Log:Den of Snakes, Scene 2

Den of Snakes 2012/05/16 	 Jeremy Miss Chief Star Girl Utility 2

Almost as quickly as they appeared, the heroes are able to put down the rampaging automatons.

With the robots dealt with, Jeremy takes a few moments to make sure his clothing wasn't destroyed to the point of impropriety before he flies down towards the entrance, "We need some lights!" He calls out to whatever construction people still remain, how far could they run in 12 seconds really? "Got anything you can set up for night work so we can see in there? Flashlights at minimum?" He's not entering the dark lair of robots without a light.

Miss Chief looks about as she buries the robot she ensnared for good measure. "Lights? What for? What's up?"

Utility looks around at the general destruction and says, "Well... That's that, I guess." before she notices the commotion over at the pool and says, "Great... This is what I get for throwing as much at an attacking robot as I possibly can muster. Well, at least it's downed." then walks over towards the hole and says, "Well, let's see if there's anything else down there shall we?" and jumps down with her plasma vents opened and acting as retro thrusters as she descends, looking about in multiple spectrums. "Anyone got a radio?" she calls out.

"Sure! Sure!" the construction foreman says. "Got some over here..." He takes Jeremy over to a construction locker, where there are some flashlight and work lamps.

Jeremy facepalms, literally, as Utility goes jumping down there, "You should really wait for backup Utility, you're not the most durable." He then looks over to Miss Chief, "Construction Crew cracked an old bunker of some sort, robots came out and attacked." Then to the construction guys, "Thanks guys." He flies over to gather up flash lights and the like, enough for all.

Miss Chief heads over. "What, they're building the new building on top of some old supervillain lair or something? What are the odds?"

Over the radio, Star Girl responds: 'I do.'

The vault is a 20m by 10m underground bunker of sorts. At one end, there are the empty docking bays for the robots that attacked. At the far end there's a large computer screen with an ominous countdown that looks to number in years and months and some sort of annotated map. The light of the computer screen fills the far unexposed end of the bunker with dim light, just enough to see by.

Star Girl fades into sight inside the bunker, standing next to the computer screen. She waves to Utility. "This does not look good."

"I can see just fine down here, there doesn't seem to be anything threatening at the moment. There aren't any robots down here anymore." Utility says, "Believe me, if I thought I was going to get into a fight down there I wouldn't be rushing into things." she then sends a message over the radio to Star Girl saying, "Great-Oh! There you are. I was wondering where you were." she then says, "So, any idea what this place is?"

Miss Chief looks at the countdown to see how much time is left, and the map. "I could try asking stuff. Don't know how talkative it will be...."

Jeremy flies down into the bunker and then settles down onto the ground. Flashlights are good, he'll help Miss Chief down as well. The lights and the count down... "I'd guess they're additional bunkers. These are like time bombs, all designed to attack at once I'd say they could cause a fair amount of damage. If I had to guess."

Miss Chief tries talking to the machine that's counting down first. "Hi! What do you do?"

The map focuses on North America with certain locations indicated. There's a location in each of the following cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and New York. Colonial Bay has two. With a little bit of math, it's possible to determine that the countdown will end at noon on January 25th, 2065.

"All over the U.S.?" Utility says, "Not good... Let's see if there's any evidence about who built this place." she says, as she looks around the hangar in an attempt to find distinguishing marks or designs.

Miss Chief says, "Oh? What's the payload?"

Jeremy studies the other blinking light in Colonial Bay, "That looks like a building downtown. We should check it out. Might give us more clues as to what to expect in the other cities. We'll have to go check those out too."

Miss Chief says, "Oh, ok, i'll ask them - say, do you know who got you to do this?"

Miss Chief says to the others, "Kingsnake from VENOM set this up."

Jeremy says, "I can honestly say I have no idea who that is."

Miss Chief says, "Me neither,. I've heard of VENOM but can't remember much about them."

Star Girl says, "Well, VENOM is an offshoot of VIPER, which is the terrorist group that successfully took over South Africa and turned it into Zu."

Jeremy frowns, "You'd think there'd be something snake or poison related in here with all the names they pick." He looks around, then concerned at the others, "Everyone who has to breathe breathing ok?"

Miss Chief says, "Yeah - this is probably not good, then,. We should definitely check out the other sites - I guess I'm breathing ok, I'm still talking."

"I would think it's thematic more than anything." Utility says, "And I think I'm breathing alright, for what that's worth." she then pauses before saying, "Anyway, I don't know much about kingsnake aside from the fact that he's abnormally long lived. Although that's not even the name that he chose for himself. For all we know, he could be called anything in his own organization. It is odd that we didn't see any sort of markings on the robots that attacked though... I'll see what I can find up there." she says as she moves to jump out of the hole.

Star Girl nods to Jeremy. "I'm fine. My suit activates life support it detects anything harmful, so I think we're ok."

"Good." Jeremy says as everyone says they're ok, "Well lets make sure there's no more robots in here in storage or something. We do have a few years before clock hits zero." He then takes his flash light and just starts looking around for things of interest besides the computer.

Miss Chief asks the machine, "Oh, - how long have you been counting for?"

Star Girl puts her thumb and picky to her head. "I'll call this in. Starguard can alert the authorities in each of the cities targeted."

Miss Chief blinks. "The machine's going down. Maybe they know we're here!"

The computer powers down and goes blank. The computer's hardware begins to smoke and short out.

"Well that makes sense." Jeremy says, "Leaving them completely unmonitored would be like, height of foolishness." He then turns, "C'mon we've got to get downtown, hopefully other cities have at least someone who can handle the robots there."

Miss Chief says, "If they're watned, yeah. At least the countdown suggests it's not urgent, unless they get triggered early. Oh, this was set up a couple of years back, by the way."

Star Girl finishes radioing SGHQ. "Ok, let's go... Give me a lift, Cobalt?"

Miss Chief remembers the map. "I'll see you there!"

"Yep." Jeremy offers any and all a lift out of the bunker if they so desire, cuz he's cool like that. Once out, "Call the authorities, we have tech here that could still be dangerous. Make sure nobody goes in there." He tells the construction crew, "Unless they're here in some official capacity. No civilians."

Miss Chief chants a little spell and vanishes.