The Park, Saturday afternoon into evening

[fh_test]

After helping the squirrels to bring the radio's backup generator online, Anakin headed towards the Park, levitating dead sharks with him as he went and occassionally using one to intercept a freshly falling one.

It was a look.

He arrived at the park looking like a drowned rat and glanced around hopefully for other idiots out in the middle of a freaking hurricane who wanted to...freeze...sharks...for some reason.

What were the people in the library smoking?

[OOC: This is open to everyone, even if you didn't sign up for one of the teams! Get as nutty/creative as you want to about this: build some freeze rays, show off your magical freezing abilities, break into giant Luke's freezer, etc. All are welcome!]

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[sith_happened]

Anakin was there with his lightsaber and his increasingly large pile of dead sharks.

You know, a typical Saturday.

[goforthe_optics]

Right, so Tali wasn't going to help come up with a plan as harebrained as this one and then not help with . . . the harebrained-ness.

She arrived at the park in a borrowed rickshaw (the driver didn't want to come outside into the rain of sharks, and she couldn't blame her, and she also didn't think the driver would mind under the circumstances) full of parts she'd grabbed from the junkyard, a pistol in one hand and her shotgun magclamped to her back, and set to work.

Building a shark-catching tractor beam.

A couple more trips back to the junkyard later, she had enough scrap metal to cobble together a large flash-freezer of sorts that she rigged up to catch whatever the tractor beam pulled in.

At least she could say it was a new and different test of her engineering abilities? Not to mention a good workout for the mini-fabricator in her omni-tool.

[sith_happened]

"What are you working on?" Anakin yelled over the wind, diverting a hammerhead shark away from Tali and into the lake.

[goforthe_optics]

"Shark tractor bream beam," Tali shouted back. She was using her omni-tool to weld together a couple of sheets of metal, but paused to fire off a couple of pistol rounds at a thresher shark. "And something to freeze them in."

For some reason, she couldn't bring herself to shoot at the mako sharks.

[tigerundercover]

A giant, armored armadillo looking thing the size of a VW Beetle came trundling into the park, dragging a commandeered rickshaw draped with dead sharks. It looked extremely tired and grumpy.

"This might actually be the dumbest thing I've seen on this island yet," Raven grumbled.

And yet, it was also the only one that had managed to make her homeless.

[sith_happened]

"And that is a high bar to clear," Anakin said. "We've also had a dinosaur invasion."

[tigerundercover]

Raven watched a very old looking shark blow by, a much smaller shark wearing a belled cap clinging to its tail.

"If they weren't brought on by a tropical storm, I don't wanna hear about it."

She looked at Anakin suspiciously.

"The wind is hard enough to blow great whites around. How are you standing?"

[merchant_of_miracles]

The Merchant's house might be demolished again, but, miraculously, the very basic nature of it that made it a cart remained in tact...for now. Four wheels and the bottom, and landed perfectly on top of it, the homewrecker shark herself. After hearing the radio announcement, he bribed the unicorns with a promise of cupcakes, hooked thrm up, and thry rolled on over to the park.

"One shark, coming right up!" he announced from behind the reins. "How much are we gettin' for these babies? Cause I got about three more of 'em at the store."

[sith_happened]

"I'm not sure," Anakin said, frowning thoughtfully. "Or who would be the one providing money."

[merchant_of_miracles]

"So....." the Merchant said slowly. "....no money? We're just bringin' in our well-earned sharks for free?"

[2_old_for_this]

Peter had been all around the island killing sharks today. He kind of wished someone had mentioned needing them first, but whatever. He came back to the park with a pile of sharks in tow via a bubble of purple magic, and another eight-footer draped over his shoulders.

"Where are we putting these, and what are we doing with them?"

[sith_happened]

"We're putting them here, and so far I have no idea why," Anakin said. "There's some kind of plan."

[2_old_for_this]

Peter sighed and dropped the sharks where he'd indicated.

"Do we know when we find out the plan?"

[thatsweirdright]

When the sharks had started... raining... Jason had figured that, well. Maybe it wasn't evil aliens this time, but fighting off sharks that were falling from the sky thanks to evil (okay, maybe evil was a strong word, but morally dubious, for sure) talking loan sharks surely counted as a responsible use of Ranger powers, right?

So he'd called up his armor and spent a good portion of the day punching sharks in the face. And now apparently they needed some of them in the park for some reason? So he found a tarp and bundled as many sharks as he could in to it before flinging it over his shoulder and hauling it to the park. Kind of like Santa with a sack of toys except instead of Santa it was a Red Power Ranger and instead of toys it was various dead or unconscious sharks.

"So... what are we doing with these, exactly?" he asked. The person who he'd got the message from hadn't exactly been too clear on details. Which... was probably because they'd heard it from someone who'd heard it from someone who'd heard the radio broadcast that had cut off before that detail could be shared.

[ooc: jason's identity as the person underneath that red armor is nfb, but everything else is good!]

[sith_happened]

"Figuring out how to freeze them," Anakin said. "Don't suppose you have a freeze ray on that suit?"

[thatsweirdright]

"If there is, I haven't figured out how to access it," Jason admitted apologetically.

He was still very, very new to this superheroing thing!

[spell_chucker]

Khadgar was more of an arcane mage than a frost mage, but he knew enough spells to freeze any sharks people had lying around.

He'd zapped a few himself, but he was saving most of his energy for freezing, if anyone needed it.

[sith_happened]

Anakin waved with the small shark he'd snatched out of the sky. You know, as you do. "Here to help?"

[spell_chucker]

Khagdar blinked a little, but in his defense, he wasn't used to seeing Anakin be quite so badass in real time. "I'd like to, yes. The radio said something about freezing the sharks? Are we trying to slow them down?"

[cracksmostly]

The good news was, Merrill made it out of the preserve eventually!

The bad news was, she ended up in town instead of at the dorms.

But that was all right; she knew enough elemental magic to freeze sharks, and would be more than happy to assist in that regard.

If very, very confused.

[sith_happened]

"Here to help or just really lost?" Anakin checked.

[cracksmostly]

"Well . . . lost, mainly," admitted Merrill because there was no point in pretending otherwise. "But I might as well help, since I'm here! Poor sharks, they're more lost than I am, I'm sure, but what do you need me to do?"

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka disclaimed all responsibility for this, she only provided the caf.

And now a bunch of bisected sharks, but they'd come after the defeat a hurricane with frozen seafood idea.

[sith_happened]

"Ahsoka!" Anakin called out, looking relieved to see her. "What are we doing with frozen sharks?"

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka levitated all her sharks over towards him. "Throwing them at the hurricane, Master."

Because that was a nice, non insane plan.