[Date: August 17, Time: 945 GMT Weather: Fairly warm and sunny.] [Marguerite's been checking out the site for a while when Kurt shows up. Saki apparently has wandered off somewhere.] [The actual site is a block in a warehouse district, the cordon keeps people from coming within three blocks, on a public health excuse.] [There's a set of stairs down to a currently shut down Underground subway station.] [Start as Kurt approaches] * Marguerite is standing on a street corner, smoking. And checking the action on her DE. * Kurt waves a little as he spots Maggie. "Heya!" Yo. How long you been here? Hour, maybe a little bit less. * Marguerite drops the cigarette in the little pile at her feet and lights up another as she chambers a round and slips the DE into the holster. "Been gettin' used to the place. Spent so much time here I think I could draw it from memory." Anything interesting hereabouts? Did they just empty everything out? Couple good pinch points outside. Inside, they left some crates, but they're pretty much empty. Some cover. Not too bad. * Kurt nods absently. "Where's this thing we're supposed to protect?" [At this point, a uniformed Mi-5 agent approaches carrying two suitcases, one is fairly cheap looking, the other quite expensive and handcuffed to his hand.] Lucky we're not holding any one position, but we've got a few spots we can work from. Course, it depends on what they throw at us... eh, I dunno. Figure'd Saki'd have it. Oh, this must be it. * A girl, looking about fourteen, in conventional street clothes follows after the agent, her eyes intent on that locked suitcase. She isn't that tall, over four feet but not all that much over. Where the hell is she? Who? * She's got brownish greenish hair, but is otherwise unremarkable. Saki. I'd wondered that, too. I've been looking forward to meeting her. She's mission leader, mission's happenin' soon. Shoddy, it is. * Mi-5 guy arrives and puts down the first suitcase. "This has headsets for anyone that wants them, not scrambled or anything. I believe your team leader is doing one last survey of the tunnels." I really hope she doesn't expect to go down there. Me either. * Marguerite walks over and opens the suitcase, and holds out a headset to Kurt. "Want one?" Sure. * Girl skips along behind the agent. As she gets closer to you, her appearance shifts a bit, and she gains pointed ears and a medium sized pair of butterfly wings, primarily purple in color. * Kurt takes it and fits it carefully to his head. "Hope it doesn't fall off, but the last one was pretty good about that." * Kurt blinks a little. "Well. That's different." * Marguerite slips one on. "Not bad." She's not paying too much attention to the girl. * Girl walks over to Marguerite. "Hi noble protectors! Could I get a communicator? * Marguerite holds one out. "Decoy, I'm assuming. You have a name we're supposed to use?" ("Bait".) (I'm guessing that would give it away.) * Girl thinks for a moment. "I've been telling people to call me Eris. Which is perhaps a little new-agey, but still plausible for an ordinary human. If you prefer, you can suggest something duller." * Eris looks over to the Mi-5 agent. "So, do I get my payment now?" * Mi-5 agent confers with his headset. * Marguerite raises her eyebrow. "Huh." It's all about the money. * Eris then takes the headset from Marguerite. She sticks it in her ear, after it gets there, it turns into one of those earrings that has a little chain and a clip onto the earlobe. She grins "How's this? And no, money can't easily buy what I'm getting." * Marguerite grins. "She's got some faith, askin' fer the payoff before she knows whether she'll be alive ta use it." * Mi-5 agent listens, and then enters a combination into the suitcase. Nothing wrong with confidence. Dunno why they're paying her before the mission even starts, though. I picked a payment that's necessary for the mission, they just don't seem to trust me to give it before we're ready to start. ::grins again:: Can't imagine why. Ah, I see. Naming yourself after a Greek goddess with a knife in her knickers couldn't be a part of it, of course. * Marguerite lights up another cig! * Mi-5 agent opens the suitcase, inside there's some serious looking padding, and a dark grey choker, it has several arcane symbols on it, but otherwise has a high-tech manufactured look. What's wrong with having a knife in your unders? * Eris laughs at Maggie's comment and snatches the choker, putting it on. "Well, I believe in truth in advertising." * Mi-5 guy then closes the suitcase and walks off, at a slightly hurried pace. Perfectly sensible, really. Nothin' except one, it gets in the way if you're goin' for speed in your balling, and two, people look at you funny if you tell 'em. Or they can see it. * Eris smiles at that. "Ah good, glad to know my protectors are in fact as interesting as promised." If you're trying to set a speed record, you should probably take the knife off first. I mean, just stands to reason. Well, it's easy to forget, especially with a bottle of gin in you. * Eris gets out a mirror from one of her pockets and inspects the choker. "Wish they'd let me pick the color. And true, but who goes for speed, I mean really?" See, that's why I don't drink. If I don't drink, I don't forget to drop the knives. * Marguerite whips a small flask out from a pocket and takes a swallow. Or four. "Look, sometimes it's just really important to get it done fast. Like if you have to shoot him after." I agree. Sometimes you just don't have the time to go about things properly. * Eris snickers. "Whatever turns you on. Oh? Think I could get away with camo pants? I've seen people wearing them, but don't want to push it." * Marguerite almost offers the flask to Kurt, but blinks and pockets it instead. "Forgot. Don't drink, do you." I've never been partial to the standard green and brown camo. The black and grey's good, though. * Kurt looks back at Maggie. "Hmm? Oh, not really. Beer doesn't count, really." * Eris nods. "That's what I was thinking, although most kids that wear it seem to wear jungle, not urban. Not really practical that." She then shrugs, and her pants shift into black/grey camouflage. Her top becomes an unremarkable grey. (For the record Maggie's in urban camo today, as well.) * Marguerite eyes the newcomer impassively. * Kurt eyes Jason. "They sucked you into this, too? Must be my lucky day." You know him? * Eris hmms and looks down at her neck. "May as well go with the name for a symbol." She then scrunches her face slightly and her choker turns into a necklace with a hanging gold piece of jewelry that looks like two arrows facing each other. * Eris doesn't seem to have noticed Jason's approach yet. Spent some time next to him in the hospital. He almost burned the place down. * Jason shrugs and exhales on his cancer stick. "Hey, have to feed the addiction." He eyes the girl, then looks back to Kurt. "So, what're we doing?" We gotta keep her from being splattered all over the wall. * Kurt gestures to the winged loli. * Eris looks up now that Jason's closer. She then looks down at his feet and back up again. * Marguerite holds out her hand to Jason as she lights one of her own cancer sticks. "Mad Dog McLochlane. Or Maggie. Nice ta meetcha." * Jason eyes Eris, then gets distracted by Marguerite. He grins and takes the hand, shaking it. "Jason Ashton." * Eris holds out her hand to Jason. "You can call me Eris, glad to meet you Jason, and glad SAB keeps its word." What word is it keeping? * Jason shakes her hand. "Eris. Sure. Those wings real?" That one of my male protectors would be somewhere between sexy and damn sexy, depending on subjective taste. (o/~) * Jason snickers. (SAB knows how to cut a deal.) (Oooh dear.) * Eris's wing shake a little and she flies up about half a meter above the ground. "Like 'em?" * Marguerite snorts, almost inhaling her cigarette, and takes a minute to cough. * Kurt snorts. * Eris looks over to Kurt. "No offense love." * Kurt shrugs. "If I were interested, I could be whatever you want." * Eris grins. "Touche." Okay, so where the FUCK are Saki and Ren? Hell if I know. * Jason laughs. "Sure. You're a little young, though." He looks around. "Those two are in this, too? Huh." [Eris for the record, is sorta cute, in a jailbaity and/or elven way.] I'm just a tad older than I look. But a good deal younger than the name I'm using, promise." This normal? Team leaders not showing up? Dunno. This is only my second mission with SAB. * Jason removes his cigarette butt and grinds it into his palm. "Haven't been on one with a clear leader yet." * Eris's wings stop flapping as she slowly lowers herself to the ground again. "I tend to think leaders are overrated anyways." Depends on the op. Or who's signing the check. * Eris then gestures to the suitcase with a few headsets in it with a smile. "Oh Jason, there's enough for everyone, in case you change your mind and want to whisper sweet nothings into my ear." * Marguerite lights up another cig. She's smoking furiously. * Jason cocks an eyebrow. "Right." He grabs one of the headsets and puts it on, adjusting the thing. Don't stress so hard. They don't set op times like this for shits and giggles. * Eris looks Jason over again and theatrically sighs. "Why is it that I always meet the demure ones." Because you look like a spicy little poptart? ( You and me both, Eris.) * Jason can't help but laugh at that. "Some of us don't want jailbait." (*smacks Mecha*) (Nebby's messed up.) * Eris looks over Kurt, with a grin and a slightly offended tone. "Poptart?" Poptart. * Marguerite shakes her head. * Eris continues in a bemused tone. "Didn't know they made spicy poptarts, although I suppose it beats being a Toaster strudel." Now she's gonna try again, just with frosting. * Jason lights up and looks around. "So. Where's the action? I thought we were gonna be attacked right about now." No, no. A poptart. You know, one of those stupid little American idols that only sell to hormone crazed teenage boys. I don't fucking know. It's makin' me antsy. * Marguerite pulls out Bubba and starts the warmup sequence. What the hell is that thing? * Eris looks over at Kurt with a predatory smile. "My, you came armed with quite the wit I see." This is Bubba. He's primary ordinance. Luckily for you, my rapier wit isn't the only weapon I've got. I'd offer a demonstration but you'll get to see soon enough. * Eris glances over at the gun. "Nice artillery piece you have there." You'd better hope so. It's between you and the creepy crawlies today. * Jason almost growls in impatience. He snuffs out another cigarette. So what's it fire? Superheated plasma. ...fun. Looks like we've got an excess of fire here today. Hope we don't run into a fire elemental. That's what the DE is for. Good answer. [Time: 958 GMT] * Marguerite checks the temperature and nods. "All set." She slots a lever into place and rests the weapon on her hip, then lights one more cig. "Now, we're ready." * Kurt spins a pair of small throwing knives around his index fingers. "Ready as we'll ever be, I suppose." * Saki comes up from the underground station and makes her way over. About fuckin' time. * Jason mutters something, then spots Saki and his eyes quite literally light up. "Seconded. What took so bloody long?" * Saki rolls her eyes. "I can already see where this night is going." WELL. You must be the leader. I'm happy to follow. VERY happy. * Eris smiles and waves warmly. "Glad to have another defender." ~We've got a potential incident, be ready to get this distraction going.~ Well, looks like it's time for action. Aw, fuck. The shit's about to hit the fan, yeah. The idea is to lead them into the underground station, got it? * Eris looks a bit more serious and seems to be concentrating. ~If you need to, defeating them is all that matters. Do it wherever makes the most tactical sense.~ You're nuts. * Marguerite blinks. Very, very very slowly. * Jason grins. "All that matters, huh? About fucking time." ~We've got confirmation.~ * Eris nods. Well. Let's get this show on the road. Brace for impact, people. Beating them will be the easy part. With all due respect, LEADER. I can't use my plasma down there. You're cutting off most of my capability. I can't cut loose underground, either. It's stable enough, unless you're planning to nuke the entire area. Those tunnels are not going to take a stray plasma hit and remain structurally sound. I've been known to occasionally collapse buildings. (Translation - nuking is not far off.) * Saki shrugs. "Okay, then. Any deductions due to property damage will come out of your pay only. Satisfied?" Better than paying for the restoration of entire city blocks when the tunnels collapse. * Marguerite calmly spits her cigarette at Saki's feet, and goes back to looking around. That won't happen. I've checked them already. At worst, you'd bring the ceiling down and kill us. (That's the WORST case scenario, though! There's a whole set of better case scenarios!) * Jason blinks, then *eyes* Eris. The edges of his definition dissolve into motes of flame, almost making an aura. "What the hell is going on?" Looks like it's starting. * Saki draws her pistols. Like I said, brace for impact. * Kurt disappears. * Eris looks over at Jason with a grin. "You got some extra-planar to you then? Glad to hear its working." * Jason furrows his brow for a moment, then nods and forces himself back to normal. "Yeah." [Nothing's happening just yet.] * Eris twiddles her thumbs. * Jason lights up another cigarette, more or less at ease again. He can't help but glance at Eris every once in a while, though. * Marguerite lights a cigarette and totally ignores Saki. Not pissed off, certainly not. * Eris smiles and waves when she sees Jason looking. The smile is mostly sweet. Mostly... (Except for the blood-dripping fangs and reddish-yellow eyes ) [Eris doesn't have visible fangs.] [Two winged creatures appear mid air in a flash of light. While one is female and one male, they both have quite comely long black hair. The pair both wear deep crimson red breastplates with artistically beautiful yet repulsive patterns. ] [The male carries an ashen bow and the female a blue flaming bastard sword in one hand and a shield of the same material as the armour in her other. They each have a pair of wings, one pristine and feathered, the other of the same sized but mammalian, like that of a bat.] [Maggie, Jason, Saki, Male Angel, Female Angel, Eris, Kurt] [Maggie!] * Marguerite whips to face them and quickly takes a shot at the male. A burst of neon green plasma flies out of the gun! * Male angel suddenly folds in his wing, dropping like a stone for a moment before spreading them again as the shot flies over him. [Jason!] Damn, they're quick. * Jason looks up at them and laughs. "What the hell took you?" Fire spirals around his right forearm and into his hand, and he snaps it out at that same man. [Jason anticipates the whole dropping maneuver, unfortunately, the guy doesn't drop this time, which means the whip goes a bit too low.] [Saki!] * Saki isn't one for words. She just picks her shots and fires. * The male angel ducks and weaves and avoids the first shot, only to be clipped in the arm by the other one. [Saki's second turn!] * Saki fires again. "You ain't so hot." * The male 'angel' flaps his wings and tilts forward as the bullet passes beneath him. [Angel male!] * Male smiles wickedly and pulls out two arrows and fires them both at Saki. The first one moves so fast that Saki doesn't even get a chance to dodge but her reactions kick in in time for the latter. [Saki dodges, but as a result of the first shot, her left arm is aching and bleeding from the arrow sticking out of it.] [Saki's arm aches, but she manages to shake off an increasingly numb feeling.] [Female Angel!] * The Angel dives towards Eris. Anyone trying to get in the way can make an acrobatics (tumbling) roll to get there. -4 per level of speed! [The Angel seems thrown off by Kurt's diving approach, even if he doesn't get there in time, and misses her upswing with the sword at Eris.] * Eris smirks, only to be hit in the chest by the back swing, she's knocked back a bit and there's an odd, blue glowing scar that floats a bit in front of her shirt. [Eris's turn!] * Eris gets the hell behind Kurt and adopts a defensive stance. [Kurt!] * Kurt skids to something resembling a stop in front of Eris and brings his right foot around in a roundhouse kick. * The female angel brings up her sword, diverting Kurt's kick but not actually cutting him. The blade is deathly cold. [Maggie!] * Marguerite drops to one knee, turns, and shoots off a blast at the male angel. "Fuckin' die!" [The male takes the hit and his knocked back about twenty meters in the air, flying above the rooftops. That completed, he flies back down, finishing the parabola, and ends up as a particularly bizarre piece of street art.] [Jason!] * Marguerite grins. "Fuckin' awesome." * Jason grins, too. "I gotta get one of those." And then he completely dissolves, the motes barreling into the remaining not-angel. That's an awful lot of firepower. Now is totally not the right time to be complainin' about overkill. [The Angel tries to jump back at the onslaught of fire, but isn't quick enough and is enveloped in motes, a smell of burning flesh and feathers fills the air.] Hey, no complaints here. [Saki!] * Saki gazes at the remains of the male one as she tugs the arrow from her arm, and tosses it on the ground. Then suddenly, her guns aims upwards again, and she fires. [Two bullets fly up into a warehouse window, there's a muffled grunt.. and hearing check, HA counts!] * Saki fires again. Seems like a good idea. [Snipers!] [Three red dots appear on Saki's head and there's a sound of gunfire. However, one of the beams goes off Saki's head at the ground at the last minute, the other two stay true. Saki, two ranged (personal) defense rolls!] [Saki's day, she manages to duck both of them, hearing bullets whistling by her.] [Frei!] * Frei pops into existence in midair next to Kurt and Eris, smiling at the girl. And incidentally hanging upside down. "Hi there! I was hoping to get you to kiss me. Do you mind?" Who the shit is this? [Oh, Sight check -2 bonus to see where the shots came from from. It's obvious that one came from the place Saki was shooting at, but there's two more.] * Frei is, physically speaking, early 20's, male, reasonably attractive in a bishi sort of way if you're into it. He's wearing a black leather shirt with a big silver zipper down the front and nice tight jeans. He has bright silver hair and, if you're close enough to see, dark red eyes. We've got snipers, now this clown! Who the HELL are you? * Eris giggles, there's only a slight touch of cackle as she does it. "Tempting... quite tempting... but is it gonna cost me my soul? * Frei grins. "Naw. I'm just bored and you really are *adorable*." * Eris grins predatorily and hmms... Back off, balloon man, or you're popcorn! [Angel female!] * The female rushes out of the motes, swinging at the ninja who inserted himself between herself and her target, she swings down with her blade and then follows it with a fast sideways swipe. The armour looks untouched, but she's got burns over much of the rest of her body.] [Two defense rolls Kurt!] [Kurt is mightier than the sword!] [Eris is still looking thoughtful. [hold turn]] [Kurt!] * Kurt steps up, weaving through the swipes of the sword like he's suddenly discovered he's made of rubber, and slams an uppercut at the angel's chin. [Kurt misses as the Angel tries to weave around him.] [Maggie.] * Eris is looking highly tempted, for the record. * Marguerite spins to aim for the female angel, who is conveniently close to Frei. She shoots! * Frei smiles at Eris again, then looks at everyone else and blinks. "You keep some interesting company. What's with the angels trying to kill you?" * Angel dives out the way, and as a result, there's now a sizable and deep gash in the road. Not pothole so much as baby pool. [Jason!] Shit! Listen, floatie, if you're not here to hurt, how about a fucking hand? * The motes follow up Marguerite's blast by speeding forward, trying to catch the not-angel on her dive. * Eris gently puts a hand around Frei's head, brushing her fingers against the back of Frei's neck. "Suppose I didn't say enough Hail Marys." [Jason swarms around the Angel, well, where she was, before she jumped into the air and landed a bit to the left.] [Saki!] * Frei hmms at Maggie in an upside-down fashion, then at Eris, then at everyone else, then at Mad Dog, then at Eris again, grinning at her touch and turning over to be right side up. "Tell you what. You give me my kiss, and I'll help you out." * Saki aims at the sniper she was firing at. "I'll handle the snipers. You guys deal with the other two!" And she fires. * Eris grins again for a moment. "Well, if no one objects." Don't make me find a fire hose, people. [The sniper seemed to have ducked down under the two bullets.] [Saki's turn too.] [And funny that Kurt mentioned it, there's a sudden rush of water from under the street, apparently Maggie's shot broke some water main, it fountains up and leaves him soaked.] * Marguerite snarls. "One kiss, no tongue, if you suck her soul you're charcoal." Speaking of a fire hose. * Kurt shakes himself, soaking the people behind him. * Frei hmphs. "You have absolutely no sense of romance. I love your phallic symbol, though. Super shiny. Okay, it's a deal." * Eris snickers for a moment and looks over at the ninja's soaked pants. "A bit overly excited Kurt?" * Eris then leans in and kisses Frei, she seems pleased she got the approval. * Saki didn't approve it >.> * Frei grins and rather eagerly kisses back, biting into her lip at the end and producing a small glass vial from a pocket with the other hand. Would you mind bleeding into this? Thanks! [There's another grunt from the warehouse. The hearing check with HA is available to anyone who missed it the first time.] The FUCK? Goddamn EVERYBODY is armored. Aw, Jesus, Mary and Joseph's penis! What the hell is going on? * Eris bites back enough to retaliate and the hand brushing the back of his neck suddenly has a rather nasty looking knife, that appeared apparently from nowhere, the point rests at the base of his neck. She's not quite in a position to talk just yet though. [While all this is busily distracting you the female Angel spins around, swinging her sword in a circle which generates a cone of cold fire, flying in the direction of Kurt and Jason's swarm. Each needs a +1 ranged personal defense roll.] [And, anyone taking the time to look closely at the kiss and the knife? It does mean you're distracted, but you might get some info.] * Frei grins and licks his lips a little, but doesn't move. "Mmm. Dangerous AND sexy in a completely illegal way. You hunter types really do have it all. But I meant what I said about helping you out, and I only need two tiny little drops of blood." Aww, that's so sweet, and if I didn't know that so much of a clipping of my nails, much less my blood, would help in casting a spell on me, I'd be touched. [A few motes of flame fall, but the mass of Jason seems intact. By comparison Kurt's now feeling very frigid. Give me a body roll+2 Kurt.] Now, why would I try something so nefarious? I could have just let all these people trying to kill you do the dirty work and loot your corpse, but NO, *I* wanted to give it a personal touch. [Commando's turn!] [The shots seem hastier this time, but they're well aimed, one buzzes by Saki's head, but the other two are dead on. Two dodge rolls Saki!] [Saki moves like she doesn't need another hole in her head.] [Kurt!] * Saki probably doesn't. * Eris rubs a finger over her lips, picking up a few drops of blood. "Sure, but I get a sample of your stuff, and I give it after you assist. And that's only cause you're cute." * Frei smiles perkily. "You're on, sister." * Frei holds out the bottle with an expression which could only be called "Yay, blood! o/~" * Eris takes it and rubs her finger on the lip, leaving some in it. "After..." She also takes back her hand, and the knife disappears. * Kurt blurs and reappears on the opposite side of the angel and slaps his hand down loudly on the back plate of the thing's armor. "KATON!" He disappears in an instant, reappearing right next to Eris, hand held open in front of him. He clenches it as he finishes by calling out, "DAIBAKUFU NO JUTSU!" The angel explodes. Fucking christ.... * Frei pouts, a little fangily. "Fine, fine. Which ones are the ones that get blowded up, anyway? I'm guessing the macho chick and Captain Screamy Magic are your bodyguards." [Angel tries to fly forward from the explosion, and is knocked to the ground. She's tries to push herself up, but is working at it slowly. There's a gap in the back of her armour and the rest of her body is much more burned.] ( The Frei and Nasira School of Scaring the Freak out of People. ) ( I'm not scary! I'm diabolically huggable! ) ( Exactly. XD ) *Eris grins. "You can kill that ice queen over there, and the guys shooting at us. Rest are with me." [Frei!] * Frei stretches. "Is that all? No problem." He reaches a hand out and points it at the angel, a little but elaborate magic seal appearing in the air out from his hand. He's also humming Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker". * Angel hasn't gotten up yet, so when a swarm of obsidian spikes appear and fly at her, most penetrate her armour and the rest of her body, making an even more exotic bit of pavement Art. She's not moving anymore. * About now a guy with his hands over his heads wanders up out of the sewers. He's got a red skintone. Not like dark tan, actual red, has a fedora that seem to cover what may be horns, and a tail coming out of the back of his trench coat. Yo! I come in peace. [Maggie!] (And Maggie flattens him.) * Frei stretches. "Now that was fun. I haven't done that in a good long while." ( Nah. If they say they're friendly, Maggie's gullible enough to believe it :P ) (Anyone got detect evil? No? Okay, how about assume evil?) (Haw.) ( *boom* Sorry, thought you said pieces.) (*snicker* Sadly? If you DO have Detect Evil, Frei's spell registered on it.) * Eris smiles "Not too shabby pretty boy." * Marguerite grimaces. "MORE fucking people wanting to talk. What the shit is this, Ma Kettle's fucking social fucking hour?" She aims at the red guy since she doesn't even know the snipers exist yet because SOMEone doesn't bother to tell people. "Move an inch and you're barbeque. What the fuck do YOU want?" * Eris then grins over at Jason. "He's slightly ahead of you in the damn sexy count right now. You might have done equal damage, but he's a good kisser." [Jason! As the guy responds.] * Frei fang-grins. "Aw, you'd make me blush if I were capable of embarrassment." * Red guy keeps his hands up, he looks a little phased by the gun and tries to cover. "Just wanted to pay my respects...And ask that the new hunter not kill me if she sees me in the future. I've got money!" * The motes hesitate over the female-not-angel street art, then zip upwards and through an open window in the top of one of the nearby buildings. [Jason leaves for *Jason runs off*] [There's a gust of flames from the window, and it appears that as of now, it can safely be said, that the roof is on fire.] [Maggie] * Marguerite spins to the window after safely making the red guy quiver and aims, then squeezes off another burst of plasma! ~Good news! They've secured the hunter. You may fallback safely at your leisure.~ [The plasma goes in the building, and apparently is successful. There's a sudden increased gust of flame from the building.] [Saki!] * Frei shields his eyes with his hand. "Yeehaw. Fire up the grill, it's barbecue." * Red guy looks over to Eris. "So, we good?" Sure! Can I leave without getting slagged now? * Saki darts down the street towards some other building. "Petros! You're in charge until I get back! Protect Eris!" [Saki leaves for *Saki runs off*] No prob. * Kurt waves absently at the red dude as he scans the area. "Git." [A fist sized object is thrown from the window of each of the two other snipers. They actually don't come too close.] [So whoo! You avoid the grenades! Except four legs extend from each of them and they start skittering towards you.] Awww.... man! What the HELL? Shoot them! QUICK! [Eris floats up into the air and swings behind Kurt, in a defensive stance.] [Frei!] * Frei eyes the grenades and snickers. "Man, that's sad." He extends his hand again, another magic seal appearing but this one a different color. "You can't aim, so you make your weapons do the dirty work?" ~What's your situation?~ * Kurt thumbs the headset, ~dealing with snipers and walking grenades. We'll be withdrawing soon, most likely.~ ~Walking grenades.. ::sound of pages flipping:: Marguerite, those what I think they are?~ [The grenades scurry around the barrier for now, not getting close enough to have their charges activate.] * Frei blinks. "Wow. Smart little bastards." * Marguerite flips the headset. ~Yeah, fucking standard fucking EU issue. Fuck.~ ~Checking with Brussels...~ [Kurt!] * Kurt drops back next to Eris, ready to bolt if anything happens. * Red guy, for the record, done run off. :P * Marguerite eyes Frei. "You. This shield one way permeable or total block?" [Maggie!] * Frei grins at Maggie. "Oh, fire away. We should be good unless there's, like, fissionable material in there somewhere." Good. * Marguerite turns and aims at one of the little buggers. ~We've got report of three otherwise upstanding EU squad killer troopers gone AWOL.. May have a case of possession here, 30,000 each if you can bring them in alive, a third that otherwise.~ [There's another deep gash in the road, the potholes are rapidly expanding from a baby pool to a kiddie/backyard pool. [Jason!] Okay, guys. Alive if possible, dead's nearly as good. * Frei just grins. "Gun lady, you are fierce and strange. It's incredibly sexy." * The fire bursts through the window and zooms high in the air, down the street, and into another one much farther away. Think we only got an option on two.... maybe one now. [Saki, in other window!] And if you think I'm sexy now wait till I've got a pint of scotch in me. * Frei laughs. "If it's as good as you say, I'll buy." He also floats a little, looking bored. "What about the grenades, though? It'd be a shame for this body to get vaporized. It's pretty hot, if I say so myself." He twirls to prove it. Teh sexy. * Eris hmms. "Well, hunka burning love seems to be doing pretty well for himself. Although I do approve of this shield." * Frei nods and sings a few bars of "Light My Fire" because he can't help it. If I can manage to hit one of 'em it ought to take it out, maybe the other. * Frei hmms at that and looks around. "How much you think one weighs?" Exactly 1.5 kilograms. And their payload's enough that I don't wanna get near 'em./ * Frei snickers. "But you'd look so hot going up in a giant red fireball." Briefly, anyway. I think I got a plan. Just get ready to shoot. [While Saki does whatever she's doing, another person walks up out of the subway. This one is a dusky female, rather attractive with apparently died crimson/orange hair. She's holding one of those handcuff suitcases.] More people. Just what we fucking need. Should be selling tickets. * Dusky woman. "I've got a peace offering from our plane, I'm only allowed to deliver it to the champion herself." * Frei peers at the dusky woman. "WHICH plane? Don't I know you? Are you into candle wax? I think I remember something about orange hair and candle wax." Well, that's just too bad, isn't it? * Woman looks over at Frei. "Not that one." [Frei's turn!] * Frei snaps a finger. "Damn. My memory must be going." * Frei then takes that hand and points it at one of the grenades. "Haven't done two at once in a while. Woo!" He pauses. "Well, spells anyway." [A seal suddenly appears, and then melts away like water.] * Frei blinks. "...well, fuck." * Eris pats Frei on the back. "I'm sure it happens to a lot of extra-planars." Can't keep it up when it counts, huh? * Frei grins. "I'm just rusty. Wanna help me practice?" [Kurt!] * Kurt wings a handfull of sharp pointy bits of metal at the walking grenades. * The grenade climbs over the sharp bit of metal and keeps circling. Might be slowing a little, hard to tell. [Maggie!] * Marguerite makes with the boom. Uh, so, just in case I can't get these magic fingers to work in the intended fashion, how long do we have to sit here before they just give up? * As this is said, the woman comes closer to the shield and opens the suitcase revealing two nice and shinny balls of gold bullion. "I think she may wish to accept this gift." Little BUSY RIGHT NOW come back LATER! I'm on a schedule! Think you're the only dimension out there I need to visit today? * Frei bites his lip, then bows because so did Eris. "If I were just a LITTLE more greedy. Damn." [The grenade is entirely destroyed by the shot, doesn't even have a chance to explode.] * Woman grins. "Look, I'm in a hurry, If I'm judging your home right, I'll give you a kiss to let me deliver them." [Jason's turn while we consider!] * Frei looks at Eris. "Well, it's your call. I for one could USE a briefcase full of gold, but she's offering it to you." Well, that or the kiss. I dunno. I think my candle wax guess was on and she's a rotten liar. * Eris looks over at Kurt. "Well, you haven't proven all that adept at hitting things with the less explosive of your bevy of weapons, but I'll trust that rapier wit of yours to make this call." Go ahead and take it. If it IS a bomb or something, I'll protect you. * Frei shrugs. "That's nice and all, but I'm waiting until the other happy fun walking firecracker is not in imminent danger of blowing me the fuck UP, thanks." * Woman goes to hand the gold over, but hits Frei's shield. "I'm sorry, I seem to be blocked." * Frei makes a cursory grenade check, hopefully finds nothing, and lowers the shield. "Well, hey. If one of those things is still wandering around, you're going down with us." [For the record, *Jason runs off ends* now, hence the attack by the sniper he failed to take out] Hey, gun lady. Duck. * Marguerite ducks! [A shot rings out and Maggie gets a dodge roll, cause Frei's a nice guy!] [Maggie takes one to the head. But she's got insane amounts of HP so she's easily still up. :P] [The woman steps forward and kisses Frei. "Thanks love."] * Marguerite claps a hand to her face. "AUGH! SHIT!" * Frei mphs! But he doesn't turn down a kiss, even from a wax fetishist. Mainly because she's loaded. "Aw, shucks. Tweren't nothing. Your bill with tax comes to two bars of gold bullion, cash on delivery." * Woman then smiles and walks over to Eris, holding out the bullion. "Here you go." * Eris steps forward to claim them. * Kurt steps forward with Eris, just in case. Hey! Man, totally disrespected. I let a hot chick get shot for that. Well, accidentally, but it still happened. * Marguerite takes off down the street. [Kurt give me a HA roll, sense of choice!] * Frei watches her go. "And NOW she's running away. You can't hit a girl's face. That ain't right." [Kurt suddenly smells fire, lots of fire from the woman as Eris reaches for the gold.] * Kurt bursts into motion. * Maggie gets to the building, but encounters a spray of automatic fire from the second story window. Ranged personal roll. [Kurt tries to grab Eris to pull her back, but not quite in time, as the skin of the woman turns molten and she reaches for Eris. [Eris tries to swing at the woman as she's attacked, but she's off tonight apparently. Her dagger appears in the air just short of the woman's throat.] [The woman then grabs Eris in her arms, who starts screaming, loudly.] [And out of init, everyone else can just attack or act!] [Maggie gets in the building and can see her attacker.] * Marguerite lets loose the fury of hell upon him when she can. * Frei blinks, then points at the magma woman with one finger, where a blue seal starts forming. "Hey! No boiling my blood. Or hers. Or something." [Woman keeps gripping Eris tight and manages to leap forward, safely away from Frei's spell which leaves a big ice cube behind her. [Maggie (who is now some distance down the street) frags the last sniper] * Frei mutters and prepares to fly on after them. "See, that's the problem with trying to help people. You can't, like, turn them into a popsicle trying to save them from being hugged to death by lava women from beyond the grave." [The woman then seems very surprised as she's suddenly holding a wooden dummy, and Kurt holds a scarred Eris in his hands some distance away.] (oooh, the wooden log escape thing. That's a classic.) (Kawarimi no Jutsu!) [The woman just looks confused for a moment. So take another shot if remaining people like.] Paste her, people! * Frei grins and flies on up at a reasonable speed, reaching out his arm, which glows a little. "Mama said knock you out. Bam!" * Marguerite is running back and so cannot kill. ;_; [Oh, and when Maggie fragged the remaining sniper, a cloud appeared above him and quickly moved away. She can take a shot at it, if she's not more concerned about Eris and the rest of her team.] [There's another big icicle nearby.] * Frei whifs, big time. But he whifs with a giant impressive energy fist! * Marguerite shoots it with Bubba! * The flame creature laughs as the plasma lands on her skins. "You think that can hurt me! You fool! Wait...what the hell is this?! How can it burn?" (Yay! Magic plasma goodness! Eat it for breakfast!) * The woman never finds out, as a shot from one of the sniper roosts penetrates the back of her neck and she falls to the ground, quite dead. * Frei shields his eyes. "Man, I LOVE that fucking gun. That thing is AWESOME." Holy shit. Now THAT is some hot fire. Christ yes. You're my new hero. * Frei looks over at Maggie. "Can I play with it? Can I can I?" * Eris holds tight to Kurt. "You didn't do too bad yourself, witty." She steals a quick kiss on the cheek if he doesn't use his ninja skills to dodge. * Marguerite scans the area, bleeding pretty badly from a gash under the eye. "No. See anything else? Can we withdraw yet?" * Kurt most certainly doesn't dodge. * Frei pouts, then floats on over to Eris. "Well, threat neutralized and all that. Pay up." * Eris lets go of Kurt. She then holds out the bottle. "I do get some of yours too, pretty boy." God, hurry it up before something else shows up. [Saki returns now from *Saki runs off*] * Saki arrives, dragging the unconscious form of a man in body armor in one hand, and has a sniper rifle in her other. * Eris blinks. "Don't worry, shut my power off. I've attracted enough for today." Considering her burn marks, you can't really blame her. * Marguerite digs out a bandanna and ties it around her head so it covers her cheek. It looks doofy but it helps with the bleeding. * Frei shrugs and pockets the bottle, then produces another one, bites his own lip, and lets a little drip into the thing before stoppering it and handing it to her. "Stalemate, right? I can handle that." * Eris nods and takes ahold of that bottle before letting up on hers. * Saki looks around. "Everyone accounted for? Where's Jason?" Fucked if I know. * Frei stretches, still floating. "That was fun! You guys are a riot. Well, a couple of you are." He went down to the end of the street, mind checking on him Saki? It'd be shame to lose such a handsome man." * Marguerite looks up at Frei. "Thanks for the help." He's probably playing in that fire. * Saki nods. "Here." She puts the man down somewhere in the center of the lot of them, and heads down towards where Jason went. * Frei grins and winks at Mad Dog. "We might not be on the same side next time. Want to have a wild bondage fling before we're mortal enemies sometime?" * Kurt looks down at his hands, then slams one into a wall, though not hard enough to crater it. Tempting but I think I'm gonna go drink enough to pass out, thanks. (Maggie tries to drink! ... but it goes out the hole in her cheek ;_; ) * Frei puts a finger to his chin. "Although the seething hatred of battle does make for some interesting torture-type stuff. Brr. Aww. Well, enjoy." * Eris puts away the bottle and reaches in her pants pocket and brings out a pair of shades. Well formerly a pair of shades, now it's a pair of plastic slag. * Kurt frowns. "Sorry 'bout that. I'll buy you another pair, if you like." * Saki says over the radio. "Preston, you there?" ~Yeah, what's your situation? Should we send in the cleanup squad and the paramedics? Sounded pretty nasty there.~ * Frei slaps a fist into his palm. "THAT's where I've seen the orange hair before." He pauses, then giggles. "Oh, man. When was the last time I saw one of THOSE? And all the stupid puns. 'Are you... hot for me? HAW HAW!' Morons." ~Got a man down. Send the friggin' paramedics immediately.~ ~Make sure they bring alcohol.~ ~And not the rubbing kind.~ Fucking fire elementals. ~They're on there way.~ Goddamn angels. Why the hell are angels trying to kill this chick? I shoulda just outright obliterated them. * Marguerite flops down onto her butt. "The other chick, remember. We're the plant." * Frei looks at Eris. "Hey, good question. Why would angels be after someone like you?" * Eris smiles over at Kurt. "It's fine." She shakes them with her hand and they reform into a pair of rather expensive looking shades. She puts them on. "Well, been fun, be seeing you, and if you want, come by the lounge 'Wretched' later. Two rounds on me. And my poor hunk of burning love can drink himself under the table on me." Christ, free drinks. Count me in., * Eris looks over to Frei. "I'd assume they were fallen. Or maybe it's just that God got pissed last time I said that heaven was an eternity with a lobotomy." * Eris walks off into the station, as ambulances pull up. I'd join you, Maggie, but I've gotta hit the training rooms. * Frei just laughs. "Lobotomy. Ha! She IS funny. Dangerous, but funny." [End]