Space Camp Session 5

Princess Guard - The New Era 2017/11/18 	 Titan Wolf Lien Tali Unix Artemis Nohrbor 49

Rescuing Patrica
The heroes foiled half the cunning plan of the villains and prevented Mark from being kidnapped. But the villains got away, for now, with Patrica Doi. Timewarp used one of her unique abilities and searched the general vicinity in a fraction of a second, discovering strange occurances at an abandoned local mall. The ex-Wolfguard who had been with the villains until Titan revealed the nature of the intended kidnapping target confirmed that is where the villains have set up a base.

Titan looks over to Harlequin, "Any chance you can gate us to that mall where they're holed up?"

Tali says, "Remember to get the magician this time - or he might be able to teleport them away again!"

Harlequin nods, "I can. However you should be aware that my gate will be detectable. One of the villains we face is a noted mage. And only two may pass through at a time. It may invite defeat in detail, Titan."

Unix raises an eyebrow. If they had an option for teleporting then going there would be less... obvious

Tali says, "I can't run everyone there at once, either. I can carry one person, I guess, and that would be tiring enough!"

Unix says, "I can probably get there fairly quickly on my own, which will allow more people to get there in a timely mannor."

Titan raises a brow, "Walking to the mall, or flying...is going to just just as obvious."

Artemis flexes her hand around the grip of her shield. "The longer we wait, the more chance there is they could already have teleported to a new location."

Titan says, "But I guess we can just go as a group, rather than two at a time."

Unix says, "I can also carry someone too..."

Harlequin tells Titan, I can conceal our presence in a fashion designed to be undetectable by a mage. However I will not be able to employ any other magic when doing so."

Titan nods to Harlequin, "Do it. Then we can fly in as a group."

Titan is happy to carry someone if necessary as the group makes its way to the mall.

Tali says, "I don't fly, I walk! Do we have to stay as a tight group?"

Titan says, "Not necessarily tight. But close enough to support each other."

Harlequin concurs. "This will be effective up to the point one of them spots us with his own eyes, or hears us with his own ears. But the mage's scrying and any cameras will be neutralized.

Tali says, "I meant, to be concealed."

Harlequin nods to Tali, "Yes. Stay within twenty feet of me."

Tali says, "Ok, so, fly low then so we don't all have to be carried!"

Approaching the abandoned Mall the first thing to be noticed is the new closed circuit cameras mounted on the external wall, all panning back and forth actively.

Titan looks at the building, "Any idea where in the mall we're heading?"

Tali says, "I could scout again. but that would mean leaving Harlequin behind, for a moment...."

Wolf, to Titan:

Our quarry has now gone to ground with those we have to save, Within the local bank, therein: within a metal cave

Unix says, "If we get behind where the vault/bank is at, i can dig through the wall..."

Titan nods to Unix. "Let's see if we can find the bank proper, assuming it's on an outside wall.

Locating the bank is easy, thanks to a helpful map of the mall layout on a sign outside, so customers will know where to go.

Titan says to Unix, "Is it possible for you to dig through quietly?"

Titan says, "Or is this going to make a lot of noise?"

Unix says, "Last time i used this was in space on an asteroid... so i don't know how much noise it makes. Although we can assume noisy"

Titan says, "Perhaps we should attack from the front of hte bank while you come in through the rear here?"

Unix says, "Yeah i was wondering about doing that...."

Unix says, "Depending on the thickness of the wall, which won't be too thick... expect it to take very little time to get through."

Titan says, "It's a bank vault. I suspect it's plenty thick."

Unix says, "My big worry is if the girl is immediately pressing against the wall, i'd hate to accidently... well..."

Artemis looks at Titan thoughtfully and smiles. "A two-pronged attack. A charge from the front may cover the noise from behind them. Perhaps they can grab the girl from behind in secret."

Unix says, "If i grab the girl... well... she won't be here for long... Does anyone have a radio?"

Tali says, "I'll get her, if you do the distraction. They won't catch me!"

Wolf nods to Tali and Titan and takes up position slightly in front of and alongside Unix as Artemis outlines her two-pronged attack plan option. That could work.

Titan nods to Artemis, "That's what I was thinking, yeah." He turns to Unix, "Some of us have...magical communicators." He motions to Wolf, "I suggest staying here with the rear attack to help with communications and if anything...weird happens. Everyone else in the front."

Unix says, "Sounds good. Wolf... err.. pizza buddy... let me know when to start..."

Wolf nods firmly, once, in Titan's direction, and makes ready to help Unix with the break-in and rescue, his tail lashing back and forth and his whiskers twitching as he watches the back wall and awaits Titan's signal.

Tali waits for the break-in too, since she's on Team Sneaky.

Titan says to Harlequin, "I suggest you cover the group here with your cloaking. We want to draw attention in the front.

Titan says, "The priority is the rescue. Capturing the kidnappers is secondary."

Harlequin nods, "I shall do that, Titan." he says.

Tali stands ready to run, as soon as there's a hole big enough for her to get through...

Titan looks to Artemis, "All set?" He flies off toward the building entrance, ready to make some noise.

With Harlequin and his cloaking spell at the rear of the Back it's fairly certain that Titan's presence will be noted by anyone watching the output of the security cameras.

Artemis nods and smiles as he flies after Titan. "Always."

The heroes at the rear hear raised voices through the wall. There's an argument going on. Wrecker (tenor voice, may be the brick) is saying they ought to teleport away. Iron Loupe is saying there's only two on the cameras and 'we can take them'. The mage reminds the others that he makes the decisions, the vault is on a time lock and cannot be opened for another hour. They have to stay if they want the ransom.

Unix thinks. o O (Oh a time lock? Hmmm sounds like we don't have to wait....)

Unix looks to wolf waiting for the thumbs up to start

Wolf to Titan and Sasha et al, to keep them abreast of this development:

The metal cave is sealed up tight, and shall be for one hour. It seems that opening it right now is not within their power.

Patrica likely then is locked within, and should be safe inside. Do Thou still want the walls to break? It's for Thee to decide. ..

Titan sends over the mental link, << Stick with the plan. The mage could teleport in and take Patrica if he wanted. Go for it when the fighting starts. >>

Wolf holds perfectly still, behind cover and next to Unix, as he awaits the "go" signal or the sound(s) of fighting, whichever come(s) first. ..

Titan heads to the door of the mall and enters, being sure to take the brunt of any attack that might be headed their way.

Once Titan and Artemis have gone through in front, Wolf looks toward Unix and Tali, making sure they both seem ready, and convinces the security camera(s) near Unix to stop their panning motions when they're looking off in innocuous directions. (( Jam Tech ))

Artemis taps on something on the inside of her shield, activating the shield wall configuration to prepare for an initial salvo from their enemies as they approach. The villains advance out of the bank to engage Titan and Artemis. The mage, Dark Source, sneers, "So those turncoats told you where we are? It doesn't matter. Turn around and go now and you can leave with your lives." he declares.

Titan laughs. Loudly. So it echoes in the mall. "You obviously have no idea who you're dealing with." He leaps across the lobby with those nice vaulted ceilings they have, intending to target the mage.

Tali thinks. o O (Was that our cue?)

Wolf *nods* once, firmly, to Unix, and looks back to beckon Tali, who presumably would want to get a (very long) running start. . . It's "go" time! He dashes forward past the frozen camera(s) and steps sideways, somehow, oddly, just a bit, right as he hits the exterior vault wall and phases through it.

Iron Loupe leaps to intercept Titan mid-jump with teeth and claws.

Unix says, "She'll be digging through a bank vault when she comes... she'll be digging through a bank vault when she comes..." Her scythes working to break apart and tear open up to 12m of material in seconds " She'll be digging through a bank vault, she'll be digging through a bank vault, she'll be digging through a bank vault when she comes!"

Iron Loupe's leap gets reversed as he gets punched by Titan a moment after his teeth and claws rake at Titan. The iron werewolf hits the front wall of the bank and slides down to the foot of it looking dazed.

Titan lands on his feet. "Still awake? I'm impressed. Sort of."

Titan looks over at the two remaining standing villains. The mage flinches noticeably under his gaze, but Wrecker just smiles approvingly. Jonathan has some guesses about who he gets to face next.

Dark Source, still looking shocked by the casual way Titan dealt with Iron Loupe, frantically tries to cast some kind of spell at Titan. But he's too disconcerted to get the gestures and incantation correct. Haste means waste. In this case waste of the time he used trying to cast the spell.

Wolf pokes his shiny black nose (and quite soon thereafter, the rest of himself) quickly through the wall(s) of the vault. Wolf immediately *whuffs* and *wagwagwags* reassuringly to let Patrica know he's being rescued while he updates Titan, et al, with what he can see from inside the vault, :

Our Patrica is in here, safe for now, we shall soon get her free. I'm in, and Unix soon shall break the walls; How goes the fight for Thee?

Unix tears through the outside wall, cement and soon metal like cutting through butter, her scythes making short work of the material and throwing it behind her in almost basketball sized chunks that just roll away out of her way as she strolls right through, stopping the moment the opening is good and large enough to walk through. It was far less thick than initially thought but still more than enough to simply walk out. "Alright... i guess i'll go to the front and when she's safe i'll join in on the other side of the door's fight..."

Tali enters the vault as soon as the way is open, has a quick look around in case there are any nasty surprises, then picks up Patrica and starts bending time, ready to carry her far away....

Artemis smiles as she watches the fumbling mage. "Well struck, Titan," she compliments, looking forward to the battle. She spins her sword once overhead and then cuts down in an arc as it extends into a sword whip with a terrible, sharp cracking noise on the ground. The sound of a whip breaking the sound barrier is enough to startle most people. Well, baseline humans, anyway. She steps forward while drawing her arm back, then flings her sword whip out to try and wrap around Dark Source and pin his gesturing hands to his sides.

Tali carries Patrica out the breach and off the site in an instant.

The big heavily muscled brick looks over at Artemis and the mage. "Arrogant *****." he says toward the mage. "Thought his magic made him better than the rest of us." He glances to Artemis, "Leave him awake. So he can watch how a real tough man works." Then he moves, with surprising speed towards Titan and throws out a swinging uppercut raising from his knee height towards Titan's chin.

Wolf updates Titan and Co with the latest news from inside the vault, :

Patrica is now safe in Tali's care, as those two speed away. Do Thee require help out front? Unix can join the fray. ..

Artemis secures Dark Source with her bladed whip, pinning his arms to his sides. She smiles at her catch and tugs her sword whip back, bringing her foot up and then bringing her boot down on the whip to shorten the length and yank the mage off his feet, letting him slam into the ground. She looks at Wrecker with an eager, battle-hungry grin. "Such weavers of reality are no better than their mortal origins," she says of Wrecker's impression of mages.

As he puches Wrecker grows upwards until his head is brushing the ceiling of the mall lobby some thirty feet above ground.

Titan is struck by Wrecker...and his head gets turned, but that's it. "Really? You're going to have to do a LOT better than that."

Wrecker looks down, "Trust me. I will." he says, seemingly amused by Titan's comment.

Titan says over the link, << I think we have it in here, but if you're itching for a fight, feel free to join us once Patrica is safe. >>

Tali runs Patrica all the way back to the safety of the base, taking some nanoseconds to find the medical area, and sets her down gently there.

Titan clearly doesn't have any concept of exactly how fast the rescue (already) happened.

Iron Loupe gathers his wits.

Dark Source struggles with all his strength to escape Artemis' grip.

Artemis doesn't really notice the mage is struggling, aside from the noises he makes in the attempt. "Quiet, Mage. I'm watching a 'real tough man' fight," she chuckles, her eyes on Titan rather than Wrecker.

Wolf holds perfectly still as he to Titan's report and updates Unix (and Tali and Sasha), :

The fight up front seems well-in-hand, but if Thee feel the need, The tides of battle still do flow, (although they do recede).

Wrecker laughs as he raises a size 35 foot and stomps down at Titan. His foot is so large it's pounding down on an area rather than a point.

Wrecker's foot slams down, just grazing the side of Titan and embedding a couple of feet deep in the reinforced concrete of the mall floor.

Titan looks down at the floor, and then up at the opponent towering over him. He crouches, intending to strike upward with a powerful uppercut...

Unix, with the girl out of the scene and not an issue and seeming things are under control, leaves through the hole she made and decides to enter making less of a mess, to try and leave the place less damaged then neccesary, and will take the long way around to join the fight.

Artemis watches with appreciation as the two titans fight. As the real Titan has things in hand at the moment, she absently flicks her sword arm. Her strength is transferred through the whip, which threatens to lift the mage up and slam him back down on the floor.

The mage gets slammed into the floor. He's still conscious and not stunned but it's clear that affected him.

Wolf *blinks* twice in surprise that Patrica and Tali are already both. . . very much completely gone! Wow she's fast. Well -- Mission Accomplished, then! Wolf squnches up his nose and pads on out front to see how the rest of the team made out, and/or to heal any innocent bystanders caught up in, or damaged by, the fight and its aftermath. But: So far so good! *wag wag wag*

Tali, having laid Patrica down, calls for medical attention and stands watch over her, recalling the likelihood the kids were betrayed by someone on the base.

The massive blow from Titan fails to move Wrecker. He does seem to have felt that. He even comments on it, "You hit good." he tells Titan. It might be an optical illusion, but it almost seems as if Wrecker's muscles bulge a little more after the punch.

Titan furrows his brow. Surely that's a trick of the light.

Iron Loupe rolls back onto all four feet and shakes his head. His eyes fixate on Titan.

DarkSource calls out, "Free me, you furry fool." but Iron Loupe doesn't even look in that direction. Instead he bounds over to Titan and tries to savage Titan's legs.

Iron Loupe bites at Titan's leg and rips a good pair of pants but doesn't mark Titan's skin.

Titan glances down at Iron Loupe, "You might want to take a seat. The adults are fighting." Yeah, he's trying to anger the villain even more.

Wrecker pulls his foot free of the floor and tries another stomp.

Iron Loupe yelps as the foot descends on both Titan and him. And is then silent. And unconscious.

After the stomp, Titan is embedded to his waist in the floor.

Also at the medical center is Mark, still unconscious from the gas Patrica and he breathed. And the others from Lord Markham's school. Peter sighs in relief on seeing Patrica. And assures Tali, "We won't let anything happen to our friends."

Tali leaves Patrica in the care of the kids and with a "Back sap!" is gone.

Unix arrives around at the scene and notes the Wrecker and Titan half in the cement. "Doing okay there?"

Titan coughs up some concrete dust. "Everything's okay. Feel free to help with this guy if you want, though."

Unix says "Alright". Moves behind Wrecker and readies a haymaker...

Artemis watches Wrecker's muscles swell and Titan being hit harder than before. "Me thinks perhaps he is fueled by pain or battle," she calls out in warning as she watches the fight while keeping the mage on a tight leash. "Try something other than brute strength!"

Titan raises a brow, "Something other than brute strength..." He sighs. "I have like...one power. I don't think it'll be me with that alternative."

Titan gets to his feet and considers leaping into the larger man...but realizes that will hurt. A lot, if he doesn't move his target. Instead, he just goes to wind up for another swing, but trying to put everything he can into it.

Artemis chuckles jovially, as if she were watching some gladiator games. "Mayhaps you can take some ground from him, or knock him down."

Wolf's gaze narrows to the suspended Mage. If anyone, this is the man responsible for the kidnappings. In order to keep the mage from escaping with Iron Loupe and Wrecker, Wolf posits a bit of dust falling into the man's eyes. . . . or at least, the illusion thereof.

Wrecker's muscle bulge even larger but those blows definitely affected him. He seems, not punch drunk, but maybe a bit winded.

Tali thinks, "Shick, that guy's big. No point in strifing him - time to try something new! But this could take a while.... Let's hope he didn't get powers young!" She runs up to the giant to tag him, then, of course, withdraws to a safe(ish) distance.

Titan smiles slightly after striking Wrecker for a third time, "Is this when we should tell that that we already rescued the kid?"

Unix says, "Within seconds of your started distraction. We probably didn't even need it..."

With such a massive physique Wrecker is only marginally affected. But he is youthened to before he gained extra muscle tone and grew. He shicks down to normal size and his muscles return to normal as well.

Tali actually cheers. "YAY!"

Wrecker looks at Timewarp, "What the **** did you just do to me?" he demands in astonishment.

Titan raises a brow, "That's a neat trick."

Tali says, "Thanks, it's a new one! Kinda tricky though, so I don't use it much."

Wrecker shrugs and lowers his hands. "Me not dumb brick." he says in a staged dumb brick voice. "I had a good chance until this one," he points at Timewarp, "joined you. I quit."

Unix says, "... I guess that cleans this up then..."

Titan nods. "Nicely done, all."

Titan brushes himself off, noting some holes in his shirt. "Figures. I need to get tougher clothing."

[To Titan] Tali says, "Hope I didn't spoil your fun?"

Titan grins, "Nah. We accomplished the goal. Rescue first. Fighting was secondary."

Artemis sighs in disappointment. "Well, I'm glad I didn't place any wagers on that fight," she comments as she yanks on her sword, sending the tied up mage flying towards her. She lets go of her shield grip, the shield automatically retracting just in time for her to grab the mage by the front of his robe when he reaches her.

Unix says "Well as mentioned, the rescue was done immediately. so..." Shrugs

Dark Source whines, "Don't hurt me..!"

Titan nods. "We don't know if hte mage would have noticed quickly enough if we started with that."

Artemis sighs at Dark Source's whimpering. "I was hoping to see a real fight. But you and your men just rolled over," Artemis complains to Dark Source in bitter disappointment.

Unix walks over and pokes loupe a bit. "Hmmm... I half hoped to see him again. I knocked him silly last time..."

Titan raises a brow, "This guy..." He motions to Wrecker "...didn't roll over, exactly."

Wrecker says to Artemis, "Not fair! There was three of you to my one. You want take me on one at time?"

Unix looks to Titan "I was half tempted to dig a hole under him and then jump out of it... so that's an option... or tie him up, but he was too strong at the point i joined

Tali looks at Wrecker and grins, knowing full well he doesn't know quite what she can do. "Sure!"

Artemis gestures at Wrecker...with her mage-holding hand, jostling the mage. "What? He surrendered like a coward because the battle was growing heated. What honor was there in that?" She looks to Wrecker. "I thought you claimed yourself a real man."

Unix Looks between Wrecker and Artemis and shrugs "If you two want to keep going dont' let me stop you"

Artemis smiles at Wrecker's challenge. Her fingers release poor Dark Source, dropping him into the concrete while her swordwhip remains wrapped tight around him. "Now that would be an interesing battle," the Battle Maiden considers Wrecker's challenge.

Wolf squnches up his whiskers as he regards Wrecker and the mage. Wolf trots over to Tali and to Tali, Titan, Sasha etc.:

The traitor was the suit-tech who had made a cell-phone call, Just prior to the accident, as I'm sure they'll recall.

Perhaps fair Tali can, with speed, take some of us back there? To find out if they told aught else, or have more facts to share.

Wrecker laughs, "Ah, Honor. What honor in being too dumb to see way fight is going?"

Tali says, "Ok, Tali's Taxi ready to go. You want to go first, Wolf?"

Wolf *wag wag wags* happily!

Tali goes and gets Wolf and takes him back to the base.

"To fight against impossible odds is a great honor. But I'm told ye Villains have no sense of it," Artemis says in disappointment. It's only then that Artemis remembers the child. "Oh, yes. The mission. Is the child safely guarded now?" Did she forget the kid? Really?

Titan shakes his head, "I think...fight later. While I'm sure it would be entertaining and all, just...no."

Wolf jogs alongside Tali, tail and ears held high aloft, looking this way and that as he casually canters back to the NASA base. . . all the while observing the passing scenery near-frozen in time. So cool!