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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 602735" data-attributes="member: 69">The Marshall waits. We see the cops running past the black SUVs and towards the big glass doors. The Marshall presses a button on his gun with his thumb, and a tiny light blinks on its side. He casually clicks another switch on the gun, and the cars outside explode, killing the rushing cops and showering glass inside the lobby. The security guard shrieks and flinches from the shock as sound and glass wash over him. The Marshall stomps on the end of the piece of wood he’s dropped the full clip onto, and the wood acts as a lever. The clip rockets upward, rotating end over end. The Marshall grins as he brings the gun down in slow motion, and the clip slaps perfectly into the gun’s grip. The slide clicks back into place and he fires one shot into the guard’s forehead. He smiles and walks to the stairs, pulling the ring on a tear gas grenade. The lobby doors are now blocked with bodies and automobile wreckage. The Marshall tosses the grenade into the lobby. He tips his hat at the CAMERA as the elevator doors close on either side of his smug smile. CHEN YAUNo way.Upstairs, the group is hoisting a piece of equipment, which is the size of a car engine, into a huge suitcase, which Iron Violet then holds with one arm. They’re joined by the Marshall and all run up to the roof, where a SWAT helicopter is flying in with its spotlights. The Marshall is about to shoot it down, but the bald man in the jogging suit stops him. SWAT guys rappel down, and the robed man leaps into their midst, using flying kicks and twirling million-hand slaps to knock them out. CAPTAINThis is Wang Sing-Yi. He’s a master of every martial art China ever created, and he’s quicker than scientists tend to think human nerves and muscle reflexes can allow a man to be. He fights with- of all things- a tiny, telescoping silver claw. CUDDLY JACK watches as SING-YI pulls out the claw and rips it across two cops’ facemasks at once, blinding them.CUDDLY JACKHe fights with a fork?CAPTAINWell… in a manner of speaking, I suppose so.CHAI TONG(thinking) Hmm…Meanwhile, the man in the jogging suit kneels by one of the rappelling cables still attached to the helicopter, above. He ties it to a thick metal snap-clip he takes off the body of a cop. He throws the clip towards the huge IniDyne sign, which is overlooking the four-story drop to the police cars below, on the street. The man runs toward the sign, firing a gun at its base supports. They snap, and the sign begins toppling out onto the cops below. The sign, as it’s falling, is pulling the helicopter down with it, over the side of the building. The helicopter falls level with the roof, and the bald man leaps the fifteen foot gap straight into the helicopter’s open door. He then shoots the cable free and throws the pilot out onto the street, then pulls the helicopter up just in time to keep it from crashing into the street, where the IniDyne sign has just landed on a large group of cars, smashing them to rubble. The helicopter pulls up over the building again. CAPTAIN(pausing it again) This man’s name is Positive Lam.CHEF TSOPositive Lamb??CAPTAINThat’s right, Positive Lam. CHEF TSO(burps) Weird.CAPTAINPositive Lam is a genius-level improvisational thinker. He may not be terrifically skilled with guns or fighting, but he can come up with a creative way out of any situation, generally to devastating effect. All he needs is something in his surroundings that he can use, and he’ll find a way to kill you with it.CHEN YAUKinda like MacGyver meets Jet Li?CHEF TSOMeets Moby, by the look of him…BAZOOKAHey, he does kinda look like Moby.The tape unpauses and the helicopter picks up the others, and they fly away, leaving the SWAT team dead or dying at the ruins of IniDyne’s once beautiful building. The CAPTAIN stops the tape and takes it out. CAPTAINSo. This is what happened at IniDyne.CHEN YAUCaptain, why are you telling US this… especially if it’s something big? Don’t you always yell at me about involving civilians in madcap gun and kung fu battles against charismatic and deadly villains in dangerous battles that seem to pit us spectacularly against the forces of crime, when in the end almost everything is smoking and demolished, but we’ve risen to the challenge wonderfully in a rousing and climactic finish?CAPTAINYes.CHEN YAUSo… what’s the deal?CAPTAIN(sighs) The CID’s special crimes division has come in and claimed my jurisdiction. I know exactly what this means- a buncha pansy assed pencil pushers talking about getting things done and NOT getting things done, while the criminals finish their plan. I can’t let that happen. I need you to go out there and do what needs doing. I need these guys dropped… and quick.BAZOOKAWhy the rush? CAPTAINBecause of what was stolen. The machine they stole was… well… remember a few years back, when some smartass scientists finally managed to teleport a single atom from one place to another?BAZOOKAI remember that, sure. I knew the lead scientist on the job. In fact-CAPTAIN(interrupting) Anyway, it seems now that these big-brained know-nothings have figured out how to teleport a complete molecule. CHAI TONGSo what?CAPTAINThat’s what I said, until I was talking to one of the guys form the lab. He says that thing’s just one end of the teleportation machine, right? Kinda like a phone mouthpiece without an earpiece… just a transmitter, with no receiver to transmit to. Then, the lab guy tells me that he found out that the machine transmits to the other machine based on matched electrical oscillations. It needs a certain pattern of electrical energy to teleport something to. BAZOOKAUh oh…CAPTAIN That’s right. The human brain’s alpha waves are oscillating patterns of electrical energy. BAZOOKASo, in theory, they could teleport a single molecule into a human brain, if they could synch the transmitter’s waves to the alpha waves of the target?CAPTAINCorrect. We don’t know what they plan to teleport, but provided they find the right kind of molecule, they could assassinate anyone from anywhere on the globe and leave no trace behind. This is why I’ve come to you tonight. I need you to find them and kill them and GET THAT MACHINE BACK.BAZOOKABut… do they know how to synch the waves yet? It would be tremendously complicated…CAPTAINI don’t know. What I do know is that they’ll need a scientist to show them how to do it. A neurobiologist, and one of the best. I want you to look into any recent abductions in the neurobiology community… or find leaders in the field and guard them. Take no chances. If they pull this off, they’ll be able to write their own ticket. Terrorists would pay any amount to have an untraceable assassination service. This CANNOT HAPPEN.CUDDLY JACKAll right, Willy! We get to go smash up some bad blokes again! Just like old times… sniffle…GRANDMACan I be deputized? I want a badge.CHAI TONGHa, you are too late, little tiny fat lady with mind of elderly goat. I already have a badge. CHAI TONG flips out the other badge he has, the one he got last year. It reads CAPTAIN in bright gold letters.CAPTAINHey, that’s the badge I lost last year!! You took it? I could have you arrested for that, Chai…CHAI TONG(Ignoring the Captain) I am Captain, and hereby deign you to be unfit for active duty. GRANDMAThis is not fair! I want a badge!CAPTAINWill you all stop ignoring me? This is NATIONAL SECURITY HERE, PEOPLE! NOW, PULL IT TOGETHER, OR ELSE I’M GOING TO BUST YOU ALL DOWN TO TRAFFIC-BLAM!! The CAPTAIN’S face explodes in a shower of blood as he’s shot from behind. We see a busboy at the door to the room holding a smoking gun. BUSBOYKill them all! Get the tape!CHEF TSO looks down and sees the cop’s blood and brains splattering the room. He looks up at the busboy and points.CHEF TSOYOU'RE FIRED!!!He slams the rest of what’s in his glass, then wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. He stands up as the busboys with guns, bats, knives, and pipes begin rushing towards them.</blockquote>

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