All You Can Defeat Crab Legs

  “Help! The Kaiju has me!”

  “I don’t think that counts as a kaiju? I mean there is a lot of debate over what constitutes a Kaiju. Is it size, general enhancement or does the creature need special powers to be considered a Kaiju?

  “I don't care! Get this gator off me!”

  “I believe that is a crocodile not an alligator.”

  “Aaaarg!”

  "It might be a caiman?"

  "I hate you all!"

  “Alright, assholes, you are going to pay for putting that communist bitch above me.” A young man said as a horde of ten-foot-tall crabs climbed out of the sea and scuttled at the party breaking through the glass with ease.

  "Ahh hell." Erica said, seeing the crash moments before it happened. "Kaiju! Kaiju, Kaiju!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, grabbing Talia and hurling them both out of the way of the charging crabs and under a table to protect them from the shards of glass.

  Talia whimpered at the loud sounds. Curling into a ball, before blacking out and emptying her pockets to start making a weapon out of her phone. In the hall a young man grew seven feet tall with horns, “Tanks to the front Ep take the middle, agility, and fliers get the non-combatants out of here. Shielders protect the structure. We don't wanna take the building down.

  “That’s Oni, he was one of our hero applicants.” Eleanore said as she summoned two saber cats to join the fighters

  Marcus blinked at the orders being issued but shrugged. He moved to the Tank line while Z grabbed a freaked-out girl who had been talking about wanting to see Akihabara and about her various ideas about cybernetics before the windows shattered. “I am tough but don’t deal direct. Anyone see a handy club or something?”

  “What’s your primary?” A girl in a wheelchair said, rolling up behind him with the EPS who were already launching various types of attacks.

  “Um, Tonfas?”

  The small girl summoned a tall shield before tossing him a set of tonfas, and another girl a pair of long thin swords, both seeming to be made of golden crystal. “Who else needs weapons!” She shouted.

  “Eps cover Buki-ko!” The very large, horned boy taking charge called out, gesturing towards the wheelchair girl. “Tanks, line up and if you need weapons call out to her!” Oni shouted. “Glad to see you came.”

  “Oh, shut up Oni, you’re too full of yourself for a freak who’s too scared to really embrace your power!” A man in organic armor said as he rode in on an armored crab

  Marcus dodged a claw, dancing between pincers to deliver twin blows to eyestalks, "Whose the mouthy asshole?" He called out as he danced back.

  "He's a fucking wanna-be super-villian, is what he is." Grayson yelled, a device on his wrist firing a laser pulse at the man, scorching one of his shoulder plates, and causing him to yelp and duck behind the crab he was riding. "Good armor though!"

  "Note to self, find out where Grayson got a laser gauntlet from." Penny commented, drinking her coffee, next to Solaris. Neither had bothered to move, as the youngsters had jumped up in response, though the smaller blond was leaning forward in case she had to take off. r

  “I’m more surprised he waited this long to reveal it.” Solaris admitted, Mako can you check on the building evacuation? I will guard the escape path for the non-combatants and wounded."

  "That is sensible." Mako said patting her hand. "You haven't changed." the pair headed towards the door ready to act but trusting the training of the children.

  Zoya appeared next to the rolling armory. "A couple of Tonfa for me as well?" She asked, quickly vanishing, into another portal and smashing a crab in the head, then grabbing a whimpering boy trying to hide under a table, pulling him out through a third tunnel.

  Anzy took the boy from the appearing Z, then frowned. "Wait, weren't you the guy who wanted to be a hero? The flying tank kid?"

  "Don't let them eat me!"

  Anzy rolled her eyes as a crab screamed in agony as its attacking claw went through Castor’s shield of molten sugar as he defended Anzy. “I, uh, should note that GNC’s don’t apply to non-sentients.” He laughed nervously.

  Mako looked back from the door and shook his head in disappointment, he gestured at the armored man riding the largest crab. “That is Akira. He was competing with Min. They were both working on food safe splicer beasts. Min won the research grant with her salmon. Very tasty roe, high quality. He did not take the news well.”

  In the fight Keith and Amp where teaming up, amp funneling the carpenters powerful sonic shout right int the a crab’s side, shattering the beast, while Margot, the Welsh dragon girl breathed fire on another, her wings spread wide and holding her aloft.

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  A Greek girl with cow horns bellowed, lowering her head as she charged into a crab. Knocking it back and giving another European student a chance to hit it with a ball of kinetic force.

  “I will say, this is one of the most interesting smelling fights I’ve witnessed.” Solaris said, as a hydrokinetic girl used a vat of hot butter as a kind of liquid whip.

  "The sugar kid is causing some interesting scents, himself." Penny agreed, “A bit of garlic and some spice and we have a crab boil going.”

  The young programmer Solaris had met was hovering at the ceiling, with his wife, who having watched the fight to determine the crabs and students weren't to intermingled, waved her arms. Dancing petals of flowers, Lavender, cilantro blossoms, and dill petals, fluttered almost gracefully and dance like down onto the crabs, then exploded with the force of small hand grenades against their exo-skeletons, sending several to the ground.

  “There we go.” Elenore mused. “Proper seasoning.”

  The armored villain was looking for someone “There you are you Korean whore! He shouted At a small woman who a flyer was evacuating. He held up his wrist and fired the flyer fell out of the air screaming as a jellyfish left angry red ribbons of stung flesh across the girls bare back.

  Grayson dashed out from cover and lasered the jelly fish, kicking the corpse off the flyer, grabbing them to pull under cover. "Come on, it's about to get really, really hot here!" he yelled at the frightened young woman.

  Fortunately she scrambled after him, as Talia rose up, kicking over a table and screaming, holding a very confusing looking device that began to spin, then sent a high powered, venturi tight stream of water right back at the villain, the water coming from the high pressure, and high heat system of the dishwasher she'd found in the mostly unused bar while scrambling for parts to assemble, the water scalding hot. her disassembled phone in pieces at her feet gutted for the power controls.

  The villain shrieked as his armor turned red from the water. He dropped down to take cover behind his lead armored crab. Leaning out to fire more jellyfish at Talia and the other defenders

  Erica, who had stayed with her cousin, smacked the jellyfish out of the air easily with a mop handle, and Mercedes, who had been helping people get out up till now turned and ran across the floor, growing in size, mass and limbs as she took her largest treant form, two smaller giant crabs being wrapped up in vines to use as hammers against the lead crab, as she grabbed its claws, jumping on its back and pulling them wide. "You, with the big damn club, kill this thing!"

  Oni grew a little taller, his skin going a bit red as tusks came out of his lower jaw. He ran into the combat swinging an iron club. Slamming it into the crabs’ face with a visceral crunch and splorch sound dropping the crustacean. The villain let out a cry of disappointment as his armored crab went down.

  The two flying Sabretooth tigers were already finishing two other crabs, having allowed Elenore to note what she was seeing, and listening to Elizabeth and Penny. She had backed up to observe the fight, she was the Griffons team leader and this was a rare-ish opportunity to see how some of her super hero applicants handled the pressure of a true emergancy."Hmmm... he was the arrogant hero application." She mused, watching a boy being carried out, crying, by an Anzy. "Send 'I hope you have luck in your future endeavors' email to him.

  Who’s the minotaur girl? Solaris asked. "She is showing signs of being a good frontliner

  “Oh! That is Minatauress, she’s a business student, super tough and can sense gold. Her older brother is leader of the Greek national team, a bit of a legacy her family has been in the business since the mid fifties. Elenore said. “I remember her resume, she put in two one for a hero team and for the business dept.” Elenore said pleased mentally putting the woman at the top of her lists.

  A brawny looking Asian man grabbed the villain from behind, squeezing him still his armor cracked like a crab shell, and he dropped the jellyfish gun. “Keep your dirty mouth off my sister!”

  Mercedes dropped off the monster crab, grabbing it and throwing the huge corpse out into the bay, scanning the room. "I think everyone has things in hand." She said, shrinking back to her normal form. Grayson had walked up, scooping up the jellyfish gun curiously.

  "Dude, seriously, what the hell were you thinking?" He asked. It was unclear to Marcus if he was asking about the gun or the attack in general. With that kid, it was a toss-up.

  “I am a better splicer than that bitch!”

  Grayson stared at the guy for ten whole seconds, before looking at Mercedes. "Okay, does he not realize I don't know who 'she' is, that I don't care how good a splicer he is or isn't, but am instead questioning his intelligence on attacking a room filled with Enhanced, at least a few of whom could throw his crustacean friends into orbit?"

  “I don’t think he cares.” Mercedes said, adjusting her dress.

  “My little sister Min. She was evacuated with the other non-combatants.” The man restraining the villain said. “He’s pissed that she got approval and funding for her project and his was still marked not for human consumption.”

  "Right." The young, somewhat undecided cape shrugged. "Whatever. Can you rip him out of that armor. Who knows, he might have sea start launchers, or electric eel blasters or something, better if he's naked."

  “Can do. Hey Oni, want hold Akira while I pull him out of this shell?” The large hero grinned, dropping a crab leg he’d been eating from one that had been electrocuted, walking over and grabbing the villain by the ankle and lifting him like a pi?ata.

  Solaris looked over at Penny, how long till local authorities get here to pick up?

  "Should only be a few more moments. I saw Mako use a panic button, but the local police tend to hold off for the Rapid Enhanced Response Team to form. UNLOC will show up shortly after that."

  The students cheered as the last crab went down. Oni held one leg up, “Now We FEAST!" He bellowed. The kids cheered again as Arsenal called a huge shield up, and Minotauress cracking limbs off other crabs with Margo cooking them with her fire breath before tossing them in the impromptu pot.

  "Um. Those aren't technically food safe, are they?" Elenore asked, watching in shock as a massive crab boil started.

  “No,” Smoke said, grinning at her, a go pro on his forehead. “But most of us have an Enhanced constitution though, and Japan’s food safety laws are really strict.”

  "Yeah, fair." She sighed, sticking with the nibbles in front of her. She looked around absently, then cursed. "We aren't getting our deposit back."

  Smoke laughed. “I don’t think so, I did get some great vid of the fight if you wanna see.”

  "Yeah, we'll look at that later. I'm going to go check on the wounded, thankfully I didn't see many." Elenore, Solaris and the other nurse had already headed out to check the wounded. The worst fortunately being the flyer burned by the jellyfish.

  He nodded, a chemist brain was kneeling next to Talia, putting some solution on an angry red burn on the girl’s wrist. “Wanna shoot him with the jellyfish gun?”

  Talia looked at him, then at the super-villain. “A little.”

  Erica took the gun away from the teens. “No.”