Heavy Conscience (Mini-Event)

If Axel had eyes they’d have been made wide by the image of the vigilante who arrived on the seen. While many vigilantes liked to keep their heads down it was hard for the top ranked vigilante to really go unrecognized… especially when you worked for Ishtar. His boss had him form personality files on a lot of known heroes, students and… even known vigilantes. It was hard to find much on G, but he had a good record. A rough turn a while back but… of all the vigilantes to see, Axel was glad it was him. He dropped down off the rooftop perch he’d been using to survey the scene, the hydraulics in his legs easily absorbing the impact and rushing on over, his ragged, impromptu cloak blowing in the summer Breeze.

“Oh thank heavens you were close! G I… god if anyone could be here I’m glad it was you. I’ve read your-“ He stopped himself, careful not to spill too much about how he knew so much about the man before him and calming himself. “Y-your reddit page! S-so many of your fans have great things to say about you. I’m…” He paused again, his mechanically housed brain having to come up with an impromptu alias there on the spot. “Red Screen! Like Blue screen but-“ He shook his head to re-focus. “N-nevermind! I’m sure you’ve seen what’s going on…” He bowed his head low, hopefully trying to show a sense of respect. “I’m at your disposal. I-I’m not a great fighter but I wanna do my part!”

He was definitely enthusiastic to say the least, but to an extent he was also desperate. He didn’t know how he could help here but he wanted to. Getting G to the location was one thing, (assuming he heard his call), but actually fighting alongside him… he’d have to really think on the spot to see what he could do!

“Y-yeah!” He was glad to hear that G ‘got’ the impromptu name he’d came up with. Honestly if he was ever a hero he’d have the time to come up with something better but for a temporary alias he supposed that worked! G seemed more than ready to ally himself with him too which was borderline an honor. Axel tried to do his own version of ‘good’ where he could while working under Ishtar but the chance to work alongside an actual vigilante? Yeah that was miles better than anything he could do under her. A sigh of relief sounding through his speakers despite his lack of lungs.

When it came to the question of what he could do though, Axel had to think for a moment. What COULD he do here? He was a hacker sure and he knew ways to use that in the field… but to stop dozens upon dozens of escaped convicts? He didn’t know what he could do but… he offered it up all the same. “T-the way I look is basically all my quirk is but… I-I’ve made a lot of modifications to my body over the years! I-I can hack into a lot of technology and erm… erm…” He tried to think of a way to put this all to use, an exclamation mark flashing on his screen as an idea formed. “O-Oh! If we can fight our way to the train station I can hack into their schedules and stop the service before any of the escapees hop a ride! I-It may not be much but it means a lot of ‘em are gonna be trapped close to the prison without a place to hide!”

It… it didn’t feel like much but it was something right? Maybe as they moved he could be of more help but to even slow down the criminals en masse… surely that’d mean something right?

A wide cartoonish smile emoji appeared briefly on Axel’s screen as he received what he basically considered a compliment from arguably Japan’s most infamous vigilante. God this day went from terrible to great in seconds, but as Axel reminded himself of the chaos around them it quickly went back to terrible, shaking the emoji off his screen and refocusing with a flash of static across the monitor before gesturing for G to come along. “Alright lets go! Hopefully we shouldn’t run into much of a mess but I’m hoping I can rely on you to make sure I don’t get smashed!”

And of course G was ready to do just that it seemed. Even as they moved through the streets G managed to keep pace with the surprisingly speedy robot while his summoned create slammed it’s titanic arms into any passing goons, knocking them onto their asses. In an ideal world they’d stop to cuff each and every one of them but they had bigger goals here. The heroes could clean them up well enough, Axel needed to make sure none of them got far enough away that they’d evade the heroes grasp… and fall right into Ishtars.

Bringing up his arm infront of himself, a holographic display of the local area’s map showed up with a blip moving along to represent himself. Wouldn’t be far now. “Here! Shortcut.” He dipped off to the side in a sharp turn, slipping through an alleyway, yelping as a prisoner cut off the other end. With a sharp kick off the ground he was barely able to flip over them, G following behind. Axel didn’t wanna slow him down with a fight though, looking off to the side for a solution. With a few quick taps on his gauntlet, a car suddenly whirred to life, hacking into the self driving functions and watching as the car knocked the goon out of the way, helping G through the gap and continuing down the path.

“Huh?” He’d question as G addressed him about the call to arms, laughing nervously through his tinny sound system. “er… yeah. Corny I guess but effective if it got you here. I could only hack all the speakers in a couple dozen meters so it wasn’t like a city wide call to arms or anything. Still, glad to see it got someone useful on scene… If I got to a cell tower or something later I might be able to put out a bigger call, but by then the heroes will be on the scene anyway…”

“Hehehhe. Well. Hopefully I don’t end up coming off like a TOTALLY useless NPC for this particular escort mission.” He’d chime back, genuinely not wanting to be a drag on G and doing his best to play his part where he could. They weren’t far from the train station now so they should be able to get there quickly enough and Axel didn’t feel like he’d wasted G’s time yet… but… he could do more…

And how he dealt with that criminal gave him an idea. “… G the city’s turning briefly to shit right now, so I hope you don’t judge me for stealing a car!” Axel rushed over to the smart car he’d crashed into the vehicle, already having enough control over it to unlock the doors just by thinking of the lines of code it would require, his body automatically processing them and hacking the cars internal systems in the process, diving into the driver’s seat and resting a hand over the electronic screen on the dashboard. Mild sparks flickered between his hand and the cars electronics, before the screen turned red with a yellow emote of a XD face in the center. The car was officially his. “Okay… got the car going… and if I sync up right…” He pulled up his hologram screen again, typing into his gauntlet. “God. People are so screwed by how much information these things store…” He got up a phone number and quickly sent a text reading ‘pick up you car at the train station’. The car had managed to store the owner’s phone number from when they synced their phone up with it to play their music, and now Axel didn’t feel so bad for stealing the car. “You should have your quirk ride on the roof! He can swat the bad guys away while I drive! Sound good!?”

“Ah, right.” Axel felt like a dunce for a brief moment for underestimating how much Goliath weighed. Even if the car looked sturdy they probably didn’t wanna do any damage to the framework since Axel was planning to return this car once they were done with it, so he was glad for G’s caution on the matter. A question mark Gif appeared on his screen however to display his confusion as G said he had an alternative, before turning into an excalamtion mark as he stuck his head out the window to spot the more lithe summon that G had created. Even when he was doing research on Vigilantes for Ishtar he hadn’t found out about G’s secondary summon. “Oh hell yeah! I didn’t know you could summon more than Goliath! That’s definitely handy!” He chimed definitely feeling a surge of excitement at the new info and talents of the top vigilante.

“Here I should be able to get us there easy, just make sure blade-arms up there keeps any speedy quirkers off of us!”

There weren’t many issues now that they were carbound, surging through the streets past most quirkers, and Axel’s processing systems meaning the car’s GPS rapidly corrected course whenever he saw a roadblock of crashed vehicles or raging criminals up ahead of them, swerving sharply around such corners. Now and then a speedy quirker might try and attack the car, but with G’s cover they should have been mostly fine till they arrived at the train station. He could hear one starting to arrive in the distance, and a small group of criminals were already swarming the station ready to board a train.

“Okay okay… we should be able to manage this just er..” Hopping out of the car, sending a message to the owner’s phone about where to pick it up again just incase, Axel approached the train station and tried to see what he could hack into… shit! He was too far away from the main terminals to fuck with the schedules, looking back to G. “I need to get closer to lock down the station but…” He tapped away at the holographic screen as quickly as he could, his fingers darting across the holo-keyboard with deft and grace that shouldn’t really be possible at such speeds, before suddenly, with a surge of electricity flowing through the systems, the lightbulbs of the station started to pop one after the other, stunning and shocking the criminals within. “There! That should have them off guard for you!”

Despite the fact 'Red Screen' had tried to give G a bit of an opener to launch an assault and give them an opening to reach the stations scheduling systems with his hacking he seemed to be briefly put in awe by the act himself, Axel chuckling a little nervously with his tinny voice but giving the vigilante a firm smack on the back, in an encouraging manner as he started to dart into the darkened train stop. Some natural light was still seeping in under the cover of the station but enough darkness that his stealth drives kicked in, his red hue turning to a darker brown to mix in with how the darkness mixed with the natural colors of the station.

"Okay you keep 'em busy while they're caught like that, I'll see what I can do with the schedule!" Rushing for one of the ticket counters, Axel took advantage of his metal body to smash through the window and dive in across the counter, quickly ducking under the ticket counter entirely for cover and hooking a USB cable from his arm directly into the system's PC, working as fast as he can to try and shut down all the train schedules so the trains kept running but never stopped here... might piss off some civilians but they'd thank him later.