Mutants And Mayhem - The Main Thread

"I'm ready when you folks are." Sjan smiled, standing and leaving what remained of the dry cereal. She decided not to take the offer for additional weapons, being very good with her knife as it was but also not terribly keen on using anything too deadly. Not yet, anyway. "We'll make a final judgement on the plan of attack when we get there, I suppose." Sjan walked briskly in the direction of the bus.

"Cool, let's do this." His cereal largely finished, Tyler cracked a smile and went downstairs to get his rucksack, stopping at his tower of equipment to pick up a sledgehammer, blowtorch and cordless drill, declining the offer for weapons considering he was already pretty well-kitted out.

When he bounded back upstairs and in the direction of the bus he resembled a common looter or rioter, air rifle, blowtorch and cordless drill hanging off his waist and sledgehammer in hand, hood up and black beret missing, instead replaced by a baseball cap. He'd noticed Lexi hadn't eaten or had any coffee and she hopefully wouldn't notice. He hurried to the door, and thus out of her sight pretty quickly though.

"Actually, could I have the pistol?" Amanda asked as she headed out the door. "I have some experience with them, though admittedly not in years."

Nicolas came back up, geared up, coat on, and a black crossbow pistol now in hand—and started patting the soil in the bonsai pot, which surprisingly hadn't been moved an inch.

It was still fairly damp to the touch, and for the moment, the room was cool enough for his satisfaction. With that, he also decided to head towards the bus.

Toriar's attention followed Nicolas's hand crossbow as he passed by. Pre-war design; likely nothing he could improve upon. Still, he could make fine bolts for it if the need arose once he had a forge.

He got on the bus with the others, loading his guisarme into the back, and sitting in the back seat where he could maintain physical contact with it. He felt it strengthened him in turn, somehow. Toriar laid his own, much larger crossbow across the seat next to him, effectively reserving it from anyone else.

edited 17th Aug '14 10:03:36 AM by StygianEmperor

"Thanks for the offer, but I don't need to borrow anything right now. Just give me a second, I travel pretty light," Hank said to Lexi. He went over to the 'medical wing' of the garage, picked up his backpack and baseball bat, and headed to the bus. He sat down in the front row near the door.

Deciding to sit in one of the back seats for the mission (hoping to give the attack team a quicker exit), Nicolas watched Toriar load his own gear right next to him. Before politely turning away, he noticed the crossbow he brought with him. Glancing at his own recently acquired crossbow pistol, he quietly sighed.

It was one of those days where he missed having a real bow and arrow.

Sjan watch Toriar childishly attempt to reserve the seat next to him from anyone else. She has never seen a grown man so stroppy about hanging around a few people he didn't get on with and considered moving the crossbow and taking its seat just for fun. With a disappointed sigh she thought better of it, sitting a seat or two from the back next to the window - let sleeping sleeping loins lie, and all that. She was surprised that Mr. Durant was so well prepared for such militaristic endeavors, even more so my the small crossbow he held, but kept quiet for the moment.

Sjan idly thumbed her tie as she waited for the bus to start and everyone to get aboard.

"Hey Sjan, you wouldn't mind if I sit next to you, would you?" Alex asked but she did not wait for an answer before she sat down.

No one seems to bat an eyelash that Alex would rather focus more on nicking as much stuff as possible than actually extracting the prisoner, so she assumed that everyone's cool with that. Hell, Alex should take it one step further.

"By the way, do you want anything particular from the Nazis? Guns, files, money or 'girly' magazines? Tell me and I'll see if I can find it at their prison."

"Yes, actually," Amanda said as she slipped into her seat. "We could really do with some alcohol. Disinfects wounds, the hard stuff can be used to light fires, and all sorts of uses besides. Honestly, though, I'm more concerned with getting my hands on a stiff drink. The rest is just a pleasant bonus."

Lexi gladly gave the gun to Amanda and Jimmy, who was unarmed, decided to take the unclaimed machete. After a quick inspection of the bus, Jimmy cheerfully started it up and they were rolling. At the rate they were going, it seemed they'd make it to the prison in no time.

Except, all of a sudden, Jimmy pulled the bus into an alley. Dave had given the group some maps of the city beforehand so it'd be pretty easy to tell that they were about a quarter of a mile away from the prison.

"Sorry guys but I'm going to have to drop you guys off here. It'd be pretty easy to track this bus down if it was seen parking right next to the prison. So I'll stay here in the alley unseen while you guys go in and free those mutants. I'll be waiting right here once you guys are ready for extraction." Jimmy explained confidently.

The prison itself, once people started walking down there, was small building. The front of it was brick with one set of doors and the words STATE PRISON emblazoned above them. There didn't seem to be a back exit and there weren't a whole lot of people currently walking around and no guards could be seen patrolling the outside.. It was the group's call how to go about infiltrating the prison.

Toriar exited through the back door of the bus, grabbing his arsenal on the way out. He looked over the improvised prison, then turned back to the bus as everyone filed out. With his fiery orange plume catching the wind, and his guisarme held out to his side like a staff, he opened his visor to reveal a resolute expression.

"Tell me when, and I will march upon this "prison" from the front and make my stand. When their attention is drawn, you must assault their rear flank quickly with whatever you have; if they possess high-caliber weapons, my armor will eventually fail."

He looked between the assembled men and women, "Their efforts so divided, I shall have little trouble dealing with the lot of them."

edited 17th Aug '14 9:49:33 PM by StygianEmperor

After getting out of his pseudo-meditative state, Nicolas followed the rest out of the bus, making sure to continue breathing slowly while his heart thrummed anxiously. To give his hands a moment's distraction, he pulled one of his four—very pointy—crossbow bolts◊ out of the pouch on his belt and loaded it onto the crossbow pistol.

"Seems small," he said of the building, his face and voice giving nothing away but apparent ease. "Unlikely they'll have anything really high-cal, unless Green Bay Nazis are that paranoid."

That picture is very important, I totally didn't just use this as an excuse to use an image from Dishonored.

edited 17th Aug '14 10:10:01 PM by BlackRevolver

Having chosen to sit somewhere near the middle for the journey in the minibus, Tyler pretty much did just that in the walk too, deliberately walking slowly so as to not leave the others in the dust.

Shaking his head at Toriar's plan, Tyler disregarded it, reminding the mutant, "Lexi said there's only one entrance, so we can't exactly approach them from the rear flank, unless one of the girls who are less inconspicious check out the area for a fire door or something. Otherwise you'll just have to go in alone at first and lead them away from us while they try to take you down."

edited 17th Aug '14 11:19:37 PM by Tricksen

"Either way, we have to make a move soon—we don't have that much time as it is, and if we don't kill them fast enough, somebody might get smart and call reinforcements in even earlier."

Toriar almost smiled as he turned toward the other large man in the group. The man hadn't introduced himself, to Toriar's memory, though in retrospect neither had he, "You said you had dynamite. You can make a rear entrance, can you not?"

edited 18th Aug '14 12:22:19 AM by StygianEmperor

Amanda checked her pistol, making sure she had a full clip. "I'll back up the paladin. Anything shows up with a high-caliber weapon, I'll put a hole in it. The rest of you, blow the back wall and get the prisoners out. We pull back fifteen minutes after the boom. Anything more, and we'll be facing down reinforcements."

"Can you teleport onto the roof?" Hank asked Sjan. "And then just enter through through there?" He glanced over at Tyler. "Or blow a hole in it and jump in."

At Amanda's plan, Nicolas nodded. "If all goes well, that should be enough time."

He did, though, pause to look towards Alex. She was young—probably younger than almost everyone else on the team. He needed to be sure of something.

"Have you been on a mission like this before?" he said to Alex in a lower voice. Nobody else needed to hear them, lest it start some dangerous doubts towards her capabilities.

Throughout all this while, Alex was just chilling at the back awaiting the group to actually mobilize, spinning her knife in boredom and anticipation, then Dr Durant asked her if she has been on a mission like this. "Why are you whispering, doctor?" unfortunately Alex missed the point of him whispering."And to answer your question; no, that's why I am just going in the flank and steal the nazis shits. Don't worry if those baddies spotted me, I'll either slashed their throat or throw a knife into his temple. I could recon the place by just walking in but they'll probably take away my knives for security reasons so fuck that. SO...you guys ready to go?"

Outside of a slight pinching of lips, Nicolas clamped down on the urge to make any kind of face at Alex's much louder response.

"Just… Don't give them the chance to grab you, okay?" he said, his shoulders sagging slightly. "Once you've taken what you can, get back to one of us or Jimmy—don't take unnecessary risks."

edited 18th Aug '14 5:07:58 PM by BlackRevolver

Hank suggested the roof and Toriar using dynamite, making Sjan smile deviously, "I knew you had to have some sense of fun, Toriar." She winked to the armored man with a grin and then examined the prison roof top, "I should be able to get there, easy - there might even be an entrance of some kind. I'll scope it out and if there is it might make a less spectacular entrance, or not." The teleporter assured, taking a final glance at the building after picking a stick of dynamite from Tyler's bag then addressing Amanda, "If you or Tinned Peaches, here get yourself in a pickle - scream for a taxi, eh?" Sjan suddenly disappeared, finding herself on the small building's roof top.

Schrondinger crouched quickly, keeping low to the outline of the building and carefully examining her surroundings for an entry point.

edited 18th Aug '14 7:43:29 PM by Lt.BGob

Alex brushed the doctor's finger aside and assured "Eh, don't worry, you got my back, and I got yours too. Besides, this is a skeleton crew and all eyes are going to be on the armored dude and I'm an unremarkable girl in the backline, so I doubt nothing's serious going to happen to me." She heard Sjan's game plan and saw her teleported up on top of the building and she could not help it but smiled in awe. Godddamn, that would not get old, she thought.

"Anyway, I'm gonna take my...'position', I'm going hide behind the building, then as soon as the Nazis came out and the roof exploded, I'll sneak in at the appropriate time. Sounds good?" She said, then she casually walked over to said position, even as she nonchalantly passed by the entrance, then 'chill out' there. If an officer decided to come after her, she would pretend that she was just a girl enjoying the countryside of ruined buildings and peppered debris.

If the officers got distracted by either a large dude in armor or an explosion on the rooftop, she would reach to him and slash him across the throat. Great plan as long as they do not have a backup army in the back, she thought to herself as she replaced the battery in her CD player and preparing to change the disc to NWA's 'Niggaz 4 Life' album CD, it's about time to hear some hardcore gangsta rap. She smirked uncomfortably at such thought.

edited 18th Aug '14 10:01:04 PM by sgtpendulum

Putting his foot through the steel loop, Toriar used the mechanical cranks to pull the large crossbow's string to its full tension. Strapping it to his back, he checked the bolt quiver on his hip to ensure ease of access. He flipped down his visor, and so prepared, he followed his team away from the bus, splitting off with Amanda.

True to his word, Toriar smartly marched to the front of the building. Once within earshot of any guards, he stopped. Pointing the guisarme in the general direction of his foes, he called out his challenge:

"I, Toriar the Adamant, demand the release of all prisoners from this fort! If you should refuse, send out your best warrior, and we shall settle the disagreement in honorable mêlée combat."

He didn't actually expect them to cooperate, but he had to give them the chance. At the very least, their attention would now be squarely upon him.

edited 18th Aug '14 7:59:42 PM by StygianEmperor

Toriar (and Amanda if she chose to follow him as she said) would enter the building and would find that through the front doors was an office-looking area with a few desks and such. On the front desk was a secretary who was currently being ogled by a Nazi officer, who was sitting at his own desk - blatantly staring at her bosom with a sick looking smirk. The secretary rolled her eyes and was about to put on a sweater when she noticed the Nazi guard (who was guarding the entrance to the cells) let out a shriek.

The secretary and Nazi officer followed the guard's gaze and saw Toriar. The guard and officer exchanged confused glances at each other when Toriar delivered his challenge.

"Kill him!" the officer yelled at the guard as he dove for cover under his desk - the secretary doing the same. The guard drew his revolver and began firing at Toriar - the bullets merely bouncing off the mutant's tough covering. While this was going on - either the officer or the secretary must have triggered an alarm on their desks because a klaxon type noise began blaring throughout the base.

Sjan would find no obvious points of entry so it looked like she'd have to use the dynamite after all. She could now begin to hear muffled gunshots and screams from the roof, as well as everyone else who was outside the building.