Scene 1: Busy Night in the Big City

Feeling his stick being wrenched away, Slapshot tightens his grip and pulls back.

Echo spins away from Slapshot, ripping his hockey stick out of his hands. The leverage the young hero used seems like enough to knock him off balance and he slides around on his energy skates. He has to flail about to keep his balance.

A cry of shock and disgust comes from the gathered crowd as they take in the aftermath of the exchange. The blade of the hockey stick has cut deep into Echo's shoulder causing what looks like a grievous wound, but it has also cut open and burned away part of her costume, revealing quite a bit more skin than the young heroine might want exposed. Several cellphones appear and start flashing as the onlookers try to grab a shot that Echo knows will spread quickly over the internet in a few moments. It will take a ghoulish appetite to get their jollies off these photos, but those people exist.

The camera drones that were following her all retreat to a safe distance behind her. The quick thinking camera operators back at the studios trying to keep the FCC off their backs. Echo realizes she is going to catch and earful for this later.

That sounds good to me, my provoke is +3, so slightly better outcome with that.

Blitzer turns his helmeted head toward El Toro Caliente. His deep but somewhat tinny voice roars over the sounds of the armored car engine. "Oh go sit on your own pointy hat, worthless pretty boy! I'm working here!"

Now that the heroes are on the scene and have engaged the villains, the crowd really starts clamoring. A lot of them are focused on the fact Echo is baring a lot more skin than they believe appropriate, or the fact she has a laser powered hockey stick buried in her shoulder. The second largest group cheers the arrival of El Toro Caliente, the most subscribed hero in the city, but they also seem to mostly be on the front end of the armored truck, so perhaps they haven't seen Echo yet. A few have turned their eyes on Vitrius and cry out for him to do more than throw something at the bad guys.

Fastball seems preoccupied removing the glass from his hover board to do much else. He spins about haphazardly as he tries to extract the glass without doing more damage.

Slapshot, disarmed of his primary weapon decides to try and fix that issue. He lunges forward trying to grab the stick back.

Blitzer turns back to staring down the driver of the truck, but a panel on his shoulder opens up and small grenade lobs toward El Toro.

Slapshot follows Echo as she rolls away, looking somewhat desperate to get his stick back.

As Vitrius descends, Echo is wrapped in a flowing, shimmering layer of fine particles. The glass forms a barrier, covering her nudity and her wound. The glass flows with her as she tumbles and follows as she kicks out at Slapshot. Her boot connects hard, slamming his jaw shut. The heroes can also hear the telltale sound of bone snapping with the impact. The villain hears it.

Slapshot is reeling about, off balance again, and holding his face. Blood flows freely from his mouth and nose. They are probably broken. He looks like a feather could knock him over right now, but he recovers some and squares up. His throws his fists so his gloves hit the street and then come up into a classic hockey fighting pose. Some in the crowd starts to chant Echo's name, other's call out Slapshot for being thrashed by a girl (seeming to forget that Echo is nearing the Top 10 in rank and a renown fighter herself). A few cheers for Vitrius can be heard. It seems his gallant gesture isn't going unnoticed.