OPERATION SEXY MARIO: CONCLUSION

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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?

Comments

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[His attention is already on her when she moves beside him, so he doesn't miss how she touches her headphones or eyes the machines. Familiar with her weapon's function and her original ability to move between electronics already, he doesn't even have to think to understand what she means. And when it's their best and possibly only available tactic, he's not going to say no even if he complains.]

You want me to hold you up? If I drop you it's not my fault!

[But he's moving behind her quickly, into position so he can catch her once her mind leaves the body.]

[datastream]

I'm counting on you! Take me somewhere nice when we're done, okay?

[She laughs a little, then presses a button on her headphones. She makes sure to aim her body backwards before leaving it, and then she hops straight into one of the scientist's weapons as he aims it at Shintaro. She doesn't miss a beat, and it's malfunctioning in seconds. Of course they wouldn't worry about something like a firewall on this kind of thing. It's all too easy. She hops straight into the next guy's weapon before the first guy can even react.

What's a bad guy without a gun?]

You guys are all bite and no bark!

[The digitized laughter coming from their weapons sounds a little eerie. But it seems to distract them enough. Take the chance and do something, master!]

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[Ene is probably lighter than Momo at least which is why Shintaro doesn't lose his balance when he catches her. He has to hold her with one arm though and that's a struggle. Still he manages to reach into his pocket and pull out his weaponized cell phone, flipping through the options with his eyes kept on the scientists and he points it at them as he turns up the volume all the way, covering Ene's body's ears as best he can before he lets the sound play -- something that makes those researchers dizzy and stumbling, confused as the sound messes with their brain.]

Ene! Get back!

[datastream]

[As soon as she hears Shintaro's voice, along with his weapon, she quickly disconnects and moves back into her body. Her hands move quickly to cover her ears. That's even louder than when she messes with his computer!]

Uwahh! That's pretty effective! I'm impressed, master!

[Ene watches the scientists fumble with their weapons while simultaneously trying to cover their ears. By the looks of it, they hadn't expected a couple of slow-footed kids to be able to pull something like this off.]

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I'm impressed too, honestly. This is my first time using it on anyone.

[It bemuses him how the sound has less effect on him. It still makes his head hurt but it should be nothing compared to the scientists', and he makes sure Ene's steady on her feet before letting her go.]

We have to move ahead. You screwed up their weapons, right?