A Charity Gala to End Whatever Important Thing

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New York City high society had been absolutely buzzing over this April's charity gala by a certain Mr. Tony Stark. It was seen as exclusive, or as exclusive as his 200 person guest list could be. Some invitations were a given, like Tony's daughter Alexa, whereas others came from what the party planners figured as the right people to make the party memorable or talked about.

The charity event was for the charitable arm of Stark Inc., Stark International. Despite being for charity, it was also seen as a good way for businesses to be seen and network.

The event was held at the Hudson in the Library and Private Park space. It would comfortably fit the people into its 2,600 Square Feet.

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Re: Alcoholic Library

[soulstealingstark]

At least the party was getting more interesting without it being Alexa's fault. The redhead frowned.

"First, I have more brains than money. Second, cancer isn't always treated by surgery, though you have it about right with a bomb. Seeing as how bombs are chemical and the primary focus of cancer treatment is chemotherapy. BUT YOU ARE STILL AN ASS."

Alexa needed a laser. Maybe she had one in her purse...

Re: Alcoholic Library

[avengingwarbird]

Roxie was thrown to the ground only seconds before the pumpkin bomb exploded.

Green Goblin. Roxie's mind raced. Was there a Spider in the vicinity, or was there just a new villain picking up on someone else's legacy?

Didn't matter. Knowing full well that her dual identity as a superhero and a socialite were public knowledge, Roxie concentrated on her clothes, switching them over from her gown for the evening to her brand new costume.

She stood up, her hands growing with the crackling promise of photonic energy mingling with something a little bit Olympian in nature, and glared at the Goblin.

And then she flew straight towards him.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi's never one to protect himself with explosions around. He (and his pride) thought he could handle it. Though his first reaction with the big explosion was to shield his pregnant girlfriend with his force fields.

The Atlantean was slightly distracted with a glance over to make sure Alexa. So, when he tried to put a force field over the bomb at Joe's feet, it was not completely formed by the time of explosion. He managed to dull the explosion but not much else.

"Uhn." He rubbed his temple as the shield failing feedback ached a little. "Alexa, mon trésor, power armor's your thing. Any suggestions besides letting Roxie beat him to a pulp?"

[stormy_skrull]

When the explosion had happened, Marry had been quick to assume an armored form, her familiar rock ape, protecting herself from any kind of damage.

"Ah, shazbutt," She muttered.

She shifted forms again, turning into one of her other preferred battle forms

[the_next_avenger]

The pumpkin bomb exploded and Remi's shield took the brunt of the damage but Joe was still thrown against a wall from the uncovered impact. He slammed into the wall and then fell to the floor, dazed and disoriented.

He couldn't hear anything and his vision was swimming.

He was out cold seconds later.

[innameof]

Griffin ducked and pushed up his jacket sleeve. He just needs to activate his shields and he is ready for action.

"This is why you should always be prepared! Warbird! What do you recommend?"

He assumes Roxie is still using that name.

[avengingwarbird]

"Besides kicking his ass?" Roxie asked, turning her attention to Griffin. She was, for the record, still going by Warbird.

Roxie unhooked her glowing mace from its hook on her hip and hefted it above her shoulder and swooped down to where Griffin was. "I'll take him head on and distract him, which will leave you guys open to attack him from behind." She paused. "And someone get my boyfriend out of here, too. I'd like him to be safe while I brutally beat up Gobby for messing with my man."

[legacy_of_evil]

The Green Goblin fired a last blast toward another pair of civilians who were running but hadn't yet attacked the others. He hovered over the room on his glider as he watched who ran and who didn't.

"I know how it goes in this city but, really, don't anyone try to be a hero here. It'll go badly for the regular ol' Joes if you do." Gobby said.

"In fact...I'll be leaving now. I think my friends are having their fun elsewhere and this party's a drag." he said as the glider began to hover backwards from the direction he came.

Truth was, the Goblin realized that close-quarters against these people would doom him quicker than a protracted fight above the city streets. Playing to one's strengths was the mark of a true genius, after all.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa was quite glad that she didn't get overly blasted. She was still annoyed at the Goblin, though.

"Science is my thing, not just armor. But we should get Joe out of here. You wanna carry him, Remi?"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi tried to put up shields to protect the civilians. He glanced at the Alexa with a slight smirk. "I float corrected."

He reached over to the unconscious man with an invisible shield. Carefully, he used to shield to slide under Joe and lift him up. The Atlantean glanced toward the floating green menace but decided that he was more use civilians than in the battle.

[avengingwarbird]

Roxie waited a beat, making sure that Joe was alright, before whirling back and around and shot through the air, heading for Goblin. She focused the energies swirling around in her hands and shot off a dual set of braided energy beams at the glider, both Kree and Olympian powers crackling as they mixed and melded with each other. "Not so fast, Goblin."

[stormy_skrull]

Mary transformed again, into a giant spider, spraying webbing at the Goblin.

[legacy_of_evil]

Green Goblin attempted a laser blast to keep Warbird from drawing a beat upon him but the glider was struck. Smoke issued forth from the glider before it spared and one of the motors blew out, sending the Goblin crashig to the ground as Mary's webbing connected.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!" Green Goblin yelled.

[avengingwarbird]

Warbird dodged past the laser blast and scoffed at him. "Really? Because that was really going to get me?" She landed and stalked towards him, unsheathing her mace once again. "Green Goblin, yes. But let's find out who's under the ugly mask." She raised her mace and started bringing it down towards his head.

[legacy_of_evil]

Green Goblin sees the mace coming down toward his head and tries to toss a flash-bang pumpkin bomb at Warbird in a desperation move as the mace comes down. The mace connects with the side of the villain's head, stripping away the mask...and revealing metal and wire beneath.

The flash-bang is mostly for disorientation, enough to create some distance between the Goblin and the Kree-Olympian hybrid.

"You DARE strike me! You will pay for this insult, harlot!"

[stormy_skrull]

Blinking her multiple spider eyes, Mary sprayed more webbing in what she thought was the Goblin's direction.

"Hey! I'm the only person allowed to insult Roxie like that!"

[legacy_of_evil]

The webbing caught the Goblin and held him fast but he was no longer struggling.

"All...of you freaks...you lose..." the Goblin said as his voice box suddenly shut down.

A red number "10" appeared in each of his eyes.

The numbers began counting down slowly as an audible beep...beep...beep could be heard coming from the Green Goblin.

[avengingwarbird]

"..." Roxie blinked as that changed occurred, processing what had just happened.

Then, without giving it a second thought, she grabbed the Goblin, tore him from the webbing and flew out and away, taking him with her. She was going to throw him far, far into the night sky, where hopefully the explosion wouldn't hurt anyone.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary resumed her Skrull form.

"Well. Did not see that coming."

[legacy_of_evil]

Roxie would easily toss the Green Goblin into New York's night sky and the resulting explosion lights up the skyline like Independence Day fireworks.

The force rattles a few windows, breaking some, but Roxie is able to tell immediately that said bomb was extremely powerful, probably enough to have destroyed the city block that the gala was in.

Someone wasn't playing around tonight.

[the_next_avenger]

Joe came to shortly after Roxie departed with the Goblin. His head was still ringing but he wasn't seriously injured.

He thanked Remi for the save and looked around for Roxie.

"Hey, has anyone seen my date? Please tell me she didn't take that guy and throw him into the harbor."