Log:The Horde Finale, Part 2

2008/01/27 	 Amber and Azure|Azure Silver Spider Skysabre The Maid Victor 1

Silver Spider taps her PDA silently and grins to the Maid. "Victor's going to make us a door. If for some reason he can't, I need you to smash the wall down for us. You're the strongest."

Skysabre hovers a few inches above the ground, scanning the area. It switches to x-ray, seeing if it is able to penetrate the subway walls.

The Maid curtseys in acknowledgement. She hovers such that her feet never touch any sewage.

Azure prepares for the sewers with nightvision glasses and her ultrasonic detector.

Silver Spider scuttles quietly along the top of the sewers, keeping out of the drek and muck that's down there, keeping an eye peeled for alien worms. o O (Oh, god, that old english !@#$! is so hot...)

Azure activates her force field

Silver Spider keeps looking at her PDA, carefully looking it over. "All right..." She says cooly. "We're almost at the wall..." Her upside down frame pads along the ceiling.

The sewer tunnel ends, blocked off by debris at a makeshift barricade.

Skysabre moves forward a bit, trying to scan through the debris to see what's behind it.

Silver Spider turns to the others. "Don't do anything until Skysabre finishes seeing through walls." She says serenely.

Silver Spider says, "He's good at that stuff.""

Victor nods a bit and moves along, his Tunneling machine over his shoulders in backpack form. "Let mich know vhen zit izen time. I am ready"

"It is possible that they have guessed our strategy." Skysabre comments quietly. "There are Taken present on the other side of this debris."

Silver Spider chuckles. "Skysabre will let us know. Maid, if the area's unstable, could you do us the favor of holding the tunnel up?" o O (God, I did not do that for the view, yo. Tactically it's the best move, I did not do that for the view.) "Are they wearing armor?"

Azure says, "How many?"

"Two. Likely not more than guards or a warning system." Skysabre replies. "And no, they are normal Taken."

The Maid curtseys in acknowledgement to Silver Spider. "Of course, madamoiselle."

Victor hrms a bit. "Zuppose zhis izen as good as time az any to try our mich device"

Victor draws his syringe pistol, making sure its ready by pulling the action.

Silver Spider nods at the curtsey. "Yes. If they're normal, I can wrap one of them up and just stick them to the ceiling. Someone will have to net the other one. Oh, guys, if I start acting weird or hivemindy, Maid, I want you to take the biggest chunk of concrete you can and hit me with everything you've got."

"Hopefully we will notice the invasion of your oral cavity by a Taker first." Skysabre comments. "We must press forward. We are on a time schedule."

The Maid glances at Silver Spider a bit questioningly. "Are you most certain, Madamoiselle?"

Victor says, "Zi can cure you fast enough Spider....zi vouldnt worry about zhey concrete"

Silver Spider nods. "If one of them gets in my mouth and I get taken over, do it.' She says. o O (Mademoiselle. Damn. That's naughty.) "Victor. Make us a hole."

Victor nods a bit and sets down his backpack, taking out a huge drilling bit he sets up his machine in a matter of movements. The diamond bit gleams in the pale light and his sets the battery down and gets ready to hook it up. "Vonce zhis izen started it can not be stopped. Zo ve are zure of thiz?"

"It is either use it now or sit here." Skysabre replies.

Silver Spider nods. "Go for it. Maid, get ready to steady the tunnel if it looks like it's going to fall on our heads."

Silver Spider taps her fingers on the ceiling and holds tight. o O (Well, if it does collapse, I'll get to fall into the Maid's arms instead of Victor's. He's the most irresponsible scientist I've ever seen.)

Victor nods and connects the last alligator clip, the drill moans to life and quickly begins to make lurches forward at the wall, Makes contact and begins to rip the wall asunder. Continuing on in its pathway of destruction, it putters on down its path

Silver Spider extends a webline as the tunnelling machine bursts through the gap, and swings in. "Hi, guys! We'll fix you soon!" She says cheerily as the the webline shoots out of her hand, tumbling in a graceful arc towards the hapless victims. She arcs gracefully about and shows off a little more than usual as she vaults forward in a lithe arc, the webbing shooting out of her wrist.

The Taken on the other side of the barrier is caught by surprise and easily wrapped up in a web. At a glance, he has the look of a Gas and Electric worker, wearing a uniform blue jumpsuit and a yellow helmet.

The other Taken nothing in hand. She's wearing a pink dress and apron that looks like something from an old-fashioned diner.

Azure moves up to the other taken and tries to swing a staff that seems to just appear in her hands at her legs, intending to break them.

The woman drops to the ground in a heap, with one leg collapsing with sickening cracking sound.

Azure thinks. o O (Give them a moment to orientate this direction and then the TransMat team can go. They know we're here now. Dratted hive minds.)

The Maid winces as she sees the poor woman drop. "Must you use such excessive force, Madamoiselle?"

Skysabre flies through the opening, not bothering with any of the now downed Taken. It immediately scans the far wall with x-rays, trying to detect any Horde response or any Horde beyond them.

Silver Spider turns to the Maid. "Give me a minute...' She says gently. "I'll set the leg." She looks around furtively as she prepares to drop to the ground, still suspended in midair on her line.

"No movement detected." Skysabre comments. "We may need to knock harder."

The Maid proceeds to advance forward, flying ahead as forward guard.

In the distance, something howls, the sound echoing along the lengths of the abandoned tunnels.

Skysabre turns towards the howl. "We may have their attention."

Azure says, "The Takers aren't limited to sentients are they? Harrisburg is where the Zoo was."

Silver Spider lands next to the wounded woman with the broken leg and says. "I'm going to splint her up. She won't be able to move, but she can't lie there with a broken leg either..." She fires her webbing around the woman's legs and makes a splint out of the web, making sure to keep the broken leg stable.

Azure hurriedly steps in between Silver Spider and the woman she is paramedic'ing., trying to push her back. "Get away from her. The Takers come out when their hosts are damaged. You'll get possessed."

Skysabre drifts forward, listening for the outcome of the Azure/Silver Spider situation but focusing down the tunnel. It switches to infrared and zooms in down the length of the tunnel, trying to detect movement.

Silver Spider turns to Azure. "Oh, make no mistake, I'm getting. But she's not going anywhere and you're all armed and dangerous. If it comes out, shoot it!"

"Our situation is changing." Skysabre comments. "Three Horde Soldiers are inbound accompanied by Taken designated: Kihzra."

Azure explains again knowing that the Maid missed her first tactics talk. "They don't feel pain. All splinting the legs does is gives them more of a chance of dragging themselves after us. And the Takers will come out when the host is damaged enough to be unusable."

Victor grits his teeth hearing that .oO(Poor girl...i'll save her, I have to save her)

Azure asks Skysabre a question she knows the answer to but the others need to hear it. "Taken can use the skills they had if they see that skill in use, correct?"

Silver Spider nods slowly. "Got it." She pauses. "Three?" She says seriously. "That's bad." She turns to the others. "We're in for a real fight now." She says cooly as the the horde make their way down the corridor.

"Yes." Skysabre replies. "And given that Taken Kihzra is accompanying soldiers it is reasonable to assume that they have a grasp on her abilities."

Azure nods. "I'll hold her attention while you take the warriors out."

Two of the Horde warriors scuttle forward in the tunnel 6" with Kihzra following along. The last warrior spits a gob of goo at The Maid.

The goo hardens about The Maid quickly.

The Maid. . o o O O (These things are supposed to be dangerous?)

The Maid curtseys before the newcomers (Kihzra and the 3 horde), letting the goo crumble and fall off of her as she does so. "How do you do? I am pleased to meet you, however, I am afraid I must.... ask that you be confined, for the time being. Please forgive the accommodations." She then heads to Kihza, uses her fingers to raise the hem of her maid dress slightly, and tries to give Kihza a soft "tap" with her boot.

Silver Spider looks at the creatures coming down the hall and says "Scuse me. Pardon me..." She extends a webline and swishes forward. Everything has changed in seconds. Lithe and sleek in all the right places, the webbing sticks to the ceiling and she vaults across towards the warriors, covering half the distance in a single swing. Hanging upside down from the ceiling, she spins briefly at the torso and drops into position, launching a bioenergy bolt at the closest warrior's area. o O (Damn, I hate fighting guys who have no witty banter)

The Horde Warrior seems capable of soaking the brunt of the abuse with it's chitinous armor. The same can't be said of the Takers riding on its back. They are all cooked by the bio-energy blast. The warrior is, however, knocked into the tunnel wall.

Victor quickly removes whats appears to be a pinkish red french horn and levels it at Kihzra. "Zi hope zhis workz." He lets looses with a red ray of energy toward the charging blade wielding warrior!

Sword Dancer dodges the ray easily, moving with the sort of grace one would expect of her.

Azure moves towards Kihzra and the two warriors tossing a silvery golfball sized sphere ahead of herself.

Azure tosses the sphere a few feet behind Kihzra. An instant later the entire tunnel is illuminated brilliantly by the flash grenade. ***flooooofh***

Kihzra tries to shield her eyes but it too late. The warriors seem similarly confused by the blinding flash of light.

Kihzra holds her sword at the ready, waiting to fend off attacks until she's recovered.

Silver Spider mutters. "Drat, remind me, Azure, never to doubt your word when you tell me how good at fighting someone is...' She swings towards Kihzra, arcing in high, and then dropping down with a slow, graceful tumble as the woman below her remains at the ready. "I believe the phrase is...Dodge this!" Webbing wraps out from her hands in a wide, salient spray, hurtling towards the enslaved heroine...

Silver Spider blinks as Kihzra's swords begin to cut through the webbing, spinning and whirling as the little cloud puffs up. When the smoke clears, Khizra's graceful dodge continues. "I think...I'm going to have to come up with a new trick."

Skysabre streaks forward to get a better firing position, its wrists transforming to reveal the deadly plasma launching apparatus. The Air Commander gets awfully close, perhaps wanting to put another body out there to distract from Silver Spider and Maid.

The Maid proceeds to try to interject herself before Kihzra, and give her a light shove into a wall with her hands.

Silver Spider waits, holding for a moment and says "Azure, deal with Khizra. I have to clean the worms off these guys!" She swishes away from the extradimensional dervish, and vaults up to one of the warriors with a graceful, sinuous arc of webline. Trying to keep herself in full view of the Maid, she launches another blast at one of the warriors. "Hey, ugly! My planet thinks you suck!"

The warrior tumbles away a little bit, the back of the creature smoking as the blue green corkscrew of energy thuds into it roughly with a sparkling crackle.

Azure tries to close the distance to Kihzra in a single action while being quiet but slips on a patch of slime and only gets to six paces from her.

As the Maid steps close to Kizhra, the swordswoman stops her whirling dance. She shifts her weight at the sound of the Maid footfall, and she swing her blade in that direction.

Kihzra's blade narrowly misses the Maid.

The worms riding the final warrior scatter, slithering off the creature's hide and onto the tunnel floor.