Put Away the Toys

[Audrey]

It seemed haunting rumors stuck to Stephanie like glue. If it wasn't a haunted mansion, it was an abandoned factory that had mysterious noises coming from it. The latter of which was the case in fact. Krank Co. Toys at one point had a manufacturing location here in Jump City. Stephanie remembered the location in Gotham with it's giant creepy teddy bear statue on the sign. Like Gotham's location, the Jump City location shut down quite some time ago. Labor strikes and general lazy policies of Krank Co. left all the machinery and half finished merchandise alive and rotting in the building, so of course rumors had begun to go around about said machinery coming to life and raucous cheering from the factory.

Much like the last haunting she went and investigated, she was pretty sure it was just overactive imaginations at work but... as the last investigation also taught her, truth was sometimes stranger than fiction. Her only worry on this particular patrol though was the fact it was Krank Co. specifically. Until Batman shut the CEO down, the toys were known to attack the children who bought them and everything was a real mess. The last thing she wanted was some nutter to pick up the CEO's trail and sick an army of deadly toys onto her. Talk about a resume builder. "2014: Defeated army of villainous toys. Supervisor: Batgirl | Cell Phone: Unknown"

As she approached the factory, his initial suspicions seemed correct as the facility was completely dark and silent. There were several doors into the warehouse, but most were either locked or rusted shut from years of being left alone. She didn't have a real chance to think about another method of entry as as soon as she let go of the first door knob she tried to use to get in, the whole building lit up like a solar flare. Voices began to chatter from inside like they'd just been woken up from their sleep. Well, no confirmation on ghosts, but someone had definitely taken up residence in the factory.

Stephanie knew she was going to need the upper hand here as these folks were on their own turf leaving her at a disadvantage. She looked above and saw a nice wedge on the roof she could claw up to. She pulled out her handmade grappling hook and pulled herself up onto the tin roof of the factory and looked for any windows where she could get a view of the inner layout. To her surprise, each and every one had been boarded over from the inside. No wonder no one had been able to investigate; this place was locked up tighter than Gotham Western. Seeing no real other choice, Stephanie busted out some explosive gel Batgirl had given to her, courtesy of Lucius Fox.

She nervously took the canister and gave it a shake as instructed. Her hand shook a little as she sprayed an X onto a portion of the roof. She hobbled over to the other side of the roof at least 30 feet away and held out the detonator. She very meekly looked at the black little button waiting to be pressed. It felt like ages as her thumb slowly descended onto the button. She shut her eyes and clenched her teeth as it pressed, but she was met with nothing in return. She looked over the roof arch and saw the gel had not gone off. Frustrated, she began to walk over, only for the gel to explode just as she got close, throwing her fall flat on her back. A little dazed she sat up and saw she'd knocked open a person sized hole in the tin roof. She looked in and was amazed at the sight that beheld her.

The conveyer belts of the factory were in full operation, pumping out doll arms and legs, and heads, but the most amazing part was that the people piecing together the dolls were dolls themselves. As they finished their assembly, dolls would walk themselves off the belt and start to help the dolls already working. A legion of dolls putting each other together to make more members. If that wasn't creepy she didn't know what was. At the head of the operation was a young girl dressed all in purple with a Victorian flair. The sight of more and more dolls joining ranks seemed to leave her giddy with excitement.

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When Toyman heard the muted explosion, he instinctively bit into the cracker he held between his teeth, and most of it fell to the ground. "I never get to eat my snacks in peace," he sighed. However, he quickly took to pinpointing the source of the noise, and a shiver ran down his spine when he recognized the Krank Co. Factory. The CEO of that company had called himself Toymaster, and he was part of the reason why setting up a shop using Hiro's superhero name would bring the authorities knocking twice a day, ten times out of ten.

Hiro started walking around the building, attempting to find an entrance, but the sealed windows discouraged him only a few seconds later. He was afraid the explosion may have come from inside, and the idea of something big going on within that particular factory was a lot more worrying than a simple break in. When he heard the chatter of multiple voices from inside, he knew trouble was being serially produced inside the building.

Today he was lugging around a relatively small duffel bag with a strap across his shoulder, his regular backpack back at his workshop for repairs. Strapped to his back, he sported a noise-less jet pack instead, and a few directions given to his robots got the thing powered up and ready to go. Within a second he had reached a proper altitude, and used the vantage point to survey the building. The Toyman easily spotted the purple figure on the rooftop against the grey tin, and made sure to drop some spider drones to eavesdrop on whatever the figure was doing.

He ducked under the edge of the tin and went around, attempting to land silently on the other side of the building's rooftop, though his heavy boots did shake the thing quite a bit as he touched down. He pulled out both the gadget that would display whatever the spiders could see, and the open bag of cheese crackers he'd been enjoying a little while ago. This was officially a stakeout, for as long as it lasted.

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Cat didn't really know much about the history of the factory except that a super villain had used to own the place before being shut down. Mr Nos had heard things were going on here and she had been to sent in to look around and possibly shut it down. She doubted that second half of the mission could be completed.

Presently Cat sat in the rafters wrapped in her black cloak watching as toys made toys. Mr. Nos had not been kidding this was a mess waiting to happen, but she doubted he had even predicted this. There had to close to fifty thousand of them made, and another five hundred every hour. She had seen two thousand made since she had been sitting there. The thief was trying to figure out what to do next, she wasn't really equipped handle this kind of mess, when a she was knocked from her perch.

Catastor, freaked and found herself reflexively teleporting right into the bin with a bunch of doll parts. She glared up at the ceiling where a hole had formed, and a girl dressed in a familier purple costume was standing looking in. How badly she wanted to hit her, but now was not the time or place. Cat let herself calm down a moment allowing for her mind to start working again. The last time she had paniced and teleported was in a yakuza den. Oh that hadn't been fun.

She moved carefully, giving herself a view of the factory floor. A thought later she was standing in the corner near offices on the cat walk that over looked the assembly line. The girl in charge of the dolls seemed to have noticed the hole in the roof as a few dolls were moving in that direction and few more were heading her way. She jumped a few more times before ending the internal debate. A moment later she was standing next to the superhero in purple. "Don't attack me, I just want to talk."

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Brian slipped his fingers silently into the little holes of the fence, glancing up at the abandoned facility. He did a quick look-over of the property and took notice of the boarded up windows, and crude graffiti drawings on the outer walls. It was clear that the area had been deserted and left at the mercy of those to who enjoyed vandalism. "Hm.. This must be the place," he whispered to himself. He gazed up at the company logo with a statue of a giant teddy bear placed on top of it.

It was earlier that day, he over heard a few kids going on about the abandoned toy factory and all the neat toys left inside for the taking. He approached the children, asking them about this abandoned toy factory and luckily, they knew exactly where it was. A concerned expression surfaced on each of their faces, as they warned him about how the facility was supposedly haunted. Obviously, that did not stop him. If anything, it only peaked his interest even more.

Brian could feel his excitement growing and could no longer wait. He found a small opening within the fence, letting himself onto the property. He approached a pair of double doors that appeared to be the main entrance to the building. "Free toys, please?!" he cheered with a wide grin in place. He grabbed at the handles and gave a nice big tug, but it was no use. He noticed a rattling sound and realized there were chains wrapped around both handles. His face went red, embarrassed by how he missed such a tiny detail.

He reached up his sleeve, pulling a single sheet of paper from his paper outfit. "Well, I hope they don't mind me letting myself in. And I hope I don't get into trouble for it.." In one swift motion his swiped the sheet of paper over the chains, causing them to fall to the floor in pieces. "Now, let's try this again!" He pulled at one of the handles, pulling the door open. A loud screech let out from the hinges, crying out for some sort of lubrication. Brian cringed at the ear piercing sound. "Ooh! That was loud.."

Brian entered the building and wasn't surprised to find it dark and covered in multiple layers of dust. He continued exploring the building, doing his best not to trip, or crash into anything. "Gee, it's awfully dark in here. I hope I don't get lost in here."

"MOMMA!" echoed through the empty halls. Brian glanced down and realized that he had stepped on something. It was a baby doll. "Oops! I'm sorry.." He got down on one knee and gently picked the doll up off the ground. "Wow! A real toy.. How interesting.. Its body is so light compared to its head." He continued examining the doll, when suddenly the power came on within the building.

"Not so abandoned.." Brian commented as the lights over his head flickered off and on. The doll within his hand jolted to life and struggled for freedom. "Interesting.." The pitter patter of tiny foot steps could be heard near by, as some shadow could be seen scampering across the floor. Before long Brian found himself surrounded by at least ten dolls. "Um.. does this consist of being a tea party?" he asked with much sincerity and confusion, unaware of what was going on.

[Audrey]

"Why does it always have to hit the fan? Can't I just for once do an operation without anything going wrong? AT ALL?" Stephanie concluded following the next set of events that managed to occur. She let out a sigh and let time pass for a couple seconds before addressing each of her concerns one by one. She turned to Catastor and gave her a stern look. She began to speak, but then realize that would do nothing. She paused for a moment before pulling her mask halfway up her face, revealing her nose and mouth, but not her eyes or hair. "I'm not going to attack you, but don't think for a second I'm letting you get out of here scott-free. Say what you want to say, and make it quick, because you and chucklenuts down there just basically turned these doll... things onto high-alert so we don't have time to catch up on good times," she said frustrated she was catering to this low-life as far as altering her costume for her convenience.

She hadn't noticed Hiro show up thanks to the intrusion of Ms. Thieving Thief, but she had definitely noticed Scrap's blunderence right into the building. Was this some street kid? How'd he get through the locked doors? Regardless, he was outnumbered and who knew what these dolls were capable of. She needed to buy time to hear what Cat had to say. Why did villains always want to talk? Talk about their plans, how great they are, blah blah blah. Thinking fast, she took one of the S-shaped projectiles she'd made back in Gotham and sprayed a little bit of explosive gel on it. She then threw it at the legs of a giant nutcracker. After it lodged into place, Stephanie hit the detonator on the gel taking out the nutcracker's leg and sending it toppling onto half the dolls surrounding Scrap. That should distract them long enough for her to negotiate terms.

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Hiro took note of the actions of who he now realized were two girls. The arrival of the second one had surprised him, but the grinding noise of the fourth's arrival had snapped him out of it. He immediately pocketed the video relay and placed the crackers back into his bag. He then ordered his spiders to divide into three separate teams and for the first two to begin building both his welding gloves and a bigger spider, while the third team cut a hole in the tin roof in one go.

The spiders did as ordered, and the first team conglomerated around his right wrist to begin construction; the second stayed onto the roof, its job a much more time-consuming one. When the third team managed to weld a circle through the roof and the tin fell into the building, Hiro dropped down, directly onto the head of a second giant nutcracker, twin to the now-defunct and still rapidly descending one, which was in the middle of its comrade's collision course and would topple like dominoes in moments.

Hiro shouted an expletive and then began running as his nutcracker began its predicted descent directly on top of the first one. He ran down the thing's back, trying to reach a stable piece before it hit the floor and the impact sent him flying.

When the dust cleared, Toyman stood on top of two giant corpses, his spiders swarming down the factory to keep him informed.

His jet pack carried him to a more visible altitude, and his welding glove came online with a low hum, the tips of his fingers giving off flames for effect. He pointed at the young girl who was clearly the army of dolls' boss. "Robots that build other robots are my specialty, you copycat! I, Toyman, am taking you out!"

That was probably a big enough distraction for the moron that came in through the front doors to escape unscathed.

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The metahuman teleporter's eye twitched at the accusation that this was her fault and then watched as the girl in purple threw another LOUD explosive. Her hand formed into a fist, if she didn't need the help handling this...Cat closed her eyes a moment calming down. "Look Purple girl, I've been here for four hours watching as Doll Face had her army grow. The only reason she and the dolls are on high alert is because YOU blew a hole in the roof. And I only got caught because you blew me off the roof." Cat turned away and held up her finger shushing the girl so she could calm down and look around. The number of dolls heading for the roof had grown, she had to make this short. After a moment she looked over at the girl again.



"Look I was sent here look around and handle this, but clearly this is a problem that requires a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel. Hense why I'm talking to you. Anyway, there are fifty thousand dolls between you and Doll Face. She has the original, which I think is how she has command and the crown is broadcasting the control signal. The problem is if you take her out, I think the dolls can think for themselves to a limited degree, hence why I need help..." Cat's voice trailed off as she watched an Asian boy drop in, making a flashy entrance. "Do none of you heroes know the meaning of subtle?" Cat turned to the girl in purple again. "Will you work with me or not? Five seconds..." Cat's staff flashed into her hand as about thirty dolls climbed onto the roof. 

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The circle of dolls began to close in on the young boy. Brian just watched as the dolls moved in, unaware of the trouble he was in. An explosion let out a few feet away, shocking some sense into the young boy. Before long an over sized nutcracker toppled over, taking out five of the dolls, and nearly taking out Brian as well. What was that?! He began to choke, as the layers of dust flew up into the air and filled his lungs. He released his grip on the baby doll, dropping it to the floor. Before the dust could fully settle a loud crashing could be heard from behind.

The dust finally settled and there were now two giant nut crackers, piled up on one another. Brian gazed up at a young, Asian male, as he proudly proclaimed his name, Toyman. Was he the one behind the explosion? Brian examined the two over sized nut crackers, noticing that one of them had it's leg blown off. Unaware that it was the work of his female protector. Was this Toyman trying to harm him? Or save him? His train of thought was interrupted as multiple dolls began throwing themselves onto him, starting at his legs and working their way up. Brian was still confused by it all. Were toys really suppose to act like this?

He began to kick his legs, trying to shake off the dolls but could not. They were tiny but seemed to have strength. "Please, remove yourselves from my legs.." he asked rather politely. Yet the toys were unphased by his plead. A few of the dolls began biting at his legs, while others pulled out sharp objects from within their dresses. Some holding glass shards, while others pulled out push pins and tacks. "Ow! That wasn't nice!" Brian hissed, as one of the dolls stabbed at his ankle with a pin. Without thinking he kicked the doll, sending it flying down the hall. "Sorry!" he shouted, as if he had harmed a living creature.

"PLEASE, GET OFF!" he shouted, growing annoyed by the stubbornness of the dolls. He held up his hand as multiple sheets of paper gathered together, and formed a paper Kusarigama. He swiftly swung his weapon at the dolls climbing his body, severing their arms from their bodies. Their little hands still attached to his outfit, which caused the young boy to panic, as he smacked them off. He took a moment to catch his breath, which didn't last long. Before long an army of toys gathered and charged at him. It was time to move.

He ran through the factory, as many toys lunged at him, trying to capture him but were easily dodged. "These toys are no fun!" he cried out, throwing multiple sheets of paper at the toys behind him, cutting them into several pieces. It seemed pointless. The more toys he destroyed, the more that appeared. Clearly, this was a bad idea! I thought you were suppose to play with toys. Not the other way around!

[Audrey]

Well, stealth was definitely out of the window at this point. The only way the group could be more apparent is if they all pulled out their ID cards and flung them at this girl. Stephanie sighed and rubbed the bridge of her exposed nose as she sighed listening to the thief. Fifty-thousand rampant dolls on the city was pretty awful, but that tech the thief had stolen was possibly from Mr. Freeze which could be even worse. She was at a crossroads. The dolls were the more immediate danger, so she supposed there wasn't much of a choice in the matter. "Fine, we'll work together, but don't expect me to like it. You're just lucky that dumb kid blundered in or I'd be arresting you right now," she groaned before throwing a hook from her belt onto the edge of the hole and sliding down the adjacent rope down to the factory floor somewhat near the throne.

Immediately she was assaulted by dolls of all kinds and she was quick to start pounding into them with her self-defense skills, taking her chance to dismantle any that got knocked down so they wouldn't be able to get back up and keep fighting. However many she took out though, there seem to be three waiting to take it's place. She tried upping her tactics using Spoilerangs™ and some of that gel to take out many at once, but the plain and simple truth was they were vastly outnumbered and by the looks of it, the big muscle hadn't even come out yet. Stephanie was giving up though, not until she collapsed from exhaustion not until... Oh hey they stopped attacking.

Stephanie noticed all the toys stop their assault when their 'princess' called for their attention. Why are they never queens? Always princesses. By the looks of it, the little girl wanted all the assaulting heroes attentions as well.
"Intruders! Why are you blowing up my people?! I'm just trying to establish a country where I can be their princess and you have to come in here like meanie-heads and just blow everything up! Talk about rude! What did I ever do to all you? Nothing, that's what. Now you'd better leave real quick, or I'm gonna call the Dahlialand army on you and you're not gonna like that," she said in a young nasally voice that probably put her age at maybe 6. Stephanie thought about it and realized she actually had a point. Apart from breaking and entering into the warehouse which was defunct anyway, she hadn't actually done anything illegal. Unless the US recently passed a law about telekinetic doll manipulation. She turned to look at the others to see how they'd react.

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"This is a Krank Co. factory," Hiro shouted while in the middle of kicking dolls away from the person he now knew could control paper. His glove's shielding was hot enough to melt through the dolls made out of plastic, and he threatened them with it whenever they got too close.

"I'd rather make an ass out of myself by assuming your dolls are evil than risk letting you use this place unimpeded!" As soon as the words were out of his mouth, the four feet tall spider robot he had previously ordered the construction of fell into the room, with a circular chunk of roof beneath its legs which helped flatten a group of dolls under the spider's weight. From within the mobile arachnid factory, streams of smaller spiders began crawling, climbing on top of the dolls to begin recycling them, and self-destructing explosively to clear a perimeter between the advancing army of most-likely-probably-possibly-evil and Toyman.

As soon as the recycling spiders made it back to their bigger counterpart, a group of Relay-equipped robots finished constructing the perimeter by forming into a perfect circle and beginning their jamming routines. The tactic would've kept any wirelessly controlled robots at bay, but the dolls kept up their advance. Hiro drew the obvious conclusion: "Metahuman!".

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Cat cackled when Spoiler said she would take her in, "I'd like to see you try purple girl." Cat cut through the dolls with relative ease knocking them of the roof or cutting them down. She also teleport around if they got to close. Then they stopped moving and here staring at her. A frowned formed as she turned toward the hole in the roof, the heroes and princess were talking. She blinked into the middle of the room her staff still in had.

The mater thief stared at the Princess, "Intruders!...people?!...establish a country...meanie-heads and...everything up!...rude!...all you? Nothing...leave real quick...army on you..." Cat rubbed her eyes and stared at the girl again. She turned to the other Asian and read his lips just fine. Princess was the only one she was having problems with. Everyone else seemed to understand the girl just fine. Catastor creased her brow, she hated being out of the loop. She turned her mind to deciphering the bits she did get. Army was clearly the dolls she had amassed and were presently threatening them with. She was upset with them and wanted them gone. Country? Establish. Aw hell.

"I apologize for the sudden intrusion, we mere peasants overreacted. We were fearful of your grand army's sudden appearance. We were not sure if you were benevolent or cruel. If I may ask fair lady, where do you plan to establish this country?" Cat wanted to blanch, but crazy had to be handled with care, and faltering tended to work for her a lot. If people weren't happy they tended to try and find amusement in the sight of her blood, out where it should be. Her mind was already locking onto the other three in the room encase the they needed to split. Fifty thousand dolls, no way they were going to win this fight, when it came down it. There was no if about it, anyone that went through the trouble of make this many dolls did not have peaceful plans on there mind.

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Brian continued pushing the army of dolls back using his abilities. If things continued the way they were going, he would either use up all his resources. Or collapse from exhaustion. Both options seemed to have a high probability at this point. All this, for a mere toy? I didn't want all this trouble.. Just wanted to see what it was like to have a toy.

The young Asian boy, who referred to himself as Toyman, jumped into action. Giving the young paper master a helping hand. It seemed that this Toyman wasn't out to harm him. Which was somewhat of a relief. One less thing to worry about. "This is a Krank Co. factory," the young boy informed. But Brian already knew the name of the factory. Why was he bringing up the name of the factory? Was there suppose to be some other meaning behind it? Brian remained silent, feeling it be best not to reply

Suddenly, all the toys came to a complete stop. Frozen in place like little statues. It came off rather.. creepy. A small nasally voice echoed through the factory. Calling the attention of all those present, toys and people alike. She demanded to know why they were destroying her toys. Er rather, "her people." A sudden feeling of guilt poured over Brian, now feeling horrible for breaking her toys. But then again, why did they attack him? Brian watched as Toyman stepped forward, letting the young girl know his reasons for such aggression.

Maybe it was in his best interest to explain to the young girl that he was not associated with this Toyman and that it was all a misunderstanding. Before Brian could get the chance to explain himself, a girl made herself known, apologizing to the younger girl for the trouble. He squinted his eyes and could barely see the two new figures. Both were dressed very oddly but who was he to talk, really? After all his entire outfit was made of paper.

"Excuse me, your highness?" he shouted, trying to get the younger girl's attention. "I.. I apologize for any trouble I may have caused.. I didn't mean any of it, honestly." He began making his way past the inactive dolls, doing his best not to step on any of them. "But your highness, your subjects, showed hostility first. They attacked me. One of them even stabbed me with a sharp object. Which wasn't very nice! I was merely frightened and did my best to protect myself.. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.." He did his best to come off as polite as possible.

Being the naïve boy that he was, he believed the little princess. Believing that she was trying to establish a country. But what threw him off was that they were already in a established country. So trying to establish another country within one already existing, would be considered an invasion. Which isn't very nice. Not at all..

[Audrey]

Well... 2 out of 3 was alright. She knew the thief would be smart about the whole situation. Stephanie hated to admit it, but the thief was a professional. It almost made her sad when the smarties were on the wrong side of the law. The guy she'd been predicting to be the desenter, Mr. 'I'm-going-to-break-into-an-abandoned-toy-factory' actually was smart enough to lay down his arms as well. The wild card though was not gonna have it. Who was this guy anyway? She understood the thief and the idiot's deals plenty, but this guy seemed like his own thing. Seemed like the type to be totally overconfident about himself and rush in trying to be the hero, which speaking of which, he seemed to be doing.

"Oh my Sherlock, what drove you to that shocking conclusion?" Stephanie sarcastically responded to his accusation of metahumanity towards the girl. Stephanie didn't exactly trust the girl either, but she'd stopped the ongoing assault and could very well call the cops on them, so she wasn't going to agitate the girl until they knew for sure she had malintentions for this doll army. She looked to be only about seven and as far as Steph knew, any evil someone that age could be up to was probably just misplaced naivety. They'd have to stop it still of course, but they'd be sending the girl home to a disappointed parent instead of handing her to the authorities. "Was it the fact that she managed to take over an entire factory by herself at... what are you, seven years old?" she added, hoping to stimulate some smalltalk with the girl to get her comfortable while Steph evaluated the situation of Toyman preparing to get them all killed as he fruitlessly smacked around the dolls trying to restrain him.

"Seven AND A HALF," the girl responded matter-of-factly, very insistent on that addition on the end. With that, she stood on the seat of her little throne to address them all like little subjects. With this, two large dolls about the size of Olympic bodybuilders burst from the pile of dolls and went to work subduing Toyman and his spiders, having a much easier time than the smaller dolls. With the situation slightly defused at the very least, the girl took the opportunity to answer the thief's question. "I intend to form Dahlialand right here!" she spoke proudly as two more of the large dolls brought out a wooden box the size of an industrial-size oven and placed it at the base of the throne, offering those close enough a slight view inside the box which seemed to be a diorama world.
"In there? I doubt even three of these dolls could fit in that thing," Stephanie argued, somewhat confused as to what was being insinuated here.
"Oh believe me purply. That won't be a problem," she spoke as she waved a wand that had been on the throne and the world around them began to distort and change like being on a Disneyland ride.

In a matter of seconds, the group had found themselves in a plastic world of some kind with the girl's dolls everywhere walking around like they were living normal routine lives. Looking directly up would result in what seemed to be an enlarged view of the factory cutting into the skyline. She had shrunk them and teleported them into the box! Soon, the giant form of the girl looked into the box and giggled with amusement at their misfortune before leaving them to the wills of the inhabitants of Dahlialand. Stephanie sighed as she looked at her fellow occupants. She in particular noticed Toyman whom seemed to have been sent in with his spiders too, all shrunk proportionately with him. She sighed again and helped him up the best she could "If you're going to say 'I told you so', say it now because if you say it later, I'm going to knock out your teeth," Stephanie said to him disgruntled to have been taken advantage by a bratty kid with power lust.

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"I think," the Toyman said as he dusted himself off after being helped off the ground, "that you're beating yourself up over it enough, so I don't need to say anything." He offered the hand that wasn't hot enough to burn "I'm Toyman, and this is the first time I get enough of a breather during a fight to introduce myself, so I figure I may as well do so."

With a gesture, what remained of his smaller robots coalesced into a single unit around his feet, a section breaking off to attend to the exposed circuitry on the bigger spider, which was too rushed a job to really last much longer. "We're going to need to find somewhere to regroup, so we can figure out how to get out of here." He eyed their remaining two companions, "Do you know those two?"

The boy took a look at the surrounding scenery, a bit of a grin coming to his face. It wasn't the best situation, but his spiders were mostly plastic, so for all he cared the dollhouse may as well be outright named mother lode. He directed his robots to begin de-stabilizing the nearby fixtures by harvesting their bases; he'd drop them right on top of the first wave of dolls, when, not if, they began their attack, to create a barricade. He sent another group to scout for an empty building. They couldn't stand idle for too much longer, not exposed like this.

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Catastor looked around, the Doll Land with mild interest. Oh she was ticked about being trapped in here no joke, but her ire could wait till she could do something with it. Absently she wondered if the freakish puppet's powers worked on 11th plane, doubtful. So she likely still had her dogs, but they wouldn't good much good and in terms of weapons, she her staff, but it was better than nothing.

Speaking of the freakish puppet, she was almost positive the girl wasn't real. She was a very good face, but she couldn't quite get the tongue movements right. The thief filed that away. She wanted to prove it before saying anything. Cat stood up, and offered a hand to the other kid before turning toward Purple and Toyman.

"Out and travel I can help with." Cat volunteered. "Purple and I met on a job once that didn't end too well. Since we're all stuck in a box, I'm Catastor." Well it was all true...in a sense. Her mind locked on to the other three, to keep track of them, and need be escape. Cat glanced over, wondering if the purple girl would refute her claims, she shrugged before turning back to the other hero. "What can I do to help?"