it was no more than a pile of ash now. So much for that idea. Evetually she finds her way over, takes one look at the golden avian heading for the skies, and mutters something about not having a flying creature with her. Followed by grabbing one of the cups of tea, and chugging it down like it was a mug of something considerably stronger. "Next time," oh lets hope there's not a next time but she's trying to maintain some reasonable manner of politenes, "don't take so many creatures into one place. Especially territorially aggressive ones. Might want to suggest your boss do something -not involving monster zoos- to make it up to the City as a show of good faith. Smooth things over." The cup is set back on the tray. Pay no attention to several of the sweets disappearing as Catalyst scoops them up with her psionic powers, even as Alexis is leading them back out of the zoo. "Let's go make sure the cops got everyone safely to a storm shelter or something." Alexis takes one of the treats from Catalyst and shoves it in her mouth, muttering about not being paid enough to deal with this sort of madness. Sometimes being freelance is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Remilia Scarlet	"The pride of a nation is no thing to joke about!" Meiling replies to Staren, elongating her pose into something like tai chi, coiled like a sprig, waiting to flash kick someone at any moment. Honestly it sounds like her mind has wandered into something else and she's lost track of what the argument is even about, but the multicoloured mist swirling around her immaculate martial arts form is likewise no joke. She'd been ordered to guard the gate, so god damn it all if that isn't exactly what she's going to do. Reasoning with her seems like it's just going over her head. "I am the first line of defense! Once I've been ordered, no one can get past me! There's no competing with two thousand years of history!" When he raises the railgun at the bird though, it appears to recognize what he's doing, apparently 'civilized' to guns in some regard. Letting loose another thundering cry, it banks its wings and wheels around towards him instead, charging up an aura of crackling electricity during a rapidly angling dive as if it were building up static from rubbing on the air. It opens its beak wide, where a deadly blue-white glow builds up within, until Mikoto sucker punches it from behind with Data Drain and sends the startled creature, robbed of all its built up energy, spiraling out of the air in a tornado of golden feathers. This time, 'containment books' create a circle of geometric glowing yellow patterns between them, and as the bird beats its wings to try and slow its fall near the ground, huge pillars of rough, sun-blasted rock erupt from under the ground, trapping it in a tight maze of columns with nowhere left to move. "Don't think that being a customer will save you if you call me that again." the bored, bookish voice intones from the nearest visitor mic. "As far as I care, you're an intruder into my reading space. A one colour magician like you should keep your head down." With the current rash of cascading breakouts taken care of before the situation can go full Jurassic Park, the maid reappears at the entrance, bowing apogetically, tea tray still balanced perfectly in one hand. "Apologies again, but it looks like we'll have to delay our opening, so the flaws in the exhibits can be addressed. You're welcome to help yourself to food, refreshments, and the gift shop, with a one hundred percent discount for your help. 'Management' won't be around until sunset, however, so please hold any questions until then." "Does that mean I can let them through?" "Only after validating their parking." "Wait, that's my job too?!" "As well as affirming reservations, checking in luggage, guiding guests to the visitor's center, offering directions . . ." "Isn't that just like a hotel?!"
Staren	Meiling keeps shouting. Staren sweatdrops a little but focuses on the bird, which is now paying attention to him. "Hey!" He raises the left arm and turns its energy shield back on, lowering the railgun. He wasn't actually going to shoot it with that (who knows where the slugs might land?!,) he was going to draw his laser; it was more of a warning to the 'staff'. Who, somehow, have indeed contained the threat. ...You know what? He'll take 'em up on the offer and take a look at the exhibits, on foot. So he can catalogue everything that's here and be more aware of potential issues for any plan going forward.
Sumiko	"Ow, hey...calm down there PJs, I don't know your name and it was important to make sure you were aware of it! No need to get so hostile, especially when I thought we were getting along. You know with me not knowing things, and you telling me things. I like that, let's keep doing it." Of course, the maid is back with stuff! Wow, that's an offer, and she likes being given things for a job well done. Nodding a few times, she takes more cakes and tea. "Hey this is a pretty good tea, what kind is it?" She also shouts back at Patchouli, "Also I'm a magical girl, not a magician. There's a subtle difference!" she says, and then looks at Meiling, "Is she a magical girl too?"