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The Rabbit Hole
Topic Started: May 18 2010, 11:01 PM (1,045 Views)
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OOC: Closed to me and Zau for the time being.

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At an undisclosed location, Ben Pezelli would awaken from his sleep, not where he had been when he went to bed the previous evening. He would discover he was bound to a table, with several tubes and machines connected to him, displaying various vital signs.

He's awake one gentleman would say, his face shrouded in shadow. Ben wouldn't be able to see his face in the poorly lit laboratory, but he would hear a vear distinct, gravely voice.
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A lesser man wouldn't be able to cope with waking up as a human pincushion in a strange place with a stranger apparently watching him. A lesser man would freak out, flip shit, shit bricks, lose it, get very perturbed, and possibly write a strongly worded letter at a later date.

Dammit, Ben was a lesser man.

His first reaction to his predicament-scream. When that didn't work, he'd scream some more. And just for good measure, he'd scream even more.

When all that was done...well, Ben was no quitter. He'd keep screaming.

At least, he would until his throat clenched up-you can only keep that stuff up for so long, after all. When he finally decided to be quiet, he'd glance into the shadows, obviously still not nearly ok.

"Where the hell am I? Who are you?!"
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Where you are is unimportant... Ben, is it? the man said. Benw ould notice the man wore a simple black suit, and had grey hair. He approached Ben, but was careful to stay within a safe range. Likewise, I am nobody worth remembering. I'm just a man interested in... gifted people

He looked over the readouts on the various machines. He noticed a few peculiar readings, but nothing startling. Ben wasn't who he was looking for, but he might just be special himself. Not that he would be aware of it, at least now.

Do you know anyone special, Ben?
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"Special?! What the hell are you talking about?! Let me go!"

Ben would struggle some more against his captivity, but he was well aware by this point that he wouldn't be able to escape by his own merit. Unfortunately, he couldn't give up-these people were apparently after Phil or that Ali girl he was hanging out with lately. Not that he could actually take Phil...he's just too strong...but still! I need to keep fighting!

"What do you mean by 'special'? Do I know any retards? Is that what you're trying to say? My cousin's handicapped, asshole!"
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The man chuckled, pulling out a syringe and filling it. The solution inside would feel like acid burning through Ben's veins once injected. Oh no, nothing of that sort. You know, people who can fly, or make duplicates of themselves, telepaths. Anything of that sort.

He would approach the immobilized Ben and jam the needle into his shoulder. The reaction would be a bit slower there, but it would still be quite painful. So, do you know any telepaths, Ben?
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A scream would be the man's only answer-partially because whatever he injected into Ben fricken hurt, and partially because Ben needed to stall. He couldn't think under this pain-he needed to make sure he didn't say anything. Saying anything risked giving away the name of his friend out of sheer pain, so he had to keep away from words.

That Ali girl...she's a telepath, right? And Phil said he's starting to get words with the emotions too...why are they doing this?
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The man shook his head in disapointment. He always had more fun when they gave in to the torture. Unfortunately, Ben didn't look like he was giving in any time soon. And the man had other things to do today. If you won't talk to me, maybe you'll talk to my friend he finally said.

He would leave the room, locking it behind him, and walk down the corridors of the building. He was going to retrieve a telepath whom could force the information out of Ben. They had ways of making him talk.

Ben either needed to escape or have Phil come and save him.

OOC: Why haven't you made a "Ben's house" thread for us to investigate, btw?
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Ben's head collapsed backwards, breathing a sigh of relief. His body still hurt, but he was at least free from the present interrogation. He knew more was on it's way, but it was difficult to dismiss the elation he felt.

Hurry the hell up, Phil.

OOC: Been slightly busy. Getting on that now.
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OOC: This is where Iron Lantern, Impulse and Illuminatra arrive.

IC: Iron Lantern would fly in about two blocks away from the warehouse, landing and waiting to converse with Impulse and Illuminatra about the game plan. There was no telling what they would encounter in the warehouse, and it was better to play it safe than to be sorry.
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Impulse would land soon after GL, and would wait for Illuminatra before he'd get into his battle plans-Illu and Imp already knew that they made a fairly decent team, and Impulse had only gotten stronger. Similar to last time, Illuminatra could offer up defense, while Impulse and Lantern handled the offence, in addition to Green Lantern being able to make their advance rather easy, since there would be no cameras or security systems that would betray the trio.

He'd relay his ideas to the others as soon as all three were present.

"Sound good?"
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Alairis would follow the pair as she touched down to the earth again. She climbed off her broom and hand to wiggle a bit. Riding a broom was fun and all, but it was a bit uncomfortable on the tush region. ‘Next time I’m making a seat on it.’ She made the note.

The plan was sound as it could get going in without knowing much. “I can scan the area mentally and if I find any guards; I can probe them a bit?” After all, she didn’t like just being on the defense all the time.
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I just scanned the security system Iron Lantern said to the others, There are no less than 50 personnel on duty. Let me try and freeze the security system. He sent the mental command, but was dropped to his knees by another migraine, though weaker this time. It was as he suspected.

Their software has that same firewall up that blocked me at Ben's. I can probably shut down security systems and cameras up close, but my powers are limited here. They're ready for us. Lead the way when you're ready, Phil. I'll take care of any security systems and cameras we encounter along the way.
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And so, Impulse lead the way. He had a very one track mind right now-hurt people until he found Ben. He didn't have the power he had now the last time he had a chance...at this point, he might have actually been able to legitimately hurt them.

It made him feel good.

And he decided that the joy should be spread.

He searched his companions for any hint of confidence at all-and, using his power, made it soar. He would then let their enhanced confidence wash over him, ripple through him-those three would walk into that place feeling like the whole thing was going to be simple.

Likewise, he'd keep in mind that his morale-altering ability could be used offensively too, if for any reason, someone he was fighting couldn't be immediately dropped. Should they come up against anyone that survived his initial "hurt them" method, they'd quickly find that if they had any hint of fear or a lack of confidence against metas, that very fear would be enhanced-greatly.

"Do whatever you like, Ali. You know where you fit better than I do. Let's wreck things."
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50 personal. That was a lot. She realized feeling a bit daunted. Humans were far more dangerous than rats. Still, Ben was in trouble and it was up to them to help him.

Hearing that the wasn’t just going to order her around anymore and that she had free rein of her powers gave her a bit of a boost. She stood a bit taller and felt her confidence returning. 50 people vs 3 upset Supers. The odds didn’t seem so bad.

Alairis let her mind wander outwards. Sweeping over the surface thoughts of the people inside the building. There was a small hope that she might, just might be able to find Ben as well. It would be nice to have some confirmation as well as knowing just what kind of condition he was in.

(edit: Oh shush Raph. XD)
Edited by AleenaGrey, Jun 1 2010, 11:51 AM.
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OOC: Don't you hate it when your supper gets upset? :D

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Illuminatra's mental sweep would tell her that Ben was in level 3 of the basement, three stories below ground. Why a warehouse had three basement sublevels was anyone's guess, but it was more than likely because this warehouse was a cover for something else.

Iron Lantern could feel his confidence boosting as they approached the doors. He would deactivate the security measures on the door, making it forcibly open, and then have his blackberry set to automatically interface with and hack all security cameras within a 20 foot radius of his position. Any infected camera would play a loop of the last few minutes until they passed by.

Fortunately, the mental powers of the other two supers would notify them of most people within the building, unless there was someone who had mental powers to block their own. It wouldn't be too hard to take out a guard from their blind spot using telekinesis from around the corner or light manipulation from under their feet or something. The only issue would be if they ran into someone with specialized gear or another super.

Also, if the minds of the flunkies were scanned, they would only know that they were guarding the facility, and were not wholly aware of its purpose or what they were guarding it for. Clearly only a handful of people at the top knew that.
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Aware or not, there wasn't much in the way of mercy in Impulse's mind-he'd at least try to avoid killing them outright.

However, that wouldn't keep bodies from flying whenever they were unfortunate enough to have Impulse lay eyes upon them. He counted three guards, two of which were taken unaware. The third had time to raise his weapon before not only having it ripped out of his grasp, but then slammed against his skull.

The first two guards, the ones who had been taken without realizing the storm of metas coming for them? They had been tossed about a dozen meters down the nearest hall. Impulse would ensure that they didn't land on their necks at least, but he didn't slow their flight towards the wall-just made it quicker. Both guards would find themselves unconscious, but alive nonetheless.

The third guard...well, Impulse wasn't as sure about him. It was very possible he could die from that blow, but for the time being, Impulse could feel that he was still alive through the man's subconscious thoughts and emotions.

Ali, if you could heal that guard just a little bit...I'd like to avoid as many deaths as possible, at least while we're dealing with pawns.

The commotion caused by two guards suddenly flying through the air would undoubtedly summon reinforcements...it was just a matter of walking through them now.
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The sweep didn’t yield a lot of things, but it did locate Ben. ‘I found Ben!’ She thought at both her companions and gave them his general location. She kept part of her attention locked on to him. Hopeing to remain linked. She didn’t alert him to her prescience. Unsure of just what was happening, but she did look at his surface thoughts to try and get an idea of his condition.

Alairis let Impulse take the lead with Lantern. She was saving most of her energy for the fight out, or for if they got into a bigger jam. She bit her lip and shot Impulse a look as he asked her to heal the guard. She wasn’t too keen on helping the enemy, but she didn’t want to be responsible for a death. Even round-about. She passed her hand over the man’s head and poured a little bit of her healing ability. She didn’t heal him enough to wake him up, but enough that he’d only have a headache not a skull fracture.
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What are you thinking! Lantern exclaimed as guards went flying across the hallways. You couldn't slam them against the walls sideways or something, you have to warn everyone else we're coming?

Alarms began to sound as one of the guards nearby saw a body go flying and triggered it. Lantern had no point in shutting them down, since someone would just trip them again. The main issue was there were now a dozen guards at the end of the hallway, firing a rapid volley of bullets at them.

James was quick to respond, pointing his hand forward and using magnetism to slow the bullets, letting them drop harmlessly to the ground. Things jut got a lot more complicated he would comment.

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The agent whom had been interrogating Ben would be distracted by the alert, changing course to find the intruders. The two telepaths would be unable to detect him, because it so happened he had trained his mind against such mental invasions (Calm mind level 5)
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Quit worrying-things just got more fun is all.

Impulse would strip each of the firing guards' weapons away from them, two or three at a time. Having taken their weapons, each one would in turn be slammed against the wall nearest them, or slammed into each other, or simply lifted into the air to be dropped, or slid across the ground, or any other manner of ways Impulse could think of to deal with them, again, just a few at a time. Impulse frowned. It seems there's a limit still...dammit...

Impulse, upon hearing that Ben had been located, started his own sweep, but found nothing-Ali was better at that trick than he was, it seemed. My range isn't like hers. Not with thoughts...but maybe emotions. He changed his focus and found Ben almost instantly-his emotions power obviously was more effective than his thought reading.

Removing the guards and searching was done simultaneously-it wasn't quick work, but when they couldn't use their own weapons, it was effective work. Any guards who stayed conscious after the initial assault would find any inkling of fear in their minds elevated to the level of outright terror, and would THEN have their heads painfully slammed into the floor. Once more, Impulse hoped to avoid deaths, but he couldn't be sure if the number of thoughts and emotions matched the number of bodies-so much sensory information to process, so little time to sort through it all.

"I know you can't shut down the security system...but you can't alter it? Such as changing the sirens to make a different frequency, one that people can't hear? Not that it really matters now that everyone knows we're here, but still."

Ben's drugged...and afraid...but there's no one near him. At least, I don't feel any emotions. Ali, are you picking anything up? Think you can see if Ben's thinking about what he's afraid of?
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Alairis rolled her eyes. ‘Fun?’ Having a hoard of armed guards descending on them didn’t seem like fun to her.

Impulse couldn’t seem to deal with all of them at once. So Alairis pitched in. Her hands swept in front of her into a closing motion. Just as two shields appeared against the walls and slammed together. Catching whoever was unfortunate enough to be between them. Slamming them hard enough to injure or knock them out.

She snorted at Impulse as he asked about he alarm. “And whose fault is that, Imp?” She glared briefly at him.

Turning most of her attention onto Ben, she concentrated. ‘I can only see surface thoughts, but from what I gathered they’ve been tourchering him and he’s afraid he might talk.’ It was then that Alairis deceded to reach out to Ben. To protect him a little and perhaps give him some hope.

‘Ben?’ She gave him a mental prod. ‘Ben, its me Iluminatra? Can you hear me? Were coming.’
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