OPERATION SEXY MARIO: CONCLUSION

[initiates]

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?

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[soul_sister]

[She creeps open the door, light slivering in and then spilling over them. She squints, looking down one side of the hall, and then the other. She lets out a long, heavy sigh of relief and steps out.]

That was close.

[eyecontact]

[a vague nod; you can say that again...

but. wait. he blinks, looking at her, tilting his head with inquiry. he points at her as he starts to squint.

what are you doing in here, anyway? was she a kidnappee or liberator?]

[soul_sister]

[Rosette blinks at him widely... and then peers down, trying to find what's on her shirt.]

[eyecontact]

[he succeeds in not facepalming and simply shakes his head, waving his hand in dismissal. nevermind. one way or the other, getting out was a priority, isn't it?

unless it isn't and she's here to find somebody. the only way to know that one way or the other, though, is simply moving forward.

he moves past her, rocking up on his toes and leaning forward, squinting down the hall, getting his bearings. it's nowhere he's been, but the guy whose head he occupied for that amount of time?

starting to move forward, he waves without looking behind. come on!]

[soul_sister]

[There's a moment of irritation as he moves past her. HE COULD AT LEAST EXPLAIN IT!!!

But as he gestures... now THAT, she understands. She tightens her grip on her gun and moves carefully after him, watching her footfalls. There'd already been enough close calls this mission.

This kid seemed to know where he was going, though. She'd only gotten a rough set of directions from Chrysos earlier...

Her voice is hushed as she calls up to him.]

Do you know where they're holding them?

[eyecontact]

[he nods, for all the good that does while in motion. it's only a half-truth, anyway; he knows as much as he gleaned from his temporary host, and that wasn't everything...

just enough to know to bank a right at this hall and slow down close to the door. there could be soldiers inside still...]

[soul_sister]

[For her part, she simply accepts it as truth. As much as she'd like to apologize for breaking his cover quite so violently, or thank him for his help, there really wasn't the time or the safety to do so.

Instead, as he slows, she glances at him and slips back and to the side, aiming the sights for a clear shot at the door. She nods, ready.]