6/10 Instance: Crispy and Kebabed
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:25 pm
Current Timeline
<Iceman> Bobby braked the van a block from the location, scanning the area. "I don't like this. There's a lot of activity here. We're going to have to be really careful."
<Toxic> Adam was, once again, nicely calm, but it was a brittle calm. Since Mel leaving he'd been shaken, though he was still pretty sure...they were doing the right thing, right? He looked out of the window. "Yeah...do we know if our activities are making them use more guards?"
<Deadpool> "So.... no loud weapons then?" Wade asked as he held a shotgun, a submachine gun, two handguns, and a very old flintlock pistol.
<Toxic> Adam eyeballed Wade nervously. "I...don't think you'll need all them."
<Iceman> "Well, we hopefully will in a minute." Bobby looked over his shoulder at Wade and winced. "Yeah.... let's keep it kinda low-key, huh?"
<Iceman> "In fact," he twisted in the seat to look at them both. "After last time... we're doing things different. What happened with Rogue?" He shook his head. "That shit can't happen again. If somebody surrenders, we let them."
<Toxic> That meant no asplody peoples. Adam nearly pouted, before he remembered that asploding people was actually a bad thing. He scratched his cheek, muttering to himself for a moment. "That's...fine by me." He nodded, meeting Bobby's eyes.
<Deadpool> "Right, just the stabby things then." Wade packed the guns back in the bag, putting the swords on his lap, as well some other sharp looking objects. "Sure, but if they start poking me full of holes, I'm poking back."
<Iceman> "I agree, man, don't worry. That's self defense... and if they're using lethal force..." He shrugged. "But the idea here is to get to Essex. These people are lackeys, and we don't know if they're being coerced, or what."
<Toxic> "Hey, I thought I had the monopoly on stabbies!" Adam pouted, before patting his pockets, checking he had everything on himself. "Left Bit at home, he's gonna be so mad...okay, do we need to do any scouting or are we waltzing in there, giving an ultimatum and then being heroic?"
<Deadpool> "....I should have brought the tranq-gun then."
<Iceman> "I think sneaking for starters would be good." Bobby grinned at Wade and blew out a puff of frosted air. "I'm my own tranq gun."
<Deadpool> "I still need to perfect my vulcan neck grip to render people unconscious." Wade added.
<Jason> At the front of the building Jason sat, pretending to read the newspaper as he posed as the building's security, waiting on the other's arrival.
<Toxic> "Same. When I don't get over-excited or go crazy or have some bastard shrink the goddamned walls on me-" Adam took a deep breath, flicking a dread out of his face. "C'mon, let's get this over with."
<Iceman> Bobby got out, taking a quick look up and down the street and marking where civilians were milling. "Let's keep it subtle, guys. We need to hook up with Jason."
<Deadpool> "Yeah! Let's rob this bank!" Wade said excitedly.
<Toxic> Adam got out of the van and facepalmed, gasmask in his other. "...Yes, Wade, yes, but I think I left my face sock in my other coat."
<Deadpool> Wade followed, slipping out and started to pull on his mask... then stopped. "I'm already wearing a mask, aren't i?"
<Iceman> "Way to go, guys!" Bobby shook his head and stuffed his hands in his pockets, non-chalantly as possible strolling up to the guard post. "Nope, we're not suspicious, not at all, not at all."
<Toxic> "You know, I love hanging around you, Wade." Adam shook his head. "You make me look sane. It's awesome." He rolled his eyes and followed Bobby, glancing up at the building and putting on his wraparound sunglasses so he could use his bloodsense without people seeing.
<Jason> Jason simply looked up, smilied and waved. "I was wondering when you would get here." The portly appearing guard said as they came up.
<Iceman> "That's a good look for you, Jay." Bobby gave him a thin smile. "Don't suppose you could help us blend a bit more too?"
<Deadpool> "Right, incognito. I got somethign for that." Wade said, pulling off both masks, and held up a brown paper bag with eyes cut into them. "Think that would do the trick?" the scarred one asked.
<Toxic> "Oh my god, Wade."
<Iceman> "Please?" Bobby gave Jason his puppy eyes.
<Toxic> For once, it wasn't him drawing the stares - though he was in blue and black this time, to be fair. Not his usual florescent green. Adam pinched the bridge of his nose over the glasses, feeling a headache coming on.
<Jason> "I wear it well." Jason chuckled, the laugh fading a bit as Wade produced a brown paper bag from...somewhere. "...yeah, yeah I can do that. Consider yourselves in stealthmode."
<Jason> "Your people got here about an hour ago, still in the basement."
<Toxic> That ticked a memory. Adam narrowed his eyes, trying to grab it, but it was a Brotherhood one and just made his head hurt more. He dropped it with a shrug. "Excellent. How many ways out?"
<Iceman> "Thank fucking god." Bobby reached over and gave Jason a friendly smack on the arm before he got serious. "Right. Any ideas on numbers? Or if there are big guns?"
<@Riptide> Riptide tapped his fingers nervously on the desk as the mooks did thier job, "I don't like this Arc," he turned to the woman with him, "This close to the X-fucks after what happened to the others, asking for trouble."
<Jason> "Two, Riptide and Arclight." Jason answered, looking a bit amused even in illusionary form at the friendly smack on the arm. Oh, the things that people bonded over.
<Jason> "And you've got exits pretty much on all sides on this floor, the basement has two elevators and a stair."
<Deadpool> "So if we're in stealth mode, can I make ghost noises with people walking by?" Wade asked.
<Toxic> "No, Wade, no. That defeats the stealth."
<Arclight> "Tell me about it," Arclight replied, leaning against the wall. "Can't shake the feeling we're playing bait here. Not that it matters, if it means I can get my hands on some of those bastards."
<Deadpool> Wade pulled his mask back on. "Don't worry, I can also do owl hoots and duck calls. Tehy'd think it is a ghost duck."
<Toxic> Adam gave Bobby a pleading look.
<Iceman> "Any idea what the fuck they're doing in our back yard?" Bobby ignored Wade and Adam for now, trying to figure out how best to do this.
<@Riptide> "It's almost like they want up to be picked off by 'em, this 'suvival of the fittest' shit the big boss' got going on," he shook his head, "guess it's up to us to prove the Marauder's are the fittest, huh?"
<Jason> "It's possible they've gotten spooked away from warehouses and decided to come to the source. This place makes some of the tech Essex seems to favour judging by what he had at the warehouses."
<Iceman> "Well that's awesomesauce." Bobby made a face and looked from Wade to Adam. "Okay then. Wade, get your gun. ....maybe not all of them."
<Arclight> "Wouldn't surprise me one bit if that's just another of the boss' sick experiments." Arclight huffed. "If the pay and the perks coming with the job weren't so awesome, I'd have been out of here a long time ago. Sure hope he wasn't just bullshitting us about all the promises he made, or I'll do the X-Men's job for them."
<Deadpool> "Sweet, I always wanted to try one of those things. Pretty sure they work the same like theones in the arcades." Wade said as he went back to the van to get his handguns.
<Toxic> "I'm still trying to work out how he holds all of them." Adam muttered. "Ready when you are, boss. Anyone surrenders, they go, if it's a Marauder I'll knock 'em out and we'll take them back, right?"
<Iceman> "Aim for knees first!" Bobby tried. "But since we know there are Marauders here..." He nodded at Adam. "Right. No fucking killing people who beg for their fucking lives, or run."
<Quicksilver> "We're taking prisoners now?" Pietro raised an eyebrow as he drew to a stop by the others.
<@Riptide> "Tell me about it," Riptide muttered, checking the cameras agin, "Still clear here, maybe half hour till the goons're done packing up the shit."
<Jason> "Do you have a place to hold them if you do take anyone?" Jason asked, figuring the practicalities should be addressed at least.
<Toxic> "I can live with that. And yeah. People begging for their lives and then having their necks broken is not a good thing, and I realise this is me saying that."
<Iceman> "We do. Learned some lessons from before.... and as for keeping them long term... we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Bobby was terribly conflicted about all of this now.
<Arclight> "Yeah, though I wonder why we didn't just torch the whole thing," Arclight replied, pushing herself off the wall to check on the workers. "If the boss is so desperate to clean house, that couple extra million dollars sure wouldn't have mattered."
<Arclight> "Which brings us back to the whole bait theory..."
<Toxic> Adam nodded, looking up, fingering his wraparounds and then tightening his glove. "Come on. The longer we leave it, the more likely they'll make it impossible to take prisoners."
<Iceman> Bobby turned to Pietro and Laura, who looked a little windblown. "Ready then?"
<Quicksilver> Pietro nodded, "Any new details that I don't know yet?"
<Jason> "All for the party then? You'd probably best get down there. No telling when they might get their Herald to give them a ride out or something just so they don't have to be so close to where they know you lot are."
<Deadpool> "Bk" Wade said when got back. "I limited myself to just the guns smaller than a breadbox."
<Toxic> "...You scare me, Wade."
<@Riptide> "Tell ya something for nothing, once we're done here once we're done here I'm gonna go renegociate my contract, I'm not guienepig for some fucked up social experiment."
<X23> Laura clenched a fist, claws sliding out as she nodded.
<Deadpool> Wade eyed the claws coming out of Laura, then pulled out one of his swords from his back. "Mine's bigger," he said, giving a ^-^ face, which was remarkable seeing that he wore his mask.
<Iceman> "We got two Marauders down there. So let's go." Bobby caught Pietro and Laura up as they moved into the building.
<Quicksilver> "Do we know which ones?"
<X23> She eyed the sword and nodded again, "It is."
<Deadpool> "Does it matter? Them da baddies, we da goodies." Wade told Pietro.
<Deadpool> "That's all I need to know."
<Quicksilver> "I like to know what to expect. It's easier to make some kind of a plan that way."
<Toxic> Adam followed, moving silently, blinking slowly as his eyes flared behind the glasses. "Lots below us, most moving around, doing work from the heartrates...couple of others dotted, not doing anything but they're...scared, I think, judging from what their hearts are doing."
<Deadpool> Wade stared at Adam. "Oh oh oh, now do me." He said, holding up his chest.
<Jason> "I'll be here when you get out." Jason waved them on, sitting back in his chair to wait.
<Iceman> "Riptide. Arclight. Right, maybe we should split up, meet in the middle. Some of us take the far stairs, we take these."
<Toxic> "...Dude, I try not to think what you're doing when your heartrate picks up, but right now you're pretty damn calm."
<Toxic> "Corner them...probably the best bet." Adam looked at the far stairs. "I'll take them. Someone wanna watch my back?" He moved soundlessly to it, pulling out one of his notorious taped sticks, tapping it against a palm.
<X23> "I will cover you," she volunteered, moving to follow Adam.
<Deadpool> "No thanks, I'm taking the front stairs, last time we did this, I took it up the rear, and got lost."
<Deadpool> ...
<Deadpool> "Hur hur hur...." Wade hurhur'ed.
<Toxic> Adam nodded to Laura, giving her a grin before pulling on the mask. "Wade...please...please...that's not a vision I need just before this..."
<Arclight> "Any new contract will definitely have to include a clause about no fucking huge pills to swallow," Arclight said. "I expect to grow a satellite dish from my head any day now."
<Deadpool> Fun fact, those huge pills were not meant to be swallowed.
<@Riptide> "You said it! If he things those things are to swallow I hope to FUCK the good doctor doesn't ever give me a supositry," he groaned.
<Iceman> "Well, let's try not to get lost this time. And remember, kneecaps first... unless they're aiming for your head first. You know what I mean. Maybe. Whatever." Bobby's gave up as he shifted to ice and led the way down the stairs.
<X23> Laura managed to force a grim grin in return as she silently followed Adam.
<Quicksilver> Pietro was making no promises about what limbs got broken on the guards.
<Toxic> Adam nodded to Bobby as he slipped down the stairs, glancing back at Laura, the stick in his hand starting to glow faintly, a hand on the rail. Thanks to his black coat and dark blue dreads, he was fairly unnoticable in the gloom of the back stairs.
<@Riptide> Ripetide frowned at the monitor, "... Think I saw something, Arc, you wanna double check?" He pointed to the screen.
<Toxic> He adjusted the mask, eyes narrowed - at least with his sight the sunglasses didn't affect him - and stooped, rolling the glowstick under a pallet of boxes. Time to cause a little chaos.
<Arclight> She stepped over and crossed her arms. "You sure?" She frowned at the monitor. "Guess it's not the time to be careless. Let's send a few of mercs to check on the top floors. If there's screaming, we know the evening is going to get interesting."
<Deadpool> "Ooh, I feel all professionally n-..." Wade slid a little on where Bobby had walked, and got his footing again. "So very professional."
<@Riptide> "Good call," he radioed the order.
<Toxic> After a couple of moments making sure none of his team were close, he detonated it - destroying the pallet and anything that had been on it. A couple of the guys around it dropped, stunned, and Adam grinned. Widely.
<Quicksilver> Again with the explosions. Could no one manage subtle?
<Toxic> Another stick went under another pallet, and another, Adam destroying the equipment so that there was no way Essex would benefit from this, even if he sent another team.
<Deadpool> "Wait... we could have brought bombs?" Wade asked when he heard the explosion and rumble.
<Arclight> "We didn't have to wait long for our answer," Arclight commented, popping her knuckle joints. "Sound the alarm."
<Quicksilver> "Apparently..." Pietro muttered to Wade with a roll of his eyes.
<Iceman> "Guess that's our cue!" Bobby followed suit and froze the fire door, shattering it into the room with a kick.
<Quicksilver> Pietro dashed in and started knocking down guards.
<X23> Laura's face twisted slightly at the noise from the explosion and the resulting alarm. "That noise has got to stop."
<Deadpool> Wade dashed into the room, guns drawn, yelling "SPECIAL EFFEEEECTS!!"
<@Riptide> The alarms started to blare all around the complex and Riptide got to his feet, shrugging to get his bone spliters moving towards the surface of his skin, "Let's go say hi to our guests."
<Jason> Upstairs, Jason turned the page of his paper and illusioned the alarms away for the people out on the streets, only looking up barely to make sure it had worked.
<Quicksilver> "I'll see if I can find a way to disable the alarm," Pietro headed to explore the building for a security control room.
<Iceman> Bobby focused first on the startled group of people who apparently had been packing a box, icesliding to them and muttering an apology before quickly lowering their body temperatures. They crumpled silently to the floor.
<Arclight> Arclight rounded up the team of mercenaries. "You know the drill, guys - explosives are on a discount today, so don't skimp on them." She took the lead. "Don't care if the boss gets mad about his precious shit."
<Toxic> Adam ducked a punch, grabbing the hand and twisting his entire body. The guard went down with a scream as he hamstrung him with a blade, flipping him onto the floor, before he flicked out a hand and blasted away one sneaking up on him. "Confinded space - my favourite way of fighting." He grinned at Laura.
<Deadpool> Those a little further away from Bobby were already cocking their guns. "BANG BANG! BANG! BANG!" Wade yelled aiming at limbs.
<@Riptide> "Sure he'll be pleased as punch when we bring him back some X-fucks corpses to play with," he grinned, "These kids are playing hard now boys, you're authorised to use leathal force, 'cos if you don't, they will on you."
<Iceman> Bobby braked the van a block from the location, scanning the area. "I don't like this. There's a lot of activity here. We're going to have to be really careful."
<Toxic> Adam was, once again, nicely calm, but it was a brittle calm. Since Mel leaving he'd been shaken, though he was still pretty sure...they were doing the right thing, right? He looked out of the window. "Yeah...do we know if our activities are making them use more guards?"
<Deadpool> "So.... no loud weapons then?" Wade asked as he held a shotgun, a submachine gun, two handguns, and a very old flintlock pistol.
<Toxic> Adam eyeballed Wade nervously. "I...don't think you'll need all them."
<Iceman> "Well, we hopefully will in a minute." Bobby looked over his shoulder at Wade and winced. "Yeah.... let's keep it kinda low-key, huh?"
<Iceman> "In fact," he twisted in the seat to look at them both. "After last time... we're doing things different. What happened with Rogue?" He shook his head. "That shit can't happen again. If somebody surrenders, we let them."
<Toxic> That meant no asplody peoples. Adam nearly pouted, before he remembered that asploding people was actually a bad thing. He scratched his cheek, muttering to himself for a moment. "That's...fine by me." He nodded, meeting Bobby's eyes.
<Deadpool> "Right, just the stabby things then." Wade packed the guns back in the bag, putting the swords on his lap, as well some other sharp looking objects. "Sure, but if they start poking me full of holes, I'm poking back."
<Iceman> "I agree, man, don't worry. That's self defense... and if they're using lethal force..." He shrugged. "But the idea here is to get to Essex. These people are lackeys, and we don't know if they're being coerced, or what."
<Toxic> "Hey, I thought I had the monopoly on stabbies!" Adam pouted, before patting his pockets, checking he had everything on himself. "Left Bit at home, he's gonna be so mad...okay, do we need to do any scouting or are we waltzing in there, giving an ultimatum and then being heroic?"
<Deadpool> "....I should have brought the tranq-gun then."
<Iceman> "I think sneaking for starters would be good." Bobby grinned at Wade and blew out a puff of frosted air. "I'm my own tranq gun."
<Deadpool> "I still need to perfect my vulcan neck grip to render people unconscious." Wade added.
<Jason> At the front of the building Jason sat, pretending to read the newspaper as he posed as the building's security, waiting on the other's arrival.
<Toxic> "Same. When I don't get over-excited or go crazy or have some bastard shrink the goddamned walls on me-" Adam took a deep breath, flicking a dread out of his face. "C'mon, let's get this over with."
<Iceman> Bobby got out, taking a quick look up and down the street and marking where civilians were milling. "Let's keep it subtle, guys. We need to hook up with Jason."
<Deadpool> "Yeah! Let's rob this bank!" Wade said excitedly.
<Toxic> Adam got out of the van and facepalmed, gasmask in his other. "...Yes, Wade, yes, but I think I left my face sock in my other coat."
<Deadpool> Wade followed, slipping out and started to pull on his mask... then stopped. "I'm already wearing a mask, aren't i?"
<Iceman> "Way to go, guys!" Bobby shook his head and stuffed his hands in his pockets, non-chalantly as possible strolling up to the guard post. "Nope, we're not suspicious, not at all, not at all."
<Toxic> "You know, I love hanging around you, Wade." Adam shook his head. "You make me look sane. It's awesome." He rolled his eyes and followed Bobby, glancing up at the building and putting on his wraparound sunglasses so he could use his bloodsense without people seeing.
<Jason> Jason simply looked up, smilied and waved. "I was wondering when you would get here." The portly appearing guard said as they came up.
<Iceman> "That's a good look for you, Jay." Bobby gave him a thin smile. "Don't suppose you could help us blend a bit more too?"
<Deadpool> "Right, incognito. I got somethign for that." Wade said, pulling off both masks, and held up a brown paper bag with eyes cut into them. "Think that would do the trick?" the scarred one asked.
<Toxic> "Oh my god, Wade."
<Iceman> "Please?" Bobby gave Jason his puppy eyes.
<Toxic> For once, it wasn't him drawing the stares - though he was in blue and black this time, to be fair. Not his usual florescent green. Adam pinched the bridge of his nose over the glasses, feeling a headache coming on.
<Jason> "I wear it well." Jason chuckled, the laugh fading a bit as Wade produced a brown paper bag from...somewhere. "...yeah, yeah I can do that. Consider yourselves in stealthmode."
<Jason> "Your people got here about an hour ago, still in the basement."
<Toxic> That ticked a memory. Adam narrowed his eyes, trying to grab it, but it was a Brotherhood one and just made his head hurt more. He dropped it with a shrug. "Excellent. How many ways out?"
<Iceman> "Thank fucking god." Bobby reached over and gave Jason a friendly smack on the arm before he got serious. "Right. Any ideas on numbers? Or if there are big guns?"
<@Riptide> Riptide tapped his fingers nervously on the desk as the mooks did thier job, "I don't like this Arc," he turned to the woman with him, "This close to the X-fucks after what happened to the others, asking for trouble."
<Jason> "Two, Riptide and Arclight." Jason answered, looking a bit amused even in illusionary form at the friendly smack on the arm. Oh, the things that people bonded over.
<Jason> "And you've got exits pretty much on all sides on this floor, the basement has two elevators and a stair."
<Deadpool> "So if we're in stealth mode, can I make ghost noises with people walking by?" Wade asked.
<Toxic> "No, Wade, no. That defeats the stealth."
<Arclight> "Tell me about it," Arclight replied, leaning against the wall. "Can't shake the feeling we're playing bait here. Not that it matters, if it means I can get my hands on some of those bastards."
<Deadpool> Wade pulled his mask back on. "Don't worry, I can also do owl hoots and duck calls. Tehy'd think it is a ghost duck."
<Toxic> Adam gave Bobby a pleading look.
<Iceman> "Any idea what the fuck they're doing in our back yard?" Bobby ignored Wade and Adam for now, trying to figure out how best to do this.
<@Riptide> "It's almost like they want up to be picked off by 'em, this 'suvival of the fittest' shit the big boss' got going on," he shook his head, "guess it's up to us to prove the Marauder's are the fittest, huh?"
<Jason> "It's possible they've gotten spooked away from warehouses and decided to come to the source. This place makes some of the tech Essex seems to favour judging by what he had at the warehouses."
<Iceman> "Well that's awesomesauce." Bobby made a face and looked from Wade to Adam. "Okay then. Wade, get your gun. ....maybe not all of them."
<Arclight> "Wouldn't surprise me one bit if that's just another of the boss' sick experiments." Arclight huffed. "If the pay and the perks coming with the job weren't so awesome, I'd have been out of here a long time ago. Sure hope he wasn't just bullshitting us about all the promises he made, or I'll do the X-Men's job for them."
<Deadpool> "Sweet, I always wanted to try one of those things. Pretty sure they work the same like theones in the arcades." Wade said as he went back to the van to get his handguns.
<Toxic> "I'm still trying to work out how he holds all of them." Adam muttered. "Ready when you are, boss. Anyone surrenders, they go, if it's a Marauder I'll knock 'em out and we'll take them back, right?"
<Iceman> "Aim for knees first!" Bobby tried. "But since we know there are Marauders here..." He nodded at Adam. "Right. No fucking killing people who beg for their fucking lives, or run."
<Quicksilver> "We're taking prisoners now?" Pietro raised an eyebrow as he drew to a stop by the others.
<@Riptide> "Tell me about it," Riptide muttered, checking the cameras agin, "Still clear here, maybe half hour till the goons're done packing up the shit."
<Jason> "Do you have a place to hold them if you do take anyone?" Jason asked, figuring the practicalities should be addressed at least.
<Toxic> "I can live with that. And yeah. People begging for their lives and then having their necks broken is not a good thing, and I realise this is me saying that."
<Iceman> "We do. Learned some lessons from before.... and as for keeping them long term... we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Bobby was terribly conflicted about all of this now.
<Arclight> "Yeah, though I wonder why we didn't just torch the whole thing," Arclight replied, pushing herself off the wall to check on the workers. "If the boss is so desperate to clean house, that couple extra million dollars sure wouldn't have mattered."
<Arclight> "Which brings us back to the whole bait theory..."
<Toxic> Adam nodded, looking up, fingering his wraparounds and then tightening his glove. "Come on. The longer we leave it, the more likely they'll make it impossible to take prisoners."
<Iceman> Bobby turned to Pietro and Laura, who looked a little windblown. "Ready then?"
<Quicksilver> Pietro nodded, "Any new details that I don't know yet?"
<Jason> "All for the party then? You'd probably best get down there. No telling when they might get their Herald to give them a ride out or something just so they don't have to be so close to where they know you lot are."
<Deadpool> "Bk" Wade said when got back. "I limited myself to just the guns smaller than a breadbox."
<Toxic> "...You scare me, Wade."
<@Riptide> "Tell ya something for nothing, once we're done here once we're done here I'm gonna go renegociate my contract, I'm not guienepig for some fucked up social experiment."
<X23> Laura clenched a fist, claws sliding out as she nodded.
<Deadpool> Wade eyed the claws coming out of Laura, then pulled out one of his swords from his back. "Mine's bigger," he said, giving a ^-^ face, which was remarkable seeing that he wore his mask.
<Iceman> "We got two Marauders down there. So let's go." Bobby caught Pietro and Laura up as they moved into the building.
<Quicksilver> "Do we know which ones?"
<X23> She eyed the sword and nodded again, "It is."
<Deadpool> "Does it matter? Them da baddies, we da goodies." Wade told Pietro.
<Deadpool> "That's all I need to know."
<Quicksilver> "I like to know what to expect. It's easier to make some kind of a plan that way."
<Toxic> Adam followed, moving silently, blinking slowly as his eyes flared behind the glasses. "Lots below us, most moving around, doing work from the heartrates...couple of others dotted, not doing anything but they're...scared, I think, judging from what their hearts are doing."
<Deadpool> Wade stared at Adam. "Oh oh oh, now do me." He said, holding up his chest.
<Jason> "I'll be here when you get out." Jason waved them on, sitting back in his chair to wait.
<Iceman> "Riptide. Arclight. Right, maybe we should split up, meet in the middle. Some of us take the far stairs, we take these."
<Toxic> "...Dude, I try not to think what you're doing when your heartrate picks up, but right now you're pretty damn calm."
<Toxic> "Corner them...probably the best bet." Adam looked at the far stairs. "I'll take them. Someone wanna watch my back?" He moved soundlessly to it, pulling out one of his notorious taped sticks, tapping it against a palm.
<X23> "I will cover you," she volunteered, moving to follow Adam.
<Deadpool> "No thanks, I'm taking the front stairs, last time we did this, I took it up the rear, and got lost."
<Deadpool> ...
<Deadpool> "Hur hur hur...." Wade hurhur'ed.
<Toxic> Adam nodded to Laura, giving her a grin before pulling on the mask. "Wade...please...please...that's not a vision I need just before this..."
<Arclight> "Any new contract will definitely have to include a clause about no fucking huge pills to swallow," Arclight said. "I expect to grow a satellite dish from my head any day now."
<Deadpool> Fun fact, those huge pills were not meant to be swallowed.
<@Riptide> "You said it! If he things those things are to swallow I hope to FUCK the good doctor doesn't ever give me a supositry," he groaned.
<Iceman> "Well, let's try not to get lost this time. And remember, kneecaps first... unless they're aiming for your head first. You know what I mean. Maybe. Whatever." Bobby's gave up as he shifted to ice and led the way down the stairs.
<X23> Laura managed to force a grim grin in return as she silently followed Adam.
<Quicksilver> Pietro was making no promises about what limbs got broken on the guards.
<Toxic> Adam nodded to Bobby as he slipped down the stairs, glancing back at Laura, the stick in his hand starting to glow faintly, a hand on the rail. Thanks to his black coat and dark blue dreads, he was fairly unnoticable in the gloom of the back stairs.
<@Riptide> Ripetide frowned at the monitor, "... Think I saw something, Arc, you wanna double check?" He pointed to the screen.
<Toxic> He adjusted the mask, eyes narrowed - at least with his sight the sunglasses didn't affect him - and stooped, rolling the glowstick under a pallet of boxes. Time to cause a little chaos.
<Arclight> She stepped over and crossed her arms. "You sure?" She frowned at the monitor. "Guess it's not the time to be careless. Let's send a few of mercs to check on the top floors. If there's screaming, we know the evening is going to get interesting."
<Deadpool> "Ooh, I feel all professionally n-..." Wade slid a little on where Bobby had walked, and got his footing again. "So very professional."
<@Riptide> "Good call," he radioed the order.
<Toxic> After a couple of moments making sure none of his team were close, he detonated it - destroying the pallet and anything that had been on it. A couple of the guys around it dropped, stunned, and Adam grinned. Widely.
<Quicksilver> Again with the explosions. Could no one manage subtle?
<Toxic> Another stick went under another pallet, and another, Adam destroying the equipment so that there was no way Essex would benefit from this, even if he sent another team.
<Deadpool> "Wait... we could have brought bombs?" Wade asked when he heard the explosion and rumble.
<Arclight> "We didn't have to wait long for our answer," Arclight commented, popping her knuckle joints. "Sound the alarm."
<Quicksilver> "Apparently..." Pietro muttered to Wade with a roll of his eyes.
<Iceman> "Guess that's our cue!" Bobby followed suit and froze the fire door, shattering it into the room with a kick.
<Quicksilver> Pietro dashed in and started knocking down guards.
<X23> Laura's face twisted slightly at the noise from the explosion and the resulting alarm. "That noise has got to stop."
<Deadpool> Wade dashed into the room, guns drawn, yelling "SPECIAL EFFEEEECTS!!"
<@Riptide> The alarms started to blare all around the complex and Riptide got to his feet, shrugging to get his bone spliters moving towards the surface of his skin, "Let's go say hi to our guests."
<Jason> Upstairs, Jason turned the page of his paper and illusioned the alarms away for the people out on the streets, only looking up barely to make sure it had worked.
<Quicksilver> "I'll see if I can find a way to disable the alarm," Pietro headed to explore the building for a security control room.
<Iceman> Bobby focused first on the startled group of people who apparently had been packing a box, icesliding to them and muttering an apology before quickly lowering their body temperatures. They crumpled silently to the floor.
<Arclight> Arclight rounded up the team of mercenaries. "You know the drill, guys - explosives are on a discount today, so don't skimp on them." She took the lead. "Don't care if the boss gets mad about his precious shit."
<Toxic> Adam ducked a punch, grabbing the hand and twisting his entire body. The guard went down with a scream as he hamstrung him with a blade, flipping him onto the floor, before he flicked out a hand and blasted away one sneaking up on him. "Confinded space - my favourite way of fighting." He grinned at Laura.
<Deadpool> Those a little further away from Bobby were already cocking their guns. "BANG BANG! BANG! BANG!" Wade yelled aiming at limbs.
<@Riptide> "Sure he'll be pleased as punch when we bring him back some X-fucks corpses to play with," he grinned, "These kids are playing hard now boys, you're authorised to use leathal force, 'cos if you don't, they will on you."