Log:Moonsault, Part 2

2019/10/27 	 Rangel Spirit Breach Reactor Paragon Sapphire Old Man Griffin Tik Tak Defeat

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When we last left our vaunted heroes, they had just reached sublevel 2! Nowhere else is there a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Except, maybe, for sublevel 3. Thankfully, there is no 4. They now stand just outside the elevator access door in a corridor that looking very much like the other previous corridors.

Paragon starts scanning the area with her X-ray vision to identify hostiles. "We have no idea how long the generators will last. I can possibly initiate repairs if I can get to level 3," she comments quietly.

"So let's go down to level 3 and restore power," replies Breach. He's switched to a normal pistol somewhere along the way.

Rangel waits for level 3 to be opened before she resumes her scouting operation pattern.

Spirit phases into level one of the prison before making radio contact to the group, << What is the current status? >>

<< We're on level 2, making for level 3. Intel suggests there's damage to the power systems, but level 3 prisoners are still incarcerated. Level 2 prisoners have been partially freed. Personnel on 2 are in fallback positions, >> intones Breach, << Oh and we met an unfriendly ghost that has agreed to a cessation of aggressions toward us until after this whole Moon crisis has concluded. >>

Reactor has been currently followig the strike team, and providing back up as needed. For now Reactor keeps his eyes peeled for any signs of trouble as they get ready to proceed down to the next level.

Spirit heads to the elevator and flies downward, phasing through doors and the elevator as needed. << On my way down the elevator shaft. Don't be surprised when I show up. Will restoring power help the guards on level 2? >>

<< It might. But preventing the failure will ensure level 3 villains aren't released.>> Paragon radios ahead. << We tried splitting up before and met resistance.>>

Rangel withholds comment regarding her opinion. Is she even here?

Paragon turns to Reactor. "Do you have any familiarity with power systems?"

Reactor looks paragon and nods. "Depends on the system, I have knowlege on nuclear physics, and nuclear power so if it's nuclear based I should be able to get it working."

"It is working," Rangel informs. "We need it stable."

<< Unclear, Commander. Stablizing the power systems is probably going to keep everyone alive up here in the long run though, >> intones Breach on the comms. He keeps his sidearm at the ready, waiting for the team to move on to level 3.

Spirit phases down into the elevator proper. << Noted. Thank you for the update. >>

Paragon fires off a cub scout salute to Spirit as he arrives. <>

Spirit nods, "I can. Or if you need my help with the power systems themselves, I can probably help."

"Even better," Paragon smiles behind her faceplate. "My engineering skills are limited."

Reactor is doing his best to not look super anxious when Paragon Speaks to Spirit as Reactor's been itching to do something/anything.. So for now he waits for confirmation from spirit and when it's given Reactor's almost like a young stallion chomping at the bit to get moving, but waits for paragon to take lead.

"Splitting our group is not necessary and risks more vulnerable members being picked off," Rangel says.

Spirit nods slowly as he considers it. "I agree with Rangel. Let's all head to the power systems. Secure the area and make sure it remains that way and powered."

Rangel's tone is matter-of-fact, no-nonsense, quiet, focused. Not a hint of her typical demeanor.

Breach squints at Rangel.

"Did Mysterious Number Nine take your mind?"

Paragon gives a thumbs up at the plan. To sublevel 3 they go, Paragon scanning with her X-ray vision and infrared senses on the way down.

Paragon's eyes dim. "Shielding prevents me from seeing into the Power core level. Must be lined with lead, or radiation-absorbing material."

Rangel says, simply, "Strategizing."

Reactor follows paragon down to sublevel 3 but has no special visual abilities so just keeps a normal look out while they decend.

Breach looks over at Paragon. There is a long pause before Breach inquires of Ninth, "Is she... Always like this?"

Rangel takes on the scouting role, moving just far enough to get a view, scent and listen for what's to be found, reporting immediately or waiting for the group to catch up, then repeating.

"... The ghost guy ditched us, didn't he?" inquires Breach of Paragon.

"Yes," Paragon states matter of factly before stepping out into the open level 1 elevator shaft and dropping down to level 3. She isn't too worried about the fall.

Breach shrugs and holsters his sidearm. He draws his Line Tonfa and spins them around once before he starts rapelling down the elevator shaft after Paragon.

Reactor Grins as he watches breach repell down and follows Paragon down the shaft, giving breach a brief slaute as he flys past the man, landing just after Paragon gets to the bottom.

Paragon steps up to the elevator shaft doors at level 3, getting her fingers between the seams to prepare to open it. She looks over her shoulder and up to check with the others. "Ready?"

Rangel applies her Spider-Grips to allow her downshaft without hassle, leaping from spot to spot, staying with Breach.

Spirit flies down after the others, keeping up without much of an issue.

Paragon nods to the others, then looks to the doors and pulls then open, ready to shield anyone if they encounter enemy fire.

Reactor nods to Paragon, as his hands pick up that glow as he powers up just in case there might be trouble, even as Rangel, and Spirit and the others make it down.

Breach hangs upside down behind everyone else, peering out the elevator doors as Paragon pries them open.

There is no immediate enemy fire. Nor enemies. Nor fire. The corridor is similar to that on level 1, though cleaner. There are no immediate signs of disarray, much less confrontations. The corridor extends to the left and right, though presumably either direction will return one to this point, as the primary layout is a ring.

Rangel is out of the elevator by door slipping through an opening provided by Paragon and taking to the ceiling in order to resume the previous scouting plan. Move just enough ahead, scan, wait, move, scan, wait, repeat until something necessitates deviation from that plan.

Spirit picks the direction that leads toward the power generators by the quickest path. "That way." He points down the hall.

Paragon nods and follows briskly, staying alert as they go.

Reactor also follows Spirits directions, hovering a bit off the ground, so that he can see past Paragon as they make their way to the power generators.

Breach follows the rest of the team. He pulls his sidearm again, head swivelling to and fro, as he continues to keep an eye out for danger.

The trip, whether by air, floor, ceiling, or other, is brisk, guided by Spirit's knowledge (and previously downloaded floorplans now in Paragon's datastores, if needed). It is also uneventful. Nothing appears disturbed. All of the containment cells on this level are solitary and sealed with a combination of blast doors and energy fields. The energy fields are the more critical, with the physical barrier not much hinderance. The only indications of trouble are the flickering yellow warning indicators on all the cells, noting field integrity is below the allowed tolerance of 98%."

All arrive at a reinforced hatch conveniently labeled overhead.

Spirit notes the power indicators. "At least they're not red. Yet."

"Why is it taking so long?" inquires a male voice

"It's not easy to take it down, but not take -everything- down! Keep your pants on!" retorts a female "Or not, I don't mind"

"We're working on it!" is another female, similar but not the same.

"Women..." mutters a second man

Spirit sighs and says quietly, "Someone's actively trying to turn off the power, I think." He motions to Paragon, "Mind doing hte honors and opening to door? Try the normal way first."

"Voices," Rangel reports quietly. "Probably metas. Three identified by gender, two male, one female." She moves to a firing position for when the doors open, bow readied, blunt arrow nocked.

Paragon nods to Spirit and steps up, testing the door to try and open it the normal way before attempting to just smash through.

Reactor hears what Spirit and Rangel both say and also moves into a spot where he can provide fire if he must. While he waits for Paragon to get those doors open.

The hatch is extremely solid and might require some force to open. Fortunately, Paragon's check reveals that the switch for the door only requires 0.02 Newtons to actuate, and the hatch swings inward under power.

Breach holsters his sidearm and pulls the Rocket Revolver while Paragon busies herself with the door. He quietly checks what sort of rockets are in the cylinder, despite already knowing, and moves into a coverfire position.

Spirit's hands glow with white energy as the door is opened, as he prepares to engage whomever is on the other side of the door.

The interior of the sizable chamber (~30 across) is stark. Monitoring consoles are dotted here and there, along with copious channels of reinforced conduit for cables along the walls, floor, and ceiling running off to various destinations. In the center of the chamber is a series of deskl-like consoles in a ring, two opposing stations of which have a nearly-matching pair of women hunched over, one at each. Both wear similar bodysuits primarily in an opalescent white: one with pink trim, one in purple, coordinating with the color of their hair.

Standing before the consoles, facing the door rather than working, are two men. One wears relatively mundane-looking urban fatigues with a circular scorch mark on the torso. The other wears a black bodysuit with red boots and gloves as accents, a device strapped to his right forearm.

"We've got company people. Look sharp." The dark-clad man notes, before a shadow black and red circular energy field snaps into existance over the augmented forearm.

Spirit tilts his head, and says over the radio band, to try to cut down on the chance the potential enemies can understand. << I'm guessing we're dealing with alt versions of several local heroes. Sentinel, Victory, and Copycat. The second woman might be another Copycat? A Copycat copy? >>

Paragon's head pans across the villains, noting two (well, three) she recognizes. Namely the women, an the man with the fatigues and the scorch mark. Since the man with the energy shield has seen them, deception and stealth seems pointless. She radios quietly to the team <> She steps forward, enough to present a target. "Ladies and Gentleman, if you would please step away from the consoles and put your hands on your heads." Doubtful they'll comply, but she has to give them a chance. Her glowing eyes eyes fall upon the man with the scorch marks. "Mr. Freeman, I see you and your comrade arrived quickly after our little dance outside." At Spirit's warning of Victory, her eyes shade to that one. She isn't too familiar with him. She looks back to the others.

<< I thought alternate Sentinel and Copycat were out on the lunar surface, protecting the comms array? >>

Breach seems genuinely confused by this information. He lifts the Rocket Revolver and fires into the room ahead. It may or may not be intended to go off between the two pairs of people to engulf them in the warhead's supply of anesthetic gas.

Reactor looks at those assembled in the room and the man who pops the energy shield, his hands glow brighter now as he is wary of whom he should go after first. Reactor nods to Paragon says. "Gotcha'... " as he looks to the other male in the room as if to pick him as his target of choice.

Paragon radios back to the team after Breach's question, <>

Spirit says over the radio, << Or there's more than one? >>

The cannister sprays amidst the group. The man with the shield inhales deeply, and exhales. "Ahh. Smells like defeat." His eyes narrow. "Yours." The others don't appear to inhale or exhale.

Paragon radios back <>

Reactor blasts Cammo guy!!

Old Man G (heretoafter referred to as OMG) catches the radiation in the chest. When energy meets man, the energy seems to change frequency, turning to a golden yellow color and dispersing across his torso. His eyes alight in the same golden glow.

Spirit reaches out and fires a bright flare at alt-Sentinel. He says over the radio, << Area of effect attacks against alt-Victory or hit him from behind. alt-Sentinel will be able to take a log of energy attacks. I'm just trying to limit his effectiveness.

Defeat lifts his shield up and takes a single step ahead of OMG with the glowing eyes.. which are now glowing in the wrong color.

"It was worth a shot," mutters Breach as Defeat gives voice to Breach's fears. Welcome to Nintendo Hard mode.

Defeat only now suddenly crouches, flinging his arm, and the energy shield, at the largest, heaviest heavy in the room: the armored Paragon. Over his head, OMG turns his eyes, wrong color or not, to her. Pink and Purple do the same, both of their eyes flaring with gold. Then one black shield and 6 golden beams come lancing her way.

Paragon's eyes expand in diameter as the group all focus fire on her. She holds up a hand in an attempt to block, but all of the blasts, shields, and energy just strike her in the head, chest, and torso, lighting her up. It may be blinding for a moment, but when the blasting stops, some smoke rises off her armor and she remains standing where she is. She lowers the hand she was trying to block with, since it was effectively useless. "I repeat, put your hands on your heads if you wish to surrender. Last chance," she says, hardly affected by the assault. They didn't even push her back a step.

Trouble was known of. Sapphire was down on Earth for the most of it. She was trying to organize things but.. when the ship took off to head to the moon, she remained behind briefly. She had her own means of traveling the stars of course.

So it is that a bright blue energy construct that looks like an early 1960's US Fighter jet streaks out from the Earth to the moon at an actual relativistic speed. Well, it accelerates for a few seconds, and then decelerates just in time to reach orbit. But then it literally dissolves itself.. allowing Sapphire to drop towards the moon and the conflict. "High cover on the scene." she says over Starguard comms.

And of course, the airlock cycled. It was a lot faster since she didn't need to worry about the whole oxygen thing. She cycles in and rushes down the cooridor to the drop shaft. So then she comes bursting out into sublevel 3. "Sapphire. On scene." she says.

Reactor blasts Cammo guy Again since he plans on taking this guy out As he's focused on one target at at time.

OMG is blasted back by the, well, blast and impacts the consoles he was standing before.

Spirit wants to try to limit the damage to the room and power systems. He can see that his prior attack didn't work well. So, he decides to follow up Reactor's move and concentrate fire on the same target instead. After all, Sentinel in this world could probably be overloaded. Might as well see how well he can take multiple hits. He flies into the room, trying to get above OMG. He then points both of his arms at OMG, and builds up a significant amount of energy. But instead of just a flare, he lets loose with a strong laser this time, toward his target.

OMG is blasted further into the ground/floor/moon and the scorching and cutting has blasted away the fatigues top. He looks uncomfortable, and annoyed.

Breach swiftly opens the Rocket Revolver so that he can swap out the cylinder for a fresh one. After all, gas rockets only seem effective against... Uh. Goons. Huh.

OMG launches up from the floor, flying up towards Spirit. Kit and Kat both dart for Reactor at Ludicrous speed, all but appearing on either side. Defeat finally answers Paragon's warning, stepping towards and beckoning with a hand. "Take me in. If you can."

Rangel asks, "What's the plan with focusing on the tank?"

Having been prepared, Sapphire lifts her right hand. The gem embedded in her flesh flares and even as Kit and Kat charge towards Reactor, a flare of blue power flows towards him... flowing up around and surrounding the guy and solidifying into a defensive globe.

Spirit says over the radio, << Rangel...hit this alt-Sentinel guy with some physical attacks, if you would? >> He's clearly referring to OMG.

Tik-Tak reach for the glowy reactor with lots of colored nails, but are stopped by the Sapphire field.

Rangel aims a shot at the brute, drawing back and releasing to relocate him before he can get close enough to Spirit to do whatever he's planning to do.

OMG catches the arrow and is sent ricocheting into the upper slope of the wall.

"I can maybe keep him pinned down." Rangel informs.

Paragon turns to face Defeat head on, eyes blinking off and one as she regards him. "Young man, I'm afraid this isn't going to go the way you think," she offers kindly. Just a warning. She's given several. "You can surrender at any time when it becomes too much." Her armor starts to harden with her flexing, growing rigid as the plates tighten and close together. It looks like solid metal almost. She leaps up and over Defeat, turning with a half twist to land behind him. She's surprisingly spry for a giant, heavy metal machine. She twists in the landing, swinging her right arm wide to try and backhand him.

Defeat was not expecting Paragon to...do... that, though not QUITE enough to catch him unawares. He spins, just deflecting the path of the fist to impact the ground.

Rangel has another arrow ready, taking a moment to study the brute since he needs to be annoyed by her.

"I'll keep him away from you," Rangel promises. "Deal with the others."

Reactor Holds his action until the Blue field is droped so that he can target Kat since OMG is currently occupied he figured taking out the speedster might help resolve this battle fast. .

Spirit nods to Rangel, "Thanks." He gets a little distance, flying back away from OMG and landing on the floor...and turns his attention to Kit. "Let's see if we can simplify the fight, hmm?" He reaches out with his hand...and tendrils of light extend from his fingertips, trying to wrap around his target.

Spirit's tendrils of light fail to wrap around Kit, as she's just a little too quick for him.

Shaking her head, Sapphire smirks a bit, "Sorry to spoil your fun... well no I'm not." she states before the blue barrier flares outward and attempts to latch onto the two attackers nearest to Reactor.

Pink and Purple are now ensared by blue!

Reactor Grins now that the Blue field is droped Reactor targets Kat since OMG is currently occupied he figured taking out the speedster might help resolve this battle fast. .

Tak (the Pink one) is zotted as she's held! Her costume is scorched with radiation and she yelps, though she doesn't immediately melt. Her eyes flare up with a glow again, though this time it's PINK. Because PINK.

Tak's pink eyes begin to pulse, and she glances to the equally bound Tak a meter away. Tik seems to take a cue and her eyes begin to glow purple, in kind. The respective glows grow, rapidly building and building until they are released in giant bursts of pretty colors. Painfully brightly pretty.

Paragon's glowing eyes suddenly shrink down to pinpoints as they try to adjust to the bright lights in her vision. She can still hear her target. She swings back and wide, sweeping in a backhand motion towards where she last saw and heard him.

As the brute begins moving again, Rangel shifts to a different angle and takes another shot, barreling the arrow so it more or less sends him directly to the floor. Soon he will put all of his attention on the nuisance archer...

OMG becomes ZOMG! he zips in a Rangel-opposed direction to bounce of a corner of the wall and the floor.