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Storming the Castle; Hellfire Infiltration Team
Topic Started: Jun 18 2012, 12:45 AM (765 Views)
Gambit(Matt)
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Kinetic Energy Manipulation, Empathic Charm
Crack!

Remy drew his staff down on the wrist of the man nearest them as the four of them teleported into the console area. He then twirled the other end in an upward arc to drive it into the man's jaw before twisting it around the man's arm to pin it the opposite direction of the Cajun. In one fluid move, he laid a finger over the trigger of the guard's gun and unloaded two rounds into the chest of another man who had just drawn a bead on his Queen. Releasing the first man's arm, Gambit slammed an elbow into the man's face before whirling, producing a knife from what seemed to be air and let it fly into the inside bicep of another, blood gushing from around the blade that had been driven deep into the man's flesh.

Remy whirled just in time to see the others inhabiting the area put down nicely by the little clone that had accompanied him as the Black Knight. The Cajun whistled through his teeth, “Looks like I'm gonna have to up my game or Lady Braddock here might wanna unhorse me.”

Easing up beside the woman he had been commissioned to protect, Remy leaned up against the nearest wall and folded his arms across his chest, his staff resting in one of the crooks as his eyes rested on what Max was doing. Betsy provided the codes, and Max – more accurately The Shroud – input them into the console, yet he still kept his attention on the two doorways that led out of this control room.

Betsy breathed her question and Gambit couldn't help but follow it up with one of his own, “'Xactly what is it you're lookin' for? How to kill 'em? Or maybe who all they've compromised? That'd be a piece of information. Think we've got killin' em down to an art, non?”

He glanced at Betsy, wondering what she'd found inside the minds of these men that she hadn't volunteered. Remy wasn't crazy about telepaths, but that was because he knew exactly what he'd do were he one of them... and he knew Elizabeth Braddock well enough to know that she was an opportunist. If she could hang onto knowledge without endangering their lives... Gambit's money said that's exactly what she would do. Exactly how loaded was that whispered question?
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Max_Coleridge
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"That would help, Gambit," the Shroud said as he zeroed in on his target and established an outside link. "And I won't pass up such valuable information; it would help to know who we can trust. But what they've already done, that's the past and nothing we can do anything about; it's what they have planned for the future that I want to know." After a long, silent moment he added, "And where they're keeping the people they've taken. I walked into this hoping they'd take me where they took Tessa but," he scowled deeply, "she's not here".

He turned his scruffy and gaunt, eyeless-face toward Betsy, as information on the screen blurred past, drained away by Hellfire's other technopaths, not as skilled as Tessa but compete enough. "It's like nothing we've faced before, not even Apocalypse," he said ominously and not lightly dropping the name of the god-like mutant who had killed off a sixth of the world's population into a tailspin it still hadn't recovered from and probably never would. "What I've learned here," he began and then stopped as the transfer signaled - completed. "There's no time; I'll tell you and Forge, and the rest of the courts later. Everyone needs to be prepared." If his words until then hadn't brought the seriousness of situation into focus, then his offer to share information should've chilled the blood of anyone who knew him; the Shroud held information close to his chest and didn't give it away unless the sky was caving in around their ears.

Getting to his feet, his will opened a portal of darkness in front of Gambit. "We need a large explosion, through there," he indicated.

After the charge went through, explosions rocked the bowels of the secret prison, buckling the walls and bringing the ceiling down. The chain reaction of explosions would bring the place crashing down in only a few minutes. The Shroud opened another portal and called to his little knight, who was moving from one fallen guard to another, slicing buttons from their shirts; their stories would make interesting reading.

"Time to leave, Longshot," he called to his knight as the Black King swept out through the portal. "We have much to do."
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