Phase 3: Mission 153

[soul_mods]

Characters: Grand Canyon mission goers, victims, medics
Location: Grand Canyon
Rating: R
Time: Feb 5, 2009, mission starts at dawn
Description: Event links list.


The scouts had done their jobs well and the mirror deposits its travelers just at the end of the area Shibusen has closed off as their mission target. It's still dawn, the sun barely visible over the horizon. The witches hasn't noticed them there yet, the scouts say, so it's still possible to take them by surprise.

This is what the agents are told: In the rock face of the Grand Canyon is a cavern system made up of many small caves and three large ones. The large caves contain a kishin egg pit, the kidnapped agents and civilians, and what appears to be a machine at one end. There are about five dozen zombies crawling the area, and an equal number of ants, spiders, and ravens on top of it.

Worst of all, the scouts report that they had sighted a few of the agents patrolling for the Witches. The scouts hadn't been certain if these ones had soul perception or other abilities, and had given the area as much space as they could in order to avoid an early confrontation. Still, it's bad news and it looks like a fight with some of the kidnappees themselves is inevitable.

Not much time is given to the agents after the briefing before they're being ushered into place. A few scouts are going to be causing a commotion some distance away to distract the familiars and zombies, clearing a path for the agents. After that, it's all up to them.


[ooc: Just put up your own threads with the subject line [Characters][Feeding Cave/MMM Cave/Kishin Egg Pit/Elsewhere][Open/Close]
Kidnappees can go thread in the caves while waiting for the rescuers, too.
For those who want to thread with a witch, please add it in the subject line so we know where to go!
This day change will be one week irl.
The mirror will stay open for anyone who needs to be rushed back to the medics.
For those handwaving, please put your summaries here for the meister points and soul tally record.]

Comments

[want_the_world]

Someone new was yelling about the mirror, and no, damn it, Mello wasn't going to lose. But time was running out, the opportunity was slipping through his fingers.

Rage scythed cleanly through the confusion, leaving him stunned by the clarity of his thoughts. The white-haired bastard's resonance with the troll was slipping. Reinforcements of some sort had arrived.

Sollux was using Mello's own Weapon against him.

If he didn't act on impulse, right now, they'd realize he'd come back to his senses, and the moment would be lost.

He threw his head back hard, staggered with L at the impact. But L's hold on him was failing, and Mello wrenched himself free, lunged for Sollux and Near. He didn't give a shit how he did it, he was determined to knock the cube out of the troll's hand.

[dead_black_eyes]

Their position was a compromised one, and though L's hold on Mello was firm, he couldn't exercise that same straight jacket-like effect on every part of his successor.

Without warning, the back of Mello's head (thick, hard bone) smashed into L's temple (thin bone, artery near the surface of the skin, weakest part of the skull). Taking a blow to the face would have been preferable. Had L known it was coming, had L not turned his face toward Bakura, the blow would probably have broken his nose. But he didn't even have time to register fully what had happened as sparks shot off behind his eyes, and just like that he'd slipped to the floor as Mello broke free, cheek against the dusty ground and eyes half-closed.

His arms were definitely not chains anymore. One was under him, the other limp at his side. That one, especially, felt alarmingly strengthless. And then there was nothing, just a period of thick darkness that L couldn't stave off.

[shiromadoushi]

There was nothing Bakura could do but focus on his and Vash's own battle. He was already tired and low on energy, he couldn't spare the focus to pay attention to what was going on behind them until the... thing, they were fighting suddenly changed direction, lurching for the freshly KOed Weapon for the easy kill.

Vash lunged, Bakura's attack blasting out again to knock the creature back and hopefully out for good. Thankfully, L was light and Vash was easily able to sling him over his shoulder.

[silicomb]

Something is wrong. Something is wrong wrong wrong. The attack wasn't working. Mello wasn't calming down or stopping his vendetta to kick all their asses into next week and they were still all there in that shitty fucking chamber and nowhere near getting closer to the fucking mirror. Something's wrong and he's about to ask Near about it, encourage him or yell at him or fucking plead with him not to drop the goddamn resonance when he hears it; a crack and the telltale crash of a body hitting the ground at top speed.

Well, shit.

"What's going on?!" Alarm, it isn't a pretty thing when he's on the receiving end of it and when he can feel his resonance cracking the way it is. Too jittery, too dubious. Shit shit shit that noise, was that--

"Fuck--!"