Epic M&M: Issue 5 (IC)

[Calinon]

Brazilia, SAA
SAP Research Facility
October 13, 2120

After a few days of keeping watch, you are near going stir crazy. Your sleep patterns are generally screwed up, you spend eight hours a day in a freezer, and there has been no sign of the terrorists. Only Sanjay and Monica seem to be handling the seclusion without irritation.

Michelle's group is sleeping, except for Monica, and Johan's is hanging about the common room, except Sanjay. John's group is on watch.

Johan, Vincent
A pair of security guards, along with Pavo and Ms. Price, escort another guard in. The escorted man is in handcuffs.

"This man just made an unauthorized call. We couldn't trace it, but we did record it. Ms. Price hits the button on her ever present pad and a voice says, "It's time. Half of them are asleep."

A second voice replies, "Thank you. You will be well compensated."

Just then, your communicators come alive as Anna shouts, "The scanners are going off! They're nearly here! Wake the others and get down here!"

You are about 8-10 rounds from the storage bay, slightly longer for anyone sleeping, not dressed, or waking the others. You have to take the elevator down. There are no stairs and no other way to get down.

Initiatives: Vince 28, Monica 22 (busy), Loki 21, Mantis 19, Metal Mistress 13 (asleep), Neutron 12 (very busy), Johan 7, Rebound 5 (asleep)

John
You've been on watch for nearly two hours. Anna hasn't given up on cracking the containment unit, despite nearly three days of her, Rebound and Johan constantly trying. Cosmo is playing cards with you, and your dad has been lounging around, bored. Suddenly, the scanner alarm in the van goes off. All of you gather around and see a blip appear at the outermost range of the scanner. A handful of seconds later, it's easily closed a kilometer, far faster than Loki predicted.

Anna reacts first, activating the comm and giving a warning to Johan's team.

"Holy crap, at this speed we have maybe 60 seconds before they get here. I doubt much longer before they tear through the floor!" Cosmo exclaims with concern. He quickly exits the van and in one smooth leap, lands atop the Anaconda containment unit.

Less time than that is given, as the far wall suddenly buckles, filling the entire warehouse with the screeching sound of bending and tearing metal. You see a pair of claws sticking through, and they start to move rapidly to create an opening, one easily large enough for trucks to drive through! There are several containment units near the wall being carved up.

You have two full rounds to act. You are near the main containment unit, 150 feet from the outer walls of the warehouse.

Initiatives: Cosmo 25, John 18, Anna 6

 

[Mordane76]

OOC: Time to show off my sexy-ness...

"They think Xi is me," X12 muses as he takes off his gi top. "Is there anyway we can use this to our advantage, I wonder. I would think that the Syndicate would be familiar with Li, Xi, and Master Wen, after living in such close proximity... if the ruse does work, it won't work long, considering I don't have Xi's powers to back it up, and I assume he doesn't have any of my powers... Li?"

 

[Dalamar]

"Everybody who is awake, to the elevator! Now! I will take care of waking up those who aren't."
Johan splits up into as many as he can, the task taking all his concentration after his command.

OoC: Both half actions used to duplicate, both times creating 4 duplicates at +5 rank (total, then, eight duplicates). Next round, all nine will proceed to wake up people and help them get ready.
Is there just one elevator? Is the who 'get there' time spent on elevator, or how much is considered to be us running down hallways?

 

[Mule]

"WAKEY WAKEY RISE AND SHINE!" Randall will run around pounding on doors, trying to rouse all the sleepers (and those otherwise occupied). "WE HAVE COMPANY!"

 

[Velmont]

Kevins outbursts "Not all about me? You read the note? She wants me! She didn't ask for you to come. You were not the one in that appartment with her. You can't have an idea of what you can suffer in her hands before living it. I only hope she didn't starts to play with Wen and Xi, but if I don't go they will suffer what I have suffered."

He calms himself, taking a deep breath. "I'm just scared. That night at the Crystal palace is just written in stone in my head. I have that dream where I relive the events. I wish that pain to no one... well, maybe Mia. You are right, I am not alone, but what we will have to face may be pretty tough.

As I said, Mia can amplify or cut your senses by a simple touch. And she must have have some guards. They have at least two mutants. They are flyers, and we have none, that's make things even easier for them to get us if she want that. We are seven, they can be easily 30 or more. That's make 7 against 1 in there favor. That's if the gang who attack the village support her presently. If we want to get Wen and Xi out of there we will have to act swiftly.

Our only positive element is that they think Xi is X12. What we may do, is to try some kind of rescue mission, right in there face. Being all there, they won't think someone would sneak from behind. That's would be X. And if we could know a bit more there force. Dara, you can surely track Wen. You know where he is. Can you feel his surrounding to see how many person there is? If we at least know there number, we would have a better edge."

 

[Agamon]

sigh...I wonder who's enjoying themsleves the most with this relationship...Sanjay, Monica, or Calinon? Hope the following isn't too suggestive.

"Dammit...nice timing," Sanjay says, hearing Randall's yell. He practically leaps off the bed and before he's at the door, he's wearing a newly created bathrobe, which he ties as he looks back at Monica. He creates a robe over her as well before opening the door. "Some quick 'clothes', unless you want to go all, 'grrr'," he says with a slight smile before dashing towards the elevator.

 

[Deva]

Raisa shakes her head. "I'm no good against Sho. She's been in my head, controlled me, and I don't know if I can keep her out if she tries again. Maybe we don't have to fight them face to face. They're in a cave, right? I could collapse the entrance, trap them inside and Carl could do his walk through walls trick and get Master Wen and Xi out."

 

[buzzard]

"Oh hell. Why do they always move a lot faster than we expect?" Mutters John as he moves to position himself between the opening and one of the false storage units, but close enough to their path to impede them if they head for the right one. He will also grow to full size. He won't go any farther than 30 feet from the other two though.

Once they burst through he will try to talk to them "Do you folks know how nasty thus stuff is? It could kill everything on the panet if it gets loose.". He will wrap up the Mole if he continues to move in.

buzzard

 

[Velmont]

Raisa shakes her head. "I'm no good against Sho. She's been in my head, controlled me, and I don't know if I can keep her out if she tries again. Maybe we don't have to fight them face to face. They're in a cave, right? I could collapse the entrance, trap them inside and Carl could do his walk through walls trick and get Master Wen and Xi out."

"If the cave in don't kill Wen and Xi. The cave can be as large as my hand or it could be a whole complex in which we could lost ourselves for hours... Not a bad idea, but not sure it is the best solution... I must say we are lacking some information. Li, do you know that cave and the surrounding area?"

 

[Calinon]

Brazilia, SAA
SAP Research Facility
October 13, 2120
As Loki runs around pounding on doors and Johan's start running around doing the same, Mantis leaps off down the hall towards the elevators, Hoppy close behind.

Neutron
Monica lets out a frustrated shriek and a growl, and as you sprint from the room, she's getting to her feet too. You are just approaching the elevator about thirty seconds later, when a light in the hall explodes, electricity arcing down to the floor, leaving a dazed looking, fully dressed, Monica in your path. She seems to be holding your uniform too.

"Ooo, sparkly," she says leaning up against the wall with a little smile on her face.

Loki, Johan
Neutron runs out of his room, the door banging open, and runs towards the elevators dressed in a bath robe. A few Johans enter Michelle's and Jackson's rooms to wake them up, Rebound jumping out of bed and pulling his uniform on quickly.

As the two of you head for the elevators yourself, you happen to pass by Neutron's room, where Monica stands naked, just starting to pull on her under-uniform spandex. You can't help but stop and look. As she pulls the spandex on, she sees you and grins.

"I hope you saw something you like, boys?" she says as she puts on her EPIC uniform itself. Within seconds, she's dressed, demonstrating some amazing agility. She grabs Sanjay's uniform, gives you both a wink, and with a flash of electricity, vanishes into an outlet.

Initiatives: Vince 28, Monica 22, Loki 21 (1HP), Mantis 19, Metal Mistress 13, Neutron 12, Johan 7, Rebound 5

Loki will have had to spend a hero point on the continuous extra for his illusions to be present when he isn't.

Straightjacket
Initiatives: Cosmo 25, Split 21, John 18, Mole 15, Anithos 11, Anna 6, Aerin 4

As SJ is standing in front of where the opening is being carved, he has to twist to avoid flying shards of metal and chips of concrete. Somehow, he manages to avoid it all.

"Boy," his father says. "None of that stuff can even hurt you, why are you trying to avoid it?"

Anna flies up near the ceiling, above SJ, giving her a good line of fire. Cosmo leaps to another containment unit nearer where the hole is, a scowl on his face, but not saying anything.

"Don't just stand there, boy!" SJ's father says. "They need your help!" He runs off across the floor of the warehouse, towards the units farthest from where you are. Your attention is immediately taken by the exploding wall in front of you though, as metal and concrete explode outward and the Mole stomps through the opening. He barely registers your words as he lets out a ferocious growl and moves immediately towards you.

As countless people before you have wondered when confronted with a giant rampaging mole-man... uh... or other large scary monster.... you find yourself asking the age old question. "How can something that big, move that fast?"

Will save: 13 (fails), 16 (fails) -- you have no idea what your father is talking about
Spot check: 12 (fails) -- nothing seems out of the ordinary
Listen check: 9 (fails) -- the sound of the Mole is drowning out anything else now

While I know you'll understand what is happening, if SJ wants to, he has to spend a hero point to get another will save until something happens that gives him another save attempt. I gave you a second save for your father's actions already.

Cosmo waits on your lead, and seems ready to attack anyone else that comes through the hole.

SJ is up. That was the two rounds btw. The others will arrive in about 6-8 rounds.

Lancheng, China
October 25, 2120
"I don't even know where he is, and I sure can't track him mentally," Dara says. "I'm learning control of my powers. Without Master Wen helping me, I can't even try to find them unless they are really close."

"I know there are caves in the hills around Pai Mei, but they are numerous. It would be about a two day trip to Pai Mai, unless we can borrow a vehicle of some sort from someone in town," Li says.

"Without a some info on where they are in the hills, I could get lost inside solid rock. That would be bad," Carl says. "But I'll give it a go once we get there. We can see if collapsing an entrance will do anything when we arrive."