The Park, Friday Afternoon

[gambles_everything]

It was probably best not to ask where mayor Faden had found that much raw meat. Or what might happen to it later. But it was there, in the park, not far from where the beasts' portal had first appeared.

And it was working.

Weremongooses, werebeavers and werepigs, all came skulking out of the shadows to find the hoard. They were hungry, and some of the locals were chewy, you see.

They had no idea what was waiting for them.

[[ fighty post! open. ]]

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FIGHT!

[gambles_everything]

You wanted to get your loved ones back, Fandom? Well, here was your chance: a whole park, full of angry werebeasts, possibly even ones you recognized.

Go.

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[not_a_goddamn_princess]

WHO WANTED A FIGHT?

Okay, it wasn't ideal that Margo wasn't able to say so. But she thought that loud, angry growl-sniffle-noise came close enough. She reared up on her back legs and flared out her spines.

ANYBODY?!

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[sith_happened]

Well, Anakin was not known for making amazing choices, so sure, bring on the wereporcupine!

"Come on over," he said with a grin, dropping his cloak into a dramatic puddle on the ground. The traditions must be maintained!

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[not_a_goddamn_princess]

A challenger!! Margo snarled-hissed-some-kind-of-noise. She did not wait. She did not pace around him.

She just ran right at him.

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[designateddadfriend]

Travis had spent his life angry and unwilling to do much about it.

The last few days? He'd been doing so much about it! It was great! (You know, for now. He'd be feeling so bad about all of it later when he was back to his normal self.) Especially when he had a mouth full of raw meat to gnaw on as he smashed things and swiped at people.

He was living his best werehedgehog life right now. Especially if someone wanted to fight him at the same time.

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[grenadesandohana]

Steve had found a tranquilizer gun and had checked to make sure it worked by incapacitating, well, most of the Troopers at the station. They'd turned into a flock of wereseagulls and no one needed to deal with that.

"Right. I don't want to hurt you but I've gotten good at it," he told the werehedgehog. "Um. You there. Citizen or possibly squirrel."

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[designateddadfriend]

Travis snarled. Why were you such a weenie, Steve? Hurting was what fighting was all about!

He lowered his brow-quills and charged!

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[special_rabbit]

Just watch out! This was no ordinary rabbit! It was, quite possibly, the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you'd ever set eyes on! This rabbit had a vicious streak a mile wide, she was a killer! She had huge, shaaarp...

...She could leap about...

Just look at the bones!

Best not risk a frontal attack! This rabbit was dynamite!

Somehow zooming across the park in as a bloodthirsty (but adorable) furry bullet of carnage!

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[heroic_jawline]

Right, so a were-elephant went through his house yesterday (it was fine, Jane--okay, not fine, but an accident) and so Steve had nothing to wear but his prototype suit without the cape because Patriot had stolen it for bedding last night. The point was that Steve was now Quite Done with all of this, even if the rabbit was quite adorable in its ferocity. "Okay, let's do this," he said, settling into a fighting stance.

And preparing to punch a bunny. His life.

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[special_rabbit]

Amaya had, for a brief moment, gotten a bit distracted by some clover as she landed after her latest dart across the park, but her ears perked as she felt some other presence looming nearby. With a squeak, she lifted her head; her nose twitched a little in the air a little as if sniffing him out. And then, with barely a second of bared teeth, she jumped...nay, launched herself up and toward Steve, with sharp pointy teeth and little bunny claws bared and going straight for the jugular.

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[hatesparadise]

Aaaand there was a gopher. But he was angry and here to destroy everything!

Mostly it amounted to digging a hole, but he was trying.

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[grenadesandohana]

Werehog/weregopher team-up!

Wait, no, just a werehog running past making terrifying werehog noises.

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[hatesparadise]

HECK YEAH. It was time to destroy this town with their combined wrath! None could possibly hope to stop them!

Not even... the Cheese Panda.

Gopher!Danny scrambled out of his very nefarious and useful in a fight hole to leap onto Steve's back.

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[napking]

Had you ever seen an enraged sloth before? Well, now you had. And he was here to fuck shit up...just as quickly as he was capable of, which might still not be that quick.

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[imafuturist]

"This... doesn't seem fair," Tony and his highly advanced, mechanical armor said.

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[napking]

It was definitely not fair!...to Tony, if you asked were-Gray, who was advancing on Tony remarkably quickly for a sloth, it must be said.

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[stykera]

Oh no. Here came a wereraccoon and his little cultists wearing their shiny masks following behind him and cheering.

He was ignoring them, for the most part. There were other things to focus on. Like delicious meat! And maybe people to bite and scratch!

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer, tranq gun still on her hip, but clearly favoring a nice metal bat for the time being, hadn't planned on coming to the park, but, after knocking Shunsui out for a third time at the store, she'd found herself chasing after the cheese panda charging through the streets in a rage, especially since, honestly? She still wasn't sure if this was a werepanda kind of rage or just because he was pissed about what happened to all the cheese. So she followed him in hot pursuit, ready for the moment when his own claws turned toward unaffected Fandomites rather than cute little murder animals.

She did had to stop, for a moment, when she spotted the flock of raccoons.

"Well," she murmured with a shake of her head, "at least we know which wereraccoon that is."

Now to figure out if she should step in and give him a good smack with her bat for his own good or just...

No, she should, shouldn't he? He'd like, totally understand. Better her than someone else, right?

Summer sighed, clocked that the cheese panda was still plowing through animals, not people, and readjusted her grip.

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[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Trundling in skittishly after the wereporcupine was an UTTERLY TERRIFIEDYING wereloris!

It stared with big eyes at everything and went for the meat. Maybe if it was quick, no-one would notice it?

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[needsacatchphrase]

"Oh my god, it's so cute!" Jane! Focus, please.

The Werepanda

[gambles_everything]

It was chaos out here. Dozens of werebeasts, fighting and mauling and rampaging. Creatures of all kinds. Scales and claws and jaws. And yet-- above them all towered the largest and the meanest.

The panda.

The were-thing threw back its head and roared, challenging any and all to dare to come near. It would win. It knew it would.

[[ for them whose fighting it, after some preplay ]]

Re: The Werepanda

[gambles_everything]

	And where one panda roared, another....well, the cheese panda didn't exactly roar. He was far more the strong, silent type, but his rage and anger over what had been done to his precious cheese section at the store during these past few days knew no bounds! And it felt, in a way...appropriate. Logical. Balanced, that one who should step out of the chaos to meet this chaos, with a steady, determined gait and a glare behind those black-rimmed eyes, would indeed be another panda, this one thirsty...for revenge.
	Duke was close behind. He just had to take a second to pinch the bridge of his nose and groan first. “This goddamn town.” Then he stepped up to square off. “Hey bèn dàn!” he shouted. There were worse Mandarin insults he knew, but somehow calling this creature the Mandarin equivalent of ‘moron’ just felt right.
	"This town gets ever more absurd," Lana agreed. She had her lightsaber out but not lit yet. "I don't even know if I should attack, or sit back and watch with popcorn."
	The werepanda did not care. The werepanda saw... a rival. A panda, untouched by curse. It would not stand. Or rather, it did stand, stretching out on its hind legs and letting out another almighty roar-- and then ran. Claws first, jaw open, fixating only on its new nemesis.
	Even face with such a clearly boisterous display of grandstanding, the cheese panda did not respond in kind. The cheese panda's revenge at the offences done to his cheeses this last few days was, like most of the cheese themselves, a dish best served cold. So he did stand his ground now, waiting, watching. Calculating, for the time the other panda was close enough for him to just reach out and try to meet that charge and stop it....with a slap to his ugly panda face.
	Duke brought his gun up -- but the . . . good guy panda? How was that a phrase he was dealing with today? . . . was kind of in his shot. "Dude, out of the way so I can shoot him please?!"
	Lana lit her saber, reached out with the Force, and pushed the evil panda to one side, to hopefully give them both a better chance to reach him. Not that she was afraid to go through the cheese panda if necessary, but it was generally best not to cripple your own allies. No matter how weird about cheese they were.
	First came the slap, smacking the werepanda in the face. Spittle rained down on the floor, and its red eyes flared up with deep rage. But before it could strike– —something flung it to the side. It tripped, fell to one knee, but it was as fast as it was strong. It didn’t take more than a moment to get back on its feet.
	It was a good slap; it was a satisfying slap, and a slap like that could have easily been followed by another one, maybe slipping in one more before the cheese panda maybe let the human with the gun have a go at it, too. After all, there would be enough of this other panda to go around. But then he was flung out of slapping range, and the cheese panda's somewhat dull and lifeless eyes seemed to glare a little. Maybe he could still get a good kick in the butt, though, especially as the other panda got up from his knees. A kick in the butt, for good measure, before, reluctantly, stepping back to let the others have a go.
	Good plan, panda friend, because Duke was already firing. Shot after shot, aimed at the werepanda’s central mass. Fucker wanted to mess with his people, did it?
	And right after that bullet came a burst of lightning reaching out to the werepanda, fueled by annoyance, rage, and sheer outrage at the stupidity of it even existing.
	The thing about that kick in the butt as the panda was rising was– well, it went stumbling forward again. The bullet pinged off of the ground behind it, and it finally rose. To the faint scent of electrified, burning fur, yes. But it was angry, and its anger was hard to thwart with something as simple as force lightning. It roared again– and launched itself straight at Lana and her burning mess of whatever-it-was.
	Would mid-launch be a good time to try a panda-to-panda body slam interception? Because the cheese panda seemed to think that mid-launch was a good time to try panda-to-panda body slam inception, really.
	Oh well ow. One minute, the panda was leaping. The next? Being slammed all the way to the side. And into the floor, just a few seconds later, due to the inescapable pull of gravity. „RAWR!”
	Blunt force seemed to be working better. And it had worked a treat on Octavia (though he tried really hard not to think about that too hard). So once the nice panda had the bad panda on the ground, Duke flipped his gun in his hand and swung down at the bad panda's head with the butt of it. Huh. You know? He hadn't ever actually pistol whipped anyone before. Let alone basically the poster child for endangered species everywhere.
	Lana didn't really do blunt force, and with the pandas on top of each other, lightning was a bad idea. So instead she reached out with the Force and pinned the werepanda down to give the others more of a chance to attack.

Re: The Werepanda

[gambles_everything]

Ow! That hurt! The werepanda snarled, flailing fruitlessly under the weight of the cheese panda.

It would get them! It would get them all!

OOC

[gambles_everything]

Why did everything decide to happen today at the same time.

Re: OOC

[designateddadfriend]

Because that is the way of the BDE, alas.