After spenind gseveral moments in concentration, eyes closed, the Titan turned toward the comparitively diminuitive peace oficer.

"Excuse me Officer..."

"Sheffield."

"Officer Sheffield, do we have the city plans for this area? I believe they may be planning a subterranean escape. Have the robbers made any demands? If so, I'd suggest going along with them. If we let them think they are home free it will be easier to take them down, and they won't be able to take 30 hostages with them..."

Officer Sheffield nodded quickly.

"We've got someone digging them out over at Planning and Development. Don't know how long it will take though. Demands? No, not that I know of. We responded to the silent alarm, and found the door barred. S.O.P is to call S.W.A.T.... and they are about to flash-bang." He pointed at the squad approaching the bank door.

"That may endanger the hostages." the Titan says quickly. "If we let them go we can still capture them and recover their ill-gotten gains..."

Watching the S.W.A.T. team in their leapfrogging advance he adds. "If we are indeed dealing with an empowered enemy, it is going to endanger the lives of your men as well..."

Officer Sheffield nods again.

"That's why I called you."

"Of course." the Titan agrees. "Let me check one more thing..." he concentrates again for a moment before getting a look of surprise on his face.

"Officer Sheffield...there are no Novus present in this building. That certainly changes my approach but how does it affect yours? Would you still like me to assist or do I leave it in the hands of San Francisco's finest...?

Sheffield looks surprised.

"Well something is going on in there. The shape I saw wasn't any ordinary human, and that's a fact. Maybe... maybe your sniffer or whatever is steering you wrong?"

Officer Sheffield nods firmly.

"Absolutely. I don't want anyone hurt, and word is, you handle these things pretty well. Oh, but you better hurry."

He points at the SWAT team. The leader is giving the 'Cut it' sign, a finger across the throat. They are poised to break down the door.

Titan nods his consent. "Let's do it."

Titan wills his muscles to fuel with power, just in case. Carefully pinpointing the location of the hostages through their breathing and pulse rates, the Titan Omega finds the best spot to make his entrance without hurting any of the inncoent people trapped inside.

An instant after the lights are killed and the first gas canisters hit the floor of the bank lobby Titan smashes through one of it's reinforced concrete walls. He sends out an invisible pulse, locating the shapes obscured by the thickening gas and picking out any that seem larger, nova-like or are carrying weapons.

((5 QP to Irresistable Force, Using Sonar inside. 16 QP remaining Anyone who has seen the Dark Knight knows how cool sonar is...:) )

Titan is taken aback for a moment, as his Sonar reveals several non-human shapes in the bank. On the counter, a spider shaped metal mechanism with a telescoping rod coming out of the center, with a waldo at the end holding a submachine gun. Roaming the floor among the hostages, a vaguely humanoid shape on two spiked legs that moved insectlike, carrying a metal torso with a single glass lens in the center. Attached to the arms of this... robot, are two barrels for some sort of weapon.

The S.W.A.T. team rushes in the front door. Both mechs turn at this threat, and weapons come up.

Titan's accelerated mind kicks into high gear, analyazing the situation.

At least now they are targeting the men with riot gear instead of unprotected hostages. Spider has a submachinegun, known properties. Humanoid's armament unknown. Not going to risk the S.W.A.T. or the civies. No choice...Two bot's with one stone...

With blinding speed, Titan Omega flies into the face of the humanoid robot, blocking it's line of fire to the policemen. Crushing his fingers around the chest sensor Titan attempts to throw it into the spider on the couter.

The rounds from the humanoid robot's arm-mounted gun shatter as they hit Titan Omega's chest. He forces his way to the mech, and grasps its chest sensor. The spider bot is firing on the S.W.A.T. team, and they are taking cover near the door. One cop was hit, but in the chest, where his Kevlar absorbed most of the impact. He had to take out that bot.

He threw the humanoid robot at the spider on the counter. It struck sparks, it hit so hard. Both mechs tumbled off the counter, and into the teller area. The S.W.A.T. team immediately surrounded the hostages, and began to usher them out of the bank.

Titan could hear the scuttling of the metal limbs on the tile, behind the counter. Down, but not out, it seemed.

Titan flew up in a flash, and dropped hard with all his speed and weight, attempting to land on the droids and crush them through the floor. He could still hear something underground and he wasn't going to let these guard bots distract him and let the bad guy get away.

((Hyperflight slam, full Mega Str + Irresistable force. adds + 10 damage for purposes of knockback (in this case directly into the ground for immediate extra damage) and Mega Str 8 for the purposes of blasting through the floor.))

Titan lands squarely on the tangled machines as they try to scuttle away. They are no match for his bulk and strength. They crush easily beneath his weight. More, he propels them, and himself, through the floor of the bank.

Driving through the earth, towards the sound of tunnelling that he hears, Titan feels the two mechs twist and shred under his feet. He breaks through into an open tunnel. Behind him, the machine looks reassuringly familiar. It is a drilling machine, the main body a vaguely rectangular vehicle with a cone-shaped nose lined with spinning bits. A second later, Titan realizes that he has never actually seen such a thing outside of comic books and sci-fi movies. There is no one driving it, it seems automated. It continues drilling, about 3 feet a second. Fast little bugger.

Satified by the crunchy metal that was formerly a threat safely ground beneath his heel Adam takes stock of the tunnel.

As I suspected... he thinks regarding the tunnel boring machine.

Better check on the vault...easy enough to catch up with this one in a sec...

Titan flies back up through the hole in the floor he just created and makes his way to investigate the drilling sound he can still hear coming from the main vault.

He flies through the tunnel, first horizontal then straight up. He comes up out of the hole, in the rear of the bank. In front of him, some crazy contraption is attached to the front of the vault. The drilling sound is coming from it, but as he watches, the drilling stops. A waldoe extrudes from the contraption, and spins the lock wheel. The vault begins to open.

Titan moves forward, to stop the weird contraption. Out of the corner of his eye, he catches sight of what looks like a Harley Davidson motorcycle. He starts to turn his head, and catches a tire across the face. A glancing blow, but floating in the air doesn't give a lot of traction. He flies across the room, and slams into the wall of the bank. He sees the huge robot, the torso made from a Harley, the legs seem to be hydrolics from some industrial vehicle. It lumbers towards him.

"Ugh!" Titan flies back as he eats rubber.

Of course it doesn't really hurt, but getting wheelied in the head tends to be shocking the first time it happens to you. Lunging for the harley he attempts a repeat of his previous maneuver, throwing it into the drilling droid so that both of them smash the vault door closed, preventing them from entering.

His throw succeeds in smashing the drilling droid into the vault, and closing the vault. The larger robot, however, rises up from the ground, shivers once, and attempts to open the vault.

Adam rushes up behind the Bike-bot and bear hugs it, attempting to crush it's torso.

((Clinch for damage))

Titan clinches the motorcycle robot's torso, and feels it easily bend under his massive arms, then the critical point was reached, and it crushes. As he lets it drop to the floor of the bank, the S.W.A.T. team charged into the back room to secure the area.

The immediate threats neutralized, Adam flies out to meet with Officer Sheffield. Floating a foot off the ground, his cape billowing in the breeze, the behemoth cuts an imposing and heroic figure. Truly larger than life.

"They weren't Novas but robots...looked like they had been kitbashed together from spare parts. That means that someone is controlling them by remote and should be in the area. There is a drilling machine undrerground heading that way." The Titan indicates the direction. Give me a moment and I will see if I can locate the signal source.

((Use radio scan to try and find the tranmission frequency.))

After casting about for a bit, T.O. was able to pinpoint the frequency being used and determine the direction from which it came. He began following the transmission. It took him north. After just a few moments he arrived at a rundown building in downtown San Francisco. Inside he could hear the sounds of metal against metal, and a man humming 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' under his breath. Aside from the transmission, a peculiar humming sound was being emitted.

His radio coming to life, Officer Sheffiled is surprised to hear the Titan's voice comming through on the official channel.

-"I've tracked the signal source to a location in the Tenderloin, near the intersection of Turk and Taylor. Would you like me to wait until your units can surround the buidling or shall I engage now? It's your case and your call Officer. I'm just here to help."-

Adam was pleased with himself, having had to construct a suitably heroic character and "voice" to match his imposing exterior.

Titan hears over the radio waves:


"Er... if there is no sign of overt action, do not engage. I say again, DO NOT ENGAGE. We are sending units your way."

Inside the house, the humming of the Britney Spears song abruptly stops. The unusual humming noise, however, gets more intense. Suddenly, bursting through the roof of the house, a man encased in metal rises up through the air to attack Titan.

As he gets closer, T.O. can see that it is not, in fact, a man, but an android. An honest to God android. Crudely welded, and obviously unfinished, but it seems to work fine as far as he can tell. It's metal body is black iron, and Titan can just tell that a punch from that thing will pack a wallop. Dr. Mad Scientist Guy must have been monitoring police frequencies. Oh well, when has this gig ever been easy so far?

To make matters worse, Titan realizes that lunch period is over... he's gonna be late for Civics class.

Aw crap!

-"Sorry Chief, no can do, the situation just got hostile!"-

I don't have time for this shit! Adam thought with growing frustration

Charging his muscles with even more power, Titan does an aerobatic backflip, effectively attempting to flash-kick the robotic monstrosity into orbit.

((Another 5 juice to Irresistable Force (10 juice on IF so far). Total of 17 juice spent. 9 remaining. With an arial strike that should give him a total knockback rating of...54! I am assuming we are using the cinematic option for knockback in my post.))

Titan flips, and his feet catch the android perfectly in the chest. It flies up, and up, until even the Titan has trouble making out where it went. He looks down at the house. The front door has banged open, and an old man, wispy white hair and curly white beard, dressed in striped pajamas and a stained robe is aiming the biggest effing gun that Adam has ever seen, right at Titan.

"You sonofawhore! I'll kill you, you bastard!"

He fires, and a circle of green plasma rushes up at the Titan Omega.

Adam almost laughed when he saw the man running out of the building, he looked so iconically the part of the mad scientist. Why don't thet ever shave? Apparently the whole 'Mad' part of it meant an utter disregard to personal grooming habits...

Oh well, no time to mess about now. Adam attempts to dodge as best he can. If he is able to avoid being hit, he makes a mad dash down to the old man and attempts to disarm him of his uber-canon. How the decrepit old man could even lift the thing was beyond him. If he should be struck full force by the green plasma, he will do his best to roll with the hit, gritting his teeth and attempting to disarm the man as quickly as possible at his next opportunity before anyone else gets hurt.

Adam dodges the plasma bolt with room to spare. He is next to the old man in a flash. He snatches the weapon out of the old man's hands with ease. He hears sirens approaching.

The old man reaches out suddenly, and grasps Titan Omega's arm. His eyes are full of tears, and he gropes with his other hand under the grimy robe. He looks unbelieving up in Titan's face, then shifts his gaze to the sky.

"Household...," he begins, dropping to one knee. His grip slips until he is holding Adam's wrist. He gasps, "...Helper."

Suddenly, Adam notices that the man is gripping the left side of his chest under the robe. As the wailing sirens get closer, the old man lets go of his wrist and collapses slowly onto the grass.

With quickness and grace, Adam-the-Titan catches the old man in mid-fall. Cradling him in one arm, he contacts the police force over their channel, using his hyperfrequency ability.

*The suspect has collapsed, likely due to cardiac arrest. I will fly him to the nearest hospital while you cordone off the crime scene and investigate the equipment he has here. Of note are a prottype plasma weapon and the transmitter he was using to control the robots. I banished one of his attack droids into far orbit but beware, there may be further traps...*

And with that, Titan attunes the fading ancient inventor and flies with all speed toward the nearest emegency room. Much to the shock and awe of nearly everyone at the triage center, TO appears instantly with his corresponding blast of wind.

"This man has collapsed from suspected cardiac arrest, pulse negative. He requires immediate attention," The Titan booms as he lays the man onto the nearest gurney. To the police officer on duty at the ER, he adds, "He is also the prime suspect in an ongoing robbery investigation. Please see that he is kept under guard and watched."