Log:A Graves Situation

2009/04/05 	 Akeno Ferryl Hellfire Jennifer Jolt Lorelei Rushuna 1

Akeno pops up in a breeze of wind it seems as he slows down near Jennifer. "Why do I get the feeling you're going to have too much fun with this?" He mentions as he looks towards the UEMS office. "Not sure why they didn't contact the meta-division as well. Didn't think I left that bad of an impression."

Lorelei isn't smirking. She's coming to lend a hand - feeling perhaps she's not been pulling her weight as a 'hero' lately. But she's feeling a little reluctant to deal with the Earth Marshals.

Jennifer glances over at the arriving detective, "Ah. I heard to threw away Killshot?"

The scene is a briefing room in the UE Marshall Service office in City Center. Biege carpeting, faux wood table with a grain-like pattern on it, windows that allow you to see out in to the bullpen area where the staff works.

Jennifer glances over at the arriving detective, "Ah. I heard you threw away Killshot?" A warm smile comes to her face when Lorelei arroves however.

Hellfire has made her way here as well. As it is inside, she neither has her wings or her flaming aura. She is just in the trench coat with the two torn gaps in the back, and looking half naked, just the bikini top under the coat.

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Akeno frowns a bit, "No... turns out one of the gunmen had a knife on them. I was too busy fighting a two on one and doing poorly at it. I'm not in as good of a shape as I was before I took that international case."

Jennifer says, "Hi, Lorelei. Good to see you again."

Lorelei enters, in her standard costume, though she's wearing a coat over the top - it's still March, after all. She pauses inside the door looking to see who's there. "Hi Jenn!" she says, but her attention comes to rest of Hellfire, with perhaps a slight look of concern.

Jennifer nods to Hellfire offering a slight smile as she waits for the Marshals to get their act together.

Hellfire looks over at the newcomer and then notices the look of concern, holding off on saying anything and returning Jennifer's smile. She does seem a bit uneasy, maybe the confined space of being indoors, or maybe it is the Marshall's office.

Lorelei notices Jenn's smile to Hellfire. "Friend of yours?"

UE Marshall Sam Washington is a Black man in his forties. He stands a little over six feet tall with a frame that hints back to his days as a college athlete. He comes into the room and walks to the head of the conference table. "Thank you all for coming," he says. He stands with his hand on his hips and his legs spread a little. The gun he wears in a shoulder holster is visible underneath this suit blazer. "We have a situation."

Jennifer says, "Seen her a couple of times, outside the Gym and in the coffee shop."

Jennifer looks over the Marshal, "How odd. He looks competent. They must have changed the hiring policy after taking on Citadel." she mock whispers to Lorelei loud enough to be overheard. Then she sits up and gives the appearance of listening at tentatively.

Lorelei is careful the smile at the corner of her mouth isn't visible to the marshall.

"Dr. Arthur Graves is a physicist who used to work for NASA, up until six months ago," Washington says. "There was an accident at the lab. Somehow Graves merged with experimental gravity device they were working on and survived."

Lorelei nods, listening.

Hellfire cocks her head to the side and raises a brow. She moves to where she can lean against a wall and folds her arms over her chest. She just waits to find out more.

"Dr. Arthur Graves is a physicist who used to work for NASA, up until six months ago," Washington says. "There was an accident at the lab. Somehow Graves merged with experimental gravity device they were working on and survived."

Jennifer nods taking more interest now details are energing.

"And if it weren't a problem, it wouldn't be a matter for the Marshall Service," Washington says. "Turns out, after he some kind of freaky powers from the accident, he used it to dispose of his boss, a co-worker... pretty much anyone who scorned or disagreed with him."

Lorelei frowns. "Any idea why?"

Jennifer starts to speak but stops and lets Lorelei ask the question she was intending to.

Hellfire cocks her head to the side, and starts to say something but holds back a bit. She looks a bit closer.

"Wouldn't expect you to understand, Lorelei." Washington says. "Because I'm guessing that you've never had to work in a bureaucracy."

Washington says, "He wasn't screwed too tight before the accident."

Jennifer says, "Represed hostility and when he gained powers he didn't bother repressing it any longer?"

Hellfire nods, "And such things can be trying on anyone even moreso for someone unstable."

Lorelei says, "This was six months ago, though. I take it he's a more immediate problem now?"

Washington nods. "He's broken into a government storage facility, where another one of those gravity device was being held. We think he might be trying to repeat that experiment that gave himself powers in the first place."

Lorelei says, "Wonderful. So what are his powers exactly anyway?"

Jennifer says, "I'm guessing you don't think he's trying to undo the process. You figure he's looking to make his abilities stronger. So what are..." she grins, "Yeah, what Lorelei said."

Hellfire nods, "Stronger makes more sense given the situation." she looks at Washington and then the other two before looking back.

"He's got a black hole in his chest." Washington says.

Lorelei says, "That... doesn't sound good. But what can he do?"

Jennifer says, "I'm not a techie type. I'm a grunt. You're going to have to break that down a bit more for me."

"The people that he killed?" Washington says. "Took us a while to figure that one out -- we think he just sucked them into that black hole. He can also use the gravity distortion to protect himself from attacks."

Lorelei says, "Yeah. Not good. Any idea what sort of range he can suck people in at?"

Jennifer winces, "Shame eyebeams seem to have gone out of fashion. I understood eyebeams."

[To Jennifer] Lorelei says, "Huh, I never got eyebeams. I mean - what sort of energy are they shooting?"

Jennifer grins, "Dodgable energy."

Washington looks to Jennifer. "He can protect blasts of X-ray radiation... That do it for you?"

Jennifer says, "Yeah, that I'm trained to cope with.""

Washington says, "He has to be able to touch something, to suck it in."

Lorelei says, "That's a relief, at least."

Jennifer asks, "What if something, or someone, touches him? Can he suck that in?"

Washington shrugs, "We've seem people and things touch him and not get sucked in. Playing tag with a black hole is not a game I like, frankly."

Hellfire nods, "So stay at range and make him use his range attack." she nods and thinks for a moment.

Jennifer says, "For me it's the only game in town. I don't do guns." She looks over at Hellfire. "Name's Jennifer in case you don't know. This is Lorelei. Can you introduce yourself and give us an idea what you can do?"

"If Graves is planning on repeating his experiment," Washington says, "His choices are limited. We have his old lab in Florida locked down tight - the Miami Hurricane and Conquistador are on it. But we just located another facility in the area that he might be able to use."

Hellfire nods, "I am Hellfire, says it a bit, um...well I am a ranged fighter." she says and tries to leave it at just that, "It will become more apparent."

Lorelei says, "Where's that?"

Jennifer says, "Sounds like a good thing to be in this situation. I'm a reasonably capable martial artist but I'm going to avoid tangling hand to hand with the guy if possible."

Washington says, "There's a high-energy particle physics lab that was shut down a year ago, west of Creekfield."

Jennifer says, "How long do you need us to hold down that location?"

Lorelei nods. "So, we try to handle him at a distance. So what's the plan, stake the place out and wair for him to turn up?"

Hellfire nods as she listens. now.

"Check it out and stake it out." Washington says.

"So, by the power duly invested in me as a United Earth Marshall..." Washington speaks, quickly rushing through something he clearly treats as a mere formality. "I hereby deputize you as Marshalls, for the purpose of handling this case..."

Jennifer grins, "Sorry, no can do the deputizing bit, Marshal Worthington." She pulls out a wallet from inside her jacket and opens it, "Fortunately I'm carrying my own authorization. Chalk this up to interdepartmental cooperation." She shows him an FBI badge inside the wallet.

Washington nods. "We're all one big happy dysfunctional family."

Jennifer laughs, "It's too much to hope for that you're getting assigned to Colonial Bay as a replacement for Citadel I suppose. I think we could work together if you were."

Washington says, "Not likely. Got a wife and kids up north who barely see me enough as it is..."

Hellfire smiles a little and nods.

Jennifer waits until the heroines are alone before broaching a senstive subject to Hellfire. "Hellfire, I'm not intending to get too close to Graves if I can avoid it. That means I'll be using a weapon. I can replace a weapon. Harder to replace me. But I'd rather nobody else knew I had this weapon and knew how to use it. Can I depend on you to keep quiet?"

[To Hellfire] Lorelei says, "And thinking of things that people might not want talked about openly - I trust you have that demon or whatever well under control?"

Hellfire looks at her nw that they are alone, "Yes, and yes I have him under control, it is a struggle to use my powers, but I am in control, it becomes obvious if I lose it, but it comes back." she says and looks at Jennifer, "I am demon-possessed, commanding powers of hell, I think I can keep your weapon secret." she says and takes a deep breath. She seems not to mind any cold, as she remains in the same outfit.

"Yeah, sounds like a hoot," Ferryl replies when she's told by one of the Markham twins. She's along in time of course, in her usual relaxed way of keeping appointments. She's also keeping herself unseen as best she can.

''SkyHab High Energy Physics lab is an abandoned base that once belonged to a NASA subcontractor. It's a single story buliding with a high domed ceiling over the main lab. The electricity has been turned on, but only a few lights are lit. ''

Lorelei looks about as we arrive, wondering where the best place to set up is. "I'm glad I brought my coat. A stakeout may get cold."

Jennifer nods and activates force armor. She's now holding a goose-egg size and shaped xytal in her right hand. "Lorelei, you wearing a Safeguard comm unit?"

Lorelei says, "What do you think, Jenn? Tactics are more your field - where's the best place for me to be seen while not getting too close? I wish we knew where he'd go exactly...."

Lorelei says, "Yes. I even have the New Blood one too, still."

Hellfire looks back and forth between the two and just watches for a moment.

Jennifer says, "I'm thinking I go inside. The three of you are all range capable. Very capable actually. And we know Graves is hostile. He won't want any interference. So if you set up around the gatehouse I'll draw him out that way. He'll be in the open on the car parking area in front of the establishment."

"Safeguard, that's the thing Sable worked toward?" Ferryl asks, making herself better-seen. "You want him immobilized or worse?"

Lorelei says, "On the roof, maybe? Is there a way up there? Darn - we never asked if he could fly."

Jennifer says, "Immobilized is ideal. KO'ed is pretty good too. If anyone can flash his vision, don't do it unless Lorelei gives you the go-ahead."

Ferryl shakes her head. "I'm not sure what that means, but I don't go for the eyes unless I'm feeling really mean."

Jennifer says, "We're talking gravity powers. I'd be surprised if flight wasn't one of them."

Lorelei explains, "I'm of no use unless he can see me."

Ferryl shrugs. "I can probably annoy him in some manner." She heads for a somewhat distant vantage point, taking up a nice sniping stance.

Lorelei heads for the roof, assuming there's a way up there.

Jennifer says, "If he doesn't want to follow me out of the building he'll almost certainly be going to the main lab. In which case I'll smash a hole in the wall so you and Hellfire and Ferrylcan see him, Lorelei."

Lorelei says, "Hm. So much for the roof...."

Hellfire nods, "Alright," she says and takes a deep breath, this will be one of her first real combats in a while.

Jennifer slips on her stealth cloak and tries her best to vanish from sight inside the building, ideally in a spot where she has sight of the lab and the front doors.

Lorelei looks about for another spot where she might be seen without Graves having easy access to her.

Jennifer suggests over the communicator that the gatehouse might be a good place for Lorelei to stay hidden in until Graves turns up, if he does.

Lorelei thanks Jenn and heads to the gatehouse.

The few lights that are on inside the building begin to flicker.

Jennifer slips night vision goggles on keeping them up on her forehead but ready for use if the light go fully out.

 Lorelei says, "Can you see what's up with the lights, Jenn?"

Jennifer settles down in concealment and listens and looks with careful concentration.

 Jennifer says, "No. I can see they're flickering but not the reason for it."

Lorelei looks out of the tehouse trying to see any sign of an intruder.

Ferryl looks thoughtful. "I need to invest in some nightsights."

Hellfire is staying in the shadows, waiting for az moment to attack when it arrises without giving herself away too much.

Jennifer checks the window and runs a quick bypass around the contact alarm. A thin flexible blade slides through between frame and window to lift the catch. And she's in. Leaving the catch up she closes the window behind her after disarming the alarm from the inside and removing all signs of the bypass.

Rush lands on the rof of the place, the girl pausing as she looks around. She frowns then looks around before rubbing at the back of her neck. "Now just a matter of getting in." She mutters. She then looks around and makes her way toward one of the roof vents, the girl examining it curiously before she then removes a small computer from her pack.

(For Jennifer) The space that Jennifer gains access to is an empty office. Things here look to have been left untouched for a long time.

Jennifer moves through the empty building like a ghost searching out the main lab and entrance so she has a knowledge of the layout.

Jolt has arrived! Although she doesnt know exactly what's going on she heard something over the radio briefly.

Hellfire is off to the side, from someone just arriving, a chance that they can see the woman, after all while she wears the black there is lots of dark green to it, and the bare skin of the belly and all too.

Ferryl is meanwhile elseroof, a fair distance away, watching for a sign from Jennifer and the probable lighting that might happen from Hellfire's efforts.

(For Jennifer) Outside the office is a hallway, which leads to a T intersection. At the T-intersection there's a sign: bathrooms and security office are to the left, the exit is to the right.

Jennifer thinks. o O(If the power is on, which it is otherwise no light, the security systems ought to be working. Let's peek into the securirty office and see if there's camera monitors for the building. This could be a good place to wait and be able to see all the rooms.)

Jennifer can here it coming before she spots it's. From her position, hiding in the hall that forms the stalk of the T intersection, she can see a spherical ball of black energy about a foot in diameter. It's floating down the hall, heading from the left side of the T to the direction of the right side and continuing on.

Jennifer smiles, "Well well well. Let's see where this little black hole is going." she says under her breath, and starts to follow while whispering into her communicator.

 Jennifer says, "Target in the building. I'm going to try and lure him out. He's between me and the exit right now so it might be a few seconds yet."

 Lorelei says, "Should I move in?"

 Jennifer says, "No. I can see a sphere of black energy about a foot in diameter. Might be him in compressed form or a probe of some kind."

 Rushuna says, "Heya, I'm here, I have a layout of the whole building I got from records, also, I can make it to the security room easy."

 Lorelei says, "Who's that?"

 Jennifer says, "Identify yourself please."

 Rushuna says, "Tendou Rushuna at your service!"

 Jennifer says, "Okay. Yes, if you can get to the secuirt ofice go for it."

 Jolt says, "So anyone know what we're doing here?"

The black ball of energy heads towards the entrance, past the Administrator's Office and the Kitchen. From the entrance foyer, it heads left. The hall that Jennifer is in seems to run a ring around the inside of the building. On the outside of the hall is mostly doors to offices. On the inside wall of the hall, it's mostly wall space.

Now comitting the map to memory, the girl folds her small computer and slips it into a back pocket. She then focusses and the girl instantly dissapears, now teleporting toward where she knows the security office is.

Now comitting the map to memory, the girl folds her small computer and slips it into a back pocket. She then focusses and the girl instantly dissapears, now teleporting toward where she knows the security office is. Shortly before she does, Rushuna crosses her fingers.

Jennifer follows the ball at a distance. Wishing she know whether it was Graves or whatever... The exercise is good and she's getting an idea of the layout. Guessing the main lab is in the center.

When Rushuna teleports into the security office, she finds herself surrounded by three black balls of energy, similar to the one that Jennifer is following.

Meanwhile, the energy ball that Jennifer's been following stops and begins to double back towards the security office. It's now heading back towards Jennifer.

Rush's eyes get huge and she instantly dissapears again, the girl teleporting into a storage closet. She wipes her brow at this point, then looks down. Her foot's in a mop bucket. She sweatdrops, sighs and lifts it out before looking around. "Annoying...."

The ball of energy floats right by Jennifer. It passes through the wall that separates the hallway from the kitchen.

Jennifer quickly slips behind the ferny leaves of a potted plant. She makes a mental note, no potted plants in my secret base if I ever get around to building one.

 Jennifer says, "Rushuna, be careful, there's a black energy ball heading in the direction of the security office."

 Jolt says, "Any idea if we can actually hurt or contain those things?"

 Jennifer says, "I have no idea what it is so the answer is I have no idea."

<SG> Rushuna says, "And three or more in the security office. I can't stay in there, too many."

<SG> Lorelei says, "This guy has a power we weren't told about, or something?"

<SG> Jennifer says, "Okay, that answers one question. The balls are not Graves. And if there's three in the security room I'm guessing they are some kind of remote probe reporting back to him."

Poking her head out of the storage room, Rushuna can see that she ended up a few doors down from the security office. Two black energy balls emerge from the security office. One heasds away from Rushuna, and the other heads in her direction down the hall.

Jolt focuses her senses onto the magnetic and looks around the building for cameras and/or secret passages and what not.

Meanwhile the lights inside the entire building flicker and die out. A moment later the emergency lights click on.

Rushuna looks upward, frowns and again the girl dissapears, teleporting into a nearby duct this time, and still trying to be silent for now. . o O (really gotta train in my being silent) she thinks to her self.

A third globe passes through the wall and into the storage room beneath Rushuna's air duct. It pauses there a moment before passing through the wall and into the next room down.

<SG> Jennifer says, "Rushuna, you said you had the plans. How strong are the walls?"

<SG> Rushuna says, "Phew that was close, globes think something's going on, they were hunting for me. Lemme check."

<SG> Jolt says, "Do you think a distraction might be helpful?"

<SG> Jennifer says, "I'm thinking the lights are out because all the power is being used in the lab. I'm going to try and open up a direct path to the lab from the outside. Let's start moving in. Jolt, that you? Can you blow the power to the building. That might slow Graves down with his attempted re-enactment of the experiment."

<SG> Jolt says, "Well I can try... anyone know where the generators are"

<SG> Lorelei says, "Want me to move in too, Jenn?"

<SG> Rushuna says, "Multiple feet of reinforced concrete, I'll get you location of the generators and nearby transformers so y'can stone the flow of power."

Jennifer reaches the Monitor Room. Through here, one can reach the particle lab, at least according to the signs. There's a small window, through which Jennifer can see three more of the energy balls, and a lab technician (not Dr. Graves)

<SG> Jennifer says, "Yes. Everyone move in. First priority now has to be stopping him carrying out the experiment again. Catching him is a high second. There's a lab tech in the main lab. Might be an innocent roped in or a henchman."

<SG> Rushuna says, "Where exactly are you Jennifer? I'll get to you and start porting people into the lab silently.... I can carry one at a time."

<SG> Lorelei says, "Ok, moving in."

Lorelei leaves the gatehouse and heads for the main buidling.

<SG> Jennifer says, "Thanks Rushuna, that would be helpful. I'm in the monitor room looking into the lab through a armored glass window."

Jennifer makes her way into thelab as quickly as being at least moderately sneaky and cautious allows.

Jolt makes her way into the building throught the exit Jennifer used and begins to search through it for the power source. Maybe with some help from Rush

Jennifer hasn't time to mess around with noisy latches. An energy blade is drawn and slashes at the latch with the intent of cutting it away completely, hopefully more quietly than fiddling with the catch would be.

Inside the monitor room, the energy spheres remain stationary, and the lab tech stays focused on his equipment. Though a thick pane of protective glass, one can see the interior of the lab: Black tile walls line the room from floor to the 10" high domed ceiling. There's a raises dias in the center of the room where four Van de Graff generators stand...

The generators seem to be powering a force wall around themselves and the around the center of the experiment, where Dr. Grave works. There's a black hole inside, and Dr. Graves seems to be trying to manipulate it with the Black Hole stuck in his chest.

An mini black hole passes by Jolt, not seeming to react to her presence.

Lorelei whispers, "He's in there?"

Jennifer cuts at the latch with the sonic blade and continues the sweeping motion to bring the blade up through the two hinges of the thick door between the monitor room and the main lab. Then she kicks at the center of the door to send it crashing forward with a thunderous *blam* and cloud of dust as it hits the floor. "Knock knock!"

Ferryl moves herself to better range than the others, finding herself some nice cover to use so that she's not in the blast radius when things turn unexpectedly sour.

After ferrying people ot the other side, Rush tries to take up cover as she looks around at the goings on. She looks down at her feet, then up again trying to determine what's going on. (Holding for now...)

Jennifer stays for a moment in the classic sidekick stance. Sadly the door does nothing.

Hellfire cocks her head to the side, door...hmm.. She takes a deep breath and people probably already know that they are here. She takes a deep breath and both of her hands lift into the air and start to trace runes that leave greenish-black images in the air. They start to fade and with a scream of what is obviously pain, she bursts into greenish black flame herself that almost seems to be some kind of protective aura. At the same time, black leathery wings rip out of the flesh of her back through the tears in her trench coat and extend a bit. She traces more runes while gesturing at the door.

The door is scorched by the hellfire, but it remains mostly intact.

Ferryl asks, "Is there a way out of this place from in there?"

Hellfire seems to struggle for a moment, and then the runes in the air fade and her hands glow bright green for a moment and then a powerful bolt of greenish black flame leaps from her hands to slam into the door. She screamed a bit in pain as she threw the bolt and seems almost frustrated that it is still standing.

Jennifer says a little disheartedly, "Uh, everyone, there's a latch. You don't have to blast it down. I was just trying to be flashy. You may have noticed. It didn't work."

Ferryl hms. "Interesting approach. I suggest a more direct one."

Jolt follows the power lines that she can see in the wall to their source as she follows it she recognizes where it's leading... that being the Montior room where everyone else is at the moment?

The lab tech says, "You've got to protect me for those gravitic anonamlies!" He points out the spheres of black energy. "Dr. Graves created them, and he's able to control them somehow!"

Lorelei also waits for someone to get this door open!

The spheres of energy float towards different targets in the room, Hellfire, Jennifer, and Rushuna.

Lorelei heads into the monitor rooom.

As the ball rushes by, Rush blinks then dives to the side, the girl popping to her feet before looking toward the door... "Ummm How bout blowing out the window, yus?" She then turns otward the window, the girl holding both hands out in front of her as she focusses her ki. Suddenly a roiling ball of energy that seems give off a bit of wind shortly before she thrusts her hand forward, exhailing hard as she does. (attempting to remove window with an wind-based EB n.n)

Crik. A small crack forms in the heavy, protective glass window.

SkyHab High Energy Physics lab is an abandoned base that once belonged to a NASA subcontractor. It's a single story buliding with a high domed ceiling over the main lab. The electricity has been turned on, but only a few lights are lit.

Jennifer tries the conventional grunt remedy for all devices that aren't functioning as well as desired. She smacks the hilt of her vibroblade against the wall to shake it up and then makes a long forceful cut down across the bar of the locking mechanism.

Jennifer swings the blade away and kicks out with her foot to knock the remains of the locking bar free from the doorframe. "Open."

Lorelei keeps edging cautiously across the room.

Hellfire winces as she gets hit by the thing, not sure if it is going to do any good, she starts tracing runes in the air again, leaving the greenish black trails for a moment as a look of concentration appears on her face.

Jennifer looks over at the lab tech, "If I were you I'd consider running like hellfire was scorching the heels of my shoes." she tells him. Her sonic blade flicks out in an attempt to strike one of the black balls, hopefully disrupting it or if not disrupting it then at least drawing the attention of the three black balls to herself.

Jennifer only just catches the black ball with the very tip of the sonic blade. The effect lacks a certain something though. To be exact the blade simply passes through without having any effect. "Mm... That's irritating." she says musingly.

Jolt moves for the doorway as she realizes that the gravity distortions that are threatening the others are little more than distractions and greatly suspects that ending Dr. Graves experiment will probably cause them to stop

A Quick Re-hash:

The monitor room is roughly 10" x 10", and is filled with computer equipment designed to monitor the adjacent lab room. Of particular interest, there is one main computer for controlling the monitor systems. There are two ways from the monitor room into the main lab -- through a super-heavy protective door, and through a super-thick pane of protective glass. The super heavy door has been cut open by Jennifer's energy blade.

Inside the Main Lab:

Black tile walls line the 12" x 12" room from floor to the 10" high domed ceiling. There's a raised dias in the center of the room where four Van de Graff generators stand. The generators seem to be powering a force wall around themselves and the around the center of the experiment, where Dr. Grave works. There's a black hole inside, and Dr. Graves seems to be trying to manipulate it with the Black Hole stuck in his chest.

The force wall deflects Jolt's attack completely, and when she contacts it, it crackles with the electrical energy supplied to it by the Van de Graaf generators.

Lorelei moves across the observation room, still cautiously - she's very wary of the black balls!

Jolt does as planned and ends up crashing into the force wall but doesnt have enough momentum to punch through it and ends up getting zapped by the generator. Thankfully she's exceptionally resiliant to electrical damage and leaves her feeling a bit light headed as she's not used to absorbing that much electrical energy at once as her system copes with the overload causing sparks to fly from her hair.

Lorelei, now in the lab, needs to get the doctor's attention. She positions herself as close to the Graves' line of sight as she can and, not have any good ideas for lines herself goes for a quotation, though spoken with all her considerable presence: "Excuse me, may I distract you for a momement?" And she gives Graves, should she get his attention, her best stunning pose.

Dr. Graves turns away from his work for just a moment, to catch a glimpse of Lorelei. He swoons, raising a hand to his forehead as he's momentarily overcome by Lorelei's beauty.

<SG> Jennifer says, "Very nice Lorelei. Any chance you can talk him into switching off the force wall and coming out to you?"

Dr. Graves seems to recover somewhat. He shields his eyes and tries looking away from her. "I won't let you interfere with my plans, not when I'm so close!"

Back in the Monitor Room, the lab assistant takes Jennifer's advice and runs out into the hallway.

<SG> Lorelei says, "He might suck me in without even meaning to - anyway, it looks like he's not going to be looking at me again."

<SG> Jennifer says, "We'll see on the not looking at you. He's male. Unless he has an Ego the size of a planet I bet he'll be sneaking looks."

<SG> Jolt says, "I think its time to try shutting off this experiment by breaking things"

Jennifer asks, "Jolt, those big generator things in the Lab. Are they self powered or can I switch them off from in here?" while starting to look at the monitor room controls for any way of doing what she just asked.

Jennifer boots the control desk, "Self contained. Going to have to break down that force wall the hard way."

Jennifer moves into the Lab.

Jolt decides she's had enough of Dr. Graves and his experiment "Alright, Dr. Graves. It's time to shut your experiment down" the electrical heroine shouts to him as she reaches out with magnetic force as she tries to topple one of the generators hopefully onto the raised dias to fry the computers inside it

The generator explodes in a shower of sparks as Jolt levitates it into contact with the raised dias, and the generator shorts out and is destroyed. The secondary black hole seems unaffected. Only three generators remain.

Lorelei positions herself carefully so that in order to continue fiddling with whatever he was fiddling with, Graves would have to be able to see her! And she waits, watching Graves closely for the moment he does look....

The three gravitic anomalies from the Monitor Room float in through the walls and into the Lab.

Lorelei thinks. o O (Uh-oh.)

Jennifer moves over closer to Lorelei and between her and the floating black balls. From her jacket she extracts a silvery mesh-net and holds in ready in hand.

Jolt considering this got the attention of the anomalies decides to continue this course of action as she reaches out to topple another one of the generators, hopefully touching them together maybe in an attempt to overload them and/or the control panel itself. "Looks like we got their attention" the electrical girl comments

One of the generator sparkles like fireworks as Jolt topples it into the base of another generator. It smokes and ignites briefly before melting into slag. The generator that it touched seems to be fine, though. Two generators are left.

Dr. Graves continues to cower and cover up. He seems to be waiting for something to happen.

Lorelei say, in a seductive voice, "Really, Dr Graves, you really don't know what you're missing by not peeking...." Of course, she has a particularly eyecatching pose ready for him if he does peek.

Although he knows better, Graves ventures a peek at Lorelei.

And one look is all it takes. Dr. Graves watches Lorelei with slack-jawed awe.

Lorelei thinks. o O (Ok. I really must try that look on my next photo shoot. I'll probably kill the cameraman though.)

Lorelei, seeing that Graves' attention isn't utterly fixed on her, maintains her pose, though holding it is causing her pain.

Lorelei winces in pain, but - for now at least - Graves' attention is fixed on her and her alonw.

Jolt takes a moment and decides to try to knock the two undamaged generators together to hopefully damage or destroy them. The electrical girl is slowly taking out the electrical energy from the system it seems by knocking out the generators one by one...

<SG> Jennifer says, "You're undoubtedly right. Jolt is knocking down the big generator things. If you can stop Graves until then we're on a winner."

The two remaining generators are destroyed. The force wall falls.

A computerized voice speaks: "Warning, containment field breached."

Dr. Graves speaks, "Must.... must maintain... harmonization..."

Lorelei says, "That doesn's sound good...."

Jennifer hesitates for a moment, "So, do I smack him around or not?" she asks generically.

Lorelei thinks. o O (Where's Alex when you need him? This is more his sort of deal...)

Lorelei says, "Dr Graves - what's happening? Is there danger?"

Lorelei asks because he probably won't hear anyone else!

Graves says, "I must harmonize the second black hole with my own..."

Lorelei thinks. o O (Good luck with that if you can't even notice it....)

<SG> Lorelei says, "Jenn - I think get him out of there - a second black hole is bad but we don't want him to absorb it?"

<SG> Jennifer says, "You got it."

Lorelei thinks. o O (Where's Alex when you need him? He'd probably know what to do....)

Jennifer changes weapons and reaches out with a energy whip. Taking care to grab at Dr Graves at his feet well away from the black hole in his chest she yanks him back off the podium if successfull and coincidently smacks his head against the floor when his feet are pulled from under him. She does try to leave him still looking in Lorelei's direction.

Jennifer curls the lash of the energy whip around Graves' feet and yanks them out from underneath him. His head makes a nice thumping sound as he is pulled back of the podium, and after the thump he's kind of quiet.

The gravitic anomalies begin to approach Lorelei, but are instead swept into the second black hole.

The lighting in the Lab turns red. "Warning: Gravitic instability detected," a computer states, and repeats.

"...Warning: Gravitic instability detected..." the computer repeats, over and over. The Black Hole in Grave's chest flares with black energy and suddenly it ejects three people from it's depths and into the Lab in front of him. It's two men and a woman, and they seem disoriented.

Jennifer says, "That's not something you see every day."

Lorelei thinks. o O (... aren't black holes one-way?)

Jennifer holds Graves tight and looks around, "So... Run, stay, panic..?"

Lorelei says, "I've no idea - we weren't briefed on this! But I don't want a black hole in me - or me in a black hole!"

Jolt hrms and thinks "Uhh I'd say run"

Jennifer says, "I'm guessing those three are his co-workers from the other lab. One of them might know what to do if you can shake some sense into them."

Lorelei thinks. o O (I should have thought of that. Stop panicking, Stephie....)

Lorelei goes to help the three people deposited on the floor up. "I'm glad to see you're ok!" she says - not least to give them the idea that they're ok. "But I think we have a rogue black hole on our hands or something - we need your help and expertise!

Jennifer thinks. o O (Underwater nukes, black holes... This stuff is above my paygrade!)

The woman of the groups seems to be a scientist from her attire, a white lab coat with a NASA identity badge. "What's going on... the last thing I remember was..." She looks around at the lab. "My God... if we can't contain that singularity, we've finished!"

Lorelei nods. "Do you know how to do that?"

The scientist nods to Lorelei, and she says, "We can use Van de Graaf generators to set up a containment field and..." Her gaze falls upon the smashed and shorted out generators that Jolt destroyed. "Oh my God..." she blanches.

Hellfire makes her way back from where she went to check and make sure there weren't any other suprises. She glances around, "That doesn't sound very good."

The second black hole tries to suck Graves into itself.

Graves is pulled out of Jennifer's grasp. He floats through the air into the second singularity. There's a flash of light and radiation -- all that's left behind is one, larger singularity.

Jennifer tries to resist the pull of the black hole on Graves... but when she feels him being sucked in she hurriedly releases her grip on the energy whip to avoid following him in. "Oops. Is that good, bad, or horribly bad?"

Lorelei winces. "I think maybe the last? What do we do?"

Lorelei has no idea what to do... it's been a while since she was *this* scared...

The scientist says, "Maybe there are some back up generators, somewhere else in the lab. If we're not able to contain the singularity, there's a chance that the entire building and the surrounding area will get pulled into the black hole."

Jennifer says, "How long do you have before it becomes unstable?"

Hellfire cocks her head to the side as she feels the wave but the gifts her demon possession give her making it really not affect her. She looks over at the doctor, and then around, "Would those be controlled remotely or we would need to go to them to use?"

The scientist shouts, "I don't know... ten -- twenty seconds tops."

Lorelei says, "I hope you're right - everyone, look for sone back-up generators!"

Meanwhile Jessica is on her PDA trying to arrange a rapid delivery of new generators to the Lab. Calls going to CBSU Physics department and DoD via MIA.

Meanwhile the other two people scramble out of the lab, running for their lives.

Lorelei runs to look for backups.

Hellfire runs around looking for generators as well, or a console that might control such things.

Jessica sighs, "Oh... Don't bother. Unless we can get them there in the next twenty seconds there's not going to be a Colonail Bay City. Maybe not an Earth. I think I'm adding Super-Science to the list of things I hate."

Jennifer joins Lorelei is scouting for replacement generators.

Lorelei says, "Let them bring them - maybe they can save the rest of the world if not us...."

Jessica thinks, o O(That will put a rocket under their butts.)

The scientist watches the other two civilians run off. "Wait! Peterson, Hodges! We need you to help us find those generators." She curses as the continue to run off, not heeding her words. She herself follows Jennifer and Lorelei out of the Lab and into the Monitor Room. "This is precisely why I tried to get Dr. Graves's research shut down. It was much too dangerous!"

Lorelei says, "Peterson! Hodges! Calm do and help uwns!"

Hodges and Peterson slow down a bit. Peterson says, "I'm just a reporter, I don't even know what we're looking for." Hodges says, "Come with me," to Peterson. They help in the search.

The loud speakers announce. "Danger. Major gravitic instability. Containment field must be re-established."

"Critical gravitational event predicted in 14 seconds..." the computer begins to count down.

Jennifer stops for a moment and thinks... o O(Where would I be if I was a spare generator. There's only one main lab. So in the stores. Let's go...) dashing out she heads towards the lab stores area.

<SG> Jennifer says, "Four generators in the store. First left and then second right from the Monitor room exit. I'm bringing one or two back, depending on how many I can carry. If you have the scientist on hand can you find out how many are needed?"

Lorelei says to the scientists, "Jenn's found the generators - how many are needed?"

"All four," the scientist says. By her ID badge, her name is Conlin. Conlin adds, "But that's not enough -- the radiation inside the main lab will likely fry anyone who tries to go in there and set up the generators."

<SG> Lorelei says, "We need all four, and someone radiation-proof."

<SG> Jennifer says, "I'll try and bring back the four of them."

Hellfire cocks her head to the side, "I am immune to radiation." she says and cocks her head to the side a bit.

<SG> Lorelei says, "Jenn - the new hero is radiation-proof."

Lorelei sticks with the scientists - so she can provide comm links between them and the heroes.

<SG> Jennifer says, "You have no idea how relieved that makes me feel. I thought I was going to be field testing Wolfguard genetics the hard way."

Jennifer laods the generators onto a stores dolly and starts taking them back to the Lab, moving slower than she could because right now she's juggling with eggs and breakages is not something to risk.

Lorelei calls Alex, figuring Transmat may be just the people to contain things if this doesn't work. Not that she knows how much time there would be before they too are gone....

Smaller gravitic instabilities begins to form in the Lab. The warping field inside the Lab made the area difficult and dangerous to navigate.

Hellfire sees that the generators have arrived, "Tell me how to hook them up." she says as she gets ready to wheel them into the room.

Jennifer looks at Hellfire and then glances at the large bulky generators, "How strong are you?" she asks Hellfire.

Hellfire shrugs, "Not too strong but I can summon some imps that can help move things." she says softly.

Jennifer says, "You'll be busy wiring and hooking them up. So tell me where you want them and I'll put them in place for you."

Conlin says, "Set them on the floor on the dias, equally spaced around the singularity. You need to activate the power-up sequence on each of them."

Lorelei looks on nervously - and rather uselessly.

Jennifer nods, "How long do we have before it blows? And how long will I survive in there?"

The computer counts 8 seconds left.

Conlin gives Jennifer an anxious look. "I... I don't know how long."

Jennifer smiles wryly, "Guess we'll just have to find out. New girl, you place two. I'll place two."

Conlin says, "I'll try to talk you through the steps..."

Hellfire gestures in the air with both hands, greenish black flames trailing and leaving runes floating in the air for a moment. There is a faint scream of pain as she glows for a moment and then a whole bunch of small greenish black creatures pop into existance. Best described as imps. They fly to pick up and moves two of the generators into place.

Jennifer takes in a deep breath, clenches her hands for a moment to hide the slight shakiness in them, and steps into the lab with the stores dolly. She starts placing two of the generators in the required position and activating them with the skills she's picked up operating all manner of military and associated equipment.

Lorelei watches Jenn worriedly.

Jennifer tries no to think of the itching of an invisible sunburn she's developing as she places one generator in position on the podium and mokes the connects needed to activate it.

Hellfire sighs a bit as she gets them into place and then manages, somehow to get one of them activated, "Thanks doc, just walk me through the next one." she murmers and crosses her fingers.

As the computer counts down to 6 seconds left, the singularity rows more powerful. Now radition is a lesser concern to the threat of being pulled apart by raw gravity itself.

Jennifer tries to set up another of the generators. She's hurrying a little because she can feel she doesn't have a lot of time left. Maybe even less than the countdown.

Jennifer fumbles a little with a connector but gets it attached on the second try.

Hellfire is starting to sweat buckets, not from the radiation or anything but from shear nervousness. She has to wipe sweat from her eyes a few times as she can barely see and almost messes up, but just manages to set it right.

With the four generators in place and properly activated, the singularity it contained by a stable force wall. Computer confirms the situation by announcing: "Containment restored. Count-down averted."

Lorelei breathes again. She hadn't noticed she's stopped.

Conlin slouches forward against the control console. "Thank God," she mutters to herself.

Hellfire sinks to the ground, panting a bit, the little green imps pop back out of existance.

Lorelei says, "Jenn, are you ok?!"

Jennifer steps out of the Lab. There's what looks like a bad sunburn on the side of her face which was towards the radiation emitting black hole. "I don't think much of this brand of sunblock." she quips, and then stumbles a bit and has to catch her balance by grabbing at a chair back.

Lorelei rushes to catch Jenn. "Where's your healing gizmo?"

Hellfire gets back to her feet and makes her way out as well, "Anything anyone here can do to help her?" she asks and then looks at Lorelei and then back to Jenn.

Jennifer nods, "Pocket..." She fumbles for it and presses the small gray metal box to the skin. The box does it's magic stuff, injecting Jennifer with nanobots. The effect is gradual but positive as the skin returns to it's normal condition, more or less, over a period of ten or twelve seconds.

Lorelei says, "I meant to ask you to pass it to me before you went in - just in case you didn't come out conscious..."

Hellfire does relax and looks over at the doctor and rest, "So, um...we stopped it...but Graves vanished, um..."

Jennifer grins, "I should have thought of that myself. Well, I was a little distracted. Maybe scared stiff is more accurate."

Lorelei says, "I know what you mean.... I really didn't think we were going to make it..."

Jennifer checks the countdown. "Hey, four seconds left. That's almost an eternity. I stopped the Tsunami nuke with one second left on the clock."

Lorelei says, "As for Graves - I don't know. No one should be able to survuve that, but he had a black hole in his chest, for heaven's sake.."

Lorelei shivers. "I think maybe I should give up this business.."

Jennifer looks over at Hellfire, "You did darn good. I'm mightly pleased you were along."

Lorelei nods. "I think you just saved the world, between you...."

Jennifer reaches out and if permitted catches and holds Lorelei's hand. "Without you Graves would probably have completed whatever he was trying to do. This was a team effort and everyone was needed to achieve success."

Jennifer says, "as for Graves. Well we've been in the business long enough to know if there's no body you don't assume they're dead. Heck, even with a body sometimes you can't make that assumption."

Lorelei says, "I don't know. Maybe I caused the problem by causing Graves to lose control of this...."

Lorelei says, "But you're right. If the people he swallowed lived, I suspect it's likely he did...."

Hellfire nods and cocks her head to the side and blinks a bit, "Saved the world...me." she shakes her head a bit, what do you expect, especially when powers come from evil, used for good.

Jennifer smiles, "You could ask our friendly scientist. Oh, no, wait. You couldn't, because without you stopping Graves, our friendly scientist and her two companions would still be trapped into Grave's black hole."

Lorelei says, "There is that. I think. I must admit - I didn't understand what was going on at all."

Jennifer says, "It's simple, Lorelei... It's magic. There's mage magic. There's scientist magic. But to me it's all just magic."

Lorelei grins. "Yeah. I guess you're right. I probably still feel a bit guilty about knowing more science though. You know - dad' influence."

Jennifer nods, "So I'm eighteen. You're eighteen. And after that I feel like a drink. What do you say?"

Lorelei says, "Sounds good to me."