In San Francisco, things are torrential

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Jesse Quick has sent out the APB.

But right now, Titans Tower is on fire in half a dozen places, and the torrential storm overhead isn't stopping the fires nearly enough. Lightning sizzles through the sky, and well over a dozen flying figures soar around the Tower, surveilling it and occasionally blasting it with something. Many more are on the ground and in the Tower itself - parts of the Tower explode periodically as the violence escalates.

The Tower is under siege, and the Titans are fighting a losing battle.

But things change, and Weather Wizard turns his head and sees:

Incoming!

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[blind-will.livejournal.com]

Travis is coming in /fast/.

He owes the Titans, or one of them anyway, a debt of gratitude, and if he has to kick some ass to repay the debt, that suits him just fine.

Especially since this is interrupting make-out time with his girlfriend. Oh yes, someone will pay. And right now, there's a Flash rogue looking like he wants to volunteer.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

A crimson eyebeam from the ground slices up at him. He has not gone unobserved.

[zatanna-z.livejournal.com]

She had been having a nice, deserved break down in the park when her hip started to vibrate. She had purposely left her cell phone at Shadowcrest so she fished in her pocket for the source with a bit of confusion. It was the JLA comm she had recently dusted off and what was coming from it made her forget all about why she'd been crying.

No second thought, just a quick mumbled backwards incantation to summon a rift and she was through to San Francisco. (John's gonna have so much ammo for leaving without telling him to use against her now.)

She frowned, mouth hanging open at the scene she finds.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Mud starts slicking around her legs, subtly.

[-nightwing-.livejournal.com]

Silently, a black shape shimmers into existence as it closes in on the burning Tower.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. He came.

He smiles - and presses a button on his wristpad. And suddenly half a dozen TOW rockets are screaming at the Batwing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hawkgirl_/]

And POOF, there's Kendra, teleported in from who only knows where, a good two or three hundred feet above the trouble. Her wings snap open immediately and she dives.

Looking around for the perpetrators.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Half a dozen arrows are her greeting committee.

[justtaz.livejournal.com]

Taz runs in, muttering something about "What I wouldn't give to be a flier...", as he quickly starts to try and pick out someone to bust up.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

He grins a toothy grin as he leaps at the furball, fists flying.

[jessequick.livejournal.com]

She has said she was going to go look for the children, (http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/854906.html?thread=22052474#t22052474) and so she is. Jesse tears back into Titans Tower at full speed, knowing something bad is happening...and fearing it's worse than she imagined.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

As she enters, suddenly visions enter her mind - visions of what she fears.

[tefe-holland.livejournal.com]

She was on her way to San Francisco, hitching rides and taking her time to get there. Someday she'd figure out how to do this faster and bring her body along.

Then there was that weird being pulled inside out sensation and she's standing somewhere she wasn't a minute ago.

And there's people fighting.

"Um...what?"

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

He staggers out of the Tower after that multi-girl kicked his ass a bit - this is outta his league.

Wait, a stripling? Lasso bets that this girl might be good if he needs a hostage, so he pulls his rope.

[one-eyed-merc.livejournal.com]

Inside the Tower:

Come on, what's taking so long? I want those databases!

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Yeh, well, turns out they got wards against me and we canna get through the forcefields. We're workin' on it, ye can be sure o' that. Multiplex is tryin' ta hack the security system as we speak.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bird_of_flame_/]

Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. What a day to have been in LA.

Flamebird is late to the party and she knows it. Seeing the Tower as it is makes her feel sick but she buckles down and is focusing on getting to the Tower and trying to figure out how to help. Why does this thing have to be on a damned island? Why can't she fly?

Time to see if there any bad guys on /this/ side of things and if not, well, she's an Olympic level swimmer. It'll only take her.... forever to swim out to the island.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Suddenly a snapping, vicious beast rockets out of the water.

Straight at her.

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

Shiva has been lurking.

She's been watching the Tower on and off for weeks now and has a generally good idea of what is where and how people get to and forth from it.

This attack is interesting.

It is also unacceptable.

And now she is going to step in. Ibn must be protected, no matter how she feels about him personally at the moment.

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Suddenly she's surrounded.

By about fifty copies of the same guy.

[arsenal-arrow.livejournal.com]

The tower's a wreck. Roy just stepped out for an hour... two?

Lian. Donna. Please don't let them still be inside. And, buried somewhere, worry for Chesh. And he doesn't have anything useful on him. Looks like this is getting done the old-fashioned way.

A steel bar piece of debris works fine for the moment and Roy charges in, screaming for Lian and Donna through all the other noise.

[one-eyed-merc.livejournal.com]

A thrust kick meets him as he charges through a door.

[tx-instruments.livejournal.com]

He patches into Faust's communicator. "The situation at Titans Tower has become sufficiently complex - Slade wants you to "do your thing"."

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

In his sanctum, he nods, and begins chanting.

[gin-n-tectonic.livejournal.com]

He teleports in and - Jesus, this is chaos - what's with all the rain? - and whoa, tons of people here who want HIM dead -

but that doesn't matter, because he can see about fifty feet away Prometheus is about to knock Nightwing's head right off his body.

Good thing Weather Wizard has all these handy lightning bolts, eh?

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

The lightning courses down through the upheld bat and into him - his costume is insulated, but it's still hurting like a son of a bitch - and he falls backwards roughly.

As he staggers back up, he taps his helmet. Damn, the neural link overloaded. He's gonna have to finish this straight up.

[jessequick.livejournal.com]

Having finished off Houngan, at least for now, Jesse resumes her search for the children. With the comm channels still apparently down, she has to look around manually.

The Tower is a nightmare. "HELLO?!!" she calls out. "Anyone need help?"

[blind-will.livejournal.com]

The ring does telepathy too, handy that.

*If you can keep Giganta down, or tackle Woodrue, I can focus on clearing the skies instead of needing to watch down low.*

[theotherlantern.livejournal.com]

John Stewart swoops in, trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of what's going on here, looking to see who needs backup the most... or if anyone's getting away with something particularly nasty with this mess - it has to be a distraction for SOMETHING. Open war like this is just crazy.

[blind-will.livejournal.com]

Travis is looking to be in rough shape, but still fighting Monocle, Weather Wizard and Polaris, with Giganta on her ass, but looking ticked at the Lantern.

Even so, he registers the presence of another ring.

*John! Get the hell inside the tower before someone notices you, they're just keeping us out of there. Find out what's going on while we buy you time.* he relays at the speed of thought.

Ibn Tries the Comlink...

[ibn-al-xuff.livejournal.com]

Ibn arrives in the main hall, bloodied, but still standing. Grimly, he notes the destruction and damage to the Tower, but is glad that he doesn't see any bodies. It is a longshot, but he decides to try to com-links again. "This is Ibn Head. Does anyone need help or medical assistance?"

Re: Ibn Tries the Comlink...

[12thlevelmind.livejournal.com]

I've secured the seventh floor, or at least what remains of the seventh floor. Flamebird is with me.

Beast Boy, Triad, Superboy, Starfire, Robin, Donna Troy and Nightstar were all on premises when the attack began, and I'm not getting any talkback yet.

[tx-instruments.livejournal.com]

He sighs, coordinating the incoming reports on the com channels. He curses under his breath as he opens a channel to Slade.

"This is Calculator. IQ's been evacuated, objective unfulfilled."

[one-eyed-merc.livejournal.com]

He pauses on the third floor of Titans Tower.

God-fucking-dammit, Calc! Don't these idiots know how to protect an objective - full withdrawal! Now! All teleports possible, anybody who's unconscious gets left behind!