Log:Counterstrike SGG, Scene 1

Counterstrike SGG 2012/03/18 	 Ghost Kay Total Babe Jolt David Marshall Cloud Wolf 1

Ghost
On a first casual glance Ghost looks like a scrawny undernourished girl of about fourteen years. She's dressed in typical Harrisburg fashion, a black fake-leather duster style long-coat, black leg-hugging jeans held up by a wide golden colored belt, sleeveless heavy metal band tee-shirt, with long metallic silver dyed hair pulled back in a pony-tail.

Did you spot the sword hilt at her left hip, mostly concealed by the long-coat? How about the mysterious flat dark grey parallelogram shape adhering to the back of her right hand. It has the look of a weapon, but not one common to Earth.

Then look into her eyes. Eyes with an oriental slant that are an icy blue and as cold as space. Notice the ears, too, no larger than human but pointed like a cat's and mobile, twitching to zone in on whatever sound occurs nearby. The face is thin, her chin narrow, lips hardly existent. She might be considered beautiful by her own kind, but not by any earthy standard.

At the CBSU Library
From small beginnings... It starts with a message emailed to Kay's PDA. 'We need to meet. The CBSU Library at 3:00pm. The reply address supplied will be valid for five minutes after you read this. If you agree to a safe conduct for me such that no attempt is made to detain me before, during, or after the meeting, reply in the specified time period. -- '

That hardly seems like anything but a trap. Safe conduct for a stranger who goes by the moniker of Ghost? Kay is needless to say Skeptical. With a capital S. She sends back, 'I can't make an indefinite promise that I will never attempt to detain you. That'd leave you free to do whatever you wanted and I couldn't even stop you. If you don't break the law, I won't attempt to detain you. Other than that, no promises, but I'll be there. K.' is sent back. She'll go about contacting /her/ team, but, in all likelihood wouldn't contact the guy who smacked her in the back and works for the enemy, but someone /else/ might... as she hasn't evinced her displeasure over that particular fracas quite good enough and thus, the message /could/ (read does) get bounced to Marshal Marshall as well.

The allotted hour arrives. Ghost is in the library concourse watching the doors into the building.

Jolt catches the communications on her SGG device and shrugs a bit "Might as well go, I got nothing better to do" the electric girl admits out loud as she heads to where Kay suggested they all meet up at the time specified. Presumably the library.

Perhaps the dubious legality of the message or its contents prompts others to notify UEMS. Perhaps Force's personal email is monitored by one or more acronymned organizations. Or simply by her enemy and its treacherous minions? On the other hand, Deputy Marshal Marshall's arrival at the university library could also be entirely coincidental...

Amazingly, Kay arrives via normal means. That being the Maglev. She doesn't fly in or the like or otherwise draw attention to her beyond the attention her tall beautiful tattood red headed self usually does that is. Still her eyes do careful checks of the area to make sure this isn't an ambush or the like before she even steps foot at the appointed meeting place, but she does go.

The heroes spot several people in the concourse, seated and reading newspapers or magazines, who seem to be paying attention to the area and have sports bags by their feet.

Jolt isnt one to normally arrive by foot but she does so because she's not wanting to cause any suspicion "So we're supposed to meet someone here?" she asks Kay "if you want I could go in first" she offers with a grin "I mean if anyone is gonna try a snatch and grab they'll be really sorry"

David Marshall could be considered paranoid, to a degree. His perusing through the library is less focused on the literature and more on the patronage. This includes the capes and the inviting host, of course.

Kay shrugs, "I'm not really worried about someone trying to snatch and grab us." She murmurs softly over SGG communicators only, yay for close mics, "I'm more worried about someone else trying to snatch the paranoid one who contacted me. Watch the people with the bags at their feet, don't try to intercept or anything, just keep them in mind at all times."

Total Babe hangs back a bit, knowing she's also very eyecathing, at least till she sees Kay. Still she tries to avoid being to obvious to some people who look to her soehwat suspicious.

Ghost stands and moves over to Kay as she arrives. "I'm Ghost. Let's talk."

"What's this all about." Kay states dryly, "Ghost." Something about that gives a bit of a smirk to her lips but she seems to smirk all the time anyways, or at least most of the time. As for instruction, none beyond watch the people with the bags, and don't try to detain the contact, which is apparently the fourteen year old appearing elf girl. "Or is this one of those 'just listen' bits."

Total Babe goes and sits near the two she's supposed to be watching, pulling out her PDA to read.

A shifting of a shadow on a nearby building might key anyone looking down on the scene in on Cloud Wolf's position. Currently the hero, decked out in his full body suit with his bow in his hand, is lying flat on top of an air conditioning unit. This gives him a vantage point to see over the lip of the roof and down toward the wall of windows leading into the libriary where the meeting is going down. His bow is held a bit to one side in his left hand, while his right rests under his chin. He had used the control panel on the inside right forearm of his suit to scan all radio channels in the area in the hopes he could pick something up, but most people have moved away from standard radio and on to other things, so he isn't sure if his suit will pick them up. That is just a side benifit, however. Currently his unnaturally sharp eyes are focussed on the milling people through the windows, trying to make sense from the little info he was given just what is going on.

Ghost shrugs, "I'm on your side. Mostly. You're probably not on my side. I wanted to see you, get a handle on who you are and how you'll do your job. But that not the major reason I asked you to meet me. I have information you need to know. There's a group tapping your comms. They've physically linked into the fibre-optic lines coming from the Starguard building and are listening to everything."

"Of course there is." Kay says with a bit of a shrug, "Star Guard Gamma is a government funded team. Everything we do is monitored on many levels, and not just by Star Guard I am sure. Politicians, the NSA, the FBI, hell even UEMS. They keep getting information that's supposed to be just ours. I've still got to do my job though."

Jolt is one of the easier to spot heroes so she sorta goes into the stacks to make it look like she's picking out some books so she can keep an eye on or be ready in case those ones Kay mentioned try anything.

One ear is turned towards the conversation while Marshall's shaded eyes watch the seated trio on the concourse overtop the randomly selected publication. Said eyes also roll at least once. Tights may not be so rare, but they are not exactly inconspicuous. Amateur surveillants.

Ghost shrugs again, "You want the location or not? It's a basement. They've tunnelled to the cable conduit to patch in to your lines. I've seen three in there at all times, occasionally a fourth turns up for a while. No uniforms, heavy weapons and body armor."

Cloud Wolf focusses his eyes on a trio of people seated near the meeting area. A slight glare from the windows causes distortion briefly, but the eye lenses of his costume quickly eliminate the problem and even out the lighting. Remaining utterly still he watches the spot.

Kay shrugs, "How did you get this information, who do they work for, why should I blindly rush into a possible combat situation with unknowns based on the words of a stranger?" She folds her arms loosely across her chest under her breasts. "What do you gain out of this. For some reason I get that it's not pure altruism, or you'd not have asked for broad spectrum safe conduct." She studies Ghost then, maybe trying to memorize her. "I mean, paint me as paranoid if you want but there's guys out there watching right now already. As they say on the street, this reeks."

Total Babe really isn't good at not attracting attention to herself. One might have the impression she's almost posing to *try* to draw attention.

Gost says, "I found the group because I was looking for the best spot to do the same. They beat me to it. Like I said, I'm on your side. That means I'll not stand idly by while someone breaches your communications security. What do I gain from this? I oppose the Empire, what you call the Guild. So I want a strong and secure Starguard. Unlike you, I don't have official backing. My aim is to protect this planet and the humanity living on it but my methods are not entirely legal. Thus the request for safe conduct during this encounter."

"So then you admit to looking for a way to breach Star Guard Security Protocals then and get a line directly into our communications." Kay smiles wryly, "That's quite a pair of big brass ones there." She nods, "Give me the information, and next time you want to know what Star Guard might be up to, you can always just ask." She looks around the area, trying to see how many of the people out there are 'hers' and how many are 'unknowns' and how many are most likely threats. With communications tapped directly she can't just announce the location so instead tries to catch the eyes of her team and indicate they should approach.

Ghost nods, and seems to concentrate for a moment. "I've sent it to your PDA. 512 bit encryption, SHA3, password is Ghost." she says a second or two later.

Cloud Wolf lifts his chin off of his arm and glances briefly away from the gathering. Turning his wrist up he reveals the currently opened screen. Using his chin he taps a button on the corner, then moves away and snakes his tongue out to manipulate a small control he just activated inside his mask. Deftly he silences his radio scan, checks the system for any errors, and runs quickly through the sensor reports for the arrows in his quiver and his optics. That being done he moves the virtual pointer to a spot on the screen, clicks, and the armord plate slides across it with a click, deactivating the mouth control as it does. His attention then returns to the window, this only having taken a couple of secconds.

After a few moments Jolt heads on over to Kay "So whats going on now?" she asks. Figuring there isnt much in the way of needing to fry anyone at the moment but you never know. She was far enough away she wasnt paying much attention to the conversation after all

Kay smirks and shuts off the wireless on her PDA before opening up the file in all it's encrypted glory etc so that if anyone has that tapped, they get NADA, mainly because she believes in direct interface only at times. When Jolt, and presumably, TB shows up she gives them a very brief, very quiet, rundown, so as to not carry and to not be said over the comms. Which is also off limits for the time being. Then she starts looking for obvious culprits who might have followed her. Like UEMS or the like... Business concluded she lets Ghost go with a, "If this pans out, I'll be in touch."

Ghost smiles with her ultra-thin lips, "I hope not. If you can contact me then my security needs to be drastically improved." and with that said she departs.

"TB, Jolt, we're going to hit some people who are trying to spy on us. We need to try and be a bit stealthy about it. Ignore those guys with the bags unless they start following you but we need to split up and meet at this address," She gives the access location Ghost gave her, "In twenty. Don't approach together. I'll meet you there." Then she turns and stalks DIRECTLY towards David Marshall.

Total Babe nods. "I'll do that." She goes to head to the address indirectly. If followed, she tries to lose the tail, and in any case she tries to change to civvies at some point someone isn't looking.

Jolt nods some to Kay "For future reference, if we need a place to meet outside of HQ I have a place that's off the grid" she only mentions this because of the rundown she was given.

Kay shoots Jolt a thumbs up over her shoulder, "Wasn't my choice of meeting place." She says with a wry smile before she continues on her way towards Marshal Marshall looking serious and determined, but not angry or aggressive. That's something, right?

Ghost's departure draws Marshall's attention from the trio and Kay. When he looks back afterwards, it's to find that she is moving straight to him, and nearly there. Ignorance and/or innocence are feigned for all of 0.25 seconds before he returns the browsed book and clears his throat.

Jolt figured as much since a library wouldnt be her choice either. That said she waves and goes up some stairs to get access to the roof. She's probably one of the slower members of the team so getting a head start is a good idea.

"Do you have an operation spying on SGG?" Kay asks David Marshal bluntly, "If you do, remove them. Now. Before they get hurt. If you don't, this is your opportunity to make up for hitting a girl in the back." She can't help but quirk a little smile at that, looking amused. "We're going to take on the team doing so. If you want to help, you follow my orders. Only reason I'm giving you this is because you /might/ have been under the influence of an alien mentalist last time. I don't give third chances."

Cloud Wolf watches as TB leaves, and spots the duffle-bag people departing soon after. It is then, and only then, that he spots Jolt moving off toward the back of the building. After two secconds of wondering why that bothers him, he mutters, "She can fly...Ah damn it." Quickly the hero scrambles to his feet and lifts his bow. Standing exposed now he moves it around and slots it on his back, glancing around himself for a spot to stand that isn't metal. Noticing a shorter building a short distence away with less huge airconditioning system perched atop it, the hero leaps off of his building, spreads his arms and angles his legs. Letting the wind sails on his suit catch he glides through the air toward the neighboring building.

David Marshall momentarily grimaces and shakes his head. The frown quickly fades to a hint of Kay's smile as she continues. "Not to my knowledge, and I doubt we would cut into the lines to do so if we did. The destination, ...ma'am?"

Kay gives a look that quite clearly says 'Then why are you here right now at this time and place?' in other words, ultra skeptical. Even more than before, "Come on. We're taking the mag lev." And she doesn't give the location. If Marshal Marshall wants to come along, he'll need to follow on foot. No teleporting this time. Right where she can keep an eye on him.

The location given by Ghost is an apartment block of student residences on the edge of the Student Quarter near the Alien District.

Total Babe makes her way ok on foot. She's still in civies - but not dressed as her usual SID - as she makes the approach.

David Marshall is more than capable of taking the MagLev. Years of practice, despite alternate means of transportation.

Jolt was one of the first to depart. Hopefully she's one of the first to get there too. The girl lands on one of the nearby rooftops and begins to look down to see if there is anything unusal... Also being at rooftop level it makes it less likely for her to be spotted as she waits for the others to arrive.

Kay remains quiet for most of the trip, some guy in a costume following them also. A brief look at the bow and she looks back towards other civilians on the maglev. When they arrive at the address Kay will give a look around see if there is any other possible ways into or out of the cellar from outside the building... which isn't likely all things considered and then she'll head in after making sure the rest of her team spots her. Kay, is not about subtle, it's hard to be when you are as tall as she is and everything else.

Total Babe heads in as soon as she sees Kay doing so.

The Apartment Block
There's no access to the cellar from outside the building by conventional means.

Cloud Wolf trails the group from rooftop to rooftop, taking a rather interesting trip behind the mag-lev that it seems he's rather familiar with. Once he has reached the spot with the others, through the use of gliding, grapple hooks, and overall athletic conditioning, the masked hero takes up a spot on a roof across the way from jolt. Lifting his armored right hand to flash her a thumbs up, he reaches up onto his back to slide his bow out into his left, turning his attention down towards the group, and the front door Kay is walking toward, within shooting distence, for him at least.

Jolt spots Kay and jumps down and floats to the ground level and follows "You know if you want I can probably fry all the electronics around here" she offers to their leader.

The front door leads into a lobby with a staircase heading up and single elevator servicing the upper floors. There's no janitor or reception desk. A door to the side is marked 'Maintainence - No Admittance'.

[To Jolt] Kay says, "I'd rather not fry countless students homework or thesis work."

David Marshall lifts a finger and is about to suggest barging in may not be the best approach. The finger and hand lower before a word comes out. Perhaps he shouldn't expect them to have an alternate one. Then again, it could be just as good as any other option when one is bulletproof. He begins to follow, once more about to object to Jolt's suggestion. Kay beats him to the punch and he simply nods.

Total Babe thinks. o O ('No Admittance' sounds like what we want.)

Cloud Wolf Sighs, muttering to himself. 'of course, no in the open dealing, fun...' Leaping off of the roof he glides down to ground level, takes a moment to slot his bow onto his back, and jogs lightly after the group vanishing into the building, catching up to them right as the door is about to close. He makes no aggressive move, nodding toward anyone who looks his way, if not punched in the head.

Total Babe tries the door, unless Kay does first.

Jolt shrugs a bit and comments "well it'd be more believable than the dog ate their homework" she injects some humor into the whole situation "Alright no EMP gotcha" she totally understands.

The door appears to be locked. Certainly it doesn't open when tried.

Total Babe says, "Anyone know how to pick a lock? Or do I just try running into it?"

Once inside the lobby, Kay looks at the doors and hmmms, "Liberal campus." She admits to herself but then there's someone else there too and she raises an eyebrow, shakes her head, "They've got heavy armor, likely advanced weapons. If you can't suck up the fire, stay out of the way and behind cover as best you can. We've got no real way to cut this off from anywhere but here as they've tunneled into the foundation. So it's got to be the hard way. No flares, no stun grenades, no flash bangs. Space will be to tight and you'll end up getting others with friendly fire. This is a nail, we're the hammer, we're going to have to do this simple." She looks to TB and smiles wryly, "Depends on the kind of lock..."

Jolt raises her hand "Locked door, no problem... Those are only there to keep honest people out anyways" she points out, as to her level of honesty it's changed quite a bit since she learned skills to bypass locks.

Kay nods, "Go ahead Jolt."

Cloud Wolf strolls along now, ending up beside David, and nods once again at Kay's words. "ahm..." he starts in a baritone with a southern drawl, before he stops, and pronounces clearly and distinctly, "I'm fine. I can carry my own weight, mam."

"You don't have to dive in front of me," Marshal Marshall informs Kay, adding, "again." He could possibly assist with the door, though it seems well in hand. And so he waits.

Jolt examines it for a moment and smirks "Interesting... dont see many of these anymore" the girl notes as she puts her hand on the lock and uses some magnetic force to manipulate the pins to try and pop open the lock.

Total Babe watches Jolt at work, not that there's much to see.

Jolt doesnt take long maybe a few seconds and the lock clicks. It's obviously not the first lock she's ever picked that much is certain "There we go... the master key fixes every problem" she opens the door a crack and gets out of the way.

On the other side of the door is a flight to stairs leding down at a steep angle.

Total Babe points to some metal contacts in the doorframe. "I figure they know we're coming." THen she heads in, weapons out.

The stairs descend about twelve feet to a door at the bottom of them.

Kay nods, "Front door is never a surprise." She says to all and sundry, or to herself. She follows after TB and mentions simply, "Don't worry Marshall. That won't be happening ever again anyways." A smirk follows and she lets the other three work out their own order, "Jolt, make sure we don't get pinched from behind."

Total Babe tries the door at the bottom.

The door at the bottom is also locked.

Total Babe says, "Want to try again, Jolt, or shall I just shoot it open?"

"They know we're here, just get it open TB." Kay comments, then to everyone, "And I want prisoners. No suicide pills on our watch, and no accidental deaths." She eyes the bow guy and the UEMS agent, just to be sure.

Jolt nods a bit and shrugs "Up to you... I can get it open if you need it open" the girl admits with a smile "But if they're expecting us it might just be better to kick it in now."

David Marshall descends after the ladies. "The thought was still appreciated, but I'll remember that." He readies himself for the entry, drawing a baton from his jacket rather than more lethal options.

Total Babe just shoots the lock off with her pistol, shielding others from possible ricochet with her body, then bursts in.

Cloud Wolf pauses as he passes Jolt on his way down the stairs, then continues on. As TB pulls her gun he reaches back and slides his long bow out to hold it comfortably in his left hand, using the steps, and his own natural hight of a bit over 6'3 for a vantage point over Kay's shoulder.

As Total Babe shoots the lock and bursts into the cellar she surprises a man wearing a janitor's overall about ten feet back from the door holding a fire extinguisher in his hands. The cellar is cluttered with cleaning stuff, old boxes and crates, stacks of toilet paper and snacks for the vending machines. The far end of the cellar is filled by a old fashioned oil boiler, obviously not in use as it's against modern environmental laws.

Total Babe approaches the man. "Where are they?" Figuring either he has no idea what she's talking about or might give something away.

"Not entirely unexpected." Kay says to nobody in particular, though the Janitor is watched out of the corner of an eye. The fact that he's got a fire extinguisher in hand is more than a little weird. "Sir, drop the fire extinguisher and move back to the wall please." then to Total Babe Kay guesses, "Behind the boiler would be most obvious."

The man recovers from his surprise and swings the nozzle of the fire extinguisher up towards the heroes at the door.

Cloud Wolf is already in motion, his right hand blurring up toward his shoulder and down toward his bow even as the weapon comes up. The motion is practiced and almost superhumanly fast. As the bow comes up he draws the string back, arrow slotted, and states one word as the bow twangs and the arrow whistles through the air, that word being, "Move!" As the arrow speeds through the air, over Kay's shoulder and toward the man, past it would look like a normal, shimmering metal arrow. Unless, of course, it makes it past TB's shoulder. At which point it will spring apart and form a net of wiry mesh with small balls at various points around the edges. If it hits, those balls might have a purpose.

The net slams into the man and immediatly wraps around him. Jolt might sense strong magnetic forces coming from each of the balls as they, triggered by cloudwolf as he measures the timing, suddenly attract together and bundle the man up with his fire extinguisher.

Total Babe points her gun at the man - a threat readily understandable. And hopefully plausible, since she isn't all that well known yet. "Talk."

Cloud Wolf stands with his bowstring humming, still lifted, as he glances back over his shoulder toward the exit, and once again down the steps along his firing line toward the now bundled man.

The janitor snarls a bitter invective filled comment under his breath.

David Marshall remains behind the amazon. If this does prove to be an errant shot and a misunderstanding, plausible deniability will be welcomed. Then again... most custodians do not snarl at capes, do they?

stay alive

Kay is less than pleased by the bow shot, "You realize that until they make an aggressive move, that is assault right?" She shakes her head and looks over at TB and the wrapped up janitor, maybe catching what he muttered while she thinks unpleasant thoughts herself.

Total Babe thinks. o O (Darn. I guess I'm not threatening enough.)

Kay can't help but quirk a wry smile at what she over hears, "Oh so you know who we are. We're in the right place then. We'll need to check the walls and the floors."

Cloud Wolf Nods his head as he steps forward,, ateempting to slip past Kay toward the room he just shot into. "Benefits and risks, mam. If he's good I'll just let em loose, if he ain't, good job, yeah?" His southern accent is there clear as day now, relaxed. "Sorry I shot past yer shoulder like that though, mam."

Kay says, "Oh he's very bad."

Kay says, "Needs his mouth washed out with soap he does."

Cloud Wolf saunters into the room then with his bow up, glancing about at all the walls. Rather than move toward the back of the room he immediatly swirves off to his right toward a corner, attempting to move himself out of the way and get an overwatch point for the rest of the room.

Total Babe shrugs, and gives up on the threatening and starts searching the room.

Jolt stays to the back of the group as she keeps an eye out for anyone coming in from behind "So what now... we're here in the cellar" she asks the others "And we got a janitor tied up."

In his new vantage point Cloud Wolf sees past the edge of the boiler. There's a ragged tunnel in the end wall. And standing in the tunnel mouth is a man in body armor with a large weapon in his hands... pointing at him.

Kay looks for something, "This guy knows some of us are Star Guard. That means he's part of the team that's been trying to hook into our communications. Which means, if we don't find the entrance they're using to tunnel to our basement soon I start breaking his bones with my TK. Ah, the joys of being part of an organization and not just a civilian..."

Cloud Wolf suddenly, and without explanation, throws himself out of the right hand corner he just stepped into, heading for the other side of the room. As he goes he shouts, "ah damn it geddown!"

There's barely a whisper of sound as the wall behind where Cloud Wolf was standing just a moment away explodes into plaster and brick dust.

Cloud Wolf hits the ground in front of the door and rolls to a standing position, the boiler directly in front of him, with plenty of space to charge into the room through the door behind him. His bow is leveled at the boiler.

As Total Babe hurries towards where the wall exploded she sees past the edge of the boiler to a ragged tunnel in the far wall. In the mouth of the tunnel is a man in body armor with a large weapon.

Kay blinks as the wall suddenly evaporates in an explosion of dust and fragments that is more akin to impact, than actual explosive force. She cocks her head to the side and shrugs, "They always pick the hard way." She murmurs to herself, "If you're a soft target, stay behind TB and myself." As things get ready to get hectic.

Total Babe charges the guy, whipping her three-section staff at him and hoping to trip him.

The man is hit by Total Babe and stumbles back, keeping his balance long enough to make several steps backwards before slamming into a wall where the tunnel bends.

The highly effective body armor cushions much of the initial impact. The man suffers no injury and isn't even stunned, although he looks quite shaken by the blow. Slamming into the wall hardly seems to faze him further.

Kay starts to walk towards the tunnel and looks down at where TB just hammered the guy and sent him flying. A low whistle escapes her at that, "You've been eating your wheaties TB." She says appreciatively. Crimson energy begins to form on her left hand and bleed out her eyes, drifting outwards to disperse quickly but still looking somewhat... well, evil. Matching red energy begins to form around the armored agent and then she clenches her left hand into a fist, the energy tightening in, trying to grasp and restrict the agent before he can fire off a round and to drag him back out of the tunnel and to the middle of the room, should she succeed.

David Marshall moves forward to get eyes down the tunnel, but doesn't attempt to move past Total Babe.

There's a increasingly high pitched hissing sound like an energy buildup from past the bend in the tunnel. A moment later a blue orb of ball lightning floats into sight coming from that direction and drifts towards the Marshal and Total Babe.

The ball of lightning veers towards Marshal Marshall as it comes closer.

Jolt sees the electrical energy and puts herself between Dave and it taking the brunt of it... Then again she knows she can handle a good dose of electricity safely. The energy that flows through her causing sparks to fly and she looks around to see who that electrical attack might have belonged to and give them a dose of their own medicine.

Total Babe advances round the corner - to see who's there and to try to block any attacks coming that way.

Around the bend, so to speak, Total Babe sees a chamber with two guys in it. One is holding a short fat tube in which another ball of lightning is starting to form. The other holds a glowing rod about a meter in length. One side of the chamber has broken through to a phone service cable conduit with thousands of fibre-optic cables exposed. A few of the cables have been spliced into a computer system.

Total Babe prompty fires her gun at ball-lightning guy - since he can shoot round corners he's presumably an immediate threat.

Stuck by Total Babe's shot the man with the short tube weapon is knocked backwards and sent sprawling onto the floor at the foot of the computer system.

Cloud Wolf waits in the main room for Kay to drag out the man who shot at him. Glancing over the man he reaches up to his quiver, pulls out a silvery arrow, and using his hand flicks his wrist, sending the projectile at the man's chest. As it reaches him yet another net springs up, attempting to neatly bundle this man like the first, his gun held to his chest if Kay hasn't made him drop it.

The man holding the rod turns it towards Total Babe. A small red bead emerges from the tip of the rod and extends out past her side. Then the man swings the rod sidewards.

ooc Variable sword, 4D6 Drain Body, Armor Piercing, reduced recovery rate 1 per turn

The man stares wide eyed in shock as Total Babe doesn't separate into two parts, "Nobody can survive that!" he says in disbelief.

Total Babe says, "Was that supposed to do something?"

Total Babe thinks. o O (But if he thinks it's *that* good a weapon I guess I'd best take it off him....)

Disheartened by the results so far, the men surrender.

Cloud Wolf turns about to jog back through the room as the villains are handled. Making it to the steps, he heads up them to check the door that was left unguarded, and, bow in hand, peak out into the lobby.

Kay goes about making sure the villains are secure, and more importantly, the computer system is secure and getting SG techs down here to make sure we find out as much as possible about this whole organization!

The lobby has a couple of curious students in it looking to see where the noise is coming from.

Cloud Wolf keeps his bow out, just in case, as he steps out into the lobby. Leaning one shoulder against the doorframe he waves his bow casually and says in his best, puffed up super hero voice, "Nothing to see here, move along citizins."

Total Babe is sure to confiscate the weapons.

The men refuse to say anything except a request to be handed over to the police and to have a lawyer.

"That can be arranged," Deputy Marshal Marshall points out. It's simply a matter of a phone call. For their transfer to police custody, that is. Lawyers are their own problem.

"Not yet." Kay says to Marshal Marshall. "First we get to make sure they're not under the influence of alien mind control. Which means they'll get to spend some quality time with me and mine."

Cloud Wolf steps back into the stairwell, his net arrows safely stowed in his quiver. Glancing down the stairs toward the gathered heroes he lifts his right hand to give them a thumbs up. Calling down in his easy drawl he states, "I'm gonna head oudda here folks. Take it easy."

Kay says, "these men could be a threat to themselves and others, we'll have to make sure they're fit to stand trial and not under the influence of alien mentalists."

ooc :laughs.

Total Babe says, "Did our mysterious contact say who these people are?"

David Marshall pauses his dialing to regard Kay. "Can you rapidly confirm or deny any influence? Not to step on toes, but unless there is evidence for reasonable suspicion..." He doesn't finish his rather soft suggestion.

Cloud Wolf states even as he turns his back, starting out into the lobby with his bow in his left hand, "Politics." He makes a scoffing noise, lifts his bow to slot it onto his back, and saunters on out of the building.

"Reasonable suspicion? Highly illegal technology, tapping into Star Guard communications. You claim they're not yours, that means you have no jurisdiction here UEMS Deputy Marshal Marshall. I brought you along as a courtesy. Which has now ended. Please see yourself out. If you have a problem with how Star Guard is handling an attack on itself feel free to file a complaint with Director Paul Van Sterran." And with that, she goes back to work.

"Thank you for the opportunity to provide assistance," David Marshall nods and turns to depart. As he walks, he adds, "though I never claimed that it's a UEMS matter. You'll have a few minutes before CBPD arrives, I'm sure." The phone returns to his ear as he vanishes up the stairs.

Kay sighs at the mention of the CBPD, "That's the last time he comes anywhere near an SGG Operation, if I have to take him out myself." She says to anyone whom might be nearby before she calls... the mayor, and asks him to hold back the hounds as Star Guard is handling the attack against them, etc etc.

Total Babe pokes about for any clues about who these guys are.