It's Art! (Open)

[Metal-Mouth]

At exactly midnight, the security guard of the old museum of art saw something strange on his monitor. By 12:30 a distress call went out to the San Francisco Police department. At one in the morning the news was out.

Metal Mouth had come to San Francisco and it seemed he intended to stay.

Seemingly Dozens of guards in circus performer costumes stood inside the building all armed, several of them paced but most of them stood still, facing the outside. A loud speaker echoed through the night, blasting the eardrums of any within 1000 yards of the old building. It played the same message over and over again.

“Attention: This is a message for all those want be bad guys out there. I’m taking over this place and any that want to join the team. Only thing is it’s BYOB, bring your own body. That’s right boys! Bring in a corpse and you’ll get the first class treatment from yours truly! Once upon a time the boys that lived here were the worst men in the country, lets see if we can house the best men in the world!” The message ended with a wild giggle only to begin playing again ten minutes later.

A body flung from the top of the building, ironically wearing an old parachute, the lifeless body of the security guards landed on a police car. The man’s face had been slit from cheek to cheek and then stapled shut.

[Rain T'Challa]

Rain's sensitive hearing had picked up the message that was being blasted over the loud speaker. She had approached the police car only to find them too shocked to let her know what happen. She morphed into a small house cat and made her way toward the museum. Her ears where tucked tightly against her skull. She tried to time her entrance between the loudspeaker announcements.

Rain slipped into the museum in her cat form and tried to locate the person who was responsible for the blaring announcement. Using her cat stealth she quietly and quickly wonders around the museum. She did not the know the intruder from the guard or any visitor so it was hard to try and figure out which scent to follow so she was just looking for now.

[Metal-Mouth]

Actually if one did happen to slip inside they would see that the clownish statues were all wax figures stolen from a local wax museum. The famous faces all made up with cheap paint to look like thugs. Some of them were placed on treadmill-like machines to give the appearance of movement. However, the entire building seemed to be lifeless, which meant that there was either no one inside or they were further up into the office areas.


The scent of people though were obvious, especially the tin smell of Metal, who did sit up in the CEO's chair giggling to himself while his few real employees gathered what they could of the museum artifacts.

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[Rain T'Challa]

Rain at first only found wax figured then she caught the interesting smell of Metal. She followed the smell to where he was sitting. She stickied to the shadows to be less noticeable as she took in the scene. The man that seemed to be in charge. Her fur rose at the sight of him.

Rain then shifted to full human. "I suggest you stop your madness now," Rain told him. Walking into his view. She was wearing her costume that was very similar to T'Challa's Black Panther on but, had no mask.

[Metal-Mouth]

Metal all but jumped out of his skin when there was a voice. For once he wasn't "proper" as he lept from his chair, grabbing the gun from its holster under his jacket and aiming. But when he saw the woman he tilted his head and arched his eyebrow. "First question. How did you get in, and second, where have you been all my life?!" He spoke in a crisp english accent as he looked her up and down. If he hadn't considered himself a true gentleman he might have howled and thumped his fist on the desk. She was quite the beauty.

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[Rain T'Challa]

Rain laugh silently when she saw the man jump. She was very good at sneaking up on people when she wanted to be. She watched him turn and tensed when he pulled his gun. Fortunately it seemed that surprise was on her size. "One, that is my secret. Two, in Wakanda where I live," Rain told him.

"Now, are you going to stop looting this museum or are you going to be forced to stop?" Rain asked. She tall and strong with her arms crossed in front of her. She was working on having a presence that was as regal and powerful as her mother. Rain was well aware that she had to work to achieve the same presence her mother made effortlessly.

[Metal-Mouth]

"Looting?" Metal looked from side to side as if expecting her to be speaking to someone else even though they were the only two in the building, "M'Dear i'm not looting anything. As you can see." He raised his gun again, but merely used it to gesture that he was not in fact looting anything at the moment.


"However what my men choose to do on their lunch break is their own business. Im running and operation here but i'm not a sweatshop. They get their time off and if they want to collect a few value artifacts on their own time well frankly that's no concern of mine." He grinned and moved towards her, not at all intimidated by her stance. "What is your name precious."

[Rain T'Challa]

"I suggest you stop them before someone does. This city is home to two super hero teams. Both teams have a couple heavy hitters at least," she told him not changing her stance. "I am sure the police could arrest and charge for accessory to a crime since they are your men," she pointed out when he stated it was no concern of his.

"Call me Black Tempest," she told him. That was her codename and she did not want to give this man her real name even if it was to find out. "Now are you going to make your men stop or am I?" Rain asked narrowing her eyes.

[Metal-Mouth]

Metal-Mouth frowned, "Oh i'm afraid I can't m'dear. You see they're on their break and i'd have the union all on my back and that just wont do. No no no wont do at all." He walked towards her, his grin turning more sinister as he reached into his lapel, "However if you want to have some fun I think you and I could make some sweet music together!"

He pulled a canister from his lapel, it was a miniature bullhorn and he held it up to his mouth and shouted. "SHALL WE?!"

The eruption from the horn came with a thick green gas, quickly filling the air. With that Metal brought the horn crashing down on the woman, attempting to knock her out over the head.

[Rain T'Challa]

"A gangster union? I highly doubt that," Rain told him. She was alert for an attack from behind or in front of her. Her body tensed and the hair on the back of her neck stood on end. Her feline side was telling her there was danger.

Rain immediately reacted when he pulled out a miniature bullhorn. Rain shifted to a cheetah and sprinted out of the room. She smelled something and called a wind to her and blew it right at the man. By the time he tried to knock Rain out she was skidding down the hall in the form of a cheetah. She ended running into a wall and making a racket. She shook her head from the crash and sprinted around the corner.

[Metal-Mouth]

When the lady turned into a cheetah and ran from the room Metals maniac laughter followed her. He shouted into the bullhorn, "Boys there's a kitten on the loose! It needs to be tranquilized and tagged!"

The thugs were on alert and the sound of the crash caught many attentions. All armed with weapons, they began to stalk towards the feline.

"Here kitty kitty." One of them says, a while grin on his clownish face. He holds in his hands a club. Two others approach, they more cautious than the first.

[Rain T'Challa]

Rain skidded to a halt when the first man appeared in front of her. Rain's ears flattened against her skull and she bared snarling at the men. Rain's claws left some marks on the floor, since the Cheetahs claws never retracted. Rain knew she could out speed the men in Cheetah form but, her bones were also more fragile in Cheetah form. Then without warning a ripple effect passed down Rain where previously she had been the lighter, faster Cheetah now stood a male lion. The male was the only time Rain morphed into male version of a feline. The male lion had more of an impact on people then the female did. Rain let out a giant roar then run right at the lead man.

Right before she reached the man Rain raised on her back legs and spread her front legs so all her massive bulk would crash down on the man if he was not fast enough to move. Rain had a dark mane and a dark tuft of fur on the end of her tail. The only feline that Rain was familiar with that would be as formidable and scary would be a Saber-tooth Tiger. She had meet Zabu when she was younger and in be able to copy his form. But, the lion she was more familiar with.

[Metal-Mouth]

At the sight of the lion the men went running, several of them screaming. The ones with guns got far enough away that they could get them out and aim. However, the man with the club was not so lucky. In an instant he hit the floor and the sight of the lion on him was enough to make him not only pee himself but pass out.

Soon the shouts of Lion went through the building and Metal, who has casually began to walk through the hallway frowned. "Idiots. Clearly I must do everything myself." He turned to one of the thugs and grabbed his shotgun from them.

"I've always wanted to go lion hunting!" He laughed and went off in search of Rain.

[Rain T'Challa]

Rain snorted when she smelled that the one man had actually peed in his pants then promptly passed out. The others ran out of range of her feline forms. She landed with her feet on either side of the man's head as she studied the other men. Several had guns which did pose a threat for Rain.

She let another loud roar trying to scare the rest of the men off. She was trying to scare the last of the men off. Rain did not like using her weather powers in her feline form too much preferring to be in human form when using her weather powers.

[Metal-Mouth]

The roar did the trick and the men took off running in many directions. It seemed Rains tactic was working but a suddenly shot gun blast broke a nearby priceless vase and Metal stalked towards the great animal, the gun pointed and ready to blast again.

"Here kitty kitty!" He called, shooting another bullet this time at the other side of the Lion, "Awww missed!"

He cocked the gun once more and aimed. "Hold still pussy!"