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

[pride_of_amarcia]

Lucky guess, I think.

... If that's the case, let's move!

*Cart abandoned!*

[pactfulfilled]

R-right...

[Asbel hastily jams the ring back on his finger so he doesn't lose it again and hefts up the box it was in--before realizing Pascal's moved away from the cart.]

But, hold on a second, Pascal... [He glances to her with a concerned expression.] What about everyone else's stuff? Shouldn't we at least move it somewhere they'll be able to find it on their way out? A lot of people rely on their weapons... and some might even be linked to their powers.

[He's seen how down and depressed everyone was about their own weaknesses and inability to do anything. Now that she's brought up the use of the cart, he'd hate for anything precious to get left behind.]

[pride_of_amarcia]

Well... You have a point... But we can't get everything that's here out and get out quickly at the same time - we'd need to take several trips. Even one load will slow us quite a bit.

[pactfulfilled]

[He speaks quickly, because he knows he's wasting precious time.]

What if we set it right outside in the hallway? People would be more likely to see it there, wouldn't they? And if they can't find their gear in those, then maybe they'll think to check the rest here.

[And it's not that far to move it. But he'll still need a little help with the cart.]

[pride_of_amarcia]

Well...

Let's hurry up about it then, okay?

[Pascal knows she's not going to talk Asbel out of this, and quickly moves the cart out to the hallway.]

[pactfulfilled]

All right.

[With a nod, Asbel hurries forward to help Pascal maneuver the cart as needed, or at least to make sure none of the boxes topple off in the meantime. This is about as good as it's going to get, and he can only hope it's enough.]

That ought to do it. So, which way out of here?

[pride_of_amarcia]

This-a-way!

[Aaaaand she's virtually charging off.]

[pactfulfilled]

[Quickly checking his scabbard and looking both ways to make sure the coast is clear, Asbel sprints after her.]

Got it!

[He'll play rear guard as long as Pascal has a good idea of where they're headed.]

[pride_of_amarcia]

[Presumably, their exit continues with little incident from there... Hooray!]