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?

Comments

[duplicitoussight]

[He isn't complaining because he can't. Her touch is a reaffirmation that everything's back to the way it was, ordinary and smooth as it always had been. The kidnapping and that spoiled date... it never happened. Just a bad dream.]

I can't. Kido's jumping all over me without giving me a chance to rest.

[concealingeyes]

Just put your head down, idiot. You're just as tired as me.

[duplicitoussight]

If I put my head down, Kido has to, too. Those are the only terms I'll accept.

[concealingeyes]

How's that going to be comfortable for us?

[duplicitoussight]

... well, if we both lay down...

[concealingeyes]

[That's really embarrassing, to lie curled up together...]

...All right. [She can't hide the light blush. Kido shifts to make room for him to lie down.] So you first.

[duplicitoussight]

[He thought she'd protest more at the idea of it. He blinks, then gives a tired smile.]

Fine, fine. But Kido has to be careful not to crush me when she lies down. [It turns out, as he's lying down, he was a lot more tired than he thought he was. Just the act of it makes him drowsy.]

[concealingeyes]

[It's nice not having to hide her exhaustion as she slumps down beside him. She realises it would give a little more room if she faces away and, reluctantly, she rolls over and presses her back against him.]

...Is that fine?