Log:Return of the Enemy Ace, Scene 3

Return of the Enemy Ace 2057/01/19 	 Enemy Ace Amber and Azure|Jennifer and Jessica SWK The Agent The Maid|Evangeline Victor 3

Evangeline emerges from her newly acquired bedroom in this large, creepy castle. She wears her new uniform for the first time, a blue full-length, long sleeved maid's dress with white apron and matching hairband. She takes a deep breathe. "You can do this," she says to herself, trying to psyche herself up. "You have lived around maids and butlers all your life. It should not be too hard acting like one." After a few moments, she heads down the stairs to the main lobby.

Victor is sitting in the study, smoking a cigar, watching some old movies on a reel to reel.

Evangeline knocks on the door of the study. "May I enter, Master?" she asks politely.

The Agent is quiet and serious as he sits behind the controls of the SG Flying Van. It was just moments ago that, with the help of Jen, Wei, and Alex, he managed to decipher the Enemy Ace's Lektor encoded message and discovered his villains's next plot: "Target - Castle von Morgenstien." He's trying to push the performance of the van, trying to get there in time to warn the good Doctor.

Wei Zan Zhou presses his face up against the glass of the window by his seat and grins as the vehicle soars above ground.

The twins sit in the rear of the van. This is old stuff to them and the thrill has at least partially worn off.

The Agent looks to Jennifer and asks, "Have you had any luck in contacting the castle, or are they still jamming the signal?"

Wei Zan Zhou looks around the van and notes the quiet and serious tone of his fellow passengers. He shrugs and pops a chewy fruit candy into his mouth and returns to viewing the scenery.

Evangeline enters Victor's study and curtseys before him politely. "Good evening, Master. Will this do?" she asks, presenting herself in uniform before him.

Victor smirks and shrugs, looking over at Evangeline, "Vou know vou ztill don't have to do zis.."

Jessica shakes her head. "No luck so far. The techs at SG will keep trying but as we get closer my mini-radio will have a better chance. I'll keep trying."

Victor flips the switch on his projector and removes the needle from his turn table. "Vour more zhan velcome to zimply be a guezt...but do vhat make vou happy"

Jennifer says, "Oops. American Agent, SG tracking has picked up a sub launched missile heading towards the Castle."

The Agent curses. "Blast. Can't this thing go any faster."

Evangeline nods and smiles. "You are far too kind, Master. But I would feel more uncomfortable if I merely just accepted your generosity in staying here. At least, if I am allowed to attempt to earn my keep here, then..." she pauses a moment. "Then, I will feel more at ease."

The rocket appears to the people in the van as a blip on the radar scopes. It moves swiftly across the screen and at it's projected pace, it will arrive just before the van does.

After nearly two hundred years of fighting and narrowly escaping death, the villain known as the Enemy Ace is now more machine than man. Although most of his mechanical body is concealed beneath a WWII era Luftwaffe uniform, his true nature is apparent in the skeletal form of his hands and his face, which is a gleaming metal skull with glowing red eyes, like a villainous movie cyborg.

Jessica asks American Agent, "Just how bad are relations between Morningstien and The Ace? That missile wouldn't be nuke tipped would it?"

Victor nods, "Do vhat vou muzt"

The Agent doesn't look away from his flying. "No, he wouldn't do that -- he's been after Victor's research for decades. I doubt that he's jeopardize the chance of getting his hands on those notes." As he speaks the radar blip on the screen overtakes the van.

Evangeline curtseys again. "Thank you very much, Master."

Victor leans back in his chair for a moment more, then finishes his wine, standing up.

Jennifer says, "So... Mmm... Big rocket." Jenn has come forward to check the radar scan, "Troop carrier possibly."

Jessica tries to contact the Castle via radio once again to warn them of the rocket.

It seems that the communication channel's are still jammed.

Victor says, "Zi think zi vill go to vork on mich lab...zi ztill have much vork to do."

At the castle, there's a high pitched whistling sound which Victor would recognize immediately. The lowerign pitch and increasing volume could only mean one thing -- and incoming V-7 rocket -- the kind that Enemy Ace has used in many attacks before.

Evangeline nods. "I understand, Master." She pauses, thinking. "I shall take your wine glass to the kitchen, then. If you need anything, please let me know." She goes and takes his glass away.

Evangeline covers her ears at the high pitched whistling. "What... is that?!"

Victor says, "Oh Zhiten..."

Victor runs toward Evangeline and throws himself around her, zapping himzelf with the Giant-er-izer!

KA-BOOOOOM! The V-7 Rocket hits the castle with a thunderous impact smashing into the zeppelin hangar. The quake it causes would certainly floor your average person.

From the SG Van, the heroes are close enough to see the rocket hit, but powerless to stop it as the missile crashes into the ancient castle. The head of the rocket is obscures by what's left of the roof of the airship port. The Agent sets the van down on a castle wall and opens the hatches.

The twins have never beed to the Castle so thry tag along behind American Hero in the hope he knows where he's going.

Victor stands up, letting go of Evangeline, "Vou need to run, hide, get somewhere safe....zey Agent iz coming.."

Wei Zan Zhou follows behind the twins, happy to be on solid ground again. Shrugging free his staff, he gets himself ready for whatever is coming up.

Evangeline lies on the floor, having been shielded by Victor's body. She looks up at him. "Master, are you alright?" she asks as she gets up too. "Who is this Ace?" she asks.

The Agent points out the direction. "We head them off in the Balllroom! Go go! I'll catch up in a minute!" He unbuckles his safety harness and powers down the engines of the van. In a moment he bounds out of the van and catches up with the others.

Wei Zan Zhou glances at The Agent while his clothes reform into something more suitable for combat.

SWK thinks. o O (I wonder what that was...)

The twins begin making their way to the Ballroom skylight which seems to be the access point into the castle that American Agent has selected, moving as speedily as they can in view of the hugeness of the castle and the amount of ground they have to cover.

SWK follows the twins, turning about as he jogs along so that he can take in the castle's scenery. "So, what is the plan?"

The Agent somersaults effortlessly in the air and lands in stride, and runs along with his comrades. "First the Ballroom, then the Sitting Room, then the lab."

SWK grins at The Agent. "Okay."

The Cybernetic troopers advance forward in a tactical fashion, moving in pairs of two while the rest of the group cover the advancing duo. The Enemy Ace bring up the rear in his lumbering body.

Jessica mutters quietly and mostly under her breath, "Who built this place, a marathon runner?" as the twins race towards the skylight.

Evangeline has a concerned look on her face. "Master, please stay here. I will go and check on the commotion. It will be my first job as your maid, after all." She then starts to run towards the Sitting Room exit. She looks over her shoulder. "Please do not go anywhere, Master."

Victor shakes his head, "Child pleaze! Get zafe, thiz iz no place for a maid!" Victor races on toward where the explosion was...now skrinking from his uses of the ray weapon, he empties the cartiage, replacing the clip and changes it out for his Zero-Energy Pistol.

The twins speed up, racing to the skylight and dropping through it into the Ballroom, then start heading for the Sitting Room.

SWK picks up his pace as well and giggles as he tumbles through the air, descending to the Ballroom. He hits the ground sprinting.

The American Agent dives through the same opening in the skylight at the twins used and tumbles back up to his feet. He sprints to the front of the group, leading the charge.

The Enemy Troopers continue their steady, measured advance, carefully checking the corners and slicing the pie as they move. At the end of the turn one they'll be within sight of the lab, 5" away.

Evangeline runs out the door of the Sitting room, and once out of line of sight in the hallway, will start flying as fast as she can to the sound of the commotion/crash, her maid dress and apron ruffling in the air. She thinks to herself. .oO(Something is wrong... Master Morningstien looked very worried... no... scared? What was that sound earlier? Something is definitely wrong. I hope he stays in the Sitting Room. Whatever is going on, it is probably safer for me to check on things than for him.)

Evangeline lands, her boots tapping onto the floor. She curtseys towards the newcomers. "Pardon me, sirs... but... do you have an invitation?" she asks.

The Enemy Ace's metallic face is devoid of his humor, but his synthetic voice seems to carry a laugh in it. "No, we most certainly are not friends, Liebschen. Now, stand aside and tell us where Herr Doctor is!"

Victor frowns and chases up after Evangeline, hoping he could have stopped her, he stops when he sees Ace and his Robots. "Zhiten...Ace, leave her out of thiz...zhe has no part..." Victor dropz his gun and lays his hands on his side...

The Agent continues to run, his face a stoic mask of grim determination.

SWK continues along at a sprint, a big grin on his face.

The twins are running full out, although listening carefully so they don't run uncontrolled into an active fire zone.

The Enemy Ace enters the lab. He's quiet for a minute. "Very well, Herr Doktor... I accept your surrender. As a measure of security however my men will use their weapons to encase you in a field of energy." He motions for his men to proceed with his giant mechanical hand. Two gaurd rush forward with energy protector weapons which they try to use on Victor.

Two troopers armed with machine guns fan out into the room and take cover. Two move over to try and cover Evangeline with their energy blasters. Enemy Ace points to the two remaining troopers. "Cook him! Cook him with your heat beams!" The troopers oblige their chief.

Evangeline raises her hands, since guns are pointed to her. She looks over towards Victor and cries out, "Master! Master!" She then looks towards the leader of these intruders. "Please, don't hurt my master. I beg you." and she positions her body between Enemy Ace and Victor.

One of the troopers says, "Freeze! Don't move a muscle, or it's over for you!"

"For decades, I have dreamed of this moment!" Ace says. He begins searching for Victor's research notes.

The twins continue running towards the Lab following American Agent and WZZ.

SWK keeps his eyes peeled as the group steadily makes its way towards the lab.

Two of the energy beam troopers watch over Evangeline. The remaining six fan out. The entangle beams and machine guns in taking cover just outside the lab in the direction of the ballroom. The heat beamers watch the rear escape route.

Evangeline curtsey deeply, and says, "Please forgive any inpropriety on my part." She then tries to move to "slap" one of the two troopers covering her. If she is lucky, she hopes she can knock him out and then grab Victor and fly him to safety.

Evangeline is hit by the two attacks, and is tossed back. While the hits seem to barely phase her, her impact against Victor causes her to go "Oof!". She slowly tries to pick herself up, and tries to free her master from his binds.

The two trooper look at each other in disbelief.

Enemy Ace continues to search through Victor's files.

The twins spot the dug in troopers by the entrance to the Lab and alter course to slide into cover behind the bandstand rather than running full out and offering excellent targets. A breathless call goes out over the radio link, "Troopers holding Lab doorway. I see two, may be more."

SWK twirls his staff as he comes in after the twins and seeks cover behind a table. He responds on the radio, "I can take their fire if need be."

American Agent hides his silhouette behind a stature of Victor's grandfather. "Four guards. That's one a piece."

Agent says, "I'll draw their fire... follow my lead."

The troopers facing the Agent and company hold their fire, waiting for better shots.

Jennifer mutters to herself again, she seems to be doing that a lot these days, "I'm getting Timmy to work on covert armor, I swear it. Just like I said the last time this happened, and the time before that."

Inside the lab, the two troopers call for backup from their partners. "Stop her before she frees von Morgenstien!" They fire at her, and the heatbeam troopers fire as well, from a little further away.

Evangeline is hit by the energy blast, but seems to completely shrug it aside.... No, wait... to be more accurate, to the well-trained eye, it is almost as if it dissipated right before contact with her. The same seems to apply to the 2 heatbeams that hit her. One barely phases her, while the second seems to dissipate right before her.

For those who can see her face, Evangeline seems somewhat... surprised. (Toy guns?)Oo. she thinks to herself, pondering. She then tries to finish breaking Victor free. "Please stay still, Master. I do not wish to injure you by accident."

Evangeline breaks the bind holding her master, and shouts to him, "Master, please flee! Quickly!" She then looks down at the unconscious Victor. "Master? Master?! MASTER!"

Enemy Ace continues searching through the research notes.

Moving like the well trained combat expert she is, the twins close on the troopers at the doorway, moving in quick darting motions from one place of cover to the next in alternation, one twin watching as the other moves, and then reversing the roles.

SWK follows suit and advances towards the doorway with his staff at the ready.

The Agent charges forward towards the dug in troopers. "Up an at em, boys! Let's take out the trash!"

"At last! I've found it!" Enemy Ace says, clutching a sheaf of papers in his hands. He looks back to the unconscious Victor. "You sought to keep your secrets out of my hands, but look what has happened." His voice sounds overjoyed and confident.

Outside of the lab, the troopers take aim at their nemesis, the Agent.

The Agent ducks and weaves through the incoming fire.

Inside the room, the two heat beam guys grab the unconscious Victor. One lifts him, pinning his arms behind his back and the other trains his rifle on the elder scientist. The third and fourth troopers do the same.

Enemy Ace says to Evageline, "Your devotion to the Doktor is evident. I trust you shall not force me to end his life, however overextended it may be."

Evangeline looks stunned and desperate at the turn of events. "Sir... please," she begs. "Do not hurt him. Take me instead. I..." She takes a deep breath, then stares at Enemy Ace with determined eyes. "I will do anything you say, so please...."

Enemy Ace says, "What use would I have for a bodyguard disguised as a maid!" He signal to his men. "To the escape craft!" He looks to Evangeline -- "If you try to follow he will be dead."

Jennifer and Jessica move in on the two troopers at the doorway to the Lab, darting into contact range and striking out with a flurry of martial punches.

The twins move into combat without having the effect they hoped, only one striking true and that blow barely grazing the trooper's armored jacket.

SWK swivels his staff and levels it before him like a trumpet, aiming at the trooper who evaded Jessica's assault. He cheerfully shouts "Hello!" into the end of the staff, directing the amplified shockwave towards the intrudor.

SWK grins and shrugs. "He does not want to say "hello" back to me."

Jessica grins back at SWK, "Neat trick."

SWK returns the grin and rushes forward to back the twins up at the doorway.

The Agent try to plant a side thrust kick in the gut of the trooper that Jennifer hit.

The trooper topple to the ground but begins to get up again.

The group of troopers move out of the room in conjunction. One of them holding Victor, and the rest of them moving and covering him.

Evangeline looks towards Enemy Ace, determined. "What use do you have, you ask, sir? What use do you have for someone who can fly, brushes off your mens' weapons, and can toss around airplanes? What use indeed?" she cries out. "I am more a threat to you free than not. Please.... please take me. Please do not hurt him. I beseech you!" She curtseys before him obediently, as she starts to hover a little off the ground.

Enemy Ace says, "My dear. Victor von Morgenstien and I have been locked in an intricate and deadly game of chess that has spanned the decades. You cannot simple waltz into the fray and shout, 'King me!'"

Evangeline struggles to think of a good response to Enemy Ace. "Master Morningstien is a good man. My captivity would surely cause him more anxiety than being captured himself," she says desperately.

Enemy Ace tucks the documents into his uniform coat. He then turns and begins to fiddle with one of the machine in Victor laboratory. He turns several knobs to their maximum settings and several devices thrum to life with a building intensity. "You, my dear girl seem like a girl who is lacking purpose. I shall give you one. The castle will need quite a bit of work when I'm through with it."

The Agent stomps on the knocked down trooper.

The trooper is knocked out with a thud.

Meanwhile, the Enemy Ace continues to set all of Victor's lab equipment to overload.

Jennifer continues to move into the midst of the remaining troopers, setting up the possibility of cross firing into their own side if they fire at her, and launches more martial punches and kicks.

Jennifer follows her sister.

SWK moves to engage the remaining trooper, using his staff this time as a bludgeoning instrument.

SWK drops low into a reverse cross legged position in a feint and arcs his back while thrusting the metal staff upwards in a sort of uppercut, connecting solidly with the trooper's chest.

The group of troopers holding Victor hurry back to the rocket site.

One trooper recovers, while the other takes aim at Jennifer.

The American Agent throws himself in front of Jennifer. Fortunately, his armor seems to deflect the bullets.

Jennifer sighs, "Nice sentiment but I can look after myself, and if I can't I deserve to take the bruises. Your job is in the Lab where Enemy Ace is unopposed. Go get him, Agent."

SWK thinks. o O (Wow, he jumped right in front...what a hero!)

The Agent looks up at Jennifer and says nothing. o O ( If you've lost as many partners as I have... )

Evangeline looks from Enemy Ace to Victor to the equipment and back again. (What do I do? What do I do?)Oo. she wonders to herself. After a moment, she thinks.oO(If I can grab the leader, surely the other men will release Master Morningstien. This guy will not risk being hurt here, surely.... I hope.) She then tries to desperately tackle Enemy Ace.

Jessica tells American Agent, "With my shield on on it. The only two options. I don't know what losing means and I dont plan to learn today."

Evangeline flies towards Enemy Ace, arms reached out to try to grab him. But, being new to this, she closes her eyes at the last moment, and sweeps past him.

Enemy Ace says in an angry voice. "I would have been content to let you go.... but now? Suffer the consequences of your impulsiveness!"

Ace throws a backhanded punch at Evangeline.

Jennifer and Jessica move in on the remaining two troopers in the doorway, "American Agent, SWK, you can both run faster than me. I'll clear up here, you go on ahead. I'll catch up in a second." The twins strike out at the troopers.

SWK nods to the twins and runs on ahead at full speed.

[Game] 10" full move

Jessica and Jennifer are maybe a bit miffed at their poor showing up to now, because there's no hesitation in their latest strikes and the two remaining troopers go down as if poleaxed.

The Agent rushes into the laboratory just after SWK. "Enemy Ace, this time it's over!"

SWK says, "A robot...thing? Hello!"

SWK sees that Enemy Ace is decidedly evil by his large-robot-skeletal-man appearance, opts to sweep out his staff at its legs.

SWK connects and grins as the metal man-thing is moved back by the impact of the strike.

The Agent follows up SWK's success with an attack of his own.

SWK notices the maid and pauses to smile and wave.

Angstrom tags the prone cyborg with a well timed punch.

The Agent tags the prone cyborg with a well timed punch.

"You're too late American Agent!" Enemy Ace says. "I have the Doctor, and I have his precious notes! And now it is time for me to make my exit." The Ace flies upward into the air and begins to escape.

There's a distant rumble as teh troopers escape in a rocket pod with Victor in custody.

A circuit box explodes, obscuring the escape of the Ace in a shower of sparks and with a cloud of smoke.

The machinery in the laboratory begins to thrum and buzz with an ominous energy.

SWK blinks and looks all around as the machinery begins to act up. "This is not good..."

The Agent runs up to the control panel, at looks up at it, trying to figure out where to start. he turns and shouts to the others. "Everyone else out of here, now!"

The twins rush in after dealing with the last troopers in the doorway and begin rushing from one buzzing sparking piece of equipment to another trying to safely reduce the overload.

SWK moves to the maid's side. "If the Agent says we should go, we should listen."

Jessica shouts at American Agent, "I can't shutdown the entire system, it's too late for that. I can shunt all the excess power into one device. Pick one!"

The Agent point to a bank of machines. "Those, there!"

Evangeline looks over to where Agent points to. She tries to head over to and will try to grab that bank of machines when the shunt is complete.

SWK stays put seeing that no one else is obeying the Agent's orders.

Jessica throws old fashioned power circuit switches and then rips out heavy copper cables and holds them, sparking and fizzing, against the leads going to the device American ASgent pointed to. "Ok, three seconds to transfer the power, and then it's going to blow a couple of seconds after that."

Evangeline shouts out to everyone, "As soon as the transfer happens, I will try to get this out of here! Please, run everyone."

Evangeline is cursed.

SWK scratches his head and looks at the petite maid and then the machines.

The Agent runs over to the bank preparing to try and lift it himself. "Don't be ridiculous girl!" Agent says to Evangeline. "Get out of here." He looks to Jessica. "Do it!"

Jessica nods and starts the power shunt. "Counting... Three.. Two... One... Complete..2

Evangeline smiles to the Agent. She then grabs onto the machine and tries to fly into the air with it as fast as she can, hoping to have it explode away from the castle.

The twins are buffeted by the distant blast but unharmed. They look up worriedly hoping not to see body parts tumbling downwards.

SWK uses his staff to steady himself as the shockwave ripples through the castle.

Victor leaves sitting room.

Evangeline falls like a broken rag doll to the ground, having been caught at ground... err... air zero of the explosion.

The Agent stands, speechless presently.

SWK rushes to the fallen girl's side. "She is still in one piece! Is she still alive?" He leans down and tries to detect any sign of breathing.

SWK says, "We need to help her!"

The Agent thinks. o O ( No, not again! )

Jennifer runs over to the hole and dives start in, pulling out a small white box with interlinked Red Cross and Red Crescent symbols on it. Reaching the maid's body she presses the box onto the first available patch of skin.

SWK moves back and lets Jennifer do her work.

The Agent snaps out of his reverie and rushes over to help as well.

"Thank the heavens," Agent says, "She's still alive. I'll bring the van to the zeppelin dock." The Agent sprints off to get the van in position.

Jessica is on her radio, "We have injured, Castle Morningstien. One for the Meta Ward. Also request a CBPD pickup van for captured Enemey Ace agents."

SWK retracts his staff into a compact length and stows it away in his back harness. He watches The Agent hurry off for the van.

Jennifer thinks. o O (Mmm... Jace was right. She's Meta alright, and a pretty darn tough one as well.)

Jennifer says, "Ambulance is on its way. She's hurt but hopefully will recover. Heck, that's some housemaid Dr Morningstien has working for him. Remind me not to take him lightly in future. I don't suppose anyone has any idea where Enemy Ace is taking the good Doctor?"

SWK sighs with relief after hearing the positive diagnosis but then shrugs at her question. "I have never seen the Enemy Ace robot man before. Perhaps he has a secret underground lair?"

SWK says, "Or maybe a volcano fortress."

The Agent returns with the van. "To his submarine. I planted an ultrasonic tracking device on him when I slugged him. With any luck, we'll be able to track him down."

SWK thinks. o O (Oh, swimming!!!)

SWK nods and taps a finger on his chin. "We must rescue the doctor."

Jessica nods. "I'll grab my scuba gear. I do want it clearly understood, just for the record, that my sister and I are clerical assistants at Starguard.