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Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 3:31am

[The mission may run today- I’m still not in a position to run it (<_> my computer’s still crapping out on me, and I’m typing this from my PSP. From my PSP. Do you know how long it took me :P? It takes, like, three minutes for one sentence), but hopefully, it’ll run anyway. If it doesn’t… then I’ll probably Untold the mission and bring the team back into 1982 (there’s one main problem with this, but I’ll tackle that when I get to it). Either way, this is what they come back to. Obviously, this takes place after Mission #21.]

Impossible Man pops them back to the bus with a sheepish, apologetic expression on his face.

"Sorry."

Without wasting any more words, he pops back out.

The Hellions’ eyes would probably trail up to their bus… and the situation around it. The road all around the bus’ parked spot is splintered, with the rock face on the left crumbled, and the bus by some miracle still standing, its force-field erect around it. Banner stands wearily slumped against the bus, his shirt shredded.


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 3:40am

Kelly's leaning against the bus too, but she doesn't have as much as a mark on her. Mostly because Impy only popped her back five minutes ago.

"Things are bad…."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 23, 2007, 3:47am

"Dr. Banner?"

Squirrel Girl checks up on him.


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 3:48am

"Somewhat," he grunts, shifting his glasses and turning the forcefield off.

"We had some visitors when you were gone. And seeing Impossible Man with you, and, well… with a new development on my control over the Hulk, I'm not going to ask where he took you. I need to stay as calm as possible right now."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Joshua/Darya/Kara/Marcus on Aug 23, 2007, 3:49am

«Bah. Sleeping soon…»

"The mean green guy I betcha."

She helps Banner up.


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 3:52am

[Bye :)!]

He takes her hand and gets up to his feet.

"Different kind of monster, but he turned up in the midst of it, too. S.H.I.E.L.D. They took Laynia, too. The stupid girl started a fight with them when they got here…. And as fast and strong as the Hulk is, when I don't have control over him, he's not particularly intelligent. A distraction was all it took for them to get away."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 4:05am

"Yeah, well, I can't say I'm a fan of being kidnapped and stuck in Disney movies either."

Pause.

"…..oh yeah, you didn't ask."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 4:11am

"That was the point - that I wasn't going to, yes. Dis- no. No. I hate Impossible Man; I think the best thing to do is to pretend that it never happened."

He sighs, taking his glasses off and rubbing his eyes.

"At any rate, I’m going to be leaving you on your own soon. It doesn’t seem particularly advisable, no, but I’m not going to drag you along with me when I go to get Laynia back, either. I do think that I can get you some small amount of help, though."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 4:17am

"You know none of us would object to going along to rescue her. Even if that's probably exactly what they're expecting. And likely the point of the whole kidnapping to begin with."

Wreck grows quiet for a moment. Then sits in the dirt.

"….this whole thing is giving me a massive headache. What do you suggest?"


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 4:34am

"The kidnapping… wasn’t so much a kidnapping. It was a legitimate arrest- even if they didn’t have other charges, the fact that she attacked them before they as much as said a word gave them grounds enough. You kids don’t need any more crimes to your names, especially for something that’s not your fight. The Hulk doesn’t have any such concerns.

"As for you kids… just because Stark won’t see reason doesn’t mean that everyone's gunning for you. Some people have a different kind of intelligence… one that won't be blinded by pride. Come onto the bus."

He opens the door and steps onto the bus.

[Sorry – I got pulled away to pack some stuff.]


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 4:40am

Pulling himself up again, Wreck follows.

"None of this is legitimate by any stretch of the word. You can't provoke someone by hounding them for months on end, then arrest them when they fight back."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 4:43am

"Them chasing you? Less so, but them getting Laynia is slightly more. She involved herself in this, as did I. We’re responsible for our own actions."

Banner sits at the control board with another sigh. He turns on the communications side, and on the monitor comes a live image of Reed Richards.

"Wreck, meet another kind of intelligence to Tony Stark. Another echelon of intelligence."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 4:48am

Another moment of silence. Then Wreck cracks a slight smile.

"Okay. Things are improving, for once in our miserable lives."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 4:58am

Reed smiles back.

"Hello, Wreck. An odd choice of moniker, but one of your own choosing, no doubt. From what I've heard of you, I doubt that you would tolerate being referred to by one that wasn’t. I’ve been conferring with Professor Xavier about your situation for a while now, up until that… unfortunate situation. I’ve also been conferring with Tony… or at least, making an attempt to.

"I’m afraid that, to some extent, he’s even refraining from communications with S.H.I.E.L.D. He can get fairly obsessive, and he seems to be driven particularly by the fact that a team of ‘children’ are eluding him. Resultantly, he’s fairly oblivious to the facts, and nothing short of a harsh slap down to reality is going to… well, snap him back to reality. I’ve been making attempts to contact your team from time to time after Professor Xavier requested my aid, but until now, Tony’s managed to block any transmissions. Apparently, Bruce did something about that.

"I do think it’s likely that I can do something for you, though- entirely dependent on your immediate ambition."

[Sorry. Packing again :).]


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:05am

"Well, of course. Can't have the guys you're scapegoating actually speaking to anyone outside of their little terrorist bubble. Folks might get the wrong ideas. Like they're innocent, and that you're a moron."

He slaps his forehead.

"…..anyway, I can't speak for the others, but my immediate ambition would be getting back everyone we've managed to have abducted so far. Emma's been gone for so long, I'm more than a little worried. And Laynia's only locked up because of us, self involvement or not."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:09am

"Ah, Ms. Frost." The smile on his face widens slightly. "I do have some information on her whereabouts- she’s currently in protective custody, courtesy of S.H.I.E.L.D., acquisitioned forcefully from a splinter genetics experimental foundation. S.H.I.E.L.D.’s system is less secure than they would like the believe."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:12am

"Wow. As odd as this'll sound, that's actually a huge relief. I didn't have a whole lot of hope of her still being alive, if she'd been with that genetics place all this time."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:15am

"Like I said, I’d been in communications with Professor Xavier quite early on in your situation, and he grew concerned when there was a telepathic blackout between him and Ms. Frost. S.H.I.E.L.D., apparently, had a fair amount of interest in this Prometheus as it was, and as soon as Charles indicated a legitimate cause for concern in regards to her safety, she was liberated, apparently, not before they'd carried out some degree of experimentation, though."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:20am

"Ironic, in a way. I'm pretty sure it was Prometheus that was actually at fault for the town thing. At least, this is what I'm gathering from what their little killsquad was gibbering the last time we met."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:23am

"To be honest? I've looked into Prometheus, and I agree with you. There's all manner of programming and experimentation occurring there- some things that even I hadn't considered possible. Some things that even I couldn't gain access to; all the more concerning.

"As for Ms. Petrovna; Bruce has already expressed his concern about you going with him to retrieve Laynia. Frankly, I agree with him. There’s no need to put actual crimes to your name beyond any necessity."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:27am

"Well, no. But it won't really matter much, if we're already being framed for terrorism. Terrorists don't get silly things like rights and lawyers and such."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:28am

"Hm, perhaps not, no. But it does mean something when 'terrorists' are vouched for by me," he smiles.


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:32am

"Going to take on the world on our behalf?"

Wreck smiles as well.

"I'd be very stupid to refuse the gesture. Be my guest."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:33am

"I don't so much think that the world is a concern. The focus has… shifted somewhat, but I take it that in your current situation, you haven't been able to keep up with the news."

His gaze slides away from the screen, breaking off eye contact.

"Which brings us back to immediate desires."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:36am

"Get Emma out. Get Laynia out….even if certain people insist on doing that one alone….clear our names and go home. I'm not picky about the order."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:39am

"Emma Frost is safe. I can negotiate her release without much difficulty. Clearing your name… is a slightly more difficult one, and for that one, I need you to remain free while I continue to confer with S.H.I.E.L.D., and I'm afraid that they're learning from their mistakes. Bruce is good, but they're starting to adapt around his methods of… subterfuge. It doesn't help that they know he's with you now, and can track you by residual gamma signatures around you, even a little while after he's left."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:44am

"We'd probably need some way of verifying what exactly blew up that town. Meaning hoping for some trace of that Prometheus monster, or their records of making it, or something."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:47am

"Leave the acquisition of the records to me. I think you’re unlikely to find any traces of the ‘monster’, but there will be a paper trail. Now, for the time being… I’m afraid I will have to ask you to break some laws to keep free, but I’ll be able to argue your way out of that should everything go as planned."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 5:52am

"Fire away. Not like this hole we're in can be dug much deeper."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 5:55am

"There is a requisite S.H.I.E.L.D. base – surprisingly non-assuming – that is essential to their pursuit. I need you to disable its power supply. Of course, it will impair them in other ways, but they should be back on their feet again quickly. I can advise you along the attempt."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 6:02am

"Sounds easy. Which probably means it'll end up being really complicated, but….well, sounds easy."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Meisha "Muse" Aisha on Aug 23, 2007, 6:05am

"It honestly shoukln't be too difficult. In their less… fortified stations, S.H.I.E.L.D. is fairly complacent- mostly because they believe the initial unassuming appearance of the base would keep any from bothering to assailing it."

[Sorry for the abruptness of everything >_>. Quick resolutions necessary, and all.]


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:04am

I poke him lightly in the back.

"There's more bad news…."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 8:25am

Wreck turns, blinks, then gives Kelly a big hug in a span of about five seconds.

"I missed you. There was another you there, but I think she was a lamp, and…..um, what's the bad news?"


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:26am

"Another me? Lamp?" I shake off the thought. Doesn't matter.

"The Professor's been arrested, and the President died, and everyone in line to the Presidency died except for Senator Kelly, and now he's President, and Graydon Creed's Vice President, and Wild's kind of… dead."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 8:31am

A rather huge moment of silence, before he sits on the floor with a thud.

"…..you're right, that is bad news. Especially the last. Mean, I guess we could always get the Professor out so long as we're breaking ten other people out of jail, and Kelly's a misguided dummy but I don't think he's a bad person, and Creed stinks and I hate him so I'll give you that, and….um, what happened to Wild?"


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:31am

"Hydra. Hydra happened."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 8:35am

"That doesn't tell me much. I never really got to speak to Wild, aside from that time she beat me up for messing with the Danger Room."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:37am

"I'm not sure- I wasn't there at the time, but there were these other people like Wild, and they hurt her… they all worked for Hydra, and then- then they put her to sleep."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 8:40am

"….sleep? So you mean she's not actually….?"

Wreck shakes his head, before pulling himself up again and giving her another hug.

"Don't worry about it. She'll get better. I know it."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:43am

"I know. I was waiting for her to wake up, but then I got pulled back here by Impy. When this is all over, I need to go back there."

I gesture at the screen.

"This is good news, right? I mean, nothing can go wrong with Dr. Richards helping us, right?"

Reed blinks, turning back to the screen.

"I hope not. It's definitely a statistical improbability; before you go, though, I need to have some image inducers sent to you."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Wreck on Aug 23, 2007, 8:48am

"I'll go with you. Mean, if that's okay. I actually feel a little guilty that something like that could happen, and then I turn around and realize that I never really even had a decent conversation with her. Doesn't seem right."

He runs a hand along the front of his face.

"And yeah, things seem to be looking up for once, on this front at least. We aren't totally alone against bad guys and lunatics."


Re: Shattered Scope [Important]
Post by Kelly Alecia "Star Girl" Lisa on Aug 23, 2007, 8:50am

"It's like I said. Things sort themselves out."

Reed glances away from the screen again, his concentration broken.

"I certainly hope so. Proving your innocence will be the easy part. I have to go, but I'll have what you need sent to you, and I'll be in contact. Goodbye, and I'm sorry for all of this."

He switches the screen off.


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