ng_underworld (ng_underworld) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-02-25 20:42:00

Entry tags:

adrienne batroc, anya stark, armadillo jr., bea dayspring, crosshairs, guardian, martin baum, plot - "lightning strikes", team - thunderbolts

Lightning Strikes
Stephen Remus sat in the office of his penthouse, smoking a cigarette as he looked out the window.

"You have your team. You ready for your first outing?" Remus asked the figure behind him.

"Yes," came the audibly distorted voice. "We know where they'll all be."

Remus takes another drag of his cigarette before responding. "Good. You've all been practicing, let's see how you do against the real thing. Good hunting."

The sound of metallic boots are heard leaving as the figure goes to announce the mission's start.

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	charmedlife 2013-02-27 02:27 am UTC (link)
	When the lights came on, the wrongness was still just beginning. Bea started to make her way through the halls. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 02:32 am UTC (link)
	There, automated defenses should be offline for a time. Darkheart hacked into the building's intercom system. "Beatrice Dayspring? I know you can hear me." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-27 02:44 am UTC (link)
	"Person in need of an asskicking, I know you can hear me, too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lightningsquad
2013-02-27 02:54 am UTC (link)

Darkheart smirks as Bea's use of the intercom gives her a location on where to head.

"Do you now?" Suddenly Amber's less eager to head directly to the spot. Dayspring was no fool. Maybe she knew Darkheart could locate her and had a trap set up. She activates a couple of remote drones to fly ahead of her down the hall as she makes her way to where Bea is supposed to be. "I've heard a lot about you."

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	charmedlife 2013-02-27 02:57 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, well if you have--" and another realization hits shortly after the drones get in her awareness range. "... Did you rob my parents?" she asks in consternation as its processing?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 03:02 am UTC (link)
	That causes a bit of a raised eyebrow from Darkheart as the drones near Bea's location, Darkheart herself not far behind. "Your parents? Unless your father was Mr. Tolliver, then no. Very advanced equipment he had. Took me a long time to figure them out completely." One of the drones is almost at the doorway. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-27 03:11 am UTC (link)
	"Tolliver?" And Bea cursed in Askani. That was one of Tyler's aliases. Bea closes her eyes, breathes, and raises her hands just so to the level of her eyes. "Yeah, I sympathize." 1...2.... 3... The gun goes off just as the drone crosses the door. "Getting the lower panel-casing open, for instance, is a nuisance." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 03:19 am UTC (link)
	The first drone goes down, it's destruction immediately signalling for the second one as it heads for the location of it's destroyed twin. Darkheart runs up behind it. "I agree. Took some persistence and good Bourbon to get it open." As the drone went in, instead of going in after it, Darkheart threw a plasma grenade behind it as it entered the room. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-27 03:24 am UTC (link)
	The left hand takes the shot at the second drone, the right -- tosses the skillet at the plasma grenade. "Bourbon was a good plan. Did you know our cookware is made of an aromatic polyamide that absorbs the darnedest things? Something about fear of kitchen explosions." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-27 03:33 am UTC (link)
	Darkheart slid around the corner, smirking. "I didn't, but it's duly noted. Tell me, how does the floor hold up?" The downed second drone suddenly started to blink rapidly as it's detonation sequence kicked off. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-27 04:00 am UTC (link)
	One blink. Beatrice allows herself one blink before the dance continues. "Well..." step. "We'll..." Step. "Just..." Pirouette -- right towards the other side of Darkheart. "See." Bea attempted to grab her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lightningsquad
2013-02-27 04:11 am UTC (link)

Bea grabs Darkheart as the drone goes off, causing the whole floor to shake, destroying anything not reinforced. Darkheart stumbles as the explosion recedes. She had special ear plugs put in to drown out the bulk of the explosion to allow simple hearing, but Bea had moved in quick.

"Very impressive," Darkheart admits. She tries to get her leg between Bea's so she can leverage her over into a throw.

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	charmedlife 2013-02-28 01:39 am UTC (link)
	Bea was fairly certain most of the important stuff was reinforced. She had a bit more pressing things to worry about, though. The throw's hard to prevent, so she uses it to handspring back a bit instead. She's not as good at that as Kelly, but she gets by. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-28 01:45 am UTC (link)
	Darkheart flips on a visor and pulls out a gun. The visor utilizes a form of chronal tech that can predict a variety of ways it's target may dodge and fire two shots, one at the target, and the second at the most likely possibility that the target will dodge to. She fires the first shot. The second will soon fire automatically. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-28 02:06 am UTC (link)
	Seer-tech against Bea's Realizations is just cruel because rather than leave her to be hit, or send her to be hit, they just give her a momentary crippling headache and double her over enough for a moment to miss both shots. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-28 10:16 am UTC (link)
	Well, that was an interesting reaction. Filing this away for future reference, Darkheart prepares to set up another shot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	charmedlife 2013-02-28 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	And Bea hasn't even looked up when she takes another shot, just so (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lightningsquad 2013-02-28 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	And the shot uncannily hit her visor, destroying Darkheart's targeting system. Amber had heard that Bea was unnaturally "lucky", though it was still eerie to see it in action. So instead of trying an established system, she started firing randomly at her target, trying to confuse whatever powers Bea had. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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