Log:Chasing Dr. Graff Part 1, Scene 1

Chasing Dr. Graff Part 1 2012/11/07 	 Star Girl Superhuman 1

Star Girl explains the situation while the team is en route to Johansburg, PA, in a Starguard flying van. "So here's what we know. At the start of the summer, a hospital run by Dr. Graff burned down. It was actually a front for a human experimentation lab, and it might still be active, hidden underground..."

"Oh!" Flutter says, smiling. "Then we can expose it to the world at large and display the hidden in the name of just vengeance."

"Graff an independent or does he work with someone?" Okami asks.

Long story short:

Ripcord and company showed up wanting to 'talk' to the heroes of colonial bay, saying something about how Half Life was going to go nuclear and that he was hired to find her and in two weeks it was game over for the city. Which may, or may not, be true depending on whom you believe. Following some clues Star Girl has found the probably point of origination of Half Life, Darklight, and Ashes. Upon investigating the heroes were attacked by the local law, the Sheriff of the county that the small town of Johansburg PA was located in. One of the deputies rolled over and said the underground secret labs of the now burnt down hospital for the criminally insane is still functioning. Enter the Heroes:

Star Girl says, "He's well funded, but we don't know where the money's coming from. I think this is primarily a rescue mission - sneak in, locate and free any prisoners, then deal with bad guys on the site. Who's good with Stealth and security systems?""

Okami gives a short nod of his head. "I'm pretty good with them," he says.

"I am not certain I know what those look like," Flutter replies.

Superhuman says, "I was pretty good at sneakig out at home, but I don't get your primitive security stuff!""

Toby shakes her head. "Not me. I'm too glowy for all of that." Toby gestures to the glowing sphere of energy surrounding her body.

Superhuman says, "Yeah, I'm kind of about speed and strength."

Star Girl looks to Flutter and Superhuman. "To be honest guys, I wasn't sure if you'd be able to help out with the investigation at first, seeing as dealing with this world is kind of new. But after we rescued the town from the Sheriff, I"m super glad that you came." She points to Okami, "I think you'll be in front, taking care of security systems. Me and Super-H can be second, since we're stealthy. Flutter and Toby will be in the rear - but not too far back. Flutter, we may need your magic in case there are a lot of people we need to protect at once."

Okami gives another short nod. "How many of us have radios?" he asks.

Superhuman shakes her head. "No - I'm not stealthy!"

Toby nods to Star Girl. "Sounds good to me." She then looks to Okami, "I don't." Toby shrugs.

Star Girl says, "We can communicate using Starguard Gamma comms. I'll need to get them back from you guys after the mission, though."

Flutter nods once. "I am designed to assist with numerous threats of supernatural nature. Less supernatural threats are within my ability to assist with as well."

Superhuman says, "Ooh, official communicators?"

"I've got my own comms," Okami says, "but anyone else who needs one should grab it." He sets to checking his gauntlets and the small tools he keeps stored within them.

Star Girl nods to Superhuman. "Ok, I'll be with Okami, then, and Super-H, Flutter, and Toby can our backup, ok?"

Superhuman takes one of the communicators "How does it work?"

Toby takes one of the communicators, and examines it, puts it on and nods.

Flutter picks up a communicator, watches Toby don it and mimics his procedural action.

Star Girl glosses over explaining the radios to the others.

The flying van (Cuz that's uber aerodynamic) settles down in the light woods some ways away hopefully hidden on approach by the fact that it's night time, and there's trees, and suchlike that. The trees however, are not made of pillows and thus make for a bumpy landing which thankfully is uneventful. Given GPS coordinates and the like the team is approximately 1/4 mile from the escape tunnel entrance into the underground laboratory. The rest will have to be made on foot, or flight, whichever personal mode of transportation the heros wish to use.

Star Girl walks a good 40 meters or so ahead of the main group, using her suit's stealth systems to stay concealed. She keeps her eyes peeled for any signs of security devices.

The trip through the forest is uneventful, there doesn't appear to be any security that can be noticed by much anyone and no guards or owls with lazer eyes or the like show up even when Superhuman near knocks over a dead tree on accident. For all intents and purposes, it seems like nobody's home.

The directions given were good though and the group ends up approaching the cement bunker entrance that leads to the escape tunnel... though the escape tunnel actually seems big enough to drive a full sized SUV through comfortably... if the entrance door were open. There is your pretty standard Card Swipe type of panel with an old analog numberpad sequence.

Okami extracts a set of small tools from his gauntlet. "Let me take a look at this," he says to the currently invisible Star, assuming she's close by.

Superhuman places her point of perception beyind the entracnce to see what's within.

Either the cement is to thick or there's no lights on the other side of the walls and the thick metal gate. Place does look like a bomb shelter bunker after all.

After a bit Okami manages to pop the case and find the connections to bypass the door and get it to open whenever he likes. Jolt manages to fry the silent alarm that Okami was about to trick with a quick zap that thankfully only stings a little.

Okami pulls his hand back quickly at the sudden sting. "All right," he says, "Got the door lock bypassed. Ready?"

Star Girl shimmers into visibility for just long enough to say. "Yep."

Toby nods. "Ready!"

Okami closes the circuit to open the door and prepares to move.

Superhuman withdraws her senses.

There is no flash of lights as it's a supposedly semi-secret escape tunnel and lights would defeat the purpose after all. There is however the sound of machinery, the humm of powerful motors as the gate slides down into the earth. It's a /big/ gate. Super gate. Like worst than the door at Encom in Tron. Several meters thick of solid metal and when it slides all the way down the moon and starlight gives a glimpse of a long tunnel heading in and down at a ten degree angle.

Superhuman pulls out her PDA - it provides some light at least!

Star Girl starts to head down, hopefully by the light that someone else is providing.

Superhuman heads in, with nothiing buut the light of her PDA.

Okami pauses at the gateway, sniffing quietly at the air that spills from the tunnel searching for clues as to the presence of anyone before he moves forward pupils dilating to make as much use of the feeble glow of Superhuman's PDA as possible.

Superhuman thinks. o O (Primitive PDA! It can't even do a bright light!)

Toby mutters something about her glowing orbs and how she should be able ot make light from her powers. She tries to do so, but, it only proves to do nothing. She tries to make use of the PDA's primitive light herself.

The light of PDA's (need the flashlight App!) along with Toby's own glow is enough to illuminate some. The air smells clean, recycled, and sterile. As people head down into the tunnel things are going well, it seems for about a hundred meters, and then there's the *THOOOM* of flood lights turning on suddenly and back in the distance there's the sound of the gate being powered closed. The way out is shrinking rapidly.

At least with the lights though things are easier to see once eyes adjust again. It looks for all intents and purposes to be a parking lot of sorts with ATV's, Motorcycles, and even single person rotary flying vehicles. There's also another big door, and four suits of high tech looking black and silver armor that some will find familiar. A voice announces over loudspeaker, "Oh let them in, it's not often we have guests. We have more than suitable quarters for them all."

Toby looks behind at the door, then at the suits, then to the source of the sound "Well..." She mutters.

Jolt takes a moment or two to look around and thinks out loud "Looks like someone's been expecting us" is all she really bothers to say as she waits for something to happen on either side.

Star Girl thinks. o O ( If Jolt's power profile is right, she should be able to scrap those power suits in a jiffy. Which means there may not be a lot of time to try and find prisoners... ) She hops up to the ceiling and then starts run over to the other giant gate.

Superhuman is pretty sure the guys in armour or robots or whatever are bad guys. So unhesitatingly she chucks the SUV she picked up at them.

As the stand off continues, except for the invisible Star Girl nobody moves, until an SUV goes flying across the area and slams into the two armor suits on the right, both take the hit, disappearing behind steel before it smashes into the wall. But, the stand off is apparently over. As both suits on the right pop up their arms and aim them at various supers. One at Superhuman, one at Toby cuz she has glowing balls of light around her. The voice on the speakers goes: "Live specimens gentlemen." And the SUV starts to move away, grating against the floor as the two suits behind it start pushing it out of the way.

The SUV that was lobbed is pretty smashed up after the impact, but the suits apparently have some servo powered musculature as the crumpled SUV is picked up and thrown back with a whirring of gears and sparks of electricity from some small rents in the armor.

Superhuman is unimpressed as the SUV smashes against her.

Toby is a bit taken back as the suits come alive. She shakes her head, then points her fist at the other suit aiming to hit Superhuman. A ball of green builds around her fist, then fires the sphere of kinetic energy at the robot.

The other suit that was tagged by Superhuman's thrown SUV ignites on a pair of rocket boots that sends it flying forwards, picking up speed as it tries to tag Superhuman with a right cross on the way in! The second suit on the left has a pair of barrels pop out of it's forearms and it unleashes a pair of lightning bolts towards Toby!

The other suit on the right, noticing the lightning gun apparently doing nothing to Toby instead fires off a pair of electrified bola's trying to entangle and shock Toby all at once!

Jolt takes stock of the suits and decides since the one that threw the SUV back is already taken some damage she'll try her luck with that one. Taking a deep breath she focuses her energy and shoots electricity out of her fingertips "Lets see how good those suits do with a couple thousand volts running through them"

Toby just stands there as some green spherical forcefield appears right before the lightning hits...but as the lightning hits this forcefield, it travels from the forcefield straight into Toby. "AUGH." She shouts as the electricity flows through her body. It doesn't look like she can take too many of those.

The green forcefield thingy fades soon after.

The power suit gets hit by Jolt's lightning bolt and it starts exploding even before it gets flung into the cement wall of the underground area with another massive crash and a scream of pain is cut off as the suit wearer lays unconscious on the ground in the remains of his suit.

Toby sighs, "It had to be electric, didn't it?" Toby shakes her head. Green bright light surrounds Toby's body, as she lifts off from the ground. She flies toward the other suit that was damaged by the car, and throws another sphere of kinetic energy at it.

The suit takes the hit from the flash of solid photons and it goes flying back to hit the immense metal door behind it, the armor is ruined, the pilot hits the ground unconscious and trickling blood from some wounds but nothing mortal.

Jolt watches the suit basically explode on contact with her lightning and shakes her head "Damn, so there is people in those... I guess they dont make power suits like they used to do they?" then looks at the remaining suits and points at the destroyed one "Anyone that dont want to end up like that guy better run away now!"

Superhuman charges straight at yet another armoured guy and punches

Superhuman, of course, is stull useless at actually fighting.

The last two guys in armor might be phased, they might not be, but they aren't happy. However with Superhuman in one's face and Toby blasting another they aren't taking it lying down, "Back up! We need backup! Send the DX-3!" The big metal door behind them starts to open slowly while the last two guys in armor try and fight back. Another electrical bola is shot at Toby while the one Superhuman swung at, swings back!

Star Girl drops down from the ceiling, invisibly, and tries to grab the outstretched gun arms of the armored trooper aiming for Toby.

Star Girl executes a textbook judo hip toss and slams the armored guard on the ground. She keeps a hold of his arm, though, and tries to keep it pointed away from Tobey.

The suit that was going to shoot Toby gets slammed into the cement ground but other than the clang seems to be untouched except for some scuffed paint. It tries to break free of it's invisible attacker but for the moment, it is stuck. However, the other suit still unloads a punch at Superhuman!

There's a flash of electric light at the moment of contact, electric charge sending Superhuman flying even if it doesn't really hurt the alien.

Superhuman lands rather clumsily far across the room.

Okami moves forward, rapidly closing the distance between him and the remaining guard so he can attempt a throw of the guard in the direction of Superhuman.

The armor gets flung by Okami in Superhumans direction, where it hits the ground and skids to a stop amidst sparks but otherwise, the armor seems pretty unphased beyond scrapes on the paint job.

Toby lands on the ground, and waits for something else to happen.

Star Girl drops the armored guy on the ground. She turns and leaps back to the ceiling again. She heads for the opening gate, running upside down along the ceiling.

Star Girl squeezes into the next section of the base. "I knew I shouldn't have eaten all that... holy $#!^" she says to herself. Thankfully her stealth field masks her outburst.

Superhuman stands, and, not wanting to take the time the time to run up to her target, snorts lightingin at the prone figure.

The armor suit takes the shock better than the other hits so far, maybe it's just luck but it skitters across the ground. Sure it's sparking in places and it's smoking but, it's at least not exploding and still mobile.

Jolt ponders waiting for the 'back up' to arrive but decides it's probably better to dispense with the lightning and get some of these suits out of commission. Looking over the ones remaining she sees the one that Star dropped looks most able to take a beating and throws a ball of lightning at it

The suit takes the shot, getting powered into the cement and there are sparks and smokes all over with little pieces of it frying off with acidic burning electrical smell. The guy inside, yeah, he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Okami moves forward toward the last remaining guard who was knocked in his directing by Superhuman's deadly nasal lightning, throwing a strike at the prone target.

The suit goes still after the hit, even though it ends in the best shape out of the four, it's pilot is apparently out of it or at least stunned. Meanwhile, as the massive door slides down there's already activity starting up as a three 'fingered' metal hand grabs the top of the gate and then wrenches it down, tearing through it like tissue paper. The owner of that 'hand' can be seen even as the fingers tighten up and then retract back into it's arm. On the other side of the gate is a hallway much smaller than this room (5m wide by 4m high) that looks like a hospital hallway and a pair of security stations filled with stationary turrets that look somewhat like Darleks. The giant robot blocking the hallway though? That's a black and silver version of ED-209. Whoever built these likes old movies!

"Please shoot ballastics." I mutter, noticing the robot.

Jolt peers at the backup arriving and decides she'll just unload right off the bat now "Alright looks like it's time to fry some more stuff" and with that she shoots more lightning at the one int he middle ED-209

The ED-209 rocks backwards but doesn't actually move as lightning courses over it's form, but, built in grounding rods channel most of it away harmlessly. After all, it's big, tight quarters, and everything else uses electricity so some safeguards are to be expected...

Okami moves toward the giant robot, reaching into the small pouch in the back of his belt. **FWASH**, out comes a 30' length of thin but strong weighted chain which he lashed out with in an attempt to grab the robot and yank it off its feet and into the room.

The two darlek looking fixed turret emplacements swivel their guns forwards and lock onto the most immediate target. That being Okami of course since he's trying to yank the ED-209 around. Both open fire with a burst of tazer shots!

Okami is grazed by one of the tazer shots but not seriously injured, his armored costume absorbing a good portion of the attack.

Star Girl flattens herself against the ceiling, and she tries to squeeze past the giant robot. Her hair dangles down, probably brushing the top of the bot; hopefully it's too dense to notice.

Superhuman figures the big robot is the threat, so that's what she goes for, running at it at high speed.

Superhuman smashes into ED-209 and sends it realing backwards with a crumpled front end, sparks flying this way and that before it slams into the ground behind the invisible Star Girl almost hitting her, but, it comes up short. Thankfully. The robots legs kick at the ground as a high pitched whine of motors and servo's rev up inside the robot.

Superhuman grins. "and that's how you fight a big robot!"

Then ED-209's hands pop out, claws ripping into the walls of the hallway as it powers itself back up onto it's feet. At least there's a new threat and the robots arms lock in on Superhuman, "Heavy Damage Sustained. Primary threat acknowledged. Activate termination protocols. Termination protocols active." Then three barrels start to spin warming up before high caliber autocannon rounds start shooting in loud booming blasts.

Superhuman thinks. o O (Ok - I guess that's not how you fight a big robot.)

Toby shakes her head, and lines of energy come off of her arm, aiming to get between ED and their target.

Toby's lines of energy condense infront of ED, becoming a green glowing rectangular shield that absorbs the gun fire, then disappears. Toby smiles. "Not today!" She shouts.

Jolt sizes up ED-209 again... Well it's resiliant to lightning. Perhaps another tool will work better "What... Primary Threat... I'M THE PRIMARY THREAT!" she shouts at the robot trying to convince it she's the one it should be worried about. Well it'll only get to make that mistake once... Maybe. She reaches out and grabs at whatever magnetic parts it has if any and yanks it back into the chamber they are in if possible.

Okami lashes out once again with the weighted chain, striking at the robot with the full force that he can bring to bear.

The Darleks re-orient onto new targets, since Okami's chain isn't doing terrible amounts of damage they instead focus on Toby and Jolt, cuz indeed, she is a threat given the ED-209's being picked up by magnetic forces! Their AI is limited but good enough to realize lightning thrower might be immune to lightning and so while another tazer burst goes flying at Tobi, instead a laser beam cuts through the air burning towards Jolt!

The same thing happens when she got hit before, the electric strikes her shield, then travels from it to her body, causing obvious pain.

Toby, that is.

Toby shakes her head, and seems angry at the Darlak. She generates yet another ball of kinetic energy, and aims to hit the creature that hit her.

Star Girl tries to continue further into the base, looking for survivors.

Toby's blast smashes into the Darlek, causing it to explode.

Superhuman punches the remaing dalek, since ED=209 is occupied.

Superhuman knocks the top clean off the Dalek. Such that the icky creature inside would be visible, if it were a 'real' Dalek.

Alas it is just a fancifully designed mechanical turret, ammo cooking off and fragging the inside of the complicated machine but no icky creatures. Thankfully. ED-209 though, heavily damaged as he is still struggles weakly before the voice over the intercomm says: "Sequence Delta-Epsilon-Niner-Niner. Execute." And ED-209 answers in it's mechanical voice, "Sequence executed. Self Destruct Armed. Engaging now. Five seconds until core detonation. Five."

Jolt rolls her eyes "Crap... Everyone get moving inside" she orders the others as she does her best to haul the ED-209 into the chamber since she figures they can get around the corner to avoid the blast.

Okami heads through the open gateway. "Can you raise the door?" he asks Jolt.

Okami takes a moment to assess the situation. "Jolt! Drop it!" he says. "Do you think you can raise the door back up? Superhuman, throw it into the center of the room!" He then waits to see if people follow his lead so he can move into the hallway.

Star Girl turns right, going into the long hallway with the many doors. She stops at the first one and tries blasting the lock open.

The door gets blasted open by the energy blast, practically destroyed actually and inside the room is a small 3x2m room, padded walls and floor and roof, a cot filling up the left hand side with a strait jacketed black woman, unconscious with some medical tubing run up her nose and connected to a machine, no doubt pumping sedatives into her.

Star Girl radios back to the others. "Guys! I've found a prisoner. Go up the hall and hang a right. There're maybe seven more cells just like the one I found!"

Superhuman gets to her feet then hurries inside, away from the self-destrucing robot.

"Super, help Jolt brace the doors," Okami says.

Toby wraps herself in her glowing green light, then flies out of the room.

The damaged robot continues counting down, "Four. Three..."

Okami moves into the hallway, waiting for Jolt.

ED-209 turns with heavy stomps and whirring gears and gyro's, "Two." But he apparently isn't just going to stand there, the damaged robot limping back towards the entrance to the hallway. "Terminate Primary Target." And then it starts firing at Jolt again!

Toby flies out of the corridor, and creates a shield between Jolt and the robot.

Toby's shield blocks the attack, but now she's on the other side of the corridor.

"Super, can you move that thing back?" Okami asks.

Jolt looks at the others "I'll be fine just get yourselves safe" she instructs Okami and the others as she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath as she reaches out to all the nearby vehicles full of wonderful metallic substances, shredding them into millions of pieces, metal bending, twisting, merging as she basically generates a wall of scrap out of as many shiny new vehicles as she can pull into her magnetic field and makes sure to protect herself and Toby from what might be a huge blast.

Superhuman runs back the robot, trying to run straight through it....

The damaged robot gets damaged further, but this time it only rocks under the impact and doesn't go flying at all. It does however, spit sparks all over and it slumps to the side, barely held together, practically disintegrating at this point but somehow amidst the sparks and smoke it's still twitching.

Okami lashes out with the chain, trying to loop it around Superhuman so he can pull her along with him.//Grab: OCV 7 DCV 6

Okami takes off immediately down the hall, pulling Superhuman behind him as he tries to get more distance from the coming explosion.

ED-209's synthetic voice counts down weakly, "Two... One..." And then at zero there is just an explosion as it's reactor goes critical and the core explodes in a fiery ball oh doom spreading outwards in all directions!

The wall of cars melts and slags under the explosion and though there's molten metal all over the garage, the walls of the facility are charred but they hold. Of the robot there's only two feet left smoking and pitted but, the rest of the base is empty of defenses. There's two dozen people, all alive, though some barely though and some in need of severe medical treatment. Computers away to be plundered, once they're codes are broken, but the mastermind has slipped away during the fighting.

Okami pauses to catch his breath, walking back down the flame scorched hall to see how Toby and Jolt have faired. "Well...that could have gone better," he comments to no one in particular.

honestly."

Of course Dr. Graff was nowhere to be found, but he didn't have time to wipe all his computers and there are two dozen innocent people that are rescued. Nearly all need professional hospital care but they're alive at least thanks to the Heroes.