Retired Superheroes Just Want To Chill (Cerulean)

Shauna watched the scene carefully, seeing Wrecker wasn't all that high and mighty to just kick kids out of their harmless fun. However, the drunken girl being hauled off meant this was at the least going to warrant arrests for some juveniles, and stern lecturing for the girl.

The kids were no longer smiling, no longer laughing. They all slowly got up, staring at Wrecker silently. Mike decided to let Kate lie down. "You have no idea who you're dealing with, do you? My dad's a board member on Wong Industries..." He said, threateningly.

While Mike talked big to distract Wrecker, From out of nowhere an strange whip lashed out to attempt to strike the hero's hand, to knock the phone away and maybe hurt him too. It was no ordinary leather bullwhip either, but coated in metallic segments, alive with arcane power. "I don't think so, hero. It's our party we can do what we want to." Regina said menacingly, holding the whip in hand, slowly removing her uniform to reveal a black corset underneath. The Corset costume had intricate web designs on them, especially the chest area, and Regina's arms and shoulders were bare. Her looks were at this point, incredibly distracting, and not just mundane- there were pheromones in the air that would cause male heroes to be off their A-game.

"And what we want... is to be left alone!" She lashes out with the magic whip again. It was a cruel weapon; though it did little damage, the magical poison it was coated in caused pain receptors to flare up.

In Regina's hands the whipped moved as if alive, and with a viper's quickness. Regina strikes the air a couple of times, the whip making a loud, intimidating crack, trying to put Wrecker off guard. It struck the ground and caused the soil to crack; it struck the Lady Liberty's pedestal, causing a massive gash.

"Don't underestimate me!" her calm demeanor finally gave way to full blown villainy, as she lashed out, this time to try and entangle Wrecker's leg in its painful embrace.

The other kids watched the exchange with glee. Shauna waited just a bit longer before intervening.

Regina used the momentum of Wrecker's superstrength pull to give herself an advantage. She leaps into a flying kick; the whip comes alive and suddenly wraps around Wrecker, encircling him supernatural bonds that dug into the ground, preventing him from defending himself effectively from this one.

A dark blade emerges from Regina's stiletto, aimed to deal Wrecker a fatal blow. By this point Shauna had enough, and didn't want to test Wrecker's durability. An emerald energy beam shot from the bushes and struck with pinpoint accuracy, turning the blade to slag and vapor, striking Wrecker's face with a regular teen girl's leaping roundhouse.

"Ooookay that's about enough, kids." Shauna decided to finally show up, and she wasn't playing. A couple of kids bring out a knife. Shauna looked at them funny and in the next moment the knives were too hot to hold. They drop their weapons.

"Blast. Two heroes!" Regina looked at her opposition and decided she was outmatched. She drops a handful of smoke pellets among her friends, causing them to cough violently. Shauna herself wasn't immune and was coughing, and for a moment was disoriented.

"Regina what the hell!" One exclaimed, as Regina had made herself scarce, leaving all her 'friends'. She foot slogged it to the edge of the island and dropping down to the hidden boat in the water.

The smoke cleared up after a minute, and people were washing their eyes out with water. Shauna though, seemed no worse for wear, given her helmet. She did not pursue after Regina, thinking she was just some punk trying to one up a hero.

The magical whip crackled with pain magic, and Shauna prioritized Wrecker's safety. "Hold still." she instructed him, as she brought out a wrist mounted blade that energized with a plasma beam. With one upward cut, She cleaved through the magic whip like it was nothing. The whip's severed pieces almost seemed to writhe in pain.

"Whoa this one's got an energyblade! SO cool she's like a Protoss!" One of the students gushed at the sight of Shauna in her armor, taking pictures of her with her green wrist blade.

Shauna put away her plasma sword, having a hard time holding in a smile. The mention of starcraft clued her in on the group''s identity. "So wait... You guys are... nerds?"

The group didn't really answer. They gathered up their occult toys and drug paraphernalia, "Oh my god, Regina like, so ditched us! She even took off with the boat, how the hell are we getting home?"

"You kids are going home with Harbor Patrol. You should be glad nobody got seriously hurt." Shauna said in her lecturing tone. "AND YOU. You lay a hand on that drunk girl I swear I'll come to your house and talk to your parents!" She definitely had alot more words, bad words, to give Mike, but being a model of self-restraint now Shauna stuck to the more civilized and rehearsed dialogue.

"Okay! okay! I get it, sheesh." Mike said, staying with Kate and giving her water.

Shauna picked up Wrecker's phone and handed it to him. "Here, you were gonna call harbor patrol? Anyway, good work... I guess. That girl was more resourceful than I thought."

Harbor patrol responded to the call, and wondered how Wrecker would have known, unless he too had trespassed on Liberty Island.

"Welp. Guess we're done here. Patrol's coming and I don't want to have to answer why I'm here. Just hope that kid doesn't cause more trouble." Shauna was powering up her particle drive, when one of the kids interjected.

"Wait. Regina... she actually has plans." One of the boys said, and Shauna listened.

"Plans?" Raising a brow of interest.

"She said she was going to enact a ritual to summon her goddess! We thought she was fooling around, until she brought out that whip." The Irish gal said.

At this point Shauna looked at Wrecker to back her up. She decided to ask the inevitable question. "and which goddess is that?"

"Lloth." At the mention of the D&D Drow goddess, There was now a moment of silent disbelief on Shauna's expression.

"...Central Park. She needs alot of energy to enact the ritual. There's... an old, hidden druid grove there, near the Pond." The girl said, seemingly worried for her friend anyway.

"Oh great, now it's druid groves in the middle of Central Park. Next thing you know she'll sic demonic Ents on us. Well, let's go before she commits vandalism or something. "

The distant rumble of boat engines signaled the arrival of the Harbor patrol. Uniformed men with flash lights calling out "Harbor Patrol" Meant that it was time for the heroes to take off.

"That's our signal to leave. You kids might wanna ditch the drugs. Want a lift, Wreck-It Ralph?"

Shauna takes off and grabs Wrecker, taking him for a flight across the Harbor. The heroes head north to Manhattan Island, Shauna alternating between flying and gliding, until the vastness of Central Park came into view at night. She spots the pond in the South end of the park, and gently drops Wrecker off.

Shauna landed as well and looked around the park, nothing but trees, rocks and the pond. "It's quiet. Too quiet." Shauna had to say that line.

Indeed it was way quiet, not even the sounds of animals or birds that usually live in the park. From the darkness of the treeline, a web suddenly shot out and entangled Shauna. "What the-" She powered up her arm blade to go protoss zealot on the web, when a second web caught her arm. Shauna was forcefully pulled into the trees. Flashes of her energy swords indicated Shauna was caught in a struggle.

"Hello hero. Good of you to make it." Regina stepped out from the very shadows themselves. She carried a wicked, magical knife this time. "Are you ready to resume our duel? No friends to help you this time!"