A trail of aching derrières- next time they'll be more thoughtful

[gone_byebye]

The door opens onto an expanse of asphalt, steel, and glass. Nearby a sign reads:

WELCOME TO WHITE FLINT MALL
BEST PRICES IN THE DC AREA

4708 BETHESDA AVENUE
CHEVY CHASE, MD

It's a big parking lot, with the mall itself only visible off in the distance. Ray gives it the squint-eye before turning to the others. "Okay, people," he says. "This is it. Johnny says it's underground. Egon's best estimates indicate three miles down. Are we good?"

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[redsnout.livejournal.com]

This place is possibly even more ocnfusing to Raptor Red's senses than Milliways. Her first reaction to start sniffing madly, trying to make sense of the jumble. But at Ray's question she jerks her head up, bobbing it in a quick nod. "Khhht." And then it's back to sniffing.

[gone_byebye]

"We should have a passage down soon," Ray says. "I hope you don't mind tunnels."

[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

Peter just grinned at him, "Hell yeah. Let's pay our ol' pal, Dickless a visit, shall we?"

[gone_byebye]

"He's earned it," Ray says solemnly.

[spark-girl.livejournal.com]

Agatha's hair is pulled back, she's wearing her dark lab coat(the one that doesn't show most stains), and she's toting an ominous-looking gun along with several smaller gadgets.

"Ready."

[gone_byebye]

"Sweet," Ray says. "Good to see you, Agatha. Just as soon as we've got our destination access confirmed, we're good to go."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Here and ready for butt-kicking," Danny said. He hadn't gone ghost quite yet, but he was eager to, and go make with the scaring.

"I'm going to try multiplying when we find that Peck guy--every time I try it I come out looking like Tetsuo from Akira on a bad day." He'd totally wet his shorts.

[gone_byebye]

"Excellent," Ray says with considerable satisfaction. "You, um, can put it back, right? When you're done?"

He glances over his shoulder towards Kitt. "Here goes nothing."

[steadfastknight]

Kitt looked around, slightly squinting as well before nodding. A parking lot - thoughtful. He could fade into the maze of cars for a little bit and come back shifted. "Underground and three miles down..." he murmured. "That's stretching my sensors a little, but if I can talk to the local network, we'll see if I can't narrow it down a little."

[gone_byebye]

Ray nods. "Give it your best shot," he says.

[stilljustandrew]

*Andrew hunches his shoulders a little and nods in response to Ray's question.*

A mall. Why'd it have to be a mall?

*Maybe it'll be less creepy underground. One can hope.*

[gone_byebye]

"Evil flocks?" Ray guesses. "I don't know. Look at it this way- it'll all be over soon."

[lt-naraht.livejournal.com]

Naraht carefully sounds the ground.

"Johnny's right. Shall I play Key To The City?"

[gone_byebye]

"Just make sure you beat our mutual friend to the punch."

[wyrd-fox.livejournal.com]

FX was, once again, non-corporeal but dressed in his best ninja-badass outfit.

"Would it be incredibly cliche to quote Shakespeare right now?" he asked, rubbing his hands together eagerly.

[stilljustandrew]

*interested* What'd you have in mind?

[k_in_black]

K is off to one side, studying the display on his scanner with a look of contempt.

"And they call this a secure installation."

Not looking up, but loud enough for Ray to hear, K adds,

"Good to go, Chief."

[gone_byebye]

"Their stupidity's our gain," Ray says cheerfully. "Okay, now- let's get things under way."

[blond-w-brain.livejournal.com]

Egon (the blond one) comes racing out. He's got his proton pack, a few other devices, and, frighteningly, a flute in his belt.

"Sorry I'm late. I had to arrange for a few special measures. The time differential seems to be highly flexible."

[gone_byebye]

"Um, Egon?" Ray says warily- he's been reading a bit too much Lovecraft lately. "What's with the flute?"

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

Matilda is [ooc: hopefully not too late to join] present and accounted for, with a bag over her shoulder containing more homemade explosives than you want to know about. "I'm good," she says cheerfully, patting the aforesaid bag.

[gone_byebye]

"Great," Ray says. "Need any introductions, or shall we get under way?"

[masterofsoresu]

Obi-Wan looks as composed as usual, albeit not quite like a Jedi in the white suit the Bar (for whatever obscure reason) provided. "I'm ready," he says, tucking his inactive 'sabre into an inside pocket.

[gone_byebye]

"Interesting outfit," says Ray, who really has very little grounds to speak considering that he's in full uniform just now. "Okay, then. Let's see what we can do."

[md_donighal]

The man in the gray suit radiates a nervous energy even standing still. If you look closely, you can see a faint heat-haze surrounding him. "If we didn't care about the shoppers, I could probably drill our way down," he says. It's not exactly a reassuring statement, nor is it particularly meant to be.

[gone_byebye]

Ray nods.

And we're under way!

[gone_byebye]

"We'll keep that in mind as a backup," Ray promises. "But that's what the Lieutenant here is for." He gestures to the Horta. "Naraht, just as soon as Kitt gets us a fix on the direction and location, could you maybe chew your way into an access tunnel? I don't expect you to do the full three miles, of course, but there's got to be a way for the humans to get in and out."

Re: And we're under way!

[lt-naraht.livejournal.com]

Naraht laughed.

"Can I? I once tunneled 250 miles at sharding sprint. This will be a cakewalk. Just give me a general direction and I'll find us the nearest branch of that warren to break into."

His fringe began to twitch in anticipation.

[wyrd-fox.livejournal.com]

It's business as usual at Foliage Census. Surveillence, investigation and research continues apace. The team in charge of security hasn't really given more than standard notice of the group of individuals (and one rather indistinct lump), on the edge of the parking lot.

"Ah say, Ah say, sons!"

Heads in the monitor room snap around...and eyes widen as they take in the six-foot-tall, white rooster.

"You call, Ah say, you call this a monitoring station? You're doing it all wrong, boy!"

Welcome to the Foghorn Leghorn School of Security.

[gone_byebye]

Cue the stares. So very, very many stares.

[wyrd-fox.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's damn good to be a spirit...or half spirit as the case may be. It comes in real handy when you've got to get from point A to point B in a hurry and there's rather solid points C through M in the way.

FX and Danny sped through the halls and walls (with one pause to salute a wandering computer type who immediately recognized and fanboyed Morden-Fox). The kitsune held up one hand as they neared a certain room. The door read Security Briefing and there was sounds of people hurredly strapping on weaponry inside.

"Hey, Danny," FX whispered. "Wanna be a movie legend?"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"...Yes please," Danny said, with geekish enthusiasm. "As long as it's something that'll make them wet themselves."

Assault Force K-Tilda

[k_in_black]

Cuteness doesn't go very far with K, but anybody who knows her explosives like Matilda gets the MiB thumbs-up of approval.

K is watching his scanner as its holographic display rolls out a map of the complex. He's been in enough places like this to have a good idea where the data storage facilities and executive offices might be located. And now that he's hearing the others starting to break into groups, he glances at Matilda and asks:

"How about it, Matilda? In the mood for some basic search-and-destroy?"

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

The fact that he knows her name gives her momentary pause, but she assumes he must have heard it at some point while everyone was standing around. And destroying things is always fun, wherefore...

"Sure, why not?" she replies, grinning adorably and bouncing a bit with childish excitement, one arm around the bag of explosives in a protective manner.

Team Solid

[gone_byebye]

"Okay," Ray says as the group starts proceeding down one of the corridors. "I've got some basic maps of the structure, but-"

"But?" echoes the local Peter. "Ray, 'but' is not a word that inspires a lot of confidence in me. What 'but'?"

"But, uh, I don't actually have any of the specifics."

"You're the only one who's been here before, Ray-"

"Um, excuse me," says a slightly reedy-sounding voice from a little ways up ahead. "I haven't gone and gotten stuck back on Level D, have I?"

The speaker is a man somewhat older than Ray, with greying hair, angular brows, and a certain cast to his features that indicates that he could probably do with a bit more exercise than they gave him here. He's peering out of what's ostensibly part of the ventilation system.

"Hey, you're not with the creep-bags who stuck me in here," he says, peering at the motley crew in the hallway. "Did you hit an equipment locker or something? That looks like confiscated gear."

Re: Team Solid

[redsnout.livejournal.com]

"Phhrrt?" Red can't help but be a little curious as to why there's a human hiding up there. This demands investigation.

The raptor trots forward, peering back at the man and shoving her snout forward to sniff noisily, tilting her head from side to side as she eyeballs him. He doesn't look like something worth attacking, at least not yet.

[steadfastknight]

What Kitt did not have was room to transform. Not yet, and so he was wary. He could be shot if he didn't keep his eyes open and keep aware, though he knew where they were going. "The electrical system is centered approximately one-hundred fifty yards to the southeast, but possibly a floor or two down - my readings this far are unclear."

He spoke softly, but with perfect precision. "I want to take out everything but lighting and vital computer systems - life support, environmental controls in most areas, and the storage mainframes. We'll need what data we can glean before anyone can cue a system purge. Come on."

He led the way down a hallway. The direction was mostly correct - his memory served well - but with all of the interference from said electrical, he couldn't be precisely sure.

[gone_byebye]

The security in this part of the building was primarily of the electronic kind rather than guards, which meant, for the most part, that someone somewhere was supposed to be watching them.

Supposed to be was the operative word here. The cameras were doing their duty, but this was a big complex. There were far too many screens in the main security area to notice a few more people simply moving through just yet. It would take something outstanding to make anyone watching realize that these three people were anything other than local employees.

You Idiots! You've Captured Their Stunt Doubles!

[gone_byebye]

Running feet indeed- though not, perhaps, the feet anyone at all suspected. Whoever gets a good look out into the corridor is going to get a look at a recent experimental prototype- glittering, forest green, with thousands of gleaming red compound eyes, and leading off with snapping metallic pincers.

Giant robotic centipedes are much more reliable at getting through complicated corridor mazes than semi-competent ninjas.

Re: You Idiots! You've Captured Their Stunt Doubles!

[spark-girl.livejournal.com]

Agatha pulls out her trusty gun with a grin and ushers her dingbots back, for now. A serious grin, but a grin nonetheless.

"Interesting design . . . good joints, but too much focus on the decorative aspects. . ."

She aims at the eye cluser of the lead robotic centipede and fires.