Log:Starguard Adventures, Scene 7

Starguard Adventures 2013/10/24 	 Abigail Bee Chameleon Dr. Richards Elephant Man Felicia The Jackal May Fly Pleiades

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Elephant Man isn't very light on his feet. It takes him a little time to get back onto his feet. Once up, he darts to the side, disappearing into one of the labs in the Main Lab section and out of Pleia's line of sight.

Abigail's blast scorches Jackal and he flies backwards crashing into a large piece of machinery. He falls forward onto his hands and knees, dizzy from the blast and the subsequent collision.

Mayfly buzzes up off the ground and over to Dr. Richards's cell. She punches in the combination and the door clicks open. "Jeez, Chameleon. Do I have to do everything?" she says in a lighthearted tone.

Bee zooms out of special operations, sans force field belt, flying full tilt, she passes a couple sharp corners until she can see Mayfly. Bee chucks a flash bomb at her, yelling, "Hey Gadfly! I owe you a swat!"

Mayfly flinches as the blinding burst of light hits her. She blinks, trying to clear her red, faceted eyes.

Slater says to Mayfly, "Maybe if your part of the diversion had been good enough, you wouldn't have to!"

Seeing the blast's effectiveness, Abigail gets what appears to be a running start, but it's really a flying kick... emphasis on the -flying- part... soaring through the air on a trail of golden plasma and ending as she comes to land before Jackal, her foot hopefully connecting on its way to the ground.

Whud! Abigail's boot is enough to knock out Jackal.

Felicia moves toward the cell, pulls another grenade from her belt, deftly presses two buttons and then throws the ball into the entryway of the cell. "Ok, I lied about the flash. But you guys should back up from this one."

The grenade arcs in a precisely controlled arc and lands just in front of Mayfly where it instantly blossoms into a shoggoth-like mas of bubbling foam. Doctor Richards and Mayfly take a step backward as the mound of foam quickly grows to well over head height and a radius of ten feat, engulfing the doorway. On contact with air the foam starts quickly solidifing into a barrier that is pretty formidable for something that looks more like a giant meringue than anything else

Pleiades skates after Elephant man.

Pleia is able to spot Elephant Man as she approaches the door to the lab. He's just inside lab, to the side of the door.

Pleiades shouts, "Stop running! I'm not done beating you up yet!"

Slater says, "Well, this is an abort scenario if I ever saw one. Someone must have tipped off Starguard..." He runs towards the elevator, travelling 30m. "Cover me!" he shouts back to Mayfly.

Mayfly turns to where she last spotted Bee. Raising two fists, she flies a pair of beams, walking her blast over a narrow arc.

Bee gets swatted by the blast, tumbling back to smack into a wall. She's breathing hard when she lands but says, "As I said, an annoyance," anyway.

Bee launches herself airbourne, wings humming madly. At the last second she flips and lashes out with a heel.

Bee's kick spins Mayfly and she stumbles against the foam barrier protecting Dr. Richards. She flops to the ground before climbing up to her elbows.

"Team. Check in. Jackal's had it. Lambert, where's the backups for the controls down here. Jackal shredded the primaries." offers Abby as she gives a halfhearted little kick to Jackal just to make sure he's not faking it.

Pleiades says, "I'm on Elephant's heels, he running back toward the lab!"

Lambert says, "To the right of the giant fan, the console marked AUX!"

"Gotcha. How's the good Doctor enjoying her solitary confinement?" Abby asks as she heads to that console and attempts to bring things back online.

Slater continues running. He makes it into the Special Ops Lab and ducks to the side, out of sight.

Elephant Man says, "Ok then." He eyes narrow as he steps forward. "Let's do this." He approach is straightforward -- a right hand aimed for Pleia's nose.

Pleiades smiles as she catches Elephant Man's blow with her gauntlet and deflects it. "Cool. Panzerfaust, load Zaubermunition." Her stance changes as she summons the pink orb with her left hand, the circle of runes appearing beneath her feet, another casing ejecting from her gauntlet. Her eyes flare red, "Yggdrassil interlock boost 120%. Disengage limiter levels 1, 2 and 3." Her skates and legs lock as her she braces. "Warning: S+ Rank surge. Clear blast zone." She pulls back her gauntleted fist, the bands at her wrist counterotating at high speed to stabilize her arm as she punches the pink orb held in her other hand. "HEAVEN..."

Felicia starts forward in the direction Bee and Mayfly flew off in though she's obviously way way slower than either. Kicking off the wall to her left she srping in the air, unleashing a powerful hurl to fling yet another grenade in Mayfly's direction.

Felicia closes in on where Mayfly has bounced off the impromptu barrier and attempts to grab her. Connoisseurs may notice the young woman doesn't have the greatest technique but she does seem enthusiastic.

Felici manages to get at least some degree control over Mayfly and squeezes though without much in the way of obvious effect.

"Team, report. I've heard from Pleiades. I need a sitrep." says Abigail while following Lambert's instructions.

Elephant Man tries to leap over a piece of lab equipment in order to get away from the Pleiades's giant attack.

Pleiades shouts, "...BREAKER EXCELLION FULL DRIVE!" as a mamoth blast rips through the space Elephant Man just vacated. The brass casing hits the ground. rotating bands slow back to rest. She blinks. "Darn."
 * plink* *plink*. Vents open on her gauntlet and vent coolant gas as the

Pleiades's blast tears open the floor and the weakened structre gives way, plunging Elephant Man, a large section of the floor, and at least a hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment into the darkness of a space beneath the lab.

Mayfly closes her hands into fists. Her entire body begins to glow with the same bio-energy that she fires from her hands.

Pleiades's gauntlet comments in German, "Captain Supernova would be proud. We just need to work on our aim." Pleiades nods, her face falling as she realizes the destruction she's caused. "I'm never getting paid again, am I?"

Mayfly also tries to escape Felicia's hold.

Felicia grimly maintains her grip despite the sudden burst of energy. Her uniform is singed slightly, a faint scent of scorched fabric thick on the air as she wrestles with her captive.

Pleiades speaks over the SG comms, "What's the situation? Do you need me, or should I check on the agents Elephant had been fighting?"

Felicia struggles to improve her grip on the struggling glowing insect check. This would be easier if she had some basic grappling training but obviously she hasn't got that far in her recruitment. "I think I have Mayfly, SLater's gone." Her voice is tight from exertion as she strains to quell May's resistance.

Mayfly passes out.

"I don't know who's needed where. Nobody's reported in what's going on. Is the Doctor still safely ensconsed?" asks Abigail

Bee rushes into the Special Ops Lab after Slater where she finds... Slater? Or what's left of him. It looks like Slater shed his skin, leaving an empty Slater husk on the floor.

There's a spot on the floor of the Spec Ops Lab too, where it looks as though something has burrowed up and broken through the floor of the lab. There's no sign of whatever did it, though.

It takes a few seconds for Felicia to realise that her opponent is out and that she isn't faking before she carefully releases her. "Uh, yeah, I sealed the cell, can't see her but the bad guys didn't get her." Turning off the radio she yells. "Doctor Richards are you okay in there? " Reactivating her mike she continues. "Mayfly is down, Chameleon or SLlater or whomeevr has bugged out and Bee is chasing him down and one of Pleiades and whoever she was fighting just blew a whole in the world."

Richards says, "Yes. Is it safe?"

"... sealed the cell? It -was- sealed!" shouts Abigail over the comm as she flips switches, enters commands, still following Lambert's directions.

Bee Flies back towards Richards just in case Slater is burrowing that direction

Looking around for a convenient tool Felicia manages to locate a chair leg which she uses to start slowly digging through the foam. "Well, the bad guys opened the door and I thought it would be best to seal the doorway, I'm digging in now she sounds fine." Lifting her voice again she calls to the doctor. "Good guys" two, bad guys nil." After a pause she adds. "We're the good guys, uh, STar Guard... it's safe!"

Pleiades regroups with the others at the cell.

"Should I be thankful that you showed up to rescue me?" Richards says, "Or aghast that someone nearly got close enough to kill me?"

It takes the better part of twenty seconds before Felicia is finalle able to chip down the last of the foam, opening a way into the Doctor's cell. "Um... Up to you I guess, it's a free country... um... mostly." By the time she's finished the excavation the skin visible through the bruns in her unifrom have transitioned to healthy unblemished skin, not that she seems to pay the process that much attention.

Lambert says, "That bug girl called Slater 'Chameleon'. If he was an imposter, then where's the real Slater?"

Richards is safe inside the cell, curled up in the corner.

"That's a really good question, do you guys have little chips inserted like they do with cats?" Felicia asks with the combination of tact oand thoughtfulness for which she is certain to become famous.

Lambert goes to the security desk to see if he can make communication with the outside world.

Bee says, "Tracking chips. ... cool idea"

Finally, when the controls are set and the aux is online, Abigail grabs Jackal by the scruff of the neck and carries him back towards the others. "So, we had an infiltrator then?" she asks as she drops Jackal at the feet of the security staff, "This guy needs a -seriously- armored cell." she says, gesturing to his claws... and limping a bit as she moves.

Bee gasps, "Oh ... shoot!" and sprints back toward her force field belt before it fails.

Jackal starts coming around again.

Felicia's brow furrows. "So do we leave them here and take her? or do we leave her here and take them? If they're all in the truck that doesn't seem good..." She blinks. "This is like one of those river-crossing problems I never paid attention to in class. Are you okay Colonel?"

Narrowing her eyes, Abigail backhands Jackal absently. "Okay, if we need the doctor someplace, I say -we- transport her ourselves. With our own abilities. Bee, that field of yours... could you adjust it so that the Doctor could survive supersonic flight?"

Pleiades sighs as she thinks of the reports she's going to have to write.

Our own powers?" Felicia looks a bit stunned. "I didn't bring my bike."

Bee says, "I irradiated my belt. It's useless"

Bee says, "and I can't teleport this far away from Colonial Bay"

"Okay, anyone got a life support suit then?" asks Abigail, looking to Lambert. "I plan to -carry- Richards myself.... and I can do around mach 12... soooo... she might want to have some protection, right?"

Felicia's eyes widen. "Mach twelve???" she blinks a few times digesting that for a few moments and then casts Doctor Richards a slightly resentful sidelong glance. "So what did you do to get put in here?"

Bee says, "So is this going to be a solo mission or can you haul us all at that speed?"

"Well, I can carry a lot of weight. But I assume I'd slow down a bit for lack of aerodynamics. Or..." Abigail pauses and asks, "Do you have any fighter jets here? Or even aerial transports? Or best case scenario... if we just had that Next Gen cloaking van I hijacked... any of them."

Not to be a spoil sport, but we're probably going to have to stay to keep Mutley and friend on ice. I say we let the Colonel solo the Doc back home. Then see these guys to their new accommodation and then go home." Felicia comments.

Pleiades nods, "I agree. Whatever Kubik was planning, I think we're done here."

"Okay, anyone going back, let's pile in. We got a nice transport if you recall. "But yeah, let's get these folks on ice. I would very much like a copilot though, someone to fly with me and help me keep an eye out. Felicia.. you're drafted. Everyone else... help where you can and return when you can."

Felicia nods. "Yes ma'am... sir..." she sighs. "Even talking this stuff is harder than it looks on vid-screen."