Log:Sugar and Spice, Scene 8

Sugar and Spice 2006/06/01 	 Rebound|Alex Althea Flare|Flare/Rachel Haze Midnight Exodus|Regent Lorelei|Stephie Phillippa 8

Flare glances out the widow at the manor seeing how many lights are on

Haze has finished getting high and is ready for action. Having heard from the other heroes about what happened and reading the news, she figures this is the place to go. Haze giggles to herself and sneaks around.

The manor is relatively well lit, though it's hard to judge whether or not anyone is awake and moving about inside.

Flare is outside near the gate waiting for a time to sneak in

Haze is sneaking around.

Flare sighs seeing this is getting no where she stands her mind feeling worryed over the message. She gets out of her car and starts sneaking up to the house her clothing patchwork of different shades of black and gray her hair smeared. She mummbles to stephie "Time to go."

Stephie has been camouflaged by Rachel and is close by her observing the place. Stephie follows Flare.

Rachel starts trying to sneak up the grounds mummbling directions to Stephie to help her hide too

Rachel doesn't seem to be listening to her own advice

Haze spots Rachel and a disguised Stephie. . o O (What are they doing here?) Haze follows them.

Rachel thinks. o O (hmmm why am I bothering to sneak? I already know I can just walk up) Rachel seems to be moving quickly

Rachel stops suddenly putting a hand on stephie mummbling "freeze for 3 seconds, blind spot of cam"

Stephie freezes.

Haze approaches behind Stephie and Rachel, as the hold for 3 seconds..

Rachel quick counts and then runs dead out before stoping at the end of a hedge Rachel dragged Stephie along as she ran

As the group of girls pause a camera buzzes as it scans past them and then scan back across the frozen heroes. It's again looking the other way when Rachel begins her sprint.

Haze follows behind!

Stephie shadows Rachel a best she can.

Rachel notices there tag along but keeps quite as she says "Drop low, hold half minute person securty then dash to back door. we'll float up to second floor pourch

Stephie nods.

Rachel drops low and starts counting

Haze continues to follow the heroes.

The house is mostly quiet...

Stephie whispers something to Rachel.

Rachel nods and mummbles back

Stephie points to a room down the hall from Rachel's intended entry point.

Rachel pulls out her PDA and sets it to record and mummbles into it "testin testing" Rachel nods seeing it's working before she puts a arm around stephie and floats over to the window trying to be sneaky quiet

Haze just follows Stephie and Rachel around.

Midnight sticks with Haze, looking a little sheepish.

Haze whispers to Midnight, "I got the stash hidden after you left. Can you believe Flare tried to burn it?"

As the heroes float upwards, they can hear a slice of conversation...

"Roight. Now you've up an' done it." says a man in a rough-sounding British voice. "Shouldna made her mad... She's doin' this all for your own good, you know. Oy... what's this now?"

Rachel floats above the window upside down holding Stephie against her as they press them selves against the wall

The drapes on the windows hide the interior of the room except for roughs shapes of light and shadow.

Stephie keeps straining to see and hear what's inside until such time as we enter.

Midnight follows Rachel's lead, hovering above the window with Haze.

Rachel is actully hanging upside down to have their ears closer to the window

Haze is licking some candy wrapping while Midnight is helping her stay afloat. She whispers to Midnight, "You know.. I saw Alex.."

Midnight whispers back... "Yeah? Where?"

Haze giggles.

Shadows shift and move quickly. There's a sound of rushing feet. Philippa's voice: "Get out of my way!" ZAARK - an energy blast. Philippa shrieks and something heavy tumbles to the floor. That's man's voice again. "Sorry, but you forced my hand, love. You'll forgive me in the morning.""

Haze stops giggling. "Whoa.. what is that?"

Midnight attempts to peek carefully through the window.

Rachel does the same as midnight Rachel nods as stephie whispers to her and she lands on the ledge lightly charging something

Haze tries to peek in as well. "What's happening, Midnight?"

Inside the house, you see Philippa lying face down on the floor at the feet of a man holding a gun. He's got his gun - some kind of energy pistol - trained at the windows. His other hand is on a radio. "Madame... we've got company!" The appears to be a bedroom at first glance.

Rachel blast shoots off as she flips backwards 2" from the recoil of her blast with a loud hoot

The man with the gun.. from his attire, the dark suit, the black hat, he appears to be a chauffeur. By the way he deftly rolls out of the way of the fire blast, his training is not limited to just driving calls. The door way behind him is scorches and the ceiling begins to smoulder and catch fire.

Rachel lands on the ground with a thud "Get phil out of there!"

Midnight is puzzled... _this_ is sneaking in? Man.

Haze shrugs in confusion as well.

The chauffeur cries out at Rachel, "Are you mad, woman? You'll burn us all!"

Rachel yells to the teens "BIG change of plans, Midnight get phil out of here!" looks at the chauffer "I've been called that!"

Haze hazes through the walls to see what's going on inside. Haze looks around in the bedroom.

It's a bedroom alright, and front the way it's decorated it looks like a teenaged girl's room. Pretty pastels, posters of the hottest boy band, stuffed animals. A large mirror on one wall is cracked from the heat.

Haze thinks. o O (That band sucks!)

Midnight doesn't quite know what's going on. _Phil_ got shot? Rachel's setting fire to the house? And where's Alex? Well... one thing at a time. He jumps down from the platform through the open window to Phil's side, grabs her, and attempts to port out. Midnight and Phil disappear into a shadowy portal.

Philippa groans, barely conscious.

The chauffeur says, "Come back with her, you!"

Midnight slaps Phil awake. "You. What did you do to Alex Winters?"

Stephie decides to drop subtlety and stun the chauffeur with one of her poses. She's not even sure if she looks more like Stephie or Lorelei at the moment anyway...

The chauffeur grunts and is literally floored by Stephie's beauty. He drop is his gun, sinks to his knees and stares at her with slack-jawed wonder.

Haze takes this time to move towards the chauffeur!

Rachel flys up onto the deck her shield at full as she flies by sicking out her arm to close line the kneeling chauffeur she says "I'm finding alex, keep him down, Lor"

Rachel arm clips him fliping him onto his back as he is totaly out cold. Flare keeps on flying though in search of alex if he is being held prisoner

Haze asks, "Lorelei, is that you?" Haze decides to help look and hazes through the floor to the lower levels to help Rachel search for Alex and others if there are any others.

Midnight continues to attempt to interrogate Phil.

Stephie nods. "Get up is because we were *supposed* to be being stealthy...."

After a couple of seconds, the the upper level of this mansion goes red with emergency lights. "Warning! Fire detected!"

Plumes of fire retardant gas shoot out from the ceiling.

Haze looks for basements and such as well.

Stephie holds her breath and moves into the hallway...

Rachel squaks some as her fire starts to leave her. Her shields weaken as she focuses on just finding alex fast if he is hear

Meanwhile, Midnight interrogates Philippa. She's still semi conscious, despite hte shadoey hero's efforts. She moans... "Alex... save Alex... gymnasium..."

Stephie moves through the house looking and listening for other people...

Haze finds Stephie! Er Lorelei, "Doesn't look like anything is here."

The mansion is spacious. It will take some time to search it, even with desolid and flight.

Midnight is somewhat surprised by Phil's reaction, but nods. "All right. You stay here." He ports back to the Vogt-Caveney residence and makes a beeline to the gym (if he knows where it is from his previous downloads of the floorplan)."

Rachel pumps up her speed to sub-sonic as she searches

Haze follows the heroes to the proper location.

Midnight reaches the gymnasium first, appearing in the hallway outside of large room. The doors are closed, but they offer no resistance to Midnight's shadowy form.

Stephie follows then. :)

The gymnasium is state of the art gym, suited towards acrobatics and gymnastics practice. It's half the size of the gym from school. The ceiling is two stories tall. The lights are dim, but in the center of the room a spotlight shines on a figure sitting slumped in a chair. It's Alex, and he looks unconscious and bound.

A voice speaks throughout the voice, a womans voice, Althea's voice.

"The lot of you are tresspassing. I could call the police, but I think I'd rather enjoy using my legal right to defend my home to teach you all a lesson!"

Midnight ignores pretty much everything but Alex. He walks up to the body, still phased, and if nothing surprising happens he grabs the body, solidifies, and ports out with it.

Stephie suspects that the gym's observation room, rather than the gym itself, is the place to be, if she can work out how to get there..

Haze is with the disguised Stephie (if i remember right). "Where do we go?"

Stephie says, "The gym's got a place you can watch it from - let's try there."

Haze nods to Stephie, "Just lead the way!"

Midnight is surrounding the sound of whirring motors and pumping hydraulics. The room shifts and the gym equipment descends into the floor through previously hidden hatches. The balance beam slowly flips over on a panel in the door; on the flip side are well-blasted target dummies. Around Alex, four robot rise from the floor through hidden hatches to surround the unconscious hero. Midnight thinks. o O (Crap.) Midnight continues with his original plan, hoping to port Alex out before things get too hot.

Rachel does what flare does best and makes a dramatic enterance...or trys to

The normal outer doors fall away under Rachel's fiery assault. Behind them are a set of reinforced steel doors. Rachel's sword cleaves deeply into them, but the doors hold.

Rachel growls

Exodus enters from Remote RP Lounge.

Haze follows Stephie and will help her with getting to observation room with either clinging, gliding or running.

Midnight crosses the gym, ignoring the robots, remaining in desolid form until he gets to Alex. If he can get there in a half-phase move, he drops desolid and ports with Alex, several blocks away, where he left Phil. Otherwise, he holds.

Midnight and Alex disappear in a familiar-looking shadowy portal.

The voice from above, "..."

Midnight and Alex reappear, more or less where he left Phil. Hopefully Phil didn't park a truck there, or anything nasty like that.

Stephie goes and tries messing about with a slightly wonky bust of Althea, hoping it's the trigger for a secret door or the like...

Midnight attempts to wake up Alex. If Phil is still here and conscious, he asks her "What did you do to him?" Midnight reappears at this teleport spot, and finds himself surrounded... four helmet wearing girls in white body suits are there, waiting for him... Midnight thinks. o O (Crap, again.)

The bust droops, rocking forward ninety degrees before coming to a halt. A secret door opens with a whoosh!

Haze smiles. "How did you know about that, Lorelei?"

Stephie says, "Just a guess, it was angled wrong - and since we were looking for secrets..." Stephie hurries through the door.

Haze follows after Stephie (using held)

Behind the door a set of stairs lead up to the observation deck. (You'll get up there at during next action. )

The helmet wearing women circle Midnight, moving in perfect synchronization, threatening to strike, but they don't. They part to let Philippa through the circle and she rushes up to Midnight. "Alex!!" She tries to hold him alongside Midnight.

Haze follows Stephie up to the observation deck!

Stephie moves to the obsservation deck and observes. :)

Midnight looks around at the foursome, who apparently follow Phil's lead. . o O (Well. I guess that answers _that_ question.)

The observation deck is a high tech control room, looking a lot like a producing studie for a television show. Two people are inside, a greasy haired teenager, and Althea. Both of them turn towards Haze and Stephie. Althea sighs. "Well, /that/ was anticlimactic." She is smiling however.

Regent says softly.."Hey..Iv..you ok?"

Haze waits for Lorelei to act. She's not realy sure what she's doing.

Althea turns aside to the kid manning the controls. "Danny, power down the robots. There's no need any more." She turns to address the others. "Lorelei. It's a pleasure to meet you. And you must be Haze."

Lorelei says, "And you're... in chsrge of this operation?"

Althea gestures towards the danger room just outside the observation deck window. "This...? This is hardly an operation. I admit it's a bit odd, But when you have so much, you find that you have to find things that are rare and different to capture your tastes."

Haze nods. "That's right! You're going down!"

Lorelei says, "Like having your chauffeur shoot your daughter?"

"Perhaps. How would I know -- I wasn't in the room at the time." Althea responds. The weapon he carries is as harmless as a taser. The fact of the matter is that I'm not going anywhere."

Haze yells out. "You are going to Jail!"

Lorelei thinks. o O (Hm, the deny-everything sort - but at least now I know she's in charge, not Phil....)

Alex begins to come to. He speaks weakly, "...Philippa..."

Althea looks at Haze. "Don't be absurd. I'm not going anywhere. The rich don't go to jail."

Haze blinks. . o O (Hmm. that is true.) "Well you are going to go to umm. Some place bad!" Haze exclaims, "We are taking you down!"

Althea shakes her head. "So innocent. So powerful. So stupid... Youth really is wasted on the young."

Haze waits for Lorelei to act. Haze just repsonds with, "Um. We are the future! You are the one that's stupid!"

Lorelei hesitates. Immediate danger is passed. Fighting Althea seems pointless, as she's stood down. Talking to her seems pointless, since she's not admitting anything...

Althea says, "You're starting to bore me dear. I'm sure that the police will come to talk to me eventually. I'll arrange to talk with them in the morning. In the meantime, haven't you and your friends done enough damage?" Althea says, "Tell me where my daughter is, and be on your way."

Haze says, "I don't know where she is! What did you do with her?" Haze says, "You can't trick us!"

"Midnight teleported away with her," Althea says. "It's on videotape."

Haze says, "You doctored those tapes!" Haze thinks. o O (wait a minute.. he did, didn't he?)

Haze asks, "Um so you surrender?"

Althea laughs. "At this hour of night? Doubtful. I'll go to them in the morning."

Haze frowns. "We'll call them here. The police are like Denny's, Always Open!" Haze asks Lorelei to call the cops!

Midnight looks around at the girls again, and at Phil, and back at the girls. "So, is this gonna be another blaster-firing kinda thing? Or is rescuin' your girlfriend here and her boyfriend enough to get me a 'get out of having the crap blown outta me' card?

Lorelei does so.

"I've got the District Attorney on speed dial. I'd hate to bother him at this hour of night." Althea says, "Let's deal with this in the morning."

Haze shakes her finger at Althea, "I don't think so. You aren't in control anymore, old lady!"

Philippa looks at Midnight, "Things will be cool so long as you don't hit me again."

Midnight rolls his eyes. "Oh... _that_

Althea tries to convince Haze. "I do get one phone call. Those are the rules."

Midnight rolls his eyes. "Oh... _that_'s how it's gonna be? Lady, I didn't hit you. I pulled you outta there. THen rescued your boyfriend."

Haze tells Althea, "Really? Um.. Don't you have to wait for the police to get here first?"

Alex awakens fully now. "Phil.. Ca-- Midnight."

Midnight shrugs. "Whatever." He looks over at at Alex as he speaks. "Yeah... your brother called me. Said you'd been nabbed. You need a trip home, kid?"

Regent looks at the wrappers.."Iv..you just told me you've been licking used wrappers from the damn trash!" his voice raises a bit, but he remembers her parents in the other room..

Midnight chuckles.

Regent leaves RP Room 3 and enters Remote RP Lounge.

Philippa asks, "Alex are you ok?"

Alex nods to Midnight. "Yes... we both do." He looks to Philippa, "You can't stay here."

Midnight nods. "Fine with me, 'long as the blaster-chicks don't take exception." He looks at the girls. "We done here?"

"For now. We'll have our eye on you." Four of them speaking at once is creepy. And then they begins to vanish.

Midnight nods. "All right, then." . o O (Those were the girls from the robbery... but looks like Phil knows more'n she's sayin. Deal with her first, take the girls down when the odds are better. Yeah... that's the plan.) "Let's get movin'." Midnight ports Alex back home, then ports back to bring Phil.

Alex says aside to Phil. "That blaster gun hurts." Phil sighs. "I know."

Regent enters from Remote RP Lounge.

Haze feels victorious and goes to celebrate by going home to lick chocolate wrappers.