The Labyrinth

[dakota]

Khris simply nodded to Tiger and began to crawl up the side at his usual pace. He knew he'd be the last one up at his slow rate, but it wasn't a race and the last thing he wanted was to slip. He wanted to say something smart to Jeckle, but held his tongue with a smirked glance, knowing she'd need to concentrate.

[shiivster]

*Jeckle finishes with her scanning and her route is finalized. she then turns to wait for Dante's reply of his weight and getting ready to wear the harness.

'oh right ... i forgot. maybe you can float up on your own, and i'm making a fool of myself for assuming you need help. i'll take my coat back and put the harness away then. don't want to insult you by assuming something'

[tag - dante]

[albatross]

Tiger turned to start her own ascent, confident that Dante could either get up the shaft himself or get a lift from Jeckle.

She quickly passed by Shroud. "I'll scout ahead," she said in a friendly tone in passing. She leapt up the old elevator shaft about forty to fifty feet up at a time, jumping from one side to the other.

After a little while, she catches up to Patriot and Wind Chill and passes them keeping an eye out for traps and ambushes.

Nearly sixteen stories up, she pauses on a ledge.

Unbeknownst to her, she stops right in front of someone she used to know - when they both lived on another continent. As she looks up the elevator shaft, Charger recognizes her as Captain Algren, the leader of the Australian Special Forces company known as Black 13.

Her blue eyes and long brown hair were unmistakable. Although was wearing armor, she had no helmet. She was wearing a black long coat over her armor, and three revolvers were visible in holsters and an AK knockoff with a gernade launcher was thrown over her shoulder.

Charger had just finished his errand, and was about to start back to his place when he spotted his former officer. He had only served a few missions with Black 13, but it had been much different than his time with the secret service. Black 13 wasn't an espionage unit, it was military, though it tended to be deployed into complicated situations. Even the humanitarian mission Black 13 had been assigned to had turned out to be delivering food through a war zone. Captain Algren's company hadn't participated in much cloak and dagger - they were fighters and their missions involved fighting.

[tag: Charger]

[Renekin Skywalker]

Charger looked over, smirking. "This isn't the safest place to stop, y'know." He says, smirking through the mask. "Some thugs just got the crap beat out of them on this level."

Sitting upsidedown to the rest of the world, his gravity plain power in effect, He watched the back of her head.

(tag)

[albatross]

Captain Algren turned towards the sound slowly. She doesn't flinch or reach for her guns, and when she sees Charger, she stops turning. She followed the sound of his voice to locate him.

She opens her mouth and then closes it again for a second. "Do I know you? I mean, have we met before? Your voice seems familiar to me somehow..." She stares at the mask curiously, trying to place where she might have seen him. There had been so many people...

[Renekin Skywalker]

"Yeah. We worked together a few times." Charger answered. Righting himself, he walks towards her. In the meagre light, his distinctive red and black costume was showing. Even in this grime, it was clean. How he did that was a closer-guarded secret than the correct spelling of his mother's maiden name. "As to whether or not you know me, Captain, well." He chuckles, walking past her.

Peering down, he asks, "You having a rapelling class, now? Moving up from your civil service days?"

[Dome]

Dante smiles, "I guess I could use some help getting up." He then attaches himself through the harness she showed him.

"I can't float, though the doctors at HQ say it's a power I may one day get. I get new ones all the time."

[tag]

[shiivster]

*Jeckle simple nods and 'right .. slip the coat on. its got my tools in it. then bend your legs and get comfy. i'll do what i can to make sure that you don't get that many jarrings'

*once the weight had been accounted for, she nods and coments once as her knees bend slightly 'right. i know it might still be a bit jarry, but i've done this before. i just spin and pivot a lot. here we go ... '

*she starts the first of her bounces up, contact is made, the knees bend then she's off again. this time with a flip and a tight spin. after two bounces, she pauses to map it out again in her head, and to let Dante get settled once again, then she's off again.

*going up in a series of bounces and flips and then a pause for her pasenger she only hopes he doesn't loose his breakfast all over her. she passes Khris on her way and seems to be too focused to take notice of him.

'sorry, this is gonna be about 6 bounces before the next stop. hold onto your cookies please' .. *the only warning Dante gets then she's off once again.

[tag]

[albatross]

[Charger & Captain Algren]

Seeing the costume, as well as his height and build, a glimmer of recognition comes into the Captain's eyes.

"I lead a team for a private company now - taking on odd jobs - climbing, cleaning, those sort of things." The smile in her voice is obvious.

"So what about you Charger? Working for anyone at the moment?" She pauses for a second to gauge his reaction.

"If memory serves you are good in a fight. We could use you." Captain Algren's tone is all business now. "I can pay you twenty-five on a week to week contract. At the end of every week, you stay on if we both agree."

"Twenty-five hundred?" Charger asks. Not bad for a week, not great...

"Twenty-five thousand," Captain Algren smiles. "Paid first of the week," She pulls out a very small bundle of cash, "How about it?"


[tag: Charger]

[O.O.C.: To Be Continued.... There will be another separate post following this one - I just wanted to give Charger a chance to respond to each posts or both at once without everyone else having to wait]

[albatross]

[From Top to Bottom]

Two armed and armored men approach Captain Algren and Charger from opposite directions. One is on the other side of the shaft and one is on their side. The two men make no effort to conceal their approach, casually walking forward. They are wearing full body armor and carrying M4 assault rifles with 203 grenade launchers.

Patriot and Wind Chill zip past a guy carrying a gun on their way up. Patriot immediately swings into one the buildings levels and immediately opens a comm line with the rest of the team, "Heads up. We've got company. Armored, carrying assault rifles - look real friendly." The two of them are still below Tiger at this point.

Dante doesn't need his sixth sense to realize the team is about to be attacked this time. He and Jeckle spot a guy in body armor, carrying an assault rifle, the two of them are past him and higher up in a moment. However, they see another armed and armored man on the level they land on too.

Kris feels the approach of someone... Someone powerful. It isn't the magnitude of feeling he sensed as they encountered the strange man in the tunnel, but it isn't some lightweight either. The feeling is odd, unnatural. Stopping his climb, he sees the guy come out of a door a hundred meters away. It doesn't seem like the guy sees him, but he is looking around as if expecting someone.

[Tag: any and all]

[Renekin Skywalker]

Charger took the cash and pocketed it easily. "I don't think I have a choice right now. I'll consider it a loan. You can pay me back later."

[albatross]

Captain Algren draws two revolvers and simultaneously shoots both of the men's weapons. Her hand speed is far more impressive than it ever was when she served with Australia's armed forces. Back then, none of her soldiers were faster, even the psychics who 'knew' it was coming. Now even against assailants with their hands on the trigger, her shots came first.

The two armored guys seemed surprised at her draw and are slow to react. The one behind her and Charger loses his grip on his weapon, which must have been the Captain's intent. The other one in front keeps hold of his gun, but the gernade launcher flies clean off and clatters to the floor.

"There is always a choice," she says with conviction. And she launches herself at the nearest armored man, firing as she does so. It is obvious her revolvers pack quite the punch - explosive rounds take big chunks out of the man's armor. He fires and hits her in her armored legs just before she shoulders him to the ground.

[shiivster]

*Jeckle sees the armed gent on the landing with them and thinks hard -=gun in the left pocket .. pull it and get ready to shoot when i turn about=-

*she simple states 'oh s***' *then calmly raises her arms to distract the guy from Dante getting the gun out. 'guess you got me ... '

-= ready? .. on three. one .. two ... =-

[tag]

[dakota]

Khris eyed the recent arrival even as he continued his climb, blending in with his surroundings even as he went. He considered calling to warn the others. The gunfire above made him change his mind , but Patriot's warning changed it back. He spoke lowly, watching the other meta, " More down here, too. This one's looking for someone. I think we just stumbled into the middle of something."

[Renekin Skywalker]

Charger clucks his tongue, picking up a piece of debris. "You had to ruin a perfectly good line, didn't you, Captain?" He says, charging the debris to explode and hurling it to bean the head of the guy on the other side of the shaft. (Nat 20! hee!)