Summary:
March 14 2015: After a coded call for aid, a mismatched, impromptu group of heroes and military types attacks an AIM Lab.
AIM Lab and Satellite Uplink
HYDRA Facilities in Gotham are falling one by one, but there are still a few around the edges.
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- AIM Guards and Techs
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Jericho has been hunting. For a while. And he's finally found something that'll about do the job. Hydra satellite uplink. Right at the edge of Gotham. It's taken him a little while but he's finally cased the place out and gotten the access codes. He… miiight need a bit of backup for this. So he sends out a coded signal. Anyone operating on military bands might hear it. An odd one. Just a comm burst with coordinates and a direction. This is the edge of Gotham, let's see who shows.
***
Well, Samantha also known in the superhero circuit as Nyx and sometimes Angel of Metropolis is out hunting. She doesn't conciously understand that her hitch hiker is the one driving this hunt for adversaries, of a preferanly technological but non-kryptonian standpoint.
The underlying Systems operating inside of Nyx pick up the comm burst, determine who is it, and make an assessment that if nothing else his technology might prove useful.
Which leads Nyx to landing at the coordinates cautiously, the wings of pure contained particle beam energy snapping out of existance as she looks around. Her lack of costume is pretty evident but she tries the best she manages. Super useful sports bra which isn't disinigrated by her wings. Half lower face mask. Also notably her left arm in a sling.
***
Spearhead is out and about in Gotham, he is watching a man who looks suspicious, just standing there, looking nervous and seeming to be waiting and looking for someone. Spearhead thinks this may be a drug bust, but when a woman walks up and the two go into a restaurant, Spearhead relaxes, "Heh, just a nervous date…" he chuckles and starts to walk off. Then something sounds in his Helmet, and the hemet automaticly picks up the coordinates, displaying them in GPS fasion. "Well, Hello there." Spearhead murmurs to himself, starting out in a jog to the place, an AR on his back…
***
Waiting at the coordinates is a man in plain clothing with is waiting. THere's a leather case slung over his back. He's good at looking casual but there aren't many other people out here. Okay there's no one out here.
Jericho looks up as the Angel of Metropolis comes on in. He's tracking another networked signal he hasn't identified yet but it isn't HYDRA. "Nyx." He knows the name at least.
"You're looking a bit rough. I was calling to see who was out there. Got a snake nest to knock over."
***
Nyx frowns at the comment about her looking rough. "General Zod disinigrated a pound of flesh off me… so yes I am having a really bad week." she is also feeling a bit hostile, which isn't her usual low self-esteem self. She reaches with her good hand and brushes her bangs out of her eyes. "Like the ones who tried to take me?" she is, suddenly intensely focused on the bulding over yonder. "Please say yes."
***
Spearhead comes into view, his outline complemented by his AR, which he now has in one hand, pionted at the sky as he walks closer, looking around. He spots the two people here, "Hmm, must be one or both of them…" Spearhead approaches, waving a hand low, just to make sure that he doesn't sneak up too much on the two, that happened once, and it almost ended badly for him. "Hey, You send a signalof some kind?"Mikial looks from one to the other.
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"Me." Jericho doesn't explain how. "I've got a nest of terrorists down there that I'm about to take out. Yes Nyx, like the ones who tried to take you. I'm could use the help." With that, he turns to walk toward the building, reaching to that case as he does. Out comes something that looks like a large multitool at first and rapidly unfolds into a sword. Blue circuit like traces on his back and arms (and chest and legs) start to glow. "Locks are electronic. I'm going to blow them and then it's going to get noisy. Get ready."
Gotham, edge of the city in an industrial area, three people, one of whom just started to glow, are approaching a HYDRA nest.
***
Nyx's wings are gone by the time Spearhead arrived. She looks him over skeptically, despite being the very slight young woman with one arm in a sling. "Right …. good.. I want that guys sword that tried to kidnap me…" she gives Spearhead one more skeptical look then turns to jog after Jericho catching up.
***
"Terrorists, huh?" Spearhead says, pulling out a few grenades, one is an ordinary fragmentation grenade, and another two look like nonlethal's, possibly flashbang, and a concussion. "Let me throw these in once we are through the door." He pulls out clips of ammo from his bag of crap on his back, putting the clips in clip pockets on his vest, "Ready."
***
That Hydra nest seems quiet. Perhaps too quiet as the trio approach. When Jericho reaches the control panel for the base's set of doors he might be surprised to see a portion of it is offline, another portion of it is blinking in a vivid and angry red proclaiming some form of general alarm, and a blue display that happily informs everyone that access is granted. Definitely strange.
Meanwhile, inside that bunker things are nowhere near as quiet. There's the sound of gunfire, an energy weapon slashing a heavy aluminum desk in half as the target of the fire /dives/ to the side and comes up from rolling. Contingency C, aka Flash Thompson is already within and brings up a quartet of firearms aiming at a group of HYDRA soldiers. Four pistols, one in each hand and two in… tentacles? Each fires with a roar of weaponplay, slamming into a handful of the guards and sending them sprawling.
As quick as that, the man in black leaps over the remains of that desk then starts to run down the hall moving towards the command center of the facility. When he moves it's with speed, but when he gets a tingle of alarm he takes cover and weaponsfire is heard again. He's making a good pace towards the HQ, but someone coming up behind him could probably catch up much faster.
***
Jericho blinks. "Hell. Move!" The traces flash and in a moment the man is replaced by a glowing blue demon-werewolf thing. Seven and a half feet tall. With a much bigger sword. The energy weapons fire is noted. AIM, after all. "WHOEVER THE HELL YOU ARE IF YOU TRASH THE SAT UPLINK I WILL SPLIT YOU IN TWO!" Guess what the hacker's priorities are. Two guards come around the bend only to be sumarrily cut down with a blade.
***
Well Nyx steps through the doors not even seeming worried about the weapon fire. She looks around slowly with a frown. "Nazis.. and …. that secret agent guy from NYC.." she frowns and mutters "Klyntar" then walks to the energy weapon and picks it up… she rips it apart like it isn't made of metal just crushing it into a fine dust her good. "Not good enough…" she frowns darkly.
With a flesh of energy those brilliant white energy wings explode from her back once more, one of them slicing right into the wall as if it was made of butter and they being the hot knife. She leaves the ground and surges… very fast down the hall not worried about the weapons fire. She is on a mission and not the hackers.
***
More Hydra come from somewhere to the right flank, Spearhead throws the fragmentation grenade at their feet. It skitters a few feet and explodes, sending the two, now corpses, flying into the room. The other three are pushed back, but start fireing, which is met by automatic fire in short bursts at each of them, silencing them in a few mere seconds, He goes to the door, and puls out some thin metalic wire and a small roll of duct tape, if anyone has ever seen one before, they will recodnise that Spearhead is making a grenade tripline, the grenade being a flashbang. he tapes the grenade just so on one side of the doorway, the wire tied onto the pin, and stretched across the bottom of the doorframe, attached to the othe side by duct tape.
"Alright, I'll stick with you, I'm just here to do something on my day off…" Spearhead says.
***
Stepping into a doorway and burying a pistol in the belly of one of the Hydra soldiers, Flash fires several times then is moving again already. He slides down the side of the hallway wall, two weapons pointing forwards, two pointing back. He moves steadily towards the objective area but then that shout reaches him.
The black fabric around his ear desolidifies without a sound and exposes an earpiece that he pulls from its place so he can hear more clearly his surroundings. From that earpiece a jaunty beat is heard and then the lyrics,
« Baby you're a fiiiiirework, c'mon let your colooors burst…»
That eerie resonant and reverberating voice rises as a few words are hurled back down the hallway towards Jericho, "Hey, sorry Sally McLateToThePartyPants. Don't mind me, just in a life or death struggle here."
And that's the moment when Nyx slices through the hallway, slashing down it and past him even as Flash _ducks_ into cover to evade the hurtling woman.
***
Jericho is… well, quite clearly trained. Highly trained which is something that Flash and Spearpoint might actually recognize being highly trained themselves. After the inital hail of bullets the hacker shuts off his power fields and his blade flips and folds into a carbine. He moves through the corridors with military precision, clearing corners and not leaving enemies behind him. "Command center is this way." He says to the other two, which appears to be the direction in which Nyx took off.
Even without the fields, he seems to be a bit… extra normal. A guard gets met at point blank and literally thrown to Spearpoint.
"Hacking the main door." Jericho calls as they approach a large blast door. How he's hacking he doesn't explain. "Breach in three… two… one…" It opens. There's about twenty armed people inside.
***
Nyx had touched down by the main blast doors, wings gone once more. She looked like she was in the process of working up to ripping the whole damn vault open with her bare hands. Which were totally sunk into the seam there digging for purchase when Jericho approached and announced he would be hacking it. She stops working her hands into the seam, which honestly have finger holes now. "Good.." oh hey she isn't using the sling anymore, when did that happen.
When the doors are popped open she just steps into the breach, her right arm suddenly glowing with brilliant white energy as she disinigrates a Hydra agent. Yup. Woosh … ashes. Her attention whipping around for power suits or someone like Jericho.
***
Spearhead sees the guard, and grapples him to the ground useing his own momentum to slam him into the ground, and as the guard hits the floor, Spearhead burries a knife into the mans shoulder, and pulls it out, kicking any weapons he may have had away, and taking ammo that he may be able to use himself.
Spearhead pulls the concussion grenade out of its place, pulling the pin at the same time, and throws it past Nyx into the room, the effect of it should be amplified by the metal vault they are inside. Spearhead duck out of the doorway and waits only untill the grenade goes off before turning into the room, barrel of the gun leading, and blasing as he walks in a low profile crouch, moveing to the left flank.
***
"High and low," Is all Flash says as the door opens and he /leaps/ upwards, catching the ceiling with one hand and flipping around so that he is entirely upside down, a slithery black tentacle reaches around his back and unslings the carbine from his shoulder and slips it into his now empty hands. Even while moving to the side slightly, Flash starts to draw bead and fire in rapid succession targeting the further back HYDRA operatives.
A few bullets hurtle at him only to be intercepted by a globular black shield of symbiote goop that sends a few ricocheting to the side while others are merely absorbed in the plasma-like substance.
"You got a special plan here? My play was just a smash and grab." There's another burst of carbine fire and then he quickly drops from the ceiling to fall amongst the guards, engaging them at close range in a flurry of weapons fire, fists, feet, and blood.
***
"Just don't wreck the center console. I need to ranack their hard drives and it's harder to do that if I have to pull them out manually." ANd he wants to borrow the HYDRA satellite for a little bit. That'd be good too. Jericho just lets loose with a hail of automatic fire. The blasts act like bullets. Exactly like them. But they're not. For one, he's not reloaded the damn thing since the fight started.
There are a couple hard suits powered down in the corner. They've… been shot a few times in the fire fight. It's not going to be but a moment before the rest of the HYDRA folks are gone too
***
Nyx ignores the weapons fire and dying Hydra agents, well except for the one trying to get one of those hard suits guns. She reaches out and throws him with the strength of someone who can chuck a semi-truck back behind her. Then she just starts to shred the hard suits, ripping panels apart and digging around in them… gutting them .. reducing them to piles of rubble.
***
Spearhead walk through the room, bashing the sides of the heads of those that he passes that are still moveing, shooting those who are merely suffering in the mouth, angling the shot up, into the head. Something about the way he does this might say, 'not normal ex-military' as he does this with a bit of a cold effeciency. "where next?" he asks plainly.
***
With most of the guards down and out or wounded, Flash steps away from them as he scans the area for targets. While one of the wounded men in a green uniform struggles to crawl painfully towards a discarded weapon, the man in black kicks it out of reach from him and then takes up position beside Jericho as the tech starts to work his computer magic.
If it was just him who was hitting the base, then he'd have blown it up and kept moving. But what intel Aspect can gather is most likely worth this stop.
Of course then the first bullet is fired into a downed soldier's brain by Spearhead. Those white eyelets snap around and all of a sudden this ain't as clearcut anymore. "The hell are you doing?!"
As quick as that guns are up aimed at Spearhead, "Drop it, put the guns down. Freakin' psycho. The hell is wrong with you?"
***
Jericho walks over to the central console. He's worried about what Nyx is doing but there's nothing for it just at the moment. Within moments he's accessing the files and the sattelite. "Leave him be. Not like they were going to get arrested to begin with." He says, looking down. His back is to Nyx now. He's more worried about the guy with the tentacles standing off with the commando than anything else.
"That is a war crime though." The hacker says with a smirk. He's certainly not stopping the guy though.
***
Samantha, or really Nyx who is more driving than she is right now glares down at the remains of the mech suits she just demolished. She doesn't really seem satisfied though. She steps right up to Jericho's back and grabs him solidly getting a good solid direct grip her fingers coming into contact with those blue traces that light the guy up. Woop.
***
Spearhead slings the gun onto his back, and turns to look at Flash squarely, he points to the man, "You see that? The man was only suffering, he would have bled out on buit a few mere minutes. No chance of survival. I merely put stop to his suffering… I've seen too many people suffering like that to just let them sit there in that state. And if I can't get the kind of help I have behind me, I would try to ask you to do the same to me."
***
The weapon in Flash's hand is unwavering, though to be fair he has good trigger discipline, the finger resting alongside the weapon. Those white eyelets narrow and he looks down at the man, looks back up somewhat. "You don't pull that crap around me, fella. Next time you do somethin' like that expect to put a bullet in me first."
At that he seems inclined to let it rest, he lowers the firearm and holsters it with a small click, then starts to turn to answer Jericho, "Actually I called Emergency Services before I hit the place…" He casually mentions almost off-handedly then espies Nyx manhandling him. "Uh, what?"
***
Jericho would call Flash an idiot, but he's too busy crying out in pain as his traces start to spool out of his skin and his implants spool out more to keep the network intact. His HUD is going crazy and both his internal defenses and Maxwell, the digital demon, are starting to viciously attack the code of the intruder, advanced and strange as it is.
"NYX! AUGH!" He's not being quiet. His traces flare bright blue and his other hand cocks back.
***
The digital battle out of sight is something entirely different than the visual wierdness. In the more.. digital realm things are mixed. The implants defenses are like paper to the alien AI inside of Nyx. The Digital Demon, from Limbo, is another problem. It starts to tax the AI's focus to chew on Maxwell in return and keep the Demon from breaching the strange alien firewalls.
Visually the traceries just seem to unspool out of Jericho and sink into Nyx's hands where she has a hold on him, being absorbed directly. She seems entirely distracted.
***
Spearhead Nods respectfully to Flash, "Noted." he says, in a very basic tone, verging on the edge of calm and respectful. He looks to where Flash is looking and his tone changes, "Um…prehapes we should leave?" Then, the…. what the hell is that anyways? Wolf? Man? Wolfman? Deamon? Cyborg? What the hell is it? Spearhead isn't too much of one to judge, but he'd still like to just know what the hell it could be called!
And what in the hell was he witnessing?!?! Spearhead just watches…./this/…. gpo on, hpeing that /something/ in any realm of reality he's used to can make /ANY/ sense out of any of this!
***
Sometimes when you don't understand what's happening you still need to take action. For Flash this goes back to some old muscle memory and glimmers of public service announcements. If someone is in pain and being electrocuted cuz right he's being electrocuted, right? Then you should break contact between them and whatever is shocking them. But you can't just go up and touch it you have to…
Tackle them! All those years of training and focus perhaps finally pay off. The Hero of Midtown High takes a few running steps and then leaps into the air leading with a shoulder and an arm to wrap Nyx up and try to pull her off and away from Jericho, spinning to the side and around in a crazed attempt to break that physical contact between the two.
Sure perhaps they're doing some sort of crazy magical techno weirdo thing, but if not then hey.
***
What they're doing hurts. A lot. Jericho is about to punch Nyx with enough strength to send someone her size through a couple walls but before he can Flash tackles her. The impact staggers him back and his balance is not great at the moment. He winds up hitting the center console again, panting, eyes blazing amber. In a moment he'll be going for his blade.
***
Well Eugene manages to rip Nyx away from Jericho, the traceries of glowing metal from under his skin snap off as she is torn away. The interesting part next is not the fact her wings flare to life there. Brilliant white energy contained somehow in the shape of wings. Liable to disinigrate any tentacles that get in their way. No the interesting part is she grabs ahold of Eugene in return "Let Me Go Klyntar!" and her eyes Blaze to Life. It is sort of like what the Dark Superman did, but it isn't heat. She just blasts Eugene point blank with two particle beams from her damn eyes.
***
Spearhead looks from one person to the next, to the next, then back again, "And /I'M/ the psycho?… Well, thatnks for the acid trip, but I think I need to chase down a puma that used to be my fridge, and cut it open for a cold beer…." Spearhead turns to leave, but maybe something catches his ear before he leaves, this is pretty crazy, after all…
***
In part Flash might seem he's surprised that work as they both get up. He starts trying to say something, "The hell is with you people?" But then suddenly he's man-handled by a Nyx that is stronger than he expected as she /yoinks/ him up and then rails at him angrily.
Only a bare moment of warning is given as her eyes flash and then the beams lance out, smashing heavilg into Flash's lifted form and sending him flying back into the far wall of the command center. For a time those beams seem to continue to focus on him, a hissing and sizzling heard and then both the beams and Flash shatter that wall and knock him into the next room over. Rocks, concrete, steel fall into the newly created hole, dust cascading down as the building shifts slightly.
***
Jericho rushes over, traces flaring once more. His blade is out and he pressed the flat of the broad thing aginst Nyx chest, to keep her down. His armor is already spooling up again. "Hellfire, Nyx what on God's green earth was that?!"
He's thankful to Flash but he's rather occupied making sure Nyx isn't going nuts at the moment.
***
Nyx watches Jericho, which could have led to eye beams but thankfully does not seem to. "Promethium and rare elements were necessary. Repairs completed." then the girl blinks a couple of times and stares at Jericho then down at the sword "Uh.. what the fuck?"
***
Spearhead stops at the doorway and leans up against it, he remains silent, just watching, who knows, maybe this is an acid trip and he should enjoy this, maybe theres something to be learned here, maybe not, hey, what the hell, he'll watch. But if shit gets too wierd, He'll be out that door pretty quick, man, no sense in messing around with superpowered people when you're on some heavy shit man! Spearhead also silently swore to find the person who spiked his drink…
***
From Flash there's little response save for the slow crackle and crunch of debris shifting. Slowly, very slowly the still smoking form of the man in black gains his feet, the fabric hissing and squealing with small pops from the shifts in temperature. He grimaces behind the balaclava as he gains his feet, planting one hand on a bit of rock then pushing himself slowly fully upright.
"Right then. That's how it's going to be."
He moves toward the opening which he was just blasted through and there's a distinct aspect of murder to his body language as he reapperas.
***
Jericho eases up on Nyx and glances back to Spearpoint. Flash is gone apparently. He nods to the other soldier. "I think we're clear. Better get out before emergency services gets here. I'm out soon as I get the data and burn the drives."
He stands and offers a hand down to Nyx… warily. "You with me now?"
***
Nyx seems puzzled "Uh yeah…." she warily in return accepts the hand up now. "What the hell is going on…" pause "Where did tentacle guy go…" she looks around back on her feet "Did he do all this?"
***
"We need to talk." Is all the hacker says. "After I burn these drives." Download complete. Maxwell is grumbling at him but he's not too hurt. He thinks. He'll do a systems integrity check later. It only takes another minute or so to make the data irrecoverable and steal the tranciever code. All he needs. "Come on. Let's go. I'll get you something to eat. We'll swing by an ironworks or something."
***
Nyx seems pretty copesetic as Jericho works on the console "Is that a coffee shop or bar and grill?" she shakes her head and follows him out when he is done.
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