Log:Return of the Enemy Ace, Scene 6

Return of the Enemy Ace 2057/01/28 	 Enemy Ace Ilse von Haupstein Jennifer and Jessica Lorelei The Agent Victor Wei Zan Zhou 6

Lorelei says, "We need to get to level 5, fast!"

Wei Zan Zhou nods and starts towards the elevator. "This way?"

The Maid nods to Lorelei, and starts flying to the elevators

Lorelei runs elevator-wards.

Lorelei says, "Just thinking - Enemy Ace made the point of looking away from me last time we met. That gives you a sure way to blindside him if he does it again!"

Jessica and Jennifer also head for the elevators. When she gets to the cargo elevator she checks it for cameras and microphones, and disables such if they are found.

The Maid reaches the closed elevator doors and pushes the doors apart with her seemingly delicate hands. She then tries to bolt thru the opening upward.

Jennifer disables the camera looking into the elevator shaft while Jessica works on preventing the elevator being used as a club to beat our heads in with.

The Maid flies up to the floor of the braked elevator, and tries to break a hole open to get thru.

Jessica lifts herself half way up the elevator shaft with her energy whip and grabs hold of the side framework. Jennifer tells Lorelei and Wei, "Once the Maid has broken through I can lift everyone up to the top level if you want to grab hold of me."

Wei Zan Zhou nods and keeps an eye on the immediate area. "Okay!"

Lorelei nods and grabs hold of Jennifer, looking upwards lest anything start coming down the shaft.

So far, it's been smooth sailing. Apart from the warning klaxons and the countdown, the situation has been quiet.

Wei Zan Zhou puts on his clothing and activates his armour while he has the chance.

The Maid looks over towards the twins. "I will go charge in first and try to reach the missile. Perhaps I can draw some of their fire away from the rest of you. Please take control of the control room and help Master Morningstien."

The Maid opens the doors of the elevator from inside it, having come thru the opening in the floor she made. She then proceeds to streak down the hallway, towards the control room, to reach the rocket beyond it. "Move aside!" she calls out to the cyborgs ahead of her.

SWK hops back and forth from foot to foot, waiting for any signal to proceed.

Angstrom makes the room shift and swirl as he changes the settings.

Hallway to the Control Room

The Elevator opens into a T-intersection with wide corridors leading to the left and right, and the main corridor - the stalk of the 'T' - running 20" towards the control room, which is marking clearly in signs. The hall to the control room has a number of alcoves along it's length, spaced out at 5" intervals. At the far end of the hall a squad of troopers waits behind cover. The doors behind the squad is closed.

At the end of the hallway, a group of troopers are dug in along the final 6" of the corridor. There's a woman wearing an evening gown and she shouts the command to "Fire!"

The squad of troopers open fire on The Maid.

Jessica hears the torrent of gunfire and knows the Maid is performing the function the twin's plan assigned her, distraction, and uses her whip to lift Lorelei, Wei, and Jenn up into the elevator but to the side so they have cover from the doors.

SWK crouches in position by the doorway.

Jennifer darts from the elevator towards the first of the alcoves, bluncing from wall to wall and floor to ceiling of the corridor in an erratic and hard to target fashion.

SWK follows Jennifer's lead and runs from his position to one of the nearest alcoves.

The Maid plops to the floor, pattered by hit after hit from the cyborg weapons.

Lorelei figures the best thing she can do against this many people is the old 'distraction' - despite how poorly it worked downstairs. One at a time won't be any better.... And this might keeps eyes off Jennifer, or some of them at least. She stays where she can be seen by all the cyborgs - but not where she can be blasted straight down the elevator shaft, and attempts to 'distract' them, and Ilse.

Lorelei doesn't seem to get much attention after the Maid's charge.

Ilse is armed with some sort of blaster pistol. She takes aim down the hallway and tries to hit Lorelei with a bolt.

Lorelei kicks herself - she should have known that wouldn't have been effective at this range.

Ilse advances to the next alcove and ducks in there for cover.//Full Move, ake Cover

Ilse advances to the next alcove and ducks in there for cover.

Jennifer darts across the corridor to the next alcove along and takes cover. Jessica lifts herself up into the elevator using her energy whip and throws a flash-bang grenade down to the end of the corridor. She doesn't bother to aim, simply tossing it down with causual strength. It's not going to do anything other than add to the distractions the cyberagents are facing.

Boomf! The grenade explodes amongst the troopers. None of them flich.

SWK darts out from his position and sprints to the next alcove on his side of the hallway.

The troopers hold their fire for now, waiting for better shots.

Lorelei tries a different tack - and, staying close by the elevator, fixes one of the nearest troopers with a pleading, frightened look. "Please - don't let them hurt me!"

One of the troopers calls out to Stephie, "Stay in the elevator and you will not get hurt!" He turns and looks at his teammates, and his gaze fixes on Ilse.

The Maid lifts herself up from the floor, her arms a little wobbly. She then tries to proceed on to the rocket, weaving and swirving in the air as she does so

Six of the guards fire at the Maid.

The Maid goes "ugh!...." as she collapses from one of the blasts that hits against her chest.

Isle takes aim at Stephie from her alcove.

"No!" the lovestruck trooper shouts. He tries to smash the butt of his rifle into Ilse, to disrupt her aim.

"You idiot!" Ilse shouts, as she manages to side step the clumsy attack. She looks down the hallway and still tries to snap off a shot at Lorelei.

Lorelei emits a heartwrenching cry of pain as she's hit.

SWK holds himself back from jumping out of cover to go back to Lorelei.

For the lack of a better target, the five troopers also shoot at Lorelei.

Lorelei jumps rapidly off to the side as she sees 5 guns trained on her!

Jennifer darts out and advances to the next alcove, ending up on the same side of the corridoer as Ilse and in the adjacent alcove just 5" away. Jessica also adances down the corridor, but she finishes up in an alcove some 15" from the doors to the control room.

Jennifer puts as little of her head out as she can manage to see next alcove where Ilse is shooting from and attacks with her energy whip. Jessica adances down the corridor, but she finishes up in an alcove some 15" from the doors to the control room.

Jennifer curses quietly as her energy whip gets briefly tangled up with the fire hose in Ilse's alcove.

SWK moves out of cover from his alcove and dashes to the next one on his side of the corridor.

SWK moves out of cover from his alcove and charges to Ilse's position with staff swinging.

SWK momentarily loses his balance, overextending his strike at the woman.

Six of the cyborgs fire on SWK, and the next five fire on Jennifer.

Ilse gets caught in the hail of bullets.

SWK is dazed by the first of the volley and is then knocked back by the next several shots, crumbling to the ground in a heap.

Sparks fly as Ilse gets struck with a bullet. "You fools! Check your fire!"

Jennifer is hit right between the eyes and dazed by the impact of the bullet on her force armor.

The charmed trooper fires at Ilse.

He misses.

The Maid tries to crawl back up from the floor again, shaking her head, trying to clear the fogginess in her mind.

Ilse steps forward and tries the slap the gun from the hands of the charmed trooper, but fails to do so. She turns back to her troopers. "Restrain him!"

Jennifer and Jessica seem dazed by the hit Jennifer took and are slow recovering from it.

Four of the guards move to hold their mind controlled teammate. One of them advances to Cover the Maid. Three of advance to the alcove across from Jennifer, whereas the final three try to shoot at her.

The trooper aims his gun at the Maid and says, "Don't Move!"

Two more troopers train their guns on her as well.

The two trooper grab their rogue teammate and pin him to the floor.

All three of the troopers miss. One trooper tries to clear a jammed round from his weapon.

Lorelei stands up and presses her back against the wall just round the corner from the corridor.

The Maid continues to remain on her hands and knees, seemingly trying to not oppose the 3 cyborgs guarding her

Ilse waves to her troopers to get advancing. "I'll deal with this girl." She turns towards Jennifer, advancing to within 2" of Jenn, firing as she moves.

Jennifer says, "Frantically dodges the shot from Ilse, feeling fragile enough she suspects a single hit would take her out of action."

Ilse continues to advance on Jennifer, shifting her weapon to her off hand as she reaches to grab Jenn by the throat.

Ilse grabs Jennifer with one hand and raises her into the air. "I won't let you stop us now. We are at the dawn of a new era of civilization."

Jennifer looks into Ilse's face, "Ich bin Wolfhead. I know what you call civilization and will fight you every step of the way." But the defiance is marred by her going unconscious from the squeeze to her throat.

Jessica reassesses the situation and comes up with a bleak conclusion. She can't fight her way through in time to stop the launch. In fact there's only one hope left and what a flimsy hope that is. Feigning extreme fury she stalks over to the Maid with violence showing on her face, grabs at the Maid to lift her to her feet and shake her, "You utter incompetent. You messed this up. We're getting hammered and it's all your fault." Then, if all has gone well to this point, Jessica throws the Maid down the corridor in seeming anger, knowing the Maid is tough enough to not even feel it. That the Maid will end up slammed against the doors to the control room and out from under the guns of the cyberagents covering her is pure coincidence, isn't it?

The gaurds by The Maid are surprised by Jessica's apparently meltdown. They turn their guns on Jessica.

The Maid hits the door leading to the control room with a loud thud. She gasps out a "Ugh..." as she hits and crashes to the floor, seemingly a bit unsettled by the impact.

Three on the guards attack Jessica. Six of the guards head down the hall towards Lorelei, one of them discarding his jammed gun. Two of the guards continue to hold back their mind controlled teammate.

Lorelei turns the corner, assesses the situation, and decides it's time to "give them what they want" - at least if they're still like most guys. She puts her hands on her head, in so doing making prominent the cleavage displayed by her half-unzipped wetsuit. "I give up! I'll do *anything* you want! Just, please, please, don't shoot!" she exclaims half-hysterically, acting the part as dramatically as she can - and hoping this will distract the cyborgs so that the Maid can go get the job done without realising Jessica's trick.

Jessica is knocked off her feet by the impact of a bullet but rolls back upright again.

The advancing troopers all have their weapons ready, but do not shoot.

The Maid does a double-take as she sees Lorelei strutt her stuff lasciviously. She then, while the guards are occupied, gets up and tries to try open the door to the control room, hoping to reach the rocket in time.

The control room itself is a mission control type room about 15" across. In the center of the room Enemy Ace watches the countdown with an unconscious Victor sitting next to him. On the fair side of the room ( 10" from The Maid) are the launch silos and access to the emergency escape pods.

Victor comes to in the control room, next to Enemy Ace.

Victor holds back, knowing his outman and out gunned he waits waiting for his chance to screw up whatever machine he can get his hands on...

Jennifer taunts Ilse, "What do ya say? Just you and me. Dr Zoenstien's Wolfguard genetics versus your Grandpop's cybernetics."

"Shoot her!" Ilse shouts. "SHOOT HER!" She repeats, trying to get her men to attack Lorelei. She looks over to Jessica and says, "I don't have time for your games." She throws Jennifer at Jessica and then turns to head to the control room.

Lorelei looks helplessly at the cyborgs like a deer in the headlights.

All of the cyborg troopers stand there, gawking at Lorelei.

Jessica rolls out from underneath the unconscious form of her sister and springs back to her feet effortlessly. Racing after Ilse, and perfectly willing to take advantage that Ilse has her back to Jessica, the twin reaches out with an energy whip for a martial grab. "Guess you're going to have to make time, you steel plated bitch!" Jessica snarls.

Jessica grabs Ilse and wrapps her up in the whip, squeezing hard and holding her from advancing into the control room.

Enemy Ace looks towards The Maid. "Vas? What is this... a maid? You are that child who failed to defend Victor in his castle." He levels a finger at the Maid and says, "Do not move, you are meddling in event that is far above someone of your station to affect."

The Maid curtseys to Enemy Ace. "Pardon the intrusion, sir." She then proceeds to try to fly towards the silo, veering around to avoid the villain's attacks.

FOOOSH! The Enemy Ace takes to the air and he flies after The Maid and tries to grab her from behind.

The Enemy Ace grabs The Maid from behind in a Full Nelson hold with his powerful mechanical arms. "You will not interfere!" His grip tightens.

Victor, having feigned unconsciousness jumps up from his seat. He rushes past a pair of technicians and slams on a button on a control panel. Suddenly red lights from all aroun the control room start to flare. "Warning. Launch Silo Hatch is now closing. Launch Silo is now closing!"

Ilse turns towards Jessica. "Unhand me you animal! At least I was human once!" She tries to hit Jessica with a headbutt.

Enemy Ace looks over to to the technicians by Victor. "Open that hatch! Or we will all burn!" He maintains his hold on The Maid, trying to knock her out. As he does so, his entire body sparks with blue electrical energy.

The Maid cries out as blue electrical energy flows across her body.

Jessica maintains the grab and the squeeze, "Genetically I might be just mostly human but I was still more human in my heart than you are from the day I was decanted from the clone tank."

SWK comes to and gets to his feet. Still groggy, he takes a moment to regain his breath.

Ilse yells at her troopers. "To the control room! You must protect the controls!" The guards all seem to come out of their daze and they begin to rush to the control room. (Full Move 6")

Lorelei follows the cyborgs toward the control room, hoping she won't be heard behind their heavier steps.

The Maid, floating in mid-air with Enemy Ace holding her, attempts to fly against one of the side walls, such that Enemy Ace will get smashed in between the wall and her.

The Maid slams into a wall with Enemy Ace. She gasps, as the impact causes the villain's hold on her to force her back to arch severely. She collapses to the ground like a rag doll, letting out a gasp as she hits.

Ilse tries to grab Jessica's wrist and her mechanical strength to pry herself free.

Enemy Ace grumbles to himself as he regains his consciousness. "Ignorant peasant!"

Victor looks for around for a tool, anything. He grabs a wrench and then reaches to try and smash the silo door controls to bit.

Victor mashes the control panel beyond recognition.

The two technicians by Victor try to grab him and pull him away.

One of the techs grabs Victor from behind and drags him away from the controls.

Jessica maintains the grab and the squeeze

Jennifer gets to her feet and runs for the control room.

Ilse coughs, her normal eye starting to dim.

The Cyborgs continue to run back to the control room, and the first few of them make it inside.

Lorelei catches the eye of one of the techs, and calls out to him, urgency in her voice, "Abort the launch!" - hoping this won't take too much persuasion now the silo door is likely jammed.

Through all of the commotion a lab tech looks towards the people rushing into the control room. He catches a glimpse of Lorelei, which is it all it takes... He frantically tries to abort the launch.

Ilse tries to stomp on Jessica's foot in an attempt to get free.

Enemy Ace shouts. "Pause the countdown! Get that hatch open!" He runs over to a control panel.

Ilse tries to jam her hand beneath Jessica's chin and push her head back and away to gain leverage to get free.

Jessica keeps squeezing, holding Ilse is close to a deathgrip.

Jennifer enters the control room and heads as straight as an arrow towards Enemy Ace.

Jessica doesn't immediately notice the slackness of Ilse's body and continues squeezing.

Jennifer lashes out at Enemy Ace, determined to stop him launching the missile.

The Enemy Ace curses in German. "If I do not disable the launch the exhaust will cook us all!" He manages to turn the key. The computer says, "Countdown aborted at T minus 2 seconds."

Nine of the cyborg troopers reach the control room.

Once in the control room, radio links come to life. "...Agent calling strike team. American Agent calling strike team..."

Lorelei runs up, fixes Enemy Agent with her eye and - with a grin, as she sees his face register his mistake - strikes her famous stunning pose with all she has.

Lorelei grins with triumph when Enemy Ace this time doesn't immediately manage to turn himself away from her.

Over the radio, American Agent says, "... must evacuate. Repeat: you must evacuate. Military satellite is in geostat above your location..."

Jennifer strikes at Enemy Ace again.

Lorelei decides this is no time to hang about. She hurries to pick up the unconscious Maid to get out of here. (Maybe with SWK's help?)

SWK helps get The Maid out.

Jessica says, "drags Ilse behind her on the ground as she runs towards the control room, radioing out, "Negative. I say again negative on satt-strike. Wei is down. Howl is out of contact. The Maid is down. We have prisoners. Firefight continuing in control room. We cannot safely eval at this time.""

"Jenn!" American Agent. "I've got Howl here with me! What's the status of the launch?"

Jessica radios out, "Launch aborted at this time."

Lorelei changes her mind after Jennifer's message - looks like we're still fightimg...

Jennifer looks over at Enemy Ace, "You want to think about surrendering and living to fight another day? There's an SDI satellite parked overhead and American Agent seems mightly keen to open fire. I think he really doesn't like you."

Enemy Ace says, "I am going to open the hatch manually! Shoot anyone who approaches the launch key!" he commands his troopers. Upon hearing Jennifer's statement, he says, "Belay that. Retreat! Retreat! To the escape pods. I am sorry Ilse, my sweet. I will return for you!" With that he flies for one of the escape pods.

The remaining troopers also move to evacuate.

Enemy Ace disappears behind an escape hatch. It closes up behind him and the sound of his rocket boots can be heard.

Lorelei returns to collecting the Maid.

Jennifer radios American Agent, "Enemy Ace and some of the cyberagents are bugging out. We have about fifteen prisoners including Ilse. We could use a few more people to tidy up and a medic or two.

The twins are willing to settle for stopping the missile launch and rescuing Victor.

"Marines are incoming. Heads up," The Agent says.

All of the remaining troopers evacuate the control room as well.

Jessica remembers a comment made at the very start in the SG briefing. She walks over to stand above the Maid. "Who's frail? Next time I want to use you as a divertion do try and stay on your feet longer than a second or two."

Lorelei is too. Especially since if the place hadn't been evacuated getting Victor out might have been a struggle....

Lorelei looks about the place, with an odd expression on her face.

Jennifer glances at Lorelei, "Heck of a scrap. You did pretty good. No, I take thast back. You were great."

Pretty soon, the base is crawling with Marines, sweeping through the base. A pair of medics with a droid are available in the control room.

[To Jennifer] Lorelei says, "I was almost eaten by a shark, I was unconscious, i was in right over my head.... But....."

Jennifer nods, "Yeah, fun wasn't it." She chuckles. "It's times like this when you really know you're alive."

[To Jennifer] Lorelei says, "That was... fun - you beat me to it! I never knew I could do that..... It was like someting out of an old spy movie or something...."

Jennifer laughs, "I have no idea how you manage it but however you do it, you're getting better and better at doing it."

Jessica eventually heads over to the medic and sits while the paramedic digs a bullet out of her shoulder.

Lorelei laughs too. "I'll say. I think I can stop worrying about who I'll go to the dance with...."

The Maid slowly comes around, and is helped up with the assistance of a medic. She looks around the room, looking a bit disoriented, her wet and ragged maid dress and apron not helping her weary appearance. She clutches her left shoulder with her right hand, obviously looking to be in some pain. After a few moments, she looks panicked. "The missile! Did it?..."

Lorelei says, "But - I don't know how you do it either. Somehow you always seem to find the right thing to do in a fight - we'd never have managed this without you...."

Jennifer says, "That reminds me. Matt wants me to buy a new dress for the dance. Why? I've only worn the Prom dress twice. There's lots more wear in it yet."

There a Marine medic looking over The Maid when she looks up. "Nope. You guys stopped it. Apparently with only a couple of ticks left on the clock too."

Jessica is sitting beside the medic having a bullet removed from her shoulder. She assures the Maid, "We stopped the launch. It never got off the ground."

The Maid collapses to her knees, taking a deep sigh of relief as she does so. "Thank goodness..."

Lorelei grins. "I think you're missing the point, if it can be said to have a point. Um - how do I put this - well, in some ways it's like a song. You can't wear out a song, but that's no reason to sing the same song all the time - it's good to sing different ones too. And - more to the point - I suspect Matt wants to see how many different ways you can look good. You can never have too many. Like you can't have too many ways to, um, render someone unconscious with your bare hands - does that help you understnad it? But now I waffling."

The medic says to the Maid. "Try to take it easy." He tries to treat the Maid.

The Maid looks around frantically, trying to find Master Morningstien. "Master... is he alright?" she asks, giving the medic some difficulty with her squirming.

Jennifer tries to follow Lorelei's reasoning, and the violent analogies help. "Uh, yeah, I kind of get it. Ok. I'll blow my month's allowance on another dress. But two is my limit."

Lorelei says, in a low voice, "What annoys me is I have the money - but that's Lorelei's money. For the dance I have a budget...."

The medic treating Jennifer managed to pull the bullet free of Jessica's shoulder. He drops it into a small plasic ziplock and offers it to Jessica. "Souvenir."

Lorelei says, "By the way - when is your birthday - or, um, if not *birth*day as such, um...?"

Jennifer smiles and offers Lorelei a hug, "You're going to outshine every girl in the hall anyway. Best tone it down a little or you'll not be able to move for panting jocks."

Jessica grins at the medic, "Thanks. I'll add it to the collection."

Lorelei grins. "Speaking of panting jocks, do you think it would be cheating if I 'distracted' the Bayside team in the big game?"

The medic says to Maid, "Yes, he's alright -- recovering over there. I think he got a nasty knock on the head during the fight, but he should be alright." The medic changes his tone. "You should worry about yourself, though... you might want to check into a hospital when you get back home."

Jennifer says, "Cheating? Yes absolutely. That's a brilliant idea. I'd hate to have them score over us."

Lorelei laughs. "I don't know. I don't think I'd even consider it - well, except for Eva's attitude. But now, I'm tempted...."

Jennifer grins, "Well they have Eva and Nils, right? So they will be cheating. That's as sure as the sun rising in the east. So all you'll be doing is redressing the proper balance. Perfectly fair."

"I am fine. Please attend to Master Morningstien." the Maid says, in a tone of voice that might give the impression that she does not really have much concern at all for her own personal well-being. She walks over to Victor and curtseys before him. "Master, are you feeling well? I hope that... man.... did not do anything harmful to you."

Lorelei says, "Well - certainly if they *do* cheat - then yes, I'll balance it out. I've pretty much promised Eva that."

Jessica leans over to tell the medic who was treating the Maid, "She'll be fine. She's solid." She adds quietly so only the medic and she can hear, "Solid bone from ear to ear."