The End of Pulse

[Goldbolt]

<AnE> On the first floor, a pair of men stalks around the corner. One's hunched over, but tall, sporting considerable bodily hair and a face that only a mother could love, his mouth full of razor sharp teeth. The other's just as tall, rather lanky, with unusually shiny skin and hair, though it's more 'post-shower' shiny and not metal. they pause for a moment! Above! Jack will run into two men who look, for the most part human, but only one is carrying a sidearm -- they turn 'round and give him a look, the one with the gun pulling it out and firing shots! Of course, they go right through him, but still. As Hanny (yep.) reaches the top floor, he'll find one large, burly man with a shotgun and one dark-skinned, white-haired guy standing before one door with a security pad and an electronic lock and another pair of men -- blonde twins, standing in front of the opposite wall. POST ORDER! AnE -- Everybody else. Try to post only once and keep everything concise!

<Jeem> Jack starts slowly stalking towards them, pulling out his rod, the sound of it snapping open unheard through the ghosting, the staff appearing with that ethereal blue-black smoke his body is comprised of. He picks up speed, until he's breaking out into a run... just in time for the man's sidearm to be out of ammo. Then? Jack rematerializes and seeks to smash his staff into the side of his head to take him out, trying to strike a blow at the unarmed man after.

<Alex`> One, he could definately tell was NOT armed, but the other...he couldn't be sure. The real threat that he can see is the wolf-like man, but he didn't know what the other could do yet. So...he waits. Waits patiently until he can hear their footsteps close enough and holds out one hand around the corner, palm towards the duo while blindly aiming a sudden burst of air - every intention to knock them off their feet and several feet back as he says, "We gotta take 'em out quick and quiet, right?"

* Sisip 's hands whip out towards RazorTooth, trying to blast him against the wall with her wind tunnels. She knew the mission was to keep everyone alive, which was convinient, because she really didn't have the power for death blows. She grunts a bit, "Word will get out. It always gets out."

<Ashe> Meanwhile, Ashe gets stuck dealing with the lanky one. Holstering her finger gun, she draws her collapsible tonfa and extends it with a flick of the wrist. When the tall one rounds the corner, he'll catch the business end of her tonfa right in the midsection before being razzle-dazzled right in the face.

<Hannibal> And there was Hannibal all of a sudden appearing from the bottom of the floor. Even as he was part way phased through he was scanning the room, time having chugged to a slow grind from his perspective. By the time he was part way through the gun was in his hand and before the guys in the room likely could react the little red laser dot was arcing across the neck of the guy with the shotgun. *Thhhp!* went the first dart to shotgun dude and Hannibal would move in a clockwise pattern, popping off a shot at each of the guys up top in turn. If all went well he'd mostly likely nail a hit on each one before they would even be able to register him being there. But then his dumb luck could mean one of them was a lot quicker then he hoped.

<AnE> Blam, blam, blam! No more bullets. He'd throw the gun down and rush forward Jack, aiming to swing and punch! But then get clocked in the side of the head and fall to the ground. However, as he turned toward the other man, he would feel a powerful jerk, his staff yanked from his grip if he's not careful. The remaining man narrowed his eyes, turning his gaze on something -- a glass case with an axe inside. Without flincing, the glass would explode outward, the axe hovering to his hand. The Wolfman sniffed the air, baring his teeth and snarling, "Smells like dinner." Just in time to be hit with a burst of air, along with his partner -- Stretch, we'll call him. The two were tossed back, and then Ashe came after Stretch -- her hit hit. But bounced right back off. As did the one that hit him in the face. Wolfman hopped to and begun to charge after Sisip and Alex, snarling and letting out a monstrous howl, one that could be heard on all floors. Hannibal was in the hallway with four dudes -- and after the first dart hit, the others put on their guard -- but another'd be knocked out. The Twins, however, were fast enough to avoid it. When the white haired guy fell the floor, he unwittingly let out a sudden burst of electricity before going unconscious. The two young men who remained would charge Hannibal, and... split. There were suddenly four.


* Shannon Ack Shannon had gotten turned around in the building with settign the studs, but she was back with the group now! Back and ready to fight Stretchy and the wolf man. Filters were keeping the bad stuff out of her radiation blasts good... Shannon raised an arm and would shoot a concentrated blast of green at the wolfaman. The force would be concussive and likely burn away any fur or clothes it came in contact with.

<Alex`> "It's times like this I wish I carried some silver." he comments with a little grin, hints of his true personality showing beneath the emotionless mask before he gives Shannon a little nod, still hiding behind a corner as he says, "Check it out, Samus - it's Fido. Think I should take him out for a walk?" Ohhh no, he didn't go there. He did NOT go there.

* Sisip 's hand reaches into her beltpouch, pulling out a handfull of sand. Throwing it into the air she claps her hands together and pulls them apart, the small cyclone appearing between them and sucking up the grit. With a heave she pushes the cyclone towards Wolfman's face. Here's sand in yer eyes!

<Jeem> "Fuck silence!" he shouts into the communicator, immediately ghosting his hands and his staff when he feels that tugging sensation. He shoves himself against the other man as he levitates the fire axe to his hand, sending his shoulder ramming into him, one arm unghosting to deliver a shot to the man's ribs with a lightning-fast punch.

<Ashe> Well, hitting the bastard didn't seem to work, and it didn't look like hitting him in the face with a light blast had blinded him, either. "Jesus Harold Christ on a three-legged pogo-stick, I think this one's indestructible," she comments as she falls back and tries to come up with a new strategy. Seeing Sisip's sand cyclone in action, she quickly gets out of the way...and tosses a choking gas grenade into the mix as well.

<Hannibal> Hannibal had two shots left! So casting the laser pointer at the charging quartet, the little reptile puppet would fire off two at the two on the right... before the pistol would sail across the air to smack the third one over square in the face. In the mean time, Hannibal would well.. he was quick.. but he was a little guy. Cue some yakkity sax and Hannibal playing keep away with anyone he happened to miss as he started to run in circles around the room. Or at least did all he could to avoid the clutches of his attackers.

<AnE> Wolfman snarled, rushing at Sisip ... and then getting hit in the face with sand. God, that stung. He howled in pain, clawing at his face before beginning to swipe blindly at Sisip. He may have been slow, but if any of his talons caught her... The telekinetic upstairs grunted, axe clattering to the ground as he was rammed, the sudden contact breaking his concentration. As did the punch! He doubled over, grunting in pain before clenching his own hands into fists. Jack would find himself hurled across the hallway and into a nearby wall. RATHER, because AnE reads wrong again, Stretch is lightblasted but bounces back very, very quickly. Hurr. He would lash an arm out, which stretched like rubber! Or putty... snatching the grenade out of the air. The twins divided again! Hannibal's darts struck -- clones. There were now six, all headed for the puppet, lunging, trying to grab him. Also, wolfman's beautiful, hair-covered chest? He just got waxed. Sort of. By nucular energies. That was almost enough to knock him on his butt.

<Alex`> Alex would finally step out of his corner, while the wolf man's downed by the radioactive blast, something he had done previously giving him an idea on how to keep the wolf distracted. As such, he holds out his right hand, letting wind gather beneath the wolf like a sheet, only to suddenly propel him upwards to try and send him face first into the ceiling. No slow 'trying not to hurt him' movement like he did with Jack and Hannibal. No, he's trying to knock the bastard out.

* Shannon That was Alex, he always went there Shannon didn't respond to him as shewas trying to focus on the fight and not witty banter. But she was begining to wonder if they were going overkill on Snoopy. "With all of us going at once? I don't think so. We're holding some impact. Not much but we're getting there!" She was not going to resort to lethal means.., Never. It was not her way, it had been told to them not to kill and Shannon was sticking by it. Even so, reluctantly; ever so reluctantly, Shannon turned her filters down by one notch. She had more than Howl's health riding on her hands. Everyone else round her was vulnerable to her blasts. So keep them well filtered, and watch your aim. She'd fire another blast at the wolf boy his head this time aiming to stun, temporily blind, or knock out.

* Sisip watches Wolfman lunge towards her and throws herself backwards, the claws just barely catching her, the material of her oh so nicely fitting and purdy cat suit splitting, blood welling up. She grunts as she lands hard on her rear, her hands still trying to keep the cyclone of sand in the wolf's face. "Motherfucker that stings!"

<Hannibal> It would be a kind of comical moment as clones one through five would find themselves diving for a muppet that just seemed to be too quick for their attempts to catch him. As for clone number six however, he'd find himself quicker then his pals, managing to catch onto little ole Han by his feet. Hannibal would fall face first to the ground. Oh no, caught.. wait.. what's this? Number six's split moment of victory would suddenly be spoiled as a little muppety hand suddenly appear right in front of his face. And what's that in his hand? Why, it's pepper spray! What's that in your eyes you say? Why it's also pepper spray!

<Ashe> He wanted to catch the grenade? That's fine - it's already spewing choking gas by this point, which should make breathing more than a little difficult for Mr. Silly Putty. What the Hell else can she do, though? Shocker darts aren't going to do anything on rubber-bando-man, her grenades aren't working, and she can't use pepper spray in that windstorm. Beatings aren't working either! "I'm open to suggestions here, girls!"

<Jeem> Jack is swinging his staff around to strike at the telekinetic when he hurls him across the hallway, his form slammed into the wall. Groaning as he crunches to a crouch, he shakes his head, clearing it, looking up at the telekinetic. Jack's eyes burn red, a ruby light tinging them as he lets out a faint growl. "Wrong move, shithead." His body ghosts and he starts stalking towards him, rod held at his side, the wraith quickly bolting for the telekinetic as he picks up speed, lifting up to swing at him hard.

<Crippler> As if afraid to be forgotten, a wall(AnE's choice) Explodes in shrapnel. A poor lackey comes flying through, unconcious upon the ground with a bloody kife in his grip. And standing in the hole, with a rip through his jacket's right arm, Crippler stands, breathing heavily. He'd taken a wrong turn somewhere...But he was here now " I hate Knives..."

<AnE> Tema Jacob snarled as he tried to omnomnom Sisip, but was thrown up into the air by Alex, his maw mashing the ceiling painfully. He yelped, landing on the ground a moment later, bleeding from his nose. Then, Shannon's blast knocked his head back -- dangerously so. Whiplash, anyone? With one final howl, he collapsed! Twinnyclonemans were chasing Hannibal, but after they missed him, they'd vanish. One twin was KO'd, the other grabbing him! But then pepperspray, oh god! He'd release, flailing and yelping, but his flailing was enough to toss Hanny down the hall, long enough to gain his bearings. The telekinetic growled, axe lifting up, hurtling towards Jack from behind -- but he was fast. THWUNK! He was hit! And down he went. Stretch was beginning to feel the effects of that gas -- coughing and sputtering. But he became a whirlwind of limbs, whipping about at all in the room, able to leave nasty.. welts, on flesh, before going down.

* Sisip manages to scramble up as Alex blasts Wolfie back and away, she'd have to thank him for that later, to be sure. Being omnomnomed by the fellow certainly wasn't on her bucket list. As she watches StretchArmstrong flail she does some flailing of her own, swirling her arms as she tries to create a buffer wall between her teammates and the faililing, collapsing stretchy fellow.

<Alex`> Alex had an idea on how to deal with mr. stretch, but...it'd go against some of the groundrules, certainly. He was about to activate his comlink to Gains to ask for permission to start slicing off some limbs before his eyes widen just a touch. This distraction was enough for the whirlwind to strike him square in the chest, sending him flying across the hall and crashing to the floor with a rather painful sounding thud, hand raising to his chest and gasping for air. "Nnngh...damn it, that's going to hurt in the morning..."

<Ashe> Thankfully, Sisip's barrier stops the majority of the whiplashing arms, though one lucky shot gets through and makes a rather nasty crack as it impacts Ashe's helmet. She staggers for a moment, seeing stars, before shaking it off. "Good thing I'm indestructible," she says. "Hopefully they're having more luck capturing the target than we are dealing with his goons."

<Jeem> Unfortunately for the telekinetic, Jack never unghosts his body, swinging his staff right through his head while still wraith-like, granting him that startling sensation of his body suddenly submerging into a pool of water, that brief flight response from thinking you might drown... only with no water. His whole goal was to startle him... Jack had no idea what was about to happen that the axe was hurtling towards him from behind. And the axe would find no purchase on his ghostly form, resulting in the axe continuing to hurtle forward.

<Hannibal> As for Hannibal, the toss had given him enough distance and time for the little muppet to gain his bearings. Standing up, the backpack would be opened and the sound of buzzing would fill the air. Buzzing wait... what? Hannibal would reach into his backpack and root around before pulling out a glass jar covered with a mess capped lid. It was the type of jars that insect specimens were transported in. Hannibal would lift it up and stare across at the guy he'd pepper sprayed and grin as held the jar a loft as in a posistion ready to throw. As for the jar.... ARE THOS WASPS!!!!! .... YEP!!!

<Jeem> SUDDENLY!!!...
<Jeem> BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

<MarloCross> <Crippler> Crippler took stock of his surroundings, trying to figure out just what bthe hell was going on. His fists were trenbling with power as he stood in the hole in the wall he'd just made.

<Hannibal> Retcon.. jar full of pissed off bees.

<AnE> Double unfortunate. He was stunned, almost too stunned to move. But not quite! He lunged out of the way -- but not before the axe embedded itself in his shoulder. That could have been his head! TK bled a lot! And soon he'd be passed out from it! Ouch. Cloneboy pauses upon seeing the jar -- sort of, his eyes are mad red and blurry and burny. But he turns, running the other way...and running smackdab into a wall. KO! This leaves Hannibal to deal with... the locked door. And the hallway. In all truth, every badguy is KO'd and accounted for, and Gains chimes in, "You guys get 'em yet? Check out the top floor?"
<AnE> ...and I forgot Sho because I am SO EXCITED ABOUT GMING. Sorry. -.0

<Ashe> Ashe reaches up a hand to the side of her helmet, rubbing at it as if it would make the ringing in her ears stop. "Floor one cleared," she reports, somehow magically knowing that all the goons had been taken down. Deus ex machina much?

<Jeem> Jack grits his teeth as he watches the axe slam into the telekinetic's shoulder. In the scuffle, as he was hurled back against the wall, his multi-spectrum sunglasses had fallen off. "Sorry about that, friend," he says to the downed telekinetic, kneeling to pick up the sunglasses. "That was an unexpected..." Sliding the sunglasses back on... "Axe-ident."
<AnE> In his final moments of consciousness, TK lifts the axe and slams it into Jack's nuts.

* Shannon finally wolfboy was down... shannon winced at the angle his neck went at though.... Not good and she was sure a neck shouldn't bend like that. she settled down on her own two feet next to her teammates. "I agree... that was a toughone. Wolfey just kept going and going..." She hoped he wasn't paralyzed or anything... She looked out for anything else that could be coming... they already dealt with a dracula and a werewolf incident... please no zombies or hastily stitched together abominations... Halloween was months ago!

<Hannibal> Setting his trusty jar-o-bees down, Hannibal would get about giving a round of snds to his four friends, followed by a quick applications of a bunch of rope. About a minute would pass and he'd be sitting on a pile of tied up, gagged and SND'd goons, his jar-o-bees planted a couple of feet to the right of them. "Upstairs all clear mates.. well.. everything but what's behind a big ole door I -
<Hannibal> - found.. hold on let me check me friends 'ere for some ID." and he'd.. search his prisoners.
<AnE> No, he didn't, but he was thinking about it.
<Jeem> While out cold.
<AnE> THAT'S how bad Jack's pun was.

<Alex`> Alex slowly sits up, letting out a low growl as he clutched his chest. With the amount of momentum stretch had in that swing, he knew there was some damage on the inside. He'd have to get checked out when they got back, but for now, he could bear it. Gritting his teeth and leaning against a wall, he glances at Crippler as he surveys the damage before saying over his own com, "Two down, how many on the second floor up?" he asks, hoping Jack and Hannibal would give a count on how many they downed.

<Jeem> "Two down on the second floor. I'm going to head up to help out Hannibal," he says, as he slaps a bandage or two on the downed TK before making his way towards the nearest stairs to head up to join up with the muppet. Once upstairs, he blinks at the door. "That's a big ol' door. Think I should pop my head in?"

<AnE> Anyway. Hannibal would find a variety of cards on the men, but if he tried to use any of them, he would get a negative beep on the lock. He might also notice something... odd, about the wall opposite the door.

<Hannibal> "Ten including clones," quipped Han as he handed Jack the ID cards. Upon noticing something odd about the wall next to the door he'd... stare at it closer to see just what was so odd about it. "Hold on a quick sec.. something 'ere's not quite right."

<Ashe> That wall clearly needs blown up. "Well, ladies, we're going to have to get these lumps out of here before we blow the place up," she tells Sisip and Shannon. She'd tell Marlo too, if he'd stop phasing in and out of reality like that.

* Sisip stands as she looks down at her belly. She wasn't bleeding freely but there was blood. And her suit ruined! Ug. Where does one find a super hero catsuit anyway? Looking over at Ashe she nods, moving over to Wolfie (she had a connection with him now that he's ruined her clothes) and swirls her arms, a cushion of air forming underneath him and lifting him just a bit off the floor. "Someone give him a push?" She was a bit too tired to move him on her own.

<Alex`> "You three going to be alright with that?" he asks Ashe and the girls, slowly pushing himself off that wall as he glances around for the stairs leading up to the second, and then third floor. Something didn't sit right with him...ten including clones? If his guess is right then, there's two on the third floor, two on the second, and two on the first. That leaves four unaccounted for. "I've got a bad feeling that we're not quite done with his lackeys just yet."

<Hannibal> "Lets see.. two.. two.. four.. wait.. how many did we count?"

<Alex`> "Six total, assuming that the clones were really only one person. Four unaccounted for. Neither of them had a gun down here, how about you two?"

<AnE> A vehicle would be waited outside for the men to be hauled away. There were still two that had yet to be seen, but they were more than likely hiding somewhere now, as was Darnell. More than likely... Gains would speak up, "If you've cleared the place out, check around. They say this is the source, but there's no laboratory here." Radio static! "My guys'll pick the men up outside." The wall that Hanny inspected was thin. Flimsy. Like something was hidden behind it.

<Hannibal> "That wall is flimsy, might be somethin' hidden behind it," said Hannibal as he pointed to the wall. "An four not including clones on this floor," he corrected Alex.
<AnE> See?
<Ashe> Amazing.

<Crippler> Looking irritated, Crippler steps into the room with the other, grumbling dissapointedly to himself," Sorry..I got turned around outside..." He'd missed most of the action save for one guy taking a leap that he'd slammed through a wall. Eager to help, Crippler heads to Alex," Need me to knock it down...Got some charge left.."

<Shannon> "Of course..." Shannon would set to pushing the floating comatose wolfman along. They had to get him, stretch armstrong, and wait for the remainder of the team to get out of here before they did anything about the charges. "We should be ok, tie him up keep him knocked out..." And drop them off with the awaiting van outside before coming back in for more.

<Jeem> Jack steps over to the wall, squinting at it. He gives Hannibal a nod. "Let me look." And then he pokes his head through.

<Alex`> "My bad. Then it's eight, with a total of two in hiding...You can help with clearing them out as we go. Did anyone bring any SNDs?" asks Alex as he begins to head for the stairs that'll head up, intending to have Crippler throw them out the window, while Alex uses his powers to just float them down to the ground.

<AnE> Jack would see that the wall was... an elevator! Not a wall at all! Gains would answer Alex quickly, "If you can get them to work... half the campus' inhibitors are shorting out and dying.." He grumbled a little.

* Sisip windmattresses Wolfman and Stretch eventually with Shannon's help, doing the menial tasks that are boring and unadventurous. Next she and Shannon will make sammiches! But really they'll go back in after securing the prisoners and look about, eyes flicking over to Cripplo.

<Hannibal> "Got me a backpack full," said Hannibal. Well.. a backpack full of a number of snds and a crap ton of other stuff. "An don't worry gains, if them assholes wake up and the snds go dead I'll jus' hit em with me bees."

<AnE> "You are not hitting anyone with bees, this ain't the fucking Wicker Man."

<Crippler> A Dissapointed Crippler waits to be asked to assist. He wasn't a leader after all.

<Ashe> "Geez, do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" she asks Gains, shaking her head. "Either of you boys upstairs need a cutting torch, or should I just stand here and contemplate how awesome I am?"

<Alex`> He was just asked. By Alex. "SNDs are out then, unless you want to slap some onto the ones upstairs with you guys." he asks Hannibal and Jack, before gesturing towards Crippler to follow him. "We're going to send the ones further up out the window, and I'll use my powers to just float 'em down to the ground. Can you girls handle things down here for the time being?"

<MarloCross> <Crippler> And follow he does, looking at the rip in the jacket. It gave him another cut to tend to. With a Grumble he says," did we find the target?"

<Jeem> "There's an... elevator beyond the wall," Jack says as he leans back from it. He starts phasing the whole, flimsy wall away, a huge hole carved into it after a few moments.

* Sisip looks over at Cripplo, inspecting his wound as her hand presses on her own. She nods, "Close enough to it." Content that he's not going to bleed like a stuck pig all over the floor she checks his earwig to make sure it's working. Awww she's concerned!

<AnE> Hanny and Jack would be free to use the elevator! It only went up, and then? It only went up one floor. DOwn below, everyone else was free to help haul the baddies out of the house -- though two were still unaccounted for.

<Alex`> "Not yet. We've met our contact, who told us there're only 10 people working tonight. Seven mutants, three humans packing heat...we've downed eight of them. Two unaccounted for...what you're going to help me with is throwing them out a window, or a hole that you can make in a wall. I'll float 'em down to the ground to the girls..." He remembered what Jack was going to have him do earlier, atleast. "We'll be up there soon, Jack. Once Marlo, the girls and I have them all downstairs, we'll be up there with you."

* Shannon yay sammiches! Luckily that wouldn't require great culinary genious. Granted shannon wasn't a bad cook but at the moment? No sense of taste or ability to eat. Things that don't look good to someone doing the real eating. But no, no sammiches right now they had more butt-kicking to do! Shannon floated back into the building once the baddies from this trip were secure. "Sure can, Alex." Back to moving bodies.

<Jeem> Jack drags Hanny-banny-fo-fanny into the elevator. WOOSH UP THEY GO.

<Crippler> After being fussed over, Crippler gives Sisip a pat on the head, "I'm alright...Caught him takin' a piss outside..." Giving her the thumbs up, Crippler heads after Alex to assist his part time trainer.

<Hannibal> "Well mate, looks like we're on point again," says Hannibal as he scoops up his jar of bees and puts it back into his backpack. He'd pause mid way through and pull something out, before zipping the bag back up. Stepping inside, he'd ride the elevator up with Jack. In the mean time, he was putting on a little black bandana that julie had knitted him.

<Ashe> Ashe pulls off an incredible feat of multitasking at this point. Not only does she help haul bodies, but she manages to contemplate how awesome she is AND occasionally sneak a glance at Samus version 1's metal-plated ass. Yes, Ashe is really just that good.

<AnE> Ding! The door to the elevator will swing open, revealing -- a lot of bright lights. It may have taken them some time to adjust their eyes to it. When they finally DO adjust, however, they see.. a bed. A hospital-style bed. The sight was... unfortunate. A woman lie in it, hooked up to a number of machines. Mouse brown hair matted to her face, cheeks sunken in, she looked quite emaciated. She stared blankly up at the ceiling, chest barely moving at the breathed. Several IVs were in her arm, one hooked up to an enormous 'tank'. It was filled with pale blue liquid, continuing to drip into it as it was drawn from one bruised arm. At the desk at her side, a photograph -- a family photograph.

<Hannibal> "What the hell...," was all Hannibal could say. His eyes would zoom in on the family photograph, just in case it was anyone he'd seen before.

<AnE> Meanwhile, downstairs... what was that? A man? Trying to sneak by the group? Long, dark hair? 40s? DARNELL. He was being guarded by one man with a handgun -- actually, it looked more like a little boy.

<Crippler> Commences with helping Alex toss sleepy looking assholes out the windows.

<Jeem> Jack sighs as they step forward into the room. "I was right... Gains, Sisip, guys, we found the source." He stumbles on his words a bit, looking pained as he walks over to the girl hooked up to the machine. "It's a woman. A mutant... being drained of what's got to be the raw Pulse." He looks to the family photograph as well.

* Sisip turns a corner, listening to Jack she almost stumbles right into Darnell and the little boy. Her eyes widen as her hands whip out infront of her, blasting a windtunnel towards the hand holding the gun.

<AnE> Hannibal wouldn't recognize the people in photo, not personally -- but it was the woman and her two sons, at some sort of function, a picnic maybe. Happy-looking! She was probably in her 40s or so. Startling, perhaps, that she could even speak, "..who..who are ... you?" She mumbled. Gains spoke up into the communicators, "...are you fucking serious?" "What..what are you doing here?" She spoke, very, very weakly.

* Shannon Didn't even notice Ashe oggling her armored bottom - Ashe was just that good at multi-tasking. Clean-up wasn't all that hard work, but it was repetative. And probably was a good thing none of the former addicts were in that room or they'd be sick right now. Heck, anyone seeing that would get sick at the thought of it. Sisip attacking snaps Shannon back to the present. She'd move to offer GrouseGirl support.

<Alex`> And then, Alex would finally glance around curiously...christ, what the hell did Jack do to that poor dude? Regardless, he carefully wraps air around them as they're thrown out, one by one to float them down carefully to the ground. Making sure the landing is light so they don't wake up or anything.

<Jeem> "Shh, hon, try and save your breath," he says, standing beside the bed. "We're here to save you." His eyes flick to the series of tubes connected to the poor girl, trying to get a highly-educated idea of what kind of condition the woman is in, if something specific is keeping her alive, etc. "There's enough raw Pulse up here to juice an army."

<AnE> Whoops! The boy's gun was knocked out of his hand, but did that stop him? No. Apparently Vino wasn't entirely correct. The gun began to take itself apart -- then changed. Expanding, shifting. Bars? Bars which impaled ceiling and floor, strategically -- it was making a cage. Around the team members! The boy pointed to the hall, Darnell beginning to rush down it.

<Hannibal> Hannibal stared at the photograph and shook his head. "Gains, we're going to need a medical team here asap," he said through his microphone, giving another glance about the room. Were there any windows of some sort? He didn't know if they should move her through the elevator and through out the house. Could be people hiding out still. Maybe there was a window she could be moved through and lowered to the ground someway.

<Ashe> Wait, suddenly the girls were being caged? No way in Hell was that going to fly with Ashe. Especially when she's trying to ogle! "Buddy, you can't cage a cutting laser," she says as she charges light energy into both hands. She makes two slicing motions with her hands, hoping to completely cut the bars off the side of the cage and allow them to escape.

<Crippler> He heaved a guy out, letting Alex settle the poor saps down, not knowing what was going on down stairs. " First trip...I get beat on by a snot wad. Second, i Shaggy at the van...THird...I beat a guy with a weak bladder and I'm on Sandman detail."

<AnE> "..my kids.. car accident.. they said they'd save them.. if I--" Cough. "-helped them." A long pause, the woman glassy eyed. She was not hooked up to any kind of life support, it seemed. Most of it appeared to just be monitors and a fluid drip. "..they lied. My boys-- my family.. my family died that day.. since then .. I've b-been here..nearly a year.. torture.." She turned her eyes on Jack, breathing heavily, reaching up with a bony hand slowly, "...if.. you want to.. save me.. let me be.. with my boys.." She murmured weakly, her hand falling down a moment later.
* Sisip cries out as things go wrong. "Alex! Cripplo! Darnell's headed outside!" Her hands blast towards the young boy, the wind tunnel weaker than normal, but still with some kick.

<Alex`> That's when his head raises as he hears Sisip yell into the communicator, giving Marlo a look and a little nod as he glances at a wall, as if indicating with his eyes what he should do. He wanted action? He's about to get it. All the while, he glances out a window to see if he can catch Darnell in his sights. "Cripplo? Huh, I'll have to remember that one. Whatever, bust it. We're going to have to fly to catch up."

<Jeem> Jack grimaces. "Hannibal, go get the others. Help them out downstairs."

<AnE> Downstairs, the little boy -- we'll call him... something. He was letting Darnell get away! Fffffffno. And then there were lasers. Goddammit. Unfortunately for Ashe, as soon as the bars were cut, they would shift -- then moving to wrap around the girls like a rope and bind them. Darnell was presently hurrying down the hall as fast as his tired legs could carry him, a briefcase in each hand. The boy grunted, stumbling back as he was struck with wind, nearly hitting a wall -- for a moment, the bars would loosen their grip, but as he gained his bearings, he would tighten it again -- soon, to those with flesh, it would feel like a boa constrictor, squeezing the life out of them. Darnell would fish around for his phone, trying to call for his own backup.

<Crippler> As soon as he heard that, Crippler was out the window, lightening his fall with his Kinetics." It's Crippler, Alex!" He still had to tuck and roll as he hit, but was up in a second, hitting his earwig by pressing his helmet," Where are they pooping out? We're on it!"

* Shannon well this stinks on toast... Sisip knocked the gun away and it went all transformer on them. But not into a robot... The gun turned into a cage! Who saw that coming? Not her! grrr and she couldnt get out without scaring or causing some possibly serious harm to the others in the cage. And the cut bars tiedthem up... This just kept getting better and better... Arms were confined... Flight was a no. Floor may be normal floor but she couldn't lift the cage like this. She gazed right at the boy, aiming between standing bars... and shot her radiation blast from a little used port. Her visor!

<MarloCross> As He touched the ground, he called readied his kinetic reserves, looking for a short leap<end>

<Hannibal> Hannibal would turn his attention around the room, before his eyes caught sight of a small glass sky light. Giving a grunt, he'd hear the commotion over his radio before turning to look around. "Phase me through the floor," he said as he looked to Jack.

<Ashe> Damn it, she's not going to be caged like this! She tries to charge up her energy and cut her way through these new bars, but just doesn't have enough solar juice left to do it. "Damn it! Battery's dead!" she says.

<Jeem> Jack quietly reaches down and takes hold of Hannibal. Hannibal experiences the same phasing sensation as Jack drops him through to the floor below. Then, he stands up, looking back to the girl in the bed. Reaching up, he taps off his communicator, other hand stretching out to brush a lock of hair from the woman's head. "Is that what you really want?"

<Alex`> Meanwhile, Alex himself would hop out of the hole in the wall, careful of his ribs and use some wind to slow his fall and allow him to land with the grace of a cat. Glancing about, he notices Darnell running from the windows he was passing, and began to time his own attack...intending to send a sphere of air through a window further ahead of Darnell himself, and then once it's through, send it flying towards the man to have him tumble back from the force of air expanding infront of him.

* Sisip wheezes loudly as the bars constrict around her, arms pinned to her sides. Well shit! Palms angled towards the floor she leans forward and gives her windblasts all she can, launching herself towards the little boy. She shifts so that her shoulder (and not her head) aim towards him. Screw the fact that he looks like a kid, she can barely breath.

<AnE> SQUEEEZE. The bars wrapped around Ashe and continued to squeeze! If someone didn't intervene, we'd soon have multiple parts of the Firefly! Haw. Oh, but Sisip's hard head...er, shoulder, rams into him! OOF! He falls. And the crushing grip does not tighten! But it doesn't loosen, either. Darnell runs and runs, but as Alex fires air, it bounces and then knocks him back! He clutches his briefcase and whimpers.

<Hannibal> Hannibal in the mean time would land at the top of the stairs heading to the lower floors. The little green muppet would start scurrying down them and towards the direction where Sisip and crew were dealing with the kid. Seeing that he was a little fella himself, it would take him some time to get there.

<AnE> The woman would nod, "..D..don't.. don't want to die.. P..Patient 2...let me go.. as Cathy Wilford.." She looked from Jack over to the photo now, unable to take her eyes off of it, a weak smile lighting up her face, "I will go to heaven.. and be with my boys... Johnathan.. Michael.. they.. they were so.. handsome.. weren't they?" After Sisip windblasted Little Boy Blue... and after Shannon had nuked him... his hair began to fall out. The blast from Shannon was enough to KO him completely, and the bars? They actually loosened their grip, though it would take quite a bit to get them the rest of the way out.

<Ashe> There was only one thing left she could do at this point, and while it wasn't the best of options, it was either this or die a horrible death. Gathering up the last of her energy, she would convert her own biological energy into pure light energy - and for but a few moments, would seem to be fully composed of living light. With any luck she would be able to completely melt these bonds in those few moments, because when all that energy expends itself, she returns to her normal physical state and will quickly fall unconscious.

<Alex`> "Crippler, see if you can help the others." And with that said and done, he begins to walk slowly towards a window...an unopened one, and hold his palm out towards it, Pushing forward just an inch, he lets a burst of air shoot forth with every intention of breaking the window open, sending the shards of glass flying inside, putting them between Darnell and the boy. "Henry Darnell...who is that child?"

<Jeem> Jack smiles and nods. "Yeah... yeah, they were handsome boys, Cathy," he says, picking up the picture frame. He places it down into her hand, continuing to brush his fingers through her hair. "You were a good mother to them. I can see it." He takes a deep breath, as his hand slips under the back of her head, down to rest beneath her neck. "Can see the love in their eyes."

<Hannibal> Hannibal in the mean time would have gotten down to the bottom floor in time to see the small form of what appeared to be a kid go down under Sisip. "Jack wait, we've got a kid down 'ere," he said over the intercom. "Everybody back up, back up, let me get a look at him!" shouted Hannibal as he ran forward.

* Sisip 's glad Shannon has such good aim. She takes a deep breath as she rolls off, squirming as she tries to move for Han.. alas.. she's tied the hell up by metal bars.

<AnE> Gains was also confused about being unable to get into contact with Jack! "Where the hell is Sterling? What's he doing? Anyone?" Confused! Darnell grunted, squealing again as the window shattered! "He..he's my bodyguard!" He stammered. Ashe was powerful enough to melt the bars that bound her! And then pass the hell out. Cathy would hold the picture close to herself, letting her eyes close, the image's contents burned into the back of her mind -- one could imagine that it was there for a while now, being the only thing she could see for a year. "Thank you.. you are.. a very kind.. kind young man.. thank you..my boys thank you.. too.." Fortunately for Hannibal, that kid looked like nobody in the picture.

<Crippler> printing like a crazed linebacker at the downed Darnell. His eyes locked on as he neared and reached a kinetic charged hand out to grab the whimpering target. He reached outward with a trenbling, Kinetic charged mit and grabbed Darnell by the collar.. His eyed snapped back, looking at Alex through the holes in the helmet," What? What's wrong in there?" So, he'd ask, activating his earwig," Sis? Everything Ok in there?"

<Ashe> Hooray for freedo-*THUNK*

<Hannibal> "Shit.. shit!" snarled Hannibal as he got to the kid. "SHIT!" he shouted. "Jack, it's not him.. nevermind.. I thought.. shit!" snarled Hannibal, before he'd turn around and kick Ashe's foot for some... unknown reason.. hrmm, wonder what that could have been for?

* Sisip grunts, "You able to bend bars somehow Kid? Could really use it right now." Small pufts of windpower roll her uncerimoniously down the hall cause she can't bend metal.

* Shannon ok the threat was neutralized but iyt was only a little boy! She'd nuked him!... Not that hard... She hadn't meant to hit him hard... The radioactive mutant struggled to get herself free from the bars, ug they were stuck good. She wiggled and squirmed not seeming to care that she was scratching her armor up, it smelled (Though she couldn't smell it herself) and she'd just KO'd a little boy! Still wrapped up she would float on out of the cage's remains... Most people seeing her in the suit assumed it made her stronger, but no not really. While it did provide her with a physical form the armor itself made her actual powers weaker. Still though she'd float over with Sisip.

<Alex`> he narrows his eyes just a touch before he holds out his left hand...this time, letting 1,200 volts of dark purple electricity shoot out of his fingers and into Darnell. Yes, he's effectively tazing him, and intending to fry the phone in his hands by overloading it. It's only for about 2 seconds though, before the electrical charge dissipates entirely, saying "He shouldn't be awake after that."

<Jeem> Jack can't hear anything anyway. Communicator was turned off! Leaning over, he presses a gentle kiss to Cathy's forehead, closing his eyes. "Give them my best wishes, Cathy Wilford," he says, his voice hitching, a tear trickling down his cheek as he phases his hand into her neck, resting his chin against the top of her head as he sees her off.

<Alex`> He's going to let Hannibal answer Gains' question, however. Solely because he has no idea where Jack's gotten to, or why.

<Crippler> He keeps a grip on Darnell, keeping his black eyes and metalic helmet looking right at him," You know Me...I just punch...How thick? You know I specialise in bAASARGH!!!!" Alex would have done well to let Crippler know he was about to ELECTROCUTE THE GUY HE WAS HOLDING. Crippler drops Darnell, gripping his left hand, screaming into the earwig," JESUS FUCK!!!"

<Hannibal> "Think the kid's out cold Sisip," said Han as he pointed to the little fella on the floor that Shannon had KO'd. It never even occured to him that she had been referring to him. Looking around, he'd suddenly turn back to the others. He'd be about to say something when Gains comes over the intercom. "With the woman upstairs, I came down to check on everyone Gains," he said. He didn't mention anything about what he had a sense Jack was doing. Mainly because he'd do the same thing too.

<Alex`> No, Shocking would be Marlo knowing about the conversation from earlier.

<AnE> "Sterling? Where the fuck is Sterling?" Gains continued to bitch in the meantime! Darnell remained a quiver mess, whimpering like a baby. THE LITTLE BOY GES LEIUKEMIA AND DIES THANKS TO SHANNON. No, I'm kidding! Darnell howled for a second -- and then passed out as Alex tazed him, bro. Cathy was silent, but smiling, as everything plunged into darkness. Smiling for the first time in over a year. Marlo gets tazed, and Blatant Boy laughs somewhere. So, everything's cleaned up! Everything. Someone should suggest they get the fuck out of there and blow the place sky high.

<Ashe> Ashe is suggesting that in the completely trippy nightmare she's having, but nobody seems to be listening.

<Alex`> "...well, you're tougher than you let on." Then again, chances are that if Alex was teaching Marlo anything, he's done far worse than taze him. "Sorry about that. I didn't see you get in there to pin him down...thought you were going to go help the girls out. Seemed like they were blocked off from chasing Darnell by something."

* Sisip sighs. "Could someone get me out of this.... please... "

<Jeem> Jack taps his communicator. "All my phasing shorted out my communicator for a sec. I'm back. She died, Gains. I think she was on her way out when we got in here... her vitals are trashed." Reaching out, he takes the picture frame, pulling the photo from it, slipping it into his pocket. "We blow the building, and we'll blow the Pulse reserves with it."

<AnE> "...what?" Gains didn't quite buy it. But this wasn't something he was going to start discussing on public channels. He'd deal with Hack later. "All right. You guys get the hell out of there, ASAP. Transport should be taking the guys you knocked out -- except one who apparently has an axe wound? Yeah, he'll be driven to the hospital first..."

<Crippler> Crippler falls to all foursfor a moment before wobbling to his feet, heading back into the house, buzzing in over the com, c-Commin', Sis...j-Just...gotta...Argh fuck my head.." Electricity and Crippler were not good friends. Inside he staggers, getting angrier with each step as he heads over to Sisip to help with the bar situation.

<Hannibal> "Well... um... the girls are a little.. tied up.. right.. know what nevermind," said Hannibal. Unlike *some* people, he knew a bad pun when he stepped on it. "They're kinda restrained, so I'll be needin' some 'elp gettin' em out of the building," stated the little muppet. "An by 'elp I mean, somebody else to do it."

* Sisip sighs and scowls, still laying on the ground, still wrapped up in pipe. "Come on.. there's got to be someone who can get me out of this?"

<Hannibal> He's like.. two and three quarter feet tall after all.

<Ashe> But he's so cute and fluffy! 8D

<Shannon> and julie didn't do it!

<Alex`> Suddenly it clicks in his mind. Why Jack went silent for a period of time...he didn't want anyone else to hear what was being said while the woman that Hannibal had mentioned, died. He felt his respect for Jack shoot up a notch, knowing the difference between letting a person go, and when to save someone despite how futile it is. "...We need to get these girls out of those bars they're wrapped up in, it sounds like...or we could just carry 'em home and let the human blow torch do it for us." Aka, Shinn. Still, he makes his way towards where he knew the girls were, intending to go and pick up atleast one of them. Two, he couldn't...his body couldn't take it. So, he grabs Shannon, since he's certain Marlo and Jack will grab Sisip and Ashe. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind."

<Hannibal> "Think we're gonna need all three of ye guys to carry the girls out," he said as he looked around the hall they were in. "Guess that leaves me to set off the fireworks then," said Hannibal with a smirk. Suddenly his mind would start working and he'd realize something. "We don't happen ta have a detonator for em do we?"

* Sisip 's voice was staring to tinge with frustration and irritation. "Goddamit just find a way to free us, now. Not when we get home. This is rediculous.

<Jeem> Jack gives Cathy's hand a soft squeeze, and then phases down through the floor, landing in a crouch on the next floor, then to the next floor with the same action. He makes his way out to where the girls are locked in their steel prison, narrowing his eyes. With little ado, he grabs the bars locking Sisip up and phases away large chunks of them, freeing her quite quickly. Then, he heads to Shannon's bars and does the same thing. "Sorry, babe, Shannon. I was stuck upstairs."

<Hannibal> "Like.. a long range detonator?"

<AnE> "Make it fast, kids. Those devices are timed -- they're going off in less than five minutes, then Ms. Myers will be finishing the job." Why, yes, he totally pulled that out of his ass and forgot to tell them!

<Hannibal> "... Wait what you already trigger em?" asked Han, a look of "are you kidding me" on his face?

<Ashe> Except that Ashe had totally called that one earlier on. Too bad she's not conscious to laugh her ass off about it and say she told you all so.

* Sisip stands and gives Jack a bit of a hug, nodding. She turns to Shannon. "Ready?"

<Alex`> "I'd try, but after that hit I took earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if I had a few broken or cracked ribs. It's bad enough- Wait, five minutes? ...fuck me dead." And with that, he sets Shannon down, groaning ever so softly in pain and sitting her on the ground with her back against the wall as he asks, "You able to get these off on your own? We need to bail, now."

<Sisip> We don't, Han. Shannon will. Now lets get out of here.

<Hannibal> Hannibal glanced around and then with a kick off a nearby wall he'd land on Jack's shoulders. "Like 'ell I'm trustin' me stubby legs ta get me outta 'ere."

<Crippler> Reaching back, Crippler angles himself, looking at the angles he could punch from. Then He steps back," I can't get an accurate enough punch...It'd dent it back into you and pin you more...even if i used a ridge hand swing, It'd cut into you."

<Jeem> JACK DEALT WITH THE BARS KTHX

<Alex`> Jack is god.

* Shannon And she was carried off like a piece of luggage depsite the fact she could still fly as she was! Well... Float.. it probbaly wouldn't be a very good idea for Shannon to do more than a float as she was. Still it was embarassing to be carried like this. Stupid metal bars... Ah, thank you Jack! "Thanks, Jack... Was getting tiresome being locked up like that. ad thanks any way to you too Alex, but we gotta go now! Wait... What? Finish it off?" She sulked and grumbled but concented. And they were out of the building.. Time to make some fireworks. Once everyone was a safe distance away.

<MarloCross> ((THen scratch my post))

* Sisip runs over to Ashe, swirlywind lifting her as she moves her passed out friend towards the door quickly. "I've got Ashe, lets go"

<Alex`> Meanwhile, since no one else was going to, Alex was going to have to pick up Ashe...grunting just a bit and shifting her weight in his arms, mentally noting to himself that she's going to kill him if she found out he was carrying her. Or atleast, he suspected she was going to kill him.

<Ashe> Well, it's either get carried off by a buffoon or get blasted to subatomic particles by Shannon. You're the lesser of two evils, so you'll only get a minor beating this time.

<AnE> Whether or not the group exits the building (No, really, gtfo.) in a timely manner, a chain reaction begins -- the explosives begin to knock out the weakest points of the mansion. It'd rumble, but instead of exploding, it would cause many parts of the building to begin imploding upon themselves. However, it was not enough to completely demolish itself, as Gains had mentioned earlier. But the pretty mansion is suddenly not so pretty.

<Jeem> "We're out of here! Let's go go go!" Jack does his best Usain Bolt impression.

<Ashe> The Homeowner's Association is going to write nasty letters about this, no doubt.

<Alex`> Alex is already moving, already shifting the armored girl in his arms repeatedly to shift about her weight a little and make sure she's not putting too much pressure on his ribs, muttering under his
breath, "Damn armor. I say we ditch it and throw her in the trunk." Still, for all his complaints, he does exactly what's expected of him - carry her to safety and once they're back at the SUV, buckle her in securely before taking a seat in the back himself, clutching his side with a light grit of his teeth.

<Crippler> Ok never mind that Too. He went to Help Ashe and Alex AGAIn jumps to do what Crippler was about to to. He stopped only to see Ashe. Crippler is in a daze from the electric shock and is unable to get completely as the building goes off....Behind him. Able to absorb the kinetics, Crippler goes flying, feeling some heat burning his jacket. He would land right infront of the others with an " Uhhhhhgh.....fuck."
* Sisip goes with the crew, staying close to Jack as possible.

<Jeem> On the plus side, Marlo gets to do a 'leaping away from an explosion' shot people pay 13 bucks in theaters to see.

<Hannibal> But not as close as Han seeing that he's riding like a little kid on his shoulders.

<Ashe> Ashe is still unconscious, though! Damn it, she really wanted to be awake for this part.

<AnE> Gains has cameras on his car. He's totally recording this.

<Jeem> Asshole wants to sell the rights to Michael Bay.

<Ashe> And Ashe'll probably get billed as a generic mutant henchman or something. Fuckers.

* Shannon Sigh, it was boom time, but hey everyone was out. This was a place of evil time to burn the pulse facotry or processing center or whatever this place was off the map. "Everyone take cover get far away." Filter levels checked for safety once again. Shannon would launch off into the air and wait for her friends and teammates to get away before she'd begin the barrage attack on the house. boom boom boom boom BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM and yes some part of her was having fun at doing this.

<AnE> And in a blaze of glory, the house went down, along with everything in it. Pulse's influence would continue to be felt in the form of processed, synthesized fluid. But that, with time, would fade. Darnell would find himself question, and more than likely later, arrested. To most, it would be considered a success, with no loss of life and no need to horrifically injure those they were sent to capture (except for one guy who has an axe in his shoulder, but he'll be okay.), but to others... it was a bittersweet ending. So ends the Amp and Pulse sagas. Fin~

<Marlo> Reaching up, Marlo pulls the helmet off with a groan as the BIG Explosion was going off...THank god he was only there for that small one. THat last Boomie would have turned him into a bag of bone dust. Still laying on his back, Marlo tried to wet his lips. The electric shocks tend to dry one out.

<Ashe> So, who's up for some McDonald's?

<Jeem> Credits roll. DIRECTOR: Michael Bay.

<MarloCross> "Can some one help me up?

<Shannon> BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

<Alex`> And Alex? His eyes close as he slumps in his seat, holding his side with one hand and gritting his teeth, letting all the exhaustion finally hit him. Even suppressed, he was heavily drained...some say it'd take a nuke to wake him up right now. They'd be wrong.

* Sisip stays close by Jack, fairly sore and aching, knowing that he -himself- was in a bad way also, but more emotionally. Since Sisimun is exhausted she just curls up with Jack in the back of the SUV and elts someone else drive.

<Marlo> And the door opens to the transport...Marlo wanted in...Was there room?

<Jeem> There's always room for Jello. Erm. Marlo.

<Ashe> He can sit with the corpses in the back.

<Hannibal> Hannibal would watch the house go up in nuclear flames, the smallest member of the team watching the mansion dissapear in the blast. Letting go of Jack's shoulders he'd drop to the ground and take a few steps forward before turning to glance back to Jack with an all knowing look. Later, in the van, he'd be sitting in the back with Jack and Sisip. This will.. likely leave either Shannon or Marlo to drive. Because Sisip and Jack are cuddling, Alex is sleeping and Han well.. he'd drive if Gains would let him.

<Ashe> You can't even reach the pedals, dude.

<Hannibal> He'd glue the bee jar to his foot.

<Marlo> Is then in the front passenger seat, muttering about beating the godfearing shit out of Alex...I wonder what for?

<Jeem> Jack gives Hannibal a squint of his eyes and turns to walk into the van, obviously a bit unnerved by what he did. Jack will let somebody else drive, resting with Sisip in the back of the van, holding her gently on the way back to Salem.

<Marlo> "So Uh.. Who's Drivin'? I ain't got my permiot yet..."

<Ashe> So who's driving this bandwagon?

<Hannibal> "Gains won't let me drive."

<AnE> THE CAR, IT GOES ON AUTOPILOT. OHGOD.

<AnE> JK. Shannon can drive.

<Shannon> and she doesn't have to be the car via a transformer suit either!

<AnE> META won't give Gains the cars with autopilot yet, unfortunately. He sees how you bitches handle helicopters.

<Ashe> Seriously, though...who's up for some McDonald's?

<Hannibal> Hannibal just wants to go home and curl up in Julie's sock drawer.
<Hannibal> He knows about what happened upstairs.

<Ashe> Better than in her underwear drawer.

* Shannon to cobalt! And lets hope all goes well because a robot driving is conspicuos!

<AnE> A cop pulls the SUV over. And despite all the KO'd people in the back seat, he just informs the robot girl driving that she had a busted taillight.

<Hannibal> Though only gets part way through his sentence when a raccoon drives off in his cruiser.

<Jeem> JACK MERCY KILLS HIS ASS TOO.

<Ashe> Don't worry, Wolverine will stop that evil raccoon. I mean, er...snikt snikt bub snikt bub bub bub snikt heh bub heh snikt bub.