Holding Out For A Hero: An Original Superhero Quest

You raise your shield and create your barrier. Once again, a sphere of magical energy appears around you. You can't outrun a bullet, and you're hoping that your armor can take the punishment.

You hope.

You take a knee and try to get as much of your body behind it as possible. Still on the ground, the armored thug fires their LMG. The first hits spiderweb your barrier. In the split second after your barrier shatters,only one word goes through your mind.

"Fuck."

Your barrier shatters under the onslaught. Your shield takes several hits but you do your best to keep on your feet. One bullet goes right through your shield, and sticks in your shoulder armor. It didn't penetrate, but the impact is enough to knock you off balance. For a brief second, your shield is no longer protecting you.

You don't feel the bullets that hit you in the chest.

You don't even remember hitting the ground.

As you lie on the ground, you hear gunfire and shouting. You don't know whose shooting or what's happening. The only thing you can do on the ground is try to breath. Your breaths are rough and ragged for a while. You don't know if it's for a few seconds or a few minutes. But eventually, you're breathing slows down, becomes more regular. As that happens, you begin to regain your sense of your surroundings. You're on your back, you can tell that. But your head is killing you. Your limbs are refusing to cooperate when you try to move. Still, you're alive! Your chest is still killing you, but you're still alive! Even through the pain, you manage a smile with pride that your work, your skill in both magic and metallurgy managed to keep you alive.

As you reflect on this, the gunfire suddenly stops, almost immediately to be replaced by shouts. "On your face! Get in your face!" You hear yelling from the distance. It's a female voice, one of the cops, you think.

All you can do is let out a pained moan. You didn't think you'd end your Vigilante career like this. Arrested in an abandoned parking lot. Maybe you could run for it. If you can find your legs, maybe you can use your speed to get away. You'd have to be a real bastard to shoot someone in the back right after they saved your life. Right?

"On your face now! Down right now!" The same voice yells. But this time, the voice is further away. They're heading away from you.

Carefully, you turn your head.

The thug wielding an assault rifle is clearly dead. They're white armor stained with blood and their body is slumped against the van. The assault rifle wielding thug that ran for the case is on her knees, with the female officer putting handcuffs on her. Right next to her, you see the briefcase on the ground. The man that hid is being roughly pulled out of the van by the male officer. He's thrown on the ground before the male officer cuffs him. You don't see the criminal with the submachinegun. You see the remaining female officer frantically talking on her radio, glancing at her injured counterpart.

So, it looks like the not focused on you. If you wanted to get out of here, you could run right now.

[] Try to get up. (Constitution + 10)
[] Try to run for it immediately. This is clearly a bad day (Roll for Constitution +15)
[] Try to look down and see how badly you're hurt.
[] Stay on the ground and rethink your life.