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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-09-18 10:20 pm
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OPERATION SEXY MARIO: CONCLUSION

Date & Time: Sept 19th
Location: The UE Holding Compound, and surrounding area.
Characters: Anyone being rescued, doing the rescuing, or doing the distracting.
Summary: There have been some slackers freeloading off the UE for the past couple weeks or so, so let's go drag them home.
Warnings: Likely violence! Let a mod know if we should update this.

Those meant for distraction and those meant for rescue alike are both loaded onto the same stolen highspeed train. It's a great distance to cover, but the train manages in just under two hours, and deposits both groups three miles from the Holding Compound — a desolate and cold area, with rocky, uneven ground, small but jagged hills well-scattered and covered in scraggly trees — and there they part ways.

The diversion is sent away north, to draw United Earth attention and aggression upward, further into the continent, while the rescue team takes a much slower and quieter route to approach the Compound from the south, closest to Exsilium. The rescue team's orders are to wait a full half hour, to be sure that all forces who can be drawn out of the Compound to meet the sudden onslaught from the north will have already left.

The diversion team won't have an easy job of it. The soldiers are heavily armed, and trained to fight to the death before they surrender. They're grouped in organized squadrons, about 20 in each, and seem to outnumber Transports by three to one. Scattered throughout these soldiers are the Masked, the UE's special forces. These soldiers strike with a deadly precision, enhanced speed and strength, and highly advanced weaponry. Also, oddly enough, they seem to have a few smaller members among them, standing about 4 feet tall, and wielding strange powers… Those familiar with the powers of their kidnapped friends may see distinct similarities.

The Compound itself, when the rescue team makes their way in, will be very quiet. All prisoners had been forced into locked rooms (together or separately — whatever was most convenient) before the soldiers had left to face the encroaching threat. There are still personnel left to man the base, of course, and a few of them are armed soldiers — but for the most part it's scientists and researchers. Careful, though. Even scientists and researchers are perfectly capable of sounding the alarm to bring back the armed threats.

Once everyone is out of the Compound, the train will begin running a return trip. It will be kept as long as possible, while the distraction teams sneak back from the battlefield in small groups, but it can't wait forever. Those on the battlefield for the longest, the hardest hitters or the most dedicated fighters, might just have to find another way home. So… any Transports with relocation abilities feel like lending a hand?

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-20 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Shintaro would honestly do anything for a distraction right now. It's not the mission itself that bothers him -- it's the red. That dark, dark red color of blood and monsters' eyes but right now, it's mostly the blood. Christopher and Erika are terrible people and he's a little dazed as he walks through the train, trying to think about everything but their massacre.

He sees Mary, and he sees her nodding off. He approaches her, shrugging off his jacket now to put it over her shoulders, a hand on her head.]


Mary, if you're going to sleep you should find Kido first.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-20 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She jumps what looks like it could've been a good foot off the ground at the touch and the sound of his voice, eyes wide. If you could compare her to an animal at this point, it'd be easiest to use a startled bunny. It's hilarious. She looks around for a moment or two, alarmed, before realizing --

Oh, it's just Shintaro.

So she lets out a shaky little breath as she calms herself, and shakes her head.]


I was with Kido earlier...

[But on the other hand, if he's actually telling her to do that...?]

... Is she okay?
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[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-20 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She's on the train. As long as stays on it she should be fine, but I'm talking about you.

[Scoot over, fluffy. Shintaro doesn't nudge her over, but he finds himself a spot on the edge of the seat next to Mary and sighs tiredly before glancing over at her.]

If you were going to sleep, don't do it when there isn't anybody you know around.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-21 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
-- Oh --

[It's less a word and more a sound like an exhale or gasp. It'd finally happened. She was so tired she hadn't taken that into consideration. If Shintaro hadn't come by when he did, and she'd fallen asleep, then...?

Then what? She doesn't want to think about it.

But Shintaro is definitely someone she knows and someone she can trust, so when she sees what he's doing, she jumps slightly at the realization before moving to the next seat over. Quickly.]


Sorry -- thanks, Shintaro...

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-21 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. You're probably not used to it, right? I assumed this is the first time you've been around a lot of people who weren't from that apartment...

[He's frazzled, upset, some parts angry and many parts scared and he's sick of this war again. He wants to go home, pretend Exsilium never happened, even if it means Ayano also never happened. He doesn't like it. But Mary makes it difficult to hold onto all that when he's already sighing in his head over how much talking to her reminds him of when he and Momo were growing up and it took her forever to understand the most simplest safety measures.]

Well, it'd help me to have something to do, so I can stay here for a bit if you want to rest.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-21 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
If that's really okay...

[She's not really in a mood to argue anymore. She's tired. Kido is [has to be] okay and Kano is [has to be] okay and everyone else is [has to be] okay and she's done everything she can, hasn't she? This was the longest day she'd had in a while.

So she'll just take a nap. Shintaro won't let anything happen. He's a good person, and Momo would be devastated.

So she'll just lean her head on his shoulder, not quite asleep yet.]

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-21 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Shintaro wasn't as upset as he was or as exhausted as he was this tag would come with a lot more gross tl;dr about lolicons but we'll leave that for next time. For now, he just lets out an actual tired sigh and carefully not to jostle her as he leans back against the seat.]

You were with Kido and Momo, right?
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-21 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. We froze everyone and took their weapons.

[Since it wasn't like they'd be the ones hurting anyone. She knows she doesn't have to specify, but she does.]

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-22 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
... That's impressive. Weren't you scared? Distraction's right in the frontlines...
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It was scary. ... But Kido and Momo were with me, so I wasn't scared.

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-23 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh Mary. Shintaro laughs a little and pats her head because Kido as far as he knows is terrible with things that scare her and Momo is Momo. Mary's really gotta be something to be able to not be scared around those two, but then again he can't really disagree. Man.]

That's good. You're pretty amazing, you know that?
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-23 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that was part of it. They all supported each other. She had them, and that was the only reason she didn't act on her fear -- but anyway. She gets a headpat and a compliment with a slightly odd meaning considering she still doesn't know Shintaro very well, but -- he's a friend, isn't he? A friend, telling her that she's amazing. That she did well.

Her face just lights up from the joy of it all.]


-- Really...?!

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-24 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, she's letting off holy light or something with how happy she looks with her cute little girl face Shintaro pauses, hand raised awkwardly before he nods!!!]

Yeah. I remember... the first time I saw you I freaked you out and you fell off your chair, but then you were really excited at the amusement park, and... how do I put it?

You're, you know, you're tough?
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-24 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... That's really good... thanks, Shintaro! I want to be tough!

[If she's tough -- tough, strong, whatever, then she can protect everyone. Even when they do head home, if she were a strong person, couldn't she start working the way Seto does? And then she could help out in the same way. Strong people aren't afraid of others.

... But it'll be slow. She knows that now, but it's still so great to hear she's making progress.]

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-25 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shintaro draws the conclusion that in the Mekakushi-dan, all the girls really just want to be tough. Was that an influence of Kido's or were they all like that from the beginning?]

Well... I think you're doing better than me, at least.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-26 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[A question for the ages, really. It wasn't anything she'd had a need for until she met them. What was there for her to want to protect before? She'd already lost her parents and she couldn't go outside.

So maybe it's Kido. Maybe it's everyone.

Anyway, she shakes her head.]


You're doing really well, Shintaro... You're talking to people, and you helped here too...!

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-27 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
O-oh... you think so? Thanks.

[Now that she says it, he tenses again and laughs nervously to hide it. He did help here, didn't he? Against better judgement. Despite knowing that he wasn't a fighter. He could've told Ayano it was too dangerous, but instead he'd gone along with her...]

Hopefully, we won't have to do it again for a while.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-27 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah!

["You're actually really cool," she thinks to add, but his second sentence throws her off slightly.

If she could help it? She doesn't want to do this ever again. But she knows that's impossible, at least where they are now, so she'll settle for doing it infrequently and without any rescue missions involved.

She also knows she's asking for too much, but it'd be nice. A little quieter; ]


... I hope so too.

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-28 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
... Ah, sorry! I didn't mean to get you worried! I mean--

It shouldn't be too bad. I... think it won't be too bad. Either way, you, you know, you've got us. Even if Kano acts dumb sometimes.

[Is this where he pats her head? this might be where he pats her head. He gives that a try.]
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-09-28 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
-- S-Sorry! I'm not worried! I'm okay...

[And then he pats her head and she makes this soft little surprised noise. Her hair, of course, is also very soft. Anyway, she recognizes the action for what it's supposed to be -- a soothing gesture. Everyone really worried about her a lot, didn't they...? It's nice. This is nice. So her smile returns as quickly as it disappeared.]

Everyone is here with me, so I'm not afraid.

[personal profile] substitutable 2013-09-28 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah?

[It's hard not to take her words and simply appreciate the sincerity behind them. Antisocial, cynical him, talking to a girl who genuinely cared for the people she called her friends and gained her confidence through them. It was one of those things about the dan he couldn't help but like.]

Well, I'm glad to hear that. I'm sure you'll be fine.