<strong>Hero Points:</strong>3 (Neko), 4 (Hornet), 1 (Scarab)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Arctic Fox Fortitude 10 (NATURAL 1) (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=136988)<br/><br/>Scarab Mind Reading 21 vs Arctic Fox (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=136989)<br/><br/>Arctic Fox 23 Will, resists (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=136990)</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Power Points</div><div class="spoiler_body">Gain 1 Power Point for successfully stopping the Arctic Fox's heist. Neko and the other heroines now have 3 unspent Power Points.</div></div><br/>The masked man just realized that someone was behind him due to the subtle flicker of Neko's appearance in a computer screen, but that was well after her impulse made its marks.<br/><br/>With a pained grunt due to his teeth locked in place, the Arctic Fox stiffened up and fell to the ground like a piece of driftwood. Already Scarab flew over to the source of the conflict, tying up the mysterious infiltrator with several loops of plastic rope.<br/><br/>"That oughta hold 'em!" she exclaimed triumphantly, picking up the Viridian container. "Looks secure, it's the same one as I detected; no switcheroo or hijinks here!"<br/><br/>Disabling the blizzard generator was trivial now that Neko could get her hands on it. In mere seconds the snow flurries dissipated, melting as the temperature rose dramatically back to normal levels. The psychic stared intently at the Arctic Fox, brow furrowing. "I...I can't get through. He's throwing up some pretty intense stimuli...it's making me feel drunk."<br/><br/>Scarab put a hand on her own head as she leaned against an intact piece of cubicle wall. The crowd outside sounded quieter, and a long shadow cast shade over the nearby windows. Looking out, the source was clear. The dot-like crowds of people below gazed up at the sight of a fighter jet hovering in mid-air, but this was no US Air Force model, or that of any terrestrial (or even alien) government.<br/><br/>"Look up in the sky!" someone called out. "It's a plane!"<br/><br/>"No!" someone else shouted.<strong>"It's the Freedom League!"</strong>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp8Yg7JdycU)<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/2pEUAMN.jpg)<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Expertise Current Events, Pop Culture, Aeronautics, Technology, &amp; Vehicles Automatic</div><div class="spoiler_body">This is a Pegasus-Class Spaceplane, one of the official vehicles of the Freedom League, the pre-eminent superhero team of Earth! Capable of long-range atmospheric flight and space travel, it needs no runaway or lift-off station to take to the air. It is one of the few vehicles of its type not equipped with weapons. Practically speaking most Freedom League members' own superpowers are more than capable enough offensively. But symbolically the sight of a Pegasus ship should inspire hope, not fear of destruction.</div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/KXYuNN1.jpg)</div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Threat" Report: Daedalus</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>Due to the Freedom League's world-famous nature, as well as Daedalus' position in the scientific community, Neko can roll Technology as a sort of "Expertise" skill for knowing of his works.</em><br/><strong>Automatic:</strong> Daedalus is a member of the Freedom League. One of its original founding members since 1960, in fact! He was and still is one of the foremost scientists of Earth. His seeming relative youth is to his divine gift from the Greco-Roman Pantheon. He created and fought in various kinds of self-powered battlesuits throughout the decades.<br/><strong>DC 20:</strong> His battlesuit's primary systems are keyed off of gravitic manipulation: the armor’s primary systems are based on the manipulation of gravity: focused into force beams for offense, or gravitic “grappler” beams to hold targets in place, anti-gravity for swift and near-silent flight and enhancement of lifting strength, and so forth.<br/><strong>DC 25:</strong> Daedalus is notable for not permitting any corporate or military entities from patenting the use of his various inventions, preferring either that the ones he puts out into the world will ultimately make it better than worse, or released as free Open Source. This has limited his prospects in several industries as various institutions and resentful rival scientists privately blacklisted him.<br/><strong>DC 30:</strong> Around the 1970s Daedalus departed Earth in a space ship, part of a long process of the Freedom League's disbanding during the 80s. By piecing together obscure articles and interviews of the time, Neko figures out that the immortal inventor undergone existential ennui and find meaning elsewhere in the galaxy. He returned to Earth during the Terminus Invasion of 1993, when the extradimensional conqueror Omega invaded the continental United States, the new Russian Federation, and several other of Earth's industrial and military superpowers.</div></div><br/><br/>The Pegasus plane moved closer as a hatch on top opened up. A man clad in bronze armor and helmet reminiscent of Ancient Greece rose from beneath. The neon red visor concealing his vision indicated this was not some pre-industrial costume but one of cutting-edge design. Scarab's posture immediately straightened out, her fatigue gone as she raised an arm to wave at him. A hatch in the plane's back opened up as two more people exited: one in a black and gold outfit sailed to a nearby rooftop thanks to a literal arrow-zipline, the other a brown-skinned woman clad in a patriotic red-white-and-blue themed costume flew of her own accord down to street level.<br/><br/>"Lady Liberty, see to the needs of he people on the ground, look for any injured," he said as he put a finger to an earpiece. "Bowman, keep an eye on the skyline. I'm heading into the Redshift building's fourth floor."<br/><br/>"S-sir, it's an honor!" Scarab exclaimed, a bit choked up. "W-we, this man here, was trying to-"<br/><br/>The superhero chuckled. "It's fine, I'm familiar with the modus operandi of more than a few attempted corporate heists. And please, call me Daedalus."<br/><br/>Looks like you two got already cleaned things up before we got here," Daedalus said as he walked on over to the Arctic Fox, who by now recovered but still quite immobile. "I promise not to hog the media spotlight. But enough about me, who are you two? I heard about the witness accounts during the Silver Storm; you both show some major talent if I do say so myself."