MLE Battle Royal bridge (Open)

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"Breaking news, The Brooklyn bridge is going to be the site for something special tonight."

As the sun goes down to start the night a quiet clam was heard throughout the city but not for long. A large traffic jam breaks out on the Brooklyn Bridge. The sound of something leaping off of car roofs comes up to a large semi truck and stops.

It is none other than the Lizard. He moved quickly and grabbed the truck driver out of the Semi truck and held him up in the air by his neck. He gan to squeeze the mans neck. He tightens his grip almost completely choking the driver.

"Where is he? Sp...Spider-man is not here. Not...helping monkey brain. Oh, I am going to release your cargo." The Lizard tosses the man over the side then leaps to the back of the truck that was heading to the reptile exhibit. He busts open the back doors and begins freeing the reptiles most of which were snakes, then he came across a large saltwater crocodile. The Reptiles begin exiting all over the bridge. He breaks open the container holding the Saltwater Crocodile."You are all free now."

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Matt was sitting in the passenger seat of a large black heat duty Ford truck that had a V-8 engine under the hood. He was drumming his fingers on the dashboard out of annoyance as he gave the driver a ‘you kidding me right now?’ look. It had always been family tradition to tell jokes during road trips, but the one his father just did...

”Come on Pops! That was one of the worst dad jokes you’ve ever said!”

In the driver seat was his father Luke, an elderly man that was balding and had a thick white beard... and enough muscle to make The Rock feel out done. Just because the old fart was retired and in his 70’s didn’t mean that he was down and out. The old man just grinned. ”Oh you think you could do better?”

Matt rolled his eyes. ”‘What did the super hero with a lisp say when he was done at the gym? I’m Thor.’ Funny but bad! And an insult to one of the first Avengers! Yeah I can do better!”

”Then do so!”

”What’s a sniper’s favorite candy?”

”Bulleyes. I gave you that one! What do you call a cow with all of it’s legs cut off?”

”Ground beef. That joke was a bit of a mouthful. Speaking of which, what do you get when you cross a cow and a porcupine?”

”A steak with a built in toothpick.”

As they continued to make bad jokes, the truck pulled onto the Brooklyn Bridge where they quickly encountered grid lock.

”What do you call a water logged Hulk?”

”Green around the gills. What do you call a scientist that studies soda?”

”A fizzisicist. Why did a man refuse to take the elevator?”

”Lizard.”

”Wha? No the answer is because he thought the elevators were always up to something.”

Matt pointed. ”No. Look. It’s the Lizard. On top of those cars.” Luke followed Matt’s extended arm and saw the Lizard jump into a truck in the opposing traffic.

”Get going. I’ll be fine.”

Matt nodded, had his shape shifting outfit turn into his Vanguardian uniform and helmet, and jumped out of the trucks sunroof and started to use constructs of chains with grasping claws to swing over towards the truck the Lizard was in. When he saw what the Lizard was doing he tried to talk to the Lizard as he would a human. If this could be solved without violence then great!

”Lizard!” Vanguard called out when he reached the back from the truck and landed on it, the six eyes of his helmet’s visor locked onto the humanoid reptile. ”Is freeing your friends on this bridge the wise choice? They have no food, no water, and no shelter here on this bridge. Couldn’t we take them to a different location before releasing them?”

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Is freeing your friends on this bridge the wise choice? They have no food, no water, and no shelter here on this bridge. Couldn’t we take them to a different location before releasing them?”

The Lizard was sort of caught off guard. He knew something was up. The Lizard looked at the New Comer, he stuck his tongue out and back. "You smell different from the monkey brains. Freedom isss a right to all, do you want to be locked in a cage ssstranger, so people can see you are not like them. There is food on this bridge for some, as for water look over the side of the bridge. You know my name SSStanger what is yours?"

The Lizard looked down past the newcomer. Then at the end where the accident that was causing this mayhem was at, many people began to get out of there cars others stayed in them as the snakes and other reptiles spread out. Then some of the poisonous snakes headed toward the stranger Vanguard."Tell me, this is your last chance, Ssstranger what is your name? Also are with me this will be so much easier."

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Matt looked down and slowly nodded. ”I’m not arguing against the right to freedom, just saying that it could’ve been given to these creatures in a better way. I don’t know what it’s like to live in a cage, but I do know what it’s like to have people stare at you while being on the end of a leash; it’s demeaning, and it’s scary. Don’t know how I put up with it for 3 years.” He paused before adding ”My name is Vanguardian, but Vanguard or Van will do.”

Matt shrugged at the Lizard’s response to the food issue. ”The one’s that eat bugs might have food, but the carnivorous species of reptile will have little to eat save for the other reptiles you’ve released. There is nothing for the fruit eating reptiles.” Vanguard then pointed at a turtle that was trying to walk away from the saltwater crocodile. ”Case in point. Also how is that turtle supposed to get to the water all the way down there before he dies of thirst? Fall? And the saltwater crocodile needs saltwater to survive, and there isn’t any here.”

Matt bent over and scooped up the turtle before the crocodile could bite down on the slow animal and break his shell, only for his arm to be beaten. Matt shook his head saying ”That cannot taste good.” Indeed, the crocodile quickly let go as if it tasted something horrid and backed away, a few teeth missing. Standing back up and waking towards the Lizard and ignoring the snakes since he was immune to their venom, he address the being before him as an equal, not a villain. He had to somehow defuse the situation before it became a battle. He wasn’t Spider-Man; he was more durable and had more combat options but he wasn’t as strong or as fast.

”I know you mean well, heck I made the same mistake when I was on a different planet. Released a bunch of critters into a place they would be safe only for their main predators to live in the area. How about we take all these reptiles to a place they can not just survive but thrive? We can use the truck to take them to a nearby forest and take the croc to the shore where there’s plenty of saltwater for him? It will also stop all of the humans from panicking.”

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The Brooklyn Bridge was a wonderful place for a jumpy man like the Toad to spend an evening dreaming.

That is, of course, until the traffic gums up and blaring horns break any good trance a person might be trying to keep.

Mortimer had been at the top of one of the bridge's towers, nursing a happy drunkenness at the hands of a bottle of American whiskey. He figured he would either pass out into a blissful spinning slumber, or fall off of the tower and not have to worry about anything anymore, but some commotion below disrupted either of those happenings quite rudely.

He peered over the edge, seeing a pretty typical New York sight of people running away from a super-powered showdown. Some big green loser against some “hero” that, especially at this distance, Mort had zero idea who was. Grumbling, the mutant decided to give this hooligans a piece of his mind.

Bottle in hand, he bounded forward from the tower onto one of the suspension cables, throwing himself over the side and repeating the action for each massive cable quite deftly and nimbly for someone of his husky build. As he neared, he began to recognize the green beast that had… liberated a truck of zoo animals? The Lizard, a foe of Toad's all time favorite hero Spider-Man.

On the lowest cable, he pushed himself like a human-shaped bullet in the direction of the hero type. He spun in the air without hurting his velocity and landed with a hefty thud on a car roof beside this hero, denting the roof but himself moving as if he had landed like a feather. He banged the whiskey bottle against the car windows to try and disturb the stranger's speech.

”Hi, yes, hello! I'm going to interrupt you, I hope that's alright.” Toad used his bottle to point at the Lizard. ”That is my favorite person's arch nemesis. Well, one of them, rather. And I want to fight him. Really, really bad.” He smiled like a child asking for candy money. ”I’m the terrible Toad, by the way. You might know me from my exploits as a mutant terrorist, but that's all behind me!” he laughed and took a deep swig from his precious bottle.

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”Case in point. Also how is that turtle supposed to get to the water all the way down there before he dies of thirst? Fall? And the saltwater crocodile needs saltwater to survive, and there isn’t any here.”

The Lizard looked at this guy and releazed he was crazier then him. He looked over at as some of the reptiles attacked him.The Lizard shook his head this guy was not going to help him.

”I know you mean well, heck I made the same mistake when I was on a different planet. Released a bunch of critters into a place they would be safe only for their main predators to live in the area. How about we take all these reptiles to a place they can not just survive but thrive? We can use the truck to take them to a nearby forest and take the croc to the shore where there’s plenty of saltwater for him? It will also stop all of the humans from panicking.”

"Ssspare me the... diplomacy, my kind deserve to be free...yes sssurvival of the fittest. Vanguardian what are you, an Alien that guards vans very... strange? I must capture you then to experiment on you." The Lizard began to approach the Alien. He was about to attack when someone else showed up.

”Hi, yes, hello! I'm going to interrupt you, I hope that's alright. That is my favorite person's arch nemesis. Well, one of them, rather. And I want to fight him. Really, really bad. I’m the terrible Toad, by the way. You might know me from my exploits as a mutant terrorist, but that's all behind me!”

"Toad you are with me right. Rrrrr...I thought Norman was going to build a wall and keep you, aliens, out.
Lizard looked over and Toad was pointing a bottle at him. The Lizard was now trying to get inside the Toads head. He began trying to compel the Toad to attack this alien.
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"The name is the Lizard. Who in the reptilian hell did this Toad guy think he was challenging the Lizard, 'King of Reptiles'. Rrrrrr... When I'm done with Vanguardian, where did he get his name any way a children's card game? Toad you must learn your place."

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Okay, so the diplomacy route wasn’t working. ”Everyone deserves freedom, that’s why I tried talking to you first instead of just attacking you for creating a public disturbance. However clearly I need practice when it comes to diplomacy.” he then slowly raises his hands so they were level with his waist and had them half open as what appeared to be sapphire colored talons extended out from his gloved fingers. ”And no one is experimenting on me. An alien race did that already, to the point that I would no longer classify as human. No labs for me, thank you very much!”

That’s when they had a party crasher, in the form of Toad. ”Yeah I heard of you, but you missed your opportunity to say ‘I have the death sentence in twelve systems.’ Look if your time of causing terror is over then let us keep this to a dialog. This doesn’t have end in a fight.”

Locking his eyes on Lizard, the gemstone knight held his ground. ”Ball’s in your court. Are you going to accept the olive branch and keep talking or are you going to burn it? I’m not denying your reptilian friends here their freedom, only suggesting they have it some place where they won’t be harmed.”

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The Toad met the Lizard's yellow gaze and felt something weird interfering with his usual depressed or anxious line of thought. He was hoping for a fight, sure, but he was going to wait for some semblance of permission, except suddenly he wasn't quite feeling like waiting. Toad, of course, spent so much time in his own brain that he knew when someone was intruding. Fanboy as he was, he was reminded of the Lizard's telepathic skill, inciting people to act on some savage impulse. But this was the big scaley foe's first mistake.

”Haha! I have to say, that's a pretty brilliant move! Really cool to be getting all this first-hand!” Mortimer laughed. Just because he liked Spidey best didn't mean he hated these nemesis types. ”But you take me for a bloke capable of acting before thinking. No 'lizard-brain’ here my friend! Despite my amphibious affinity, I'm all 'monkey-brain’!” For Mortimer had a terrible habit of overthinking everything. He was bluffing just a touch, though, because the impulse to try and kick-out the hulking reptile was getting increasingly difficult to ignore. He had resistance, sure, but not immunity.

But then this guy here, Mr. Death-Sentence-In-Twelve-Systems! His comments kind of peeved Mort, even if they were sort of kind of very true. Maybe because he took actual offense from his criminal history being pointed out by a total stranger, or perhaps the Lizard was being successful in rewiring his responses to such things?

”I really am done with the whole terror bit-” until someone else recruits me he mentally added. ”But I really want to attack you for being rude to me, but you haven't really been, but I think our friend over there is making me feel this way, but… well, you can see my trouble?” He smiled sheepishly, his speech sounding very stream-of-consciousness. ”And seeing as ‘the ball’ is his, well… doesn’t that mean we have to tackle him?”

The Toad back-flipped off of the car and threw aside his bottle. The car between himself and this Vanguardian, he landed on his hands intending to kick the car in the hero's way to buy him a little time and maybe get the first hit in. But, reminding himself of what inebriation does to one's hand-eye coordination, he stumbled and missed. Cursing, he shot straight for the Lizard, with little planning other than to try and land a solid round-house into the villain's head.

While he was flying, a realisation hit him,

...ah shoot, he was making a basketball reference…

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”King of the Reptiles, meet the shin of the Terrible Toad-King of the Amphibians!”

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. ”But I really want to attack you for being rude to me, but you haven't really been, but I think our friend over there is making me feel this way, but… well, you can see my trouble? And seeing as ‘the ball’ is his, well… doesn’t that mean we have to tackle him?”

The Lizard looked at him he seemed to be resisting his thrall. The Lizard had a few of the larger constrictor snakes to try and wrap up Vanguardian."Rrrr... your witless banter annoys me Guardian of Vans. Toad we must sstick together, he does not care. He is more worried about the people than the fellow reptiles don't let him fool you. We matter, Reptiles livess matter!!"

The Lizard quickly was taken off guard as the toad attack him. He then was hit in the head with a quick roundhouse kick to the head. The Lizard was stunned for a moment. The Lizard reflex was to slash the Toad with his tail before he hit the ground but the Lizard held back, he basically swung his tail hard enough to knock Toad out of his way if it connected. He shook his head after contact was made. Lizard leaped out of the area, onto a few roofs ignoring the Toad for the moment heading towards Vanguard as more snakes approached him.