Log:Opposites, Scene 1

Opposites 2006/12/05 	 Amy Edwardo Plasma Shell Wasp Wei Zan Zhou 1

Amy is going for a walk on the beach! But it's kind of wintry, so she's gone to get herself a cup of hot chocolate. She comes out of the shop again, gloved hands about polystyrene cup.

Drifting through the cold weather like a beacon of summer almost, Plasma heads down the street towards the beach with Shell. He moves at the pace she sets, hovering instead of walking of course since it's easier. The weather doesn't seem to bother him at all even in the non-protective costume he wears and if anything the air is hotter in his immediate vicinity though the cold does it's best to strip away as quick as possible.

Amy, seeing Plasma and shell, waves one hand in a friendly, childlike way

Within the distance across the cold icy water, lights can be seen within the old light house, a strange looking pale green light can be seen...then the tiny island that the light house is one begins to shake violently, the crack of explosions can be heard in the distance....something isnt right within the house of light.

Wei Zan Zhou enters from Boardwalk.

Wei Zan Zhou has arrived.

Walking at an easy clip, Shell is easy and unbothered by the chill despite her rather lacking clothing. "I'm really not.." she begins to speak to the masked man beside her, words trailing off when her wandering gaze catches sight of the lights, and then the noise surrounding the lighthouse. "What the... Did you hear that?" The woman eyes Plasma, jutting her chin toward the explosions almost eagerly. "Let's go check it out?"

Amy says, "Oh, that doesn't look good!"

Plasma looks over towards the wave from Amy and lifts a hand to wave in response when he is distracted by the noise, rumble, and explosions at the lighthouse, "Definatly. It's what we do after all." he says with a smile and then reaches down to pick up Shell as if to carry her off towards the lighthouse. After all, flying over the water is much faster than swimming! For him at least.

Amy flags down a taxi that happens to be passing to take her over the bridge to the lighthouse!

Amy takes the escalator into the MagLev Station.

Edwardo is sitting on the beach with a laptop, seeing the explosions he rapid fire hits some keys and disappears within a flash of an eye laptop and all.

Edwardo appears in a flash of digital wonder, 0's and 1's floating off him when he appears

A huge column of metal

This column is covered in switches and knobs, the metal casing itself seems to be of some unknown metal with a soft purple twinge. Theres a shell casing that can or will open..somehow. It hums a soft rhymth to itself as it stands tall.

Amy says, "Ooh! Neat!"

Edwardo grins toward Amy for a moment and looks over at the column with a frown. He taps some keys on his laptop, looking it over.

Wei Zan Zhou hops out of the Maglev and makes his way towards the light house. With a sandwich and thermos in hand, he looks around for any sign of the cause of the loud sound he heard earlier as he was going to the beach.

The column is sticking STRAIGHT out of the ground, the rocks of the island are pushed aside at what appears to be the craziest looking missile youve ever seen. Its lights and sounds can be heard from quite the distance as it sets itself to do ...something...?

Wei Zan Zhou says, "Oooooooh, what is that?"

Amy goes over to the kid, who seems to be behind this thing. "OOh, what's that?

Flying in over the ocean to come to a pause near the lighthouse and the like Plasma lets Shell to the ground so she can be under her own control once more. As he spots the 'missile' that hammered into the island he hmmms, "Okay... Can anyone see any definitive symbols, flags, designs or otherwise any indication of where this might have come from, other than up?"

Wei Zan Zhou blinks and turns around. "Oh, hello! I do not know. I had just arrived a few moments ago." He takes a bit of his sandwich, managing to chew and smile at the same time without showing a mouthful of food.

Shell lands easily on the ground when released, glancing up at Plasma before taking steps toward the missile. "No.. not from here," she responds with a small shrug. "I'm gonna go check it out. But the way the rocks are sticking out.. I'm not entirely sure 'up' is a good direction to assume." She grins, and darts toward the missile. She takes a moment to glance at the people who have gathered, returning Wei Zan Zhou's smile, but for the most part her attention is focused on the missile. Ooo. Mystery!

Edwardo moves closer to the shell, looking it over and even feeling it over. He looks around and seems to be taking notes at the same time as he explores with his laptop, he keeps muttering the same word over and over under his breath, "Friend"

"Be careful Shell." Plasma says to the aforementioned Shell as he flies up and over the device to get a top down view before he turns to start circling the object. "Well what caused the explosion if it came from below? And that green light?" He muses thoughtfully as he keeps to the air just in case the ground starts shaking again. "Is it hot at all there?" He asks Edwardo, "Any temperature variations as compared to the weather?"

Amy goes right up to Edwardo. "What's your friend? This thing>"

Shell slows, watching Edwardo's movements. "Uh huh, yes, yes, careful," is replied vaguely to Plasma. After a moment, she reaches the structure and gently runs her hands over it, beginning to walk the perimiter. "What are you, hmm?" she murmurs to it. Looking up again, she doesn't answer the flying man's questions, but asks her own, "Do you see anything weird from up there?" And, under her breath, "I wonder if it's attached to anything down there.."

Edwardo nods, "Its hot...not to hot...and no not a friend...just this looks like someones work...someone who calls himself FRIEND, look..." he points to a faded and nearly scratched off American flag image on the shell of the "missile". "Old treasures ehh?"

Amy says, "Oh! So what is it? How come it's here?"

Plasma shrugs, "This whole entire situation is new to me." He says in answer to Shell's question with a faint smile that doesn't really carry well through his mask. He looks back over towards Edwardo, Amy, and apparently Shell now, "FRIEND huh? This someone a good guy or a bad guy?" He asks succinctly, "As in, do we have cause to start evacuating people away?"

Wei Zan Zhou turns his attention away from the missile like object for a moment and studies the two costumed people, munching on his food all the while. He glances at the faded flag on the hull and "hmms" to himself. "Should we look inside?"

Shell backs up to narrow her eyes at the remnants of the flag, and then pokes at the missile with one finger. Edwardo recives a long look. "Is your computer able to get readings or anything offa this thing?" Wei Zan Zhou's words turn her head toward him, and she tilts it to one side. "...Look inside? Ooooh. Yes. That's a good idea." Practically bouncing on her toes, Shell moves around the missile again. "But how, just randomly push knobs and switches? We don't know what any of them will do. We could all explode."

Edwardo turns to the side and steps back, "I dont have all the answers guys....it could explode if we move them...it might explode if we dont...all i know is that something needs to be done...because this thing is old...and from the looks of it..made to survive some kind of war"

Plasma considers, "There is evidence that either this thing generated an explosion to push it's way through the ground, or something blew up, and this thing just filled the void as it were." He flies down closer and then, tentatively, puts an ear to the 'missile' to see if it's generating any sort of sound or the like. "As for randomly twisting nobs and pushing buttons... I don't know if that's a good idea. Shell, can you lift it up out of the ground so we can see the whole thing?"

Amy just looks kind of lost. No one is saying much she undertands.

Amy boredly starts wandering back to the shore, and trips over. "OOf! Hey!" She looks at something on the missle.

Amy says, "It says 'mad' on it!"

Wei Zan Zhou finishes his food and pours himself some hot chocolate, using the thermos' built in cup/cap. He nods as the others discuss how to proceed, though his eyes clearly show that he has no idea of what is going on exactly. Crouching down, he studies newly discovered text, his tail slowly moving from side to side as he reads.

Shell glances between Plasma and Edwardo, resting her hands on her hips. "Well, I like the idea of doing something better than not." Eyes flick up to Plasma, and she grins. "Sure can.." This is more her style. Crouching, the girl takes ahold of the missle as best she can, and hefts. With a grunt, she slides the missle free of the ground and just kind of blinks, realizing she's lifted it as people were looking at it. "Here, let me put it down.."

Wei Zan Zhou follows the moving object, looking up as Shell lifts. "Wow, you are very strong!"

Plasma blinks at Amy's words, "Mad? Like M.A.D? Like Mutually Assured Destruction? And it's humming. Not good." He then looks over towards Shell and the missile again, looking back towards the device he grins at Wei's words, "That she is." He says in response, "Ok, anything like an 'off' switch on this thing?"

An alarm beeps within it. A computerized voice comes from the column, "MAD SS activated, clock intaitated, 75 hours and counting..."

Wei Zan Zhou scratches his chin. "Is that bad?"

Amy says, "It sounds bad!"

Wei Zan Zhou sips his hot chocolate. "Oh. Hmm."

Shell tilts her head. "Mutually Assured Destruction?" she echoes, dubiously. "SS.. activated.. huh." Shell bites her lower lip, staring at the humming thing, and glares at it. "Want me to open it up?" The woman looks up at Plasma once more, as if for confirmation. "We could at least see what we've got 75 hours for.."

Wei Zan Zhou finishes his drink and hops up to his feet. "Well, time to save the city. Seventy five hours is a lot of time."

Amy says, "I could try to make it break!"

Plasma looks over towards Edwardo, "Ummm anything on the net like this? Can you do a search?" He hopes that laptop is connected wirelessly it seems. At the voice from the column he blinks and then looks down into the hole from whence the device came from. "I don't know Shell, opening it now might make it go off early, like a self defense suicide switch or something. We should maybe see where it came from." He nods towards Wei, "We've got 3 days and little under three hours. We should get it cordoned off by the police or something so no kids come banging..." At Amy's words he looks startled at her, "it?!"

Smoke pours out of the uncovered hole...a pale green light comes out of it.

Wei Zan Zhou grins and looks at Amy's arms. "Oh so we have two strong ladies?" He lifts his arm and pokes a finger into his sweater encased bicep.

Edwardo shkes his head and looks back to his laptop.."Better check this out...time to hit the net..." with that, he disappears into 0's and 1's.

Amy giggles. "No, I mean, I don't know, stop the countdown working or something."

Shell's attention is taken by the smoke billowing out of the hole. Blinking a few times behind her mask, the woman slowly rises to her feet and walks toward it. "Yeah, seeing where it came from sounds good.. I mean, green light and smoke isn't exactly making me feel cozy safe, you know?" Reaching the edge of the hole, Shell crouches down to peer inside.

Wei Zan Zhou holds forth his thermos. "We could pour hot chocolate on the electronic things. Short circuit like in the movies!"

Amy says, "Uh-huh, that can work!"

Plasma comments, "That thing just came out of the ground, I don't think a little moisture is going to hurt it..." He then moves over to the edge of the hole and offers a hand to Shell, "Ready to go spelunking?" He asks the woman as he starts to hover towards the edge of the hole.

The hole is deep, dark and dank. A strange smell wafts out of the hole as well...smells sour.

Wei Zan Zhou puts his thermos away in his backpack. "Well, I will keep it nearby in case we need to short circuit anything..." He sighs. "But it tastes so good...no, I must sacrifice the delicious beverage for the sake of the city." He pats his backpack and then wrinkles his nose. "Oh...stinky!"

Shell wrinkles her nose at the scent, drawing back. "Eww." The costumed man above her recieves a slow, considering look, before she bounces on her toes and takes his offered hand. "Take her down, captain.. I'm really curious about this whole Christmas light show we've got going on here." Shell grins, enthused.

Amy says, "What's majubg that smell?"

Wei Zan Zhou says, "Maybe evil goblins?"

Wei Zan Zhou says, "No! Wait, maybe molemen from the middle of the earth?"

Plasma takes hold of Shell and holds her to him as he starts to lower them down into the smoke and earth towards the green glow, "Don't play... to much..." He says to Amy and Wei, perhaps they're going down the hole to get away from the explosion those two might cause! Either way, down they go, towards the sickly green light and the sickening sour smell.

Wei Zan Zhou pinches his nose and smiles at Amy. "I would normally say "ladies first" but this could be dangerous! It is certainly stinky." He follows after Plasma and Shell.

Wasp has arrived.

The tunnel appears to be ALOT further than WZZ could have guessed and piles in...once he goes in he comes to the NASTY conclusion that theres nothing to stop his fall and goes down for the trip..Plasma and Shell are at the bottom and approaching quickly

Shell slips out of Plasma's arms when they near the doors at the bottom, dropping the remaining feet into a crouch only to see Wei Zan Zhou approaching at speed. "Catch him!" she calls out quickly, though she quickly stands and moves to do so just in case her companion misses. "Why would someone just jump down a hole.." Ignore the fact that Shell would, in a heartbeat.

The fall is great but the heros are greater. Wzz stretches out his staff and starts to catch the wall slowing his decent...

Wei Zan Zhou giggles as he quickly falls down the tunnel. He quickly produces his staff from his back harness and extends the ends towards the tunnel walls to slow his descent.

Plasma, hearing the other fellow starting to follow them shouts, "Wait don-!" but it's to late and when Shell is free of his arms he starts to close the distance before he picks up -too- much velocity and then grabs hold of Wei and stops his decent, "What the hell were you thinking?!" He asks before shaking his head, calling down to Shell, "See if you can pry those doors open so we can see where this thing came from and if there is a remote shut off switch or something." He then looks towards Wei and considers a moment before heading back down, "Guess it's better we keep an eye on you than leave you to your own devices..." And sets Wei down on the ground near the doors as well.

Amy says, "What's it like down there?!"

Wei Zan Zhou smiles and hugs Plasma before being set down. "Hello! Oh, and thank you." He looks around and then shouts up, "Stinky!"

Amy says, "Oh! Is there anything there?""

Wei Zan Zhou returns his staff, now retracted, to its harness. "A door!"

Shell, Plasma and Wei are sitting at the bottom of a VERY deep hole, exploring its origins. A massive column sits on its side on the ground near the hole...Amy standing at the edge of the hole yelling down...a strange green light is coming from the hole as well as a sickly sour scent

Amy says, "Oh, ok, I'll climb down!"

Shell relaxes when Plasma catches the boy and shakes her head, mumbling under her breath. "I got it, I got it," she replies loudly, crouching at the doors and working her fingers into the gap between them. With a rending sound, Shell pries the large doors apart. "Hmph. Easy pie." She leans forward to peer into the great beyond.

Amy says, "Oh... this looks hard to climb. Is it far to jump?"

Plasma shouts up, "STOP!" When Amy shouts she's going to climb down, "There's nothing to hold onto! It's about 120 feet you'll go squish!" Then he is distracted by Shell dismantling the launch doors and he calls up, "Just keep people away from the device!" As he too starts to see what lies beyond the doors now that they're opened.

Wasp is returning to Colonial Bay when she spots something a little out of place, namely a new hole on Sandy Bottom Island. Curious, she flies down to investigate. "Hi, anyone here?" She calls out as she gets closer, knowing it's easy to miss seeing her approaching.

Amy looks about. "Oh, hey! Yeah, a bunch of people are down the hole but it's really deep and I can't climb down though I guesss I could jump but I don't know if there's anything soft to land on."

Wei Zan Zhou scratches his head and then nods to himself. "Yes, as he said! It is too far to jump! Unless you have an extendable staff." He grins at Plasma, seemingly oblivious to how close to serious harm he was a few moments ago. Looking down, he claps his hands excitedly. "Oh! What is this? Nice!" He picks up a rock and studies it in his palm for a moment before putting it away in his pocket.

Wei Zan Zhou grimaces as he looks for other rocks of interest on the ground. "Stinky...do you think whoever was here before forgot their food and now this place is filled with rotten food? Or cheese? Stinky cheese..."

Wasp comes to a stop and hovers, "Hello, Amy. Who's down there? Anyone hurt? What's going on here?" Smiling she adds, "Never a dull moment in this city."

Amy says, "Oh just this big missle thing sticking out of the ground and it's mad or something and then everyone went down the hole to see what's there but I don't think anyones's hurt, oh, and it's probably going to explode when it counts down."

Finding nothing else of interest on the ground, Wei Zan stands up and dusts his hands off while joining up with Plasma and Shell.

Amy says, "Except that's not for hours."

Shell draws back with a grimace. "Eugh.." She turns to eye Wei Zan Zhou, and shakes her head slowly. "No, I don't think so.." She stares into the large room beyond the doors, and then with a shrug, hops into the room and begins to look around. "Man, this reeks.." Shell puts a hand over her nose and mouth, searching in the dim blue light. "What is this place?"

Wasp looks over at the hole. "Explode? Not on my watch it doesn't. Lucky I was passing by. Shall we go and see what's happening down there, Amy? Can I give you a lift?"

Plasma wrinkles his nose and simply, stops breathing, "There, that's better." He says to himself and then looks down into the base. "Alright..." He then shouts up, "If you're any good with mechanical devices see if you can make out anything with that missile. We're going to see if we can find the launch system or any information." He then looks towards Wei and Shell, "Looks like an old base, probably cold war, hundred of years old or something." He shrugs and then starts to hover down into the base, taking Shell and Wei with him if they need the lift down to the floor of the base.

Amy says, "OK, thanks. Careful, it's smelly down there!"