Log:Time and Tidal Wave, Scene 3

Time and Tidal Wave 2008/10/08 	 Fuzzt Jennifer and Jessica Rebound Sable WildStar Fist Timekeeper Denzil Clarke 3

''Background: Jennifer has learned from Miles Fuchs that the dinosaur attacks were a distraction for the theft of a nuclear bomb by someone with times powers. She and Sable have determined that the bomb has been placed in an undersea borehole off La Palma in order to cause the island's collapse and trigger a massive tsunami, as in Cliff Worth's prophetic dreams, but Jessica has yet to find the exact site of the bomb. Meanwhile Rebound is organising a raid on an old power station on Tenerife, to which he has traced some equipment bought by Dr Young, the chief suspect.''

Scene: A briefing at the Colonial Bay TransMat

Rebound says, "Alright, thanks to everyone for coming here. Here's what's at stake:"

Fuzzt is a poofball that can double for a furry beanbag chair right now...with a pair of eyeand earstalks pointed at rebound and listening.

Jennifer grins and settles into the comfortable bean-bag if Fuzzt doesn't move out the way in time.

Rebound says, "Dr. Michael Young is a researcher into time travel. For whatever reasons, he's manages to secure a nuclear weapon, nad we believe he's going to use it here in the Canary Islands to trigger an earthquake. The resulting tsunami would devastate the eastern coast of the US, in the very least."

Rebound says, "Young has the nuke, and he's shown the ability to summon dinosaurs through time. We don't know what else he might be able to throw at us."

Fuzzt doesn't mind.. he's had worst things then that on him... he listens to this and blinks, a little confused.. until he remembers that humans are still pretty fragile. "ok... what are dinosaurs? Are they crunchy?"

Rebound says, "He's also kidnapped a geologist and his daughter to help him do the measurements he needs to complete his plot."

Jennifer interjects, "Jess has discovered there's been some underwater drilling by robot submersibles off the coast of La Palma. She's diving with a radiation detector looking for the site, or the nuke. No luck yet."

Sable nods. "Broken down like that it sounds like an extremely simple situation."

Rebound says, "Young had some supplies delivered to an decommissioned power station on Tenerife. We think he may be hiding out there."

Rebound says, "I'll turn the tactical part of the briefing over to Jennifer. Any notion of how we proceed from here?"

As expected, Fist sits quietly and listens.

Fuzzt says, "uhm... where dose he have this nuke? Can I eat it?"

Sable nods again, her hands clasping her hands in front of her. "Do we have any idea what defenses or security on the power station?"

Jennifer stands up. "There's many things we don't know. Where is the nuke? Is it placed? When is Young planning to detonate it? How tough is he and what backup does he have?

WildStar thinks. o O (Eat it?!)

Jennifer says, "Given our limited tactical knowledge I suggest an all out assault on the building initiated by a strike against the power-lines and any radio communication devices such as dishes or aerials. Do we have any plans for the building, Rebound?""

Rebound says, "I have the original plans -- for what good they are now. Plus we have more recent satellite photos."

Fuzzt listens.. and occasionally sneaking a tentacle into Jennifer's pockets, looking for sweets.

Sable says, "Well if we want to sneak in we could go through the coolant pipes, they're unlikely to be fortified or defended."

Jennifer examines the plans. "They may well have modified the internal layout but this is a rough guide. You have terrain and satellite imagery? Any comms systems visible?

Fuzzt waves a tentacle in the air, "I can sneak in if you like. just make a hole somewhere?

WildStar smiles a bit bashfully, "I can make a hole..."

Rebound says, "Jennifer, maybe we should send someone to scope it out first. If Young is standing with a finger on the button, we need to know before we assault."

Rebound points out any of the visible comm systems in the satellite pictures.

Jennifer sighs, "This was much easier when I was with SG. Rebound, anyone, does anyone know someone with the authority to switch off the cell-phone system for the island for ten minutes?"

Rebound says, "I can try making some phone calls, but if it absolutely needs to be done, we can do it, and ask forgiveness later."

WildStar looks to the others to give direction.

Rebound tries making that phone call, starting with the governor for Islands.

Jennifer says, "Scouting out before making an assault, Rebound, runs the risk of being spotted and having Young hit the button before enough force capability reaches the area. A full out assault should freeze the defense with surprise for two or three seconds. That ought to be all the time we need to get to the control room. It's a judgement call either way."

Rebound nods to Jennifer.

Sable says, "Well we can strike, but we want to keep surprise as long as possible, which is to say, staying out of sight."

Fuzzt thinks... thinks.. then gets an idea. In a moment, suddenly he turns clear and see through, his PDA and music player now visible, but otherwise looking like a blob of water that just hadn't fallen into a pool under Jennifer yet.

At this point the news of a fresh dinosaur attack is heard overheard....

Jennifer nods to Sable. "True. I like your idea of entering via the tuneels if they are large enough.

Rebound looks up at the sound the reports coming in. "I think that's it -- Young's plan is starting up. We've got to move now."

Jennifer nods, "Well that closes down the options rather a lot. Down to 'charge' basically."

Rebound nods. "Let's go. We'll follow your lead in, Jennifer."

WildStar asks, "So what're we gonna do, boss?"

Fist isn't sure precisely what is going to happen, but looks ready. Winging it is among her specialties.

Jennifer checks the satellite imagery. "Here. Up this ravine to this point. Fuzzt, leap at the wall here as hard as you can. If the internal layout haven't changed too much that will open up a way to here, which is close to the large chamber facing the La Palma island. An egoistical guy like Young will want to see the results of his work."

Jennifer says, "Wildstar, you have a TK ability, right?"

WildStar nods, "Yeah, it's pretty week - only a ton."

Jennifer says, "Enough, Can you rip up the power and phone lines before following us inside?"

WildStar nods, "Yeah, with TK or just physically - either way."

Jennifer says, "They won't be moving, so TK means you can do it without having to go to them. But whichever way you can that's fastest."

WildStar nods.

Sable says, "Just point me where you want me Jenn"

Jennifer activates her force armor and pulls a goose egg sized xystal device out of a pocket. "Okay, let's do this."

The heroes travel directly to the power station on Tenerife by TransMat portal.

''Scene: The old power station, set part-way up a mountain, has been in decay since fusion power came to the island. The old fuel-burning generators are rusted and disused. A couple of building have evidently been sold off, though one has to wonder what business would want to set up in so remote a spot the buildings have had only minimal repairs, and the chain-link fence is rusted. The sharp-eyed might note, however, that the high-tension power-lines leading from the station have recently been repaired.''

Rebound steps through the Transmat gate and onto the solid ground of the Island into the ravine that Jessica had pointed out.

Fuzzt rolls out onto the solid ground as well, the blobby alien turning the same color as the ground as he picks up some camouflage. Now he looks like a boulder.

Fist immediately heads for cover upon arrival, becoming as difficult to track as a light breeze.

Sable moves silently to the vanguard of the group, her footfalls noiseless as she stalks toward the compound, crouching low to stay out of line of sight of the plant and its windows and exits.

Jennifer follows Rebound already starting to move up towards the building and scanning for guards and security devices. Not that she planes to stop and deal with them but it's nice to know if there are there. She will stop for booby-traps though.

WildStar steps through the transmat gate, and grunts in pain as blood flows freely from both of his ears and nose, "Wha.." he starts to say - then clamps his mouth shut - there's a job to do here.

Jennifer says, "Cameras. It will take too long to deal with them. Straight in, no delay. Forget the sneakery."

Fist heads forward in her unseen state of zen.

Rebound gets ready to Fuzzt to knock.

WildStar wipes the blood out of his nose, then immediately makes an attack on the communications array with his TK - also leaping up into the air and flying towards it.

Fuzzt hears that and starts rolling right for the wall, picking up speed and then hitting a ramp of natural rock, "Geronimo!!!!" As he aims right for the wall, turning in mid air into a hard bullet of lead.

Fuzzt makes a nice big hole in this run-down building. And *almost* collides with a guy in a costume.

Rebound springs up and into the hole that Fuzzt created.

Jennifer darts into the building through the Fuzzt shaped hole and instantly scanes for threats.

Sable leaps over the chain-link fist, her feet a blur of motion as she races toward the plant. At about 10 metres away from one of the window which she leaps toward, hoping to kick her way through the window.

Fist follows Sable, taking cues from her movements and following as her shadow. Almost literally, since it's hard to notice her with Sable in the way.

WildStar uses his TK to try and wrench any communications cabling he sees out of the building, while simultaneously streaking towards the big satellite array.

The satellite dish falls off the collapsing building even as WildStar flies toward it.

WildStar's TK (notable by little motes of light that surround anything he's manipulating) succeeds in ripping out the phone lines.

"Well, well!" says the costumed man. "You're here sooner than I expected. Didn't take the dinosaur bait this time? No matter. You're out of time anyway. I, should know - I, Timekeeper!"

Fist follows Sable still, letting the others hit the time guy for a while. She's enacting her partnership/cover idea.

"Just six of you this time round - that should make things much easier. Oh by the way - I suggest you not smash my machines or cut the power. Unless you intend to kill millions of people."

Sable pauses just inside the plant, looking around the interior. "Timekeeper, I suggest we clean his clock."

Jennifer shouts back outside, "WildStar, better hold off on the power lines. Just in case."

Following Sable, Fist is waiting on her decisions.

WildStar shouts back, "Will do!" and heads for the communications array.

WildStar shouts back, "Will do!" and heads back towards the building and their evident enemy.

Sable :moves forward to close on Timekeeper to lash a swift, well-practiced punch at Timekeeper's midriff.

Timekeeper somehow dodges even that punch....

At that moment, Fist moves in to strike from below, emerging from behind Sable to simultaneously tackle him from the opposite side.

"You'll have to be faster than that..."

Successfully, Fist sends the Time guy to the ground and rolls to her feet.

Sable's lips purse as her fist swings wide of the mark, missing her target that Fist does hit.

Timekeeper is taken by surprise, and his breath is knocked out of him. "Now, you *are* quick!" he says, clearly impressed. "I wonder if you'll be as quick in your old age....."

Rebound says, "Be careful... he's already killed once by aging someone to death."

He raises a remarkably quick hand toward Fist...

Timekeeper seems to regain his feet in an instant....

He isn't quite fast enough to tag Fist nonetheless. That doesn't stop the wooden floor beneath Fist's feet from showing great signs of age....

WildStar lands right in front of Time-dude, and takes a swipe at him.

WildStar watches with some satisfaction as his foe goes flying through the concrete wall, then he suddenly yells, "There's a girl in there!"

Rebound shouts. "The geologist's daughter. She's in that room!" Rebound points the room just now revealed.

Jennifer reaches out with a hissing lash of an energy whip for Timekeeper attempting to grab him and pull him back out into the midst of the heroes away from a potential hostage. If the grab is successful she'll slam him down onto the floor.

Jennifer curls her whiplash around Timekeeper and pulls him back out to slam him into the floor. The sagging of the floor beneath him wasn't expected. She'll be more careful next time. "Rebound, I figure the controls are in the cellar. What do you think?"

Rebound bounces over to the hole in the wall made by Timekeeper. He stretched his hand out to the girl. "Jemma. Take my hand -- we're getting out of here." Mindful of the shaky footing, he stretches his other around something that (hopefully) secure.

Jennifer remembers something from her SG briefings, "Fuzzt, wrap the guy up and squeeze... please."

Fuzzt looks around.. not quite sure what to do right now, But as soon as Jennifer gives the order, he leaps for the madman to give him a hug.... Awww...

Rebound takes the girl's hand. In one smooth move, he both pulls her into his arms and bounces to the destroyed outer wall. "Now, where is he keeping your father?" he asks the girl.

Jennifer explains to the others, "Dallians are immortal. Fuzzt can't be aged."

says, "H - he's in the basement."

Rebound says, "Good. We're going to rescue him too. Now run and find someplace to hide, and don't come out until we come looking for you."

"Thanks for the information!" gasps Timekeeper. "Well, let's see what the creature was like when it was *young*.

Timekeeper keeps up his assault on Fuzzt.

Fuzzt has a good grip on him, that's for sure. And what does he do? He wraps up timekeeper into a tight little ball with only the villain's head sticking out. Any time

Fist's hands start glowing in a black manner.

She then touches the timekeeper's forehead.

"Damn it - this creature is immune to the ravages of time?!"

The dark energy flows into the timekeeper from the chi point. The weakening has an immediate effect, and Fist readies another.

WildStar leaps through the gaping hole in the wall, "Hold him still for me!" and he aims a mighty blow at the villain

Sable has the misfortune to fall through the weakened floor....

Timekeeper, seeing what may be a decisive punch coming, lashes out at WildStar....

Focusing, Fist's hands again darken and she reaches to apply another dose of unstrengthening via chi disruption.

WildStar is hit by the Timekeeper's strange power. He is still in damned-good shape, but he appears to have suffered the effects of aging - skin not so tight, a few wrinkles around the eyes, and some noteable gray in his dark hair, "Crap! What'd you *do* to me you heinous freak!" he yells even as his fist is about to impact Timekeeper's face.

Timekeeper is really getting pretty weak now!

Jennifer sees that Fuzzt has Timekeeper well wrapped up, so she heads for the cellar. Grabbing Rebound on the run if he stands still for her.

Jennifer snags Rebound up on the way as she dashes down the stairs and into the cellar.

Jennifer puts Rebound down at the end of her move. She points at the complicated flashing lights machine, "Yours." and then at the Geologist and Sable, "Mine."

Rebound hops forward to the controls and tries to see if he can understand them. As the same time, he speaks to the geologist. "Jemma is safe... what is this machine, Dr. Clarke?"

Rebound says, "I can't tell what it is... some kind of time manipulation device... but it doesn't look like a time travel device."

Dr Clarke says in a panicked voice, "Don't touch it, whatever you do! You could wipe out the eastern seaboard - and more!"

Jennifer says, "Perhaps you can explain, Dr Clarke?"

Dr Clarke nods, stopping panicking when he sees that destruction isn't the immediate goal.

Fuzzt has a good grip on him, that's for sure, proven by the blob wraping timekeeper up into a tight little ball, with the criminal in the hollow of his body. "Anyone wanna play kickball? Please?" and starts rolling around the floor, inviting any of the heros to give him a good solid kick, punch, shove what have yas... he can take it. A big, white, furry grade school kick ball filled with villainous goodies.... This guy is not getting out any time soon. And seeing as he aged him back to his kid days, he's going to play like one! He's making his skin thin enough that anything they do should go through, he's stretchy enough.)

Rebound points out to one of the screens. It marks a circle around La Palma. "Interesting..."

Jennifer grins, "Rebound, let's remember our roles here. You're a techie and I'm a grunt. You fix 'em. I break 'em. That's in the fix it category."

Rebound sighs. "I'm trying..."

Fuzzt Weeee!!! -boingie boingie boingie- -roll roll roll-

Fist rushes to catch the fuzzy bouncy ball, checking on Timekeeper for his vital signs. The outward, obvious ones.

WildStar's massive punch lands on Time-dude's exposed face, knocking out a tooth or two, sending him to unconcious-land, and bouncing Fuzzt and him around the room.

Fuzzt lets himself get caught and waits, then pouts as he realises he's not going to be rolled again. "Awwww.." and shrinks down.. to turn into a bunny suit for TK, complete with bunny ears and a puffy little tail. And of course he's eating TK's clothes too. Just for good measure.

Dr Clarke says, "Yes - don't you see - this is what he's going to freeze the tsunami with, once the nuke goes off!

Rebound blinks. "Freeze the tsunami?"

Jennifer says, "Dr Clake, you did or helped with the survey. Where is the nuke located?"

Visibly relieved, Fist looks at Wildstar with a somewhat perplexed expression. First for the aging effect and then for the whalloping that was handed out.

Rebound tries taking a bit longer this time, to figure out the device.

WildStar smiles disarmingly at Fist, "What?"

"Yes - he's he wanted to hold the world to ransom, like back in 2024. Back then the heroes wrecked his machine, though. So he had this idea - make a disaster and then have the only machine that could hold it back - *after* the disaster happened! He'd have collected ransom forever!"

says, "Oh - the coordinates - but there isn't time! You'll never get there!""

Dr Clarke gives Jenn the coordinates nonetheless.

Fuzzt gets bored of making Timekeeper a bunny and turns him into a vixen.. then a skunky.

Jennifer says, "Dr Clake, I'm already there. Now either you tell me where the nuke is so I can disarm it or I lose half of me and the world loses La Palma and its inhabitants."

Timekeeper remains mercifully unconscious.

Fuzzt says, "Anyone wanna take pictures? I take requests...."

Letting a silent sigh, Fist stands up, looking around to see who is still here.

Meanwhile, somewhere deep underwater Jessica is swimming for her life and the life of thousands on the island of La Palma.

"Good luck!" says Dr Clarke. He monitors the machine though - just in case Jenn fails.

Rebound looks at the machine. "Time may be the only thing we do have... Ok. Jessica tries to disarm the device. If that fails, we might still be able to freeze the wave. Maybe the explosion it self."

Dr Clarke isn't stupid. He kept coordinates on the borehole to the metre. Jessica can find it - but she still has to swim down it and disarm the bomb at the bottom...

Seeing that her options are either to swim down and try to disarm a nuclear device or to try and outswim the blast wave from such a device, well there's not a lot of thought needed when making that decision. Down she goes.

Fist decides to keep an eye on the Timekeeper's brain, in the event he wakes up and tries to do something really horrible.

Fuzzt finishes nibbling on the guys' clothes and spits out his wallet, keys, PDA.. anything he had.

Fuzzt uses a couple tendrils to lift the guy's nose to make him look a bit like a pit, then changes into a pink pig suit for him. Tendrils up the nose.. ew!

Jessica finally reaches the bottom of the bore - and finds the bomb.

WildStar tries to find a cloth to mop up his nose, which is still oozing blood. He takes off his gloves and looks at the wrinkles that have developed on his hands. o O (Wow, this could be a career-stopper...) o.

Jessica quickly checks the device of booby traps.

Suddenly alarmed, Fist aims a heavy but open-handed strike for the Timekeeper.

Fuzzt gets his tendrils squished. OUCH! the tendrils pull out and shake themselves out, unkinking after the hit that puts them deeper into the guy's nostrils. "Owww...."

Jennifer gets out her PDA and tries to call a friendly Aunt in the UK for top secret information on this specific model of nuke. The 'no carrier' tone reminds her that the cell phones are down for the area, by her own request.

Fuzzt says, "So when can I eat a nuke?"

Fist looks apologetically at the general area of Timekeeper and the Fuzzt, also relieved again.

Dr Clarke monitors the machine, waiting for the boom....

Jennifer sits down on the floor and emits a long shuddering exhalation. "Woo... So that's what being scared is like. First time I've ever felt that emotion. It's not very nice." She mops at her brow with a sleeve leaving a damp patch on the cloth. "Safe."

Rebound sighs, his frame sagging. "Seriously?"

Dr Clarke doesn't even take that in until the time passes and the instrumentation shows nothing. "Safe?"

Jennifer looks at Rebound, "Ale.. uh, Rebound, even I don't joke about nukes. They're something that should never have been invented. I've disarmed it."

WildStar seems distracted, though he wanders by Timekeeper to make sure he is still thoroughly unconcious. o O (Bastard, take out a tank with a hit like that, and he's only knocked out.) O o.

Fuzzt gets bored... and if one looks close now they can see TimeKeeper's hair receeding in under the pig hood he's wearing... like it's getting eaten? He looks ok though

Rebound says, "I guesss we should let the government know where their nuke has gotten too. Thanks for your help, Dr. Clarke."

Rebound looks at the Time Bubble machine. o O ( Man would it be sweet to get this back to Transmat... )

Dr Clarke seems to be breathing again. "They're safe... they're all safe..."

Jennifer nods. "Would you mind if we let agent Fuchs pass the information on. It was his tip that got us here in time. Be nice to give him a boost be being the guy who reports the recovery."

Rebound says, "No problem with that..."