Arcade Ire

[ngm_foes]

It had been a nice, quiet weekday afternoon in New York. For once, it actually seemed as though there wasn't going to be any kind of trouble afoot.

That would have been nice, had it been true.

It happened suddenly, as things of this sort tended to happen. Out of seemingly nowhere, it appeared in the middle of Chinatown. A large, hulking, two-dimensional being stomping around.

And it only yelled one thing as it started to wreak havoc.

"DESTROY ALL COMBATANTS!"

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[ngm_foes]

The joys of 2 dimensions, that.

If she made the jump, she'd find herself at the perfect vantage point to shoot them down.

But, how to stop their swelling numbers?

[symkarian_princess]

Nika jumped and scrambled up. All without firing her gun into her body somehow. She got to the railing, aimed at the paper-thin creatures and paused.

Shooting them just made them multiply. She couldn't hammer a screw in. She needed a different tactic. Well, if shooting paper-targets didn't destroy them... maybe she could roll one up and beat the others with it.

She doubted it. They seemed flimsy enough to want to fall apart and then she'd have two angry aliens for the price of one baton. Nika put her hand up to call Felicity to maybe get an idea on how to help.

Then she got an idea. These things were like paper with zappy tendencies. What would water do to them?

She looked around for some source of water. She spotted a jug a couple landings up on the fire escape. She climbed as quickly as she could toward it.

Nika just hoped the alleyway aliens stayed in the alley.

[ngm_foes]

They did. Nika would find that water caused them to fizzle, spark, and...dissipate.

But was it really going to be that easy?

[symkarian_princess]

"Yes!" Nika pumped her fist in the air for a moment. Until she realized she did not have easy access to water from her perch on the fire escape.

She doubted spitting on them would have much effect. Also, she wasn't as accurate with her loogies as she was with firearms.

Which meant... she needed to get back on the street. And that was past the aliens. Looking down at the ones waiting, she decided to go up to the roof, across a couple rooftops and back down to the chaotic streets. She was still in Chinatown. There had to be a store with squirt guns or an outside hose or something, right?