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Topic: Westgate Attack Facts (Thread 3)
In: Boards ► News ► Massachusetts ► Westfield ► Westgate Plaza Attack
Thothinu (Original Poster) (The Guy in the Know) (Veteran Member)
Posted On Apr 4th 2011:
Starting a new thread, as the last one got threadlocked because reasons. I think we all know why.
To recap the unfortunate events that happened two days ago:
1. Bastard Son, high ranking member of the Elite, came to Westfield with his crew, targeting a small-time gang no-name crew of smugglers and thieves: Flare-Up, Loca, and Lojack.
2. Loca and Lojack are killed and Flare-Up tries to flee with his Mover-Breaker power. Bastard Son and crew chase him across town.
3. Freightliner and Gigawatt, local Protectorate dynamic duo™ (with PRT strike team support), attempt to intervene. Three of Bastard Son's minions hold them all back (video here) while the rest chase after Flare-Up, causing at least three car crashes and injuring a number of bystanders - at least 5 people, full tally isn't in yet but no more deaths so far. EDIT: 2 more people were injured in that chase, 1 of the injured died very early this morning.
4. Flare-Up takes hits and gets literally shot out of the sky (edit: with thrown razor blades and a pen of all things if you can believe it), unfortunately crash-lands right in the lobby of the First National Bank at Westgate Plaza. Unfortunately 2 people die when he hits and 17 more are injured to varying degrees including 6 JROTC kids from the nearby Barnes Air National Guard base that had the misfortune to be walking past the bank at that particular moment.
5. Bastard Son's minions start beating Flare-Up to death. Bastard Son gets ready to shoot one of the JROTC kids just because, a teenage girl.
6. Two of the kids, both girls, get powers. One tries to defend herself and her classmates despite her injuries and grows really big metal wings with very big guns on them, the other girl freezes. 3 of Bastard Son's minions are killed and a LOT of property damage begins to happen. The injured JROTC kid gets hurt even worse and nearly dies. (EDITED video here, super NSFW, slapped a censor mosaic over the second girl because her power basically destroyed all of her clothes and she's a MINOR)
7. Some of the JROTC instructors supervising the kids show up to the rescue, 2 of Bastard Son's minions are shot and killed.
8. The second JROTC kid kills Bastard Son with some kind of enormous power-created cannon that does even more property damage (video here, again edited to preserve the second girl's modesty). All of Bastard Son's remaining minions lose consciousness.
9. Gigawatt shows up on the scene roughly two minutes later from halfway across town just moments before a LOT of Airmen from the base arrive. Freightliner and PRT show up maybe a minute or two later.
10. Things get SCARY tense between the Airmen and the PRT strike team because of the two JROTC girls with powers, like fingers on triggers tense. Flare-Up of all people manages to calm things down, and surrenders himself to PRT custody so the injured civilians can get help faster (despite bleeding from more than a few new holes himself).
In summation: Bastard Son, Loca, Lojack: Dead. Civilians dead: 3, total number of injured: 24.
Let's please keep this on topic this time, people.
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►Feychick
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
... I think I speak for everyone when I say wow holy shit
►Poit
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
Wow is definitely right, the Elite ain't gonna take this well, losin a heavy hitter like that
►Ne
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
-Poit
That's your takeaway on this? DUDE. That psycho just tried to kill a bunch of army kids because it tickled his willy, only for it to bite him in the ass.
►Answer Key
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
-Ne
air force, not army. air national guard if you really wanna get technical
also, uhh, we sure that one girl with the wings only just got her powers? never heard of any tinker throwing shit together that insanely fast before
►uʍopǝpısdn
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
-Answer Key
I'd say the first girl is more of a changer, like the second. Might be right about her not being a new Cape though. Those are really big guns on her wings but after watching the videos a few times, she's clearly being super extra careful every time they fire.
►Ne
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
-Answer Key
Whatever dude you know what I meant.
►TRJ
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
What I wanna know is wtf is up with the Air Force keeping the PRT from trying to help those girls? Helping new Capes not end up being villains is like 90% of the PRT's job. Those girls should be in the Wards not hidden away on some military base! What the hell are they thinking?! There's laws about this sort of stuff!
►QwertyD
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
Whoa!
EDIT: Okay, had to get my dad to take a look at the one video, then watch it again with his glasses on (he's a Vietnam vet and knows a lot about military hardware) and he swears up and down that Wing Girl's turrets (his words not mine) gotta be at least 25 mike-mike guns, judging solely from the mess that they made whenever she attacked with them and hit something on camera.
►Ne
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
-QwertyD
Jesus Christ. Rounds like that aren't meant to be used on people, they're meant to be used against armored vehicles.
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►AvonD
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
Adios Bastard Son, couldn't have happened to a more deserving bastard.
►bayonetsfordays (banned)
Replied On Apr 4th 2011:
DID YOU MISS THE PART WHERE IT WAS SPECIFICALLY STATED THAT BOTH GIRLS ARE UNDERAGE? - HammerNanner (Moderator)
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Topic: Westgate Attack Facts (Thread 3)
In: Boards ► News ► Massachusetts ► Westfield ► Westgate Plaza Attack
Thothinu (Original Poster) (The Guy in the Know) (Veteran Member)
Posted On Apr 5th 2011:
Okay, just got an update from a "friend of a friend of a friend" *cough cough wink wink nudge nudge*. Wing Girl has been known to the PRT since mid January as Aircraft. She's officially an open cape(!) but is technically under the jurisdiction of the Air Force National Guard's junior ROTC program for what I'm told are 'extremely good reasons' that some PRT bigwigs aren't exactly happy about. Even though she's technically an open cape her name isn't actually out there yet, since all she's been doing until now is focusing on school and being a regular kid. EDIT: to clarify, the girl that the PRT is calling Aircraft is much less an open cape and more openly Parahuman. I'm told that the nature of her powers makes it very difficult for her to live normally and requires a kind of assistive device just to live like a normal kid, which may go a long way to explain why she doesn't engage in any Cape activities.
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►Falcon (Verified Cape) (Protectorate NY)
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-Thothinu
Might wanna advise your source, whoever they are, that they just annoyed a lot of people giving you that little tidbit about the kid, especially my boss, and that man doesn't annoy easy.
Having said that, she's a good kid, and she has her reasons for not being a Ward. Multiple damn good reasons, not the least of which is that she doesn't care for the Cape life, which ought to be respected. At the end of the day she CHOSE to go junior reserve officer training corps, and everyone involved decided to respect her choice. We don't force kids into the Wards just because they get powers, despite what some people think. That just gets you a really resentful kid and causes a hell of a lot of problems down the line when they're no longer a kid but still feel some kind of way about it.
►uʍopǝpısdn
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-Thothinu
Now you got me curious.
-Falcon
Now I'm super curious. But I'm not dumb enough to pry.
Damn... I just realized, even if the Elite were only gunning for Flare-Up and his friends (poor bastards), dunno that the Air National Guard or the PRT are gonna leave this lying.
►FunGunny
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-uʍopǝpısdn
Marine vet here. Now I ain't never thought much of the chair force, I'd be the first to admit it. But I can guarantee that there's no way in hell they're gonna let that shit go. Been hearing from some of my buddies still serving across a couple branches. I can't really say much, but I'm hearing words like "domestic terrorist attack" getting thrown around.
I'll say this much, if that Master Sergeant that dropped two of Bastard Son's boys with a sidearm is who I think it is?
He's getting rusty. YEAH I SAID IT COLTON. Ten years ago, you'd have dropped that second clown in half as many rounds and we both know it! Of course, I would've done it in only one. Oorah!
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-Thothinu
I'm impressed, you're really on the ball with your sources and proving that you earned your In the Know tag. I'll throw in that Aircraft was actually seen flying out of Brockton Bay back in mid January, but she took off so fast that Dauntless didn't have a hope of catching up to her as high and as fast as she was flying, then the PRT lost track of her (there's the implication that she doesn't have much of a radar return while she's flying) until she almost blundered right into an airport no-fly zone off the coast of Massachusetts. I'm told that she also led the Air National Guard on a merry chase once they finally caught up to her, but they managed to convince her to come in safely.
-uʍopǝpısdn
Okay, I have to risk my own tag and ask: how did you even get that handle approved?
►Feychick
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
How the hell can you call being trapped living on a military base being a normal kid?! Clearly the Youth Guard needs to get involved in this poor girl's situation like they do for the Wards!
►uʍopǝpısdn
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-Bagrat
My kung fu is strong. XD
►Acree
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Wait wait wait. Bagrat, they really needed to chase the kid down with jets? What the hell? Was the Protectorate phoning it in that day?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Holy crap, I know that one girl.
►QwertyD
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Oh here we go again with Void's crap...
►Answer Key
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Ugh. Void, do yourself a favor and go away before you get banned. AGAIN.
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►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
She was a friend of mine and used to go to Winslow too, before Principal Blackwell got fired and arrested. Left school after getting bullied really badly and was almost killed by three other girls that put her in her locker with a bunch of really nasty stuff.
►Divide
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
I finally find the new thread and of course void is being void again.
►FlippinMad
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Void is telling the truth about what happened. One of the three girls is in juvie and another is in a mental hospital somewhere. The last one made a plea bargain for a lighter sentence.
►QwertyD
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
Uhhh...
Holy shit. I just looked it up. FlippinMad is right, Void's telling the truth this time, some of it anyways. Aircraft (and holy crap that is a godawful name) might actually be the Locker Girl from January.
►HammerNanner (Moderator)
Replied On Apr 5th 2011:
-XxVoid_CowboyxX
You are on THIN ice right now, given how recently your latest ban was lifted. Aircraft might be an open cape, but that doesn't make it acceptable to go blabbing everything about her. Consider this a warning.
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