14839/Secrets of the Ooze, Part III

Secrets of the Ooze, Part III
Date of Scene:	31 May 2023
Location:	Alleyways: Brooklyn
Synopsis:	The Mighty Mutanimals (And MJ) successfully get Professor Honeycutt access to the TCRI network and get keycards made to give them security clearance throughout the building. Now all that's left is the final attack on TCRI...
Cast of Characters:	Mona Lisa, Mary Jane Watson, Sundance, Sally Pride, Kainashi

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Mona Lisa has posed:
     It took a lot of negotiations behind closed doors, Mona's shouting, MJ's more measured responses, and the high-pitched british accent of the Fugitoid behind the door of the briefing room before all three walked out, Mona looking a bit bitter but the robotic refugee looking quite pleased with this outcome.

     "SO!" their chrome-plated companion announces as he steeples his fingers at the ends of his robotic noodle arms, "Firstly, my name is not 'The Fugitoid' it is 'Professor Honeycut.'" Mona audibly grumbles something about adding fraud and impersonation to a list of charges.

     "Secondly." the robot still better known as the Fugitoid despite his insistence continues, "I happen to have the exact sort of quantum processor needed to break into the TCRI database and get you lot all-access keycards, which will definitely come in handy once you get in the perimeter of the facility. The only problem there is that I will need a way to get patched in to their network, they're not exactly connected to Earth's internet you know! So we will need somewhere they have already established a connection or just straight up grab wires off the side of the building, though of course that's extremely risky. Now, Miss Y'Gythgba here, err, sorry, Lieutenant Y'Gythgba" the robot says, thumbing towards Mona Lisa, "Is not from around here and we're rather short on time, so I believe one of you would know best where to obtain a connection to the TCRI database."

     "Our options are as follows..." the cheerful, very british sounding robot says, "The Utroms have been dealing with The Foot Clan, Null Group, The Mob, and Oscorp. We can try to break in to one of their facilities and access the database from there, or simply, err, grab wires off the side of the TCRI building like I said. Which one do you all think would be the easiest to get to?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would glance over at Mona sympathetically. "It's hard being an interstellar law enforcement officer without a badge, isn't it?" That particular joke would make littles ense to anyone - then again she would be whistling the theme song to 'Cowboys of Moo Mesa' which may give at least a little bit of a clue before seguing to other sorts of things from that era.

She would go to tap her hand over at her side. "So we can go ahead and get our way in, hook up to the nearest computer, setup a perimeter to secure the area until we have systems access, all thew hile we presume the aliens will be throwing whatever heavy reserves they have over on us. At least hopefully it doesn't mean the two.." She must mean Bebop and Rocksteady. "They're not going to want to have thier primary facility leveled." It wasn't like they were Hydra.

Sundance has posed:
"Those two are with the Foot, so in theory if we hit one of the locations that's not their's, they wouldn't show." Sundance offers, "Null's mutant operations here in New York are off the table, at the moment." There's a pause and a look at Kai, "At least the ones we know about."

Looking at the doctor, the cowboy coyote lifts his hat up just a bit, "Personally I say we hit the mob again. Less chance of them having some weird super weapon or secret ninja monsters or somethin'." Plus you know, usually lots of untrained mooks. They're always fun to rumble with until someone stupidly breaks out a gun.

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride makes a face at the mention of Null. Not that it surprises her. She's right here leaning against a wall after all, arms crossed. "Sundance has a point. Null is out there, but they've kept their shadier side on the downlow ever since having the Mutanimals around harassing them. Oscorp is a tech company isn't it? They're probably pretty well set cybersecurity wise. Mob is probably the best option. And probably the more prolific to find a location."

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai gives a nod to Sundance. Null was a bit of a sorespot for her. So was the Foot for that matter. She has listened to Dr. Honeycut very well, ears raised the entire time. She turns her head in the direction of everyone who speaks, trying to look thoughtful, her scarred-up face working a moment as she gives a huff of a breath, testing her left hand a little bit as she pauses, scratches the back of her head, one ear flicking backwards.

    She mimes the Pizza Monster from the warehouse, and then makes a questioning face as she looks up to Sally and Sundance.

Mona Lisa has posed:
     "Alrighty then!" Professor Honeycutt exclaims, "Sounds like we have reached a consensus in attempting to access the database via the mob. Let's see here..." The end of one of the robot's fingers flips upwards as a cable reaches out and accesses the USB slot of a nearby computer, the robot humming with his metallic voice as he says "There! Alright then. I have cross-referenced the database of known associations with business and building ownerships and isolated the one that draws enough power to be fueling a computer that can access the Utrom database, placing it right... Here!"

     The coordinates and virtual map displayed on the screen show an italian restaurant, one built into the first floor of a three story building that appears to allegedly have abandoned apartments on the second and third floors. "Unfortunately I can only pinpoint things to the northwest corner of the building, I can't tell from here if the computer is on the second or third floor, so you lot will need to figure that out first and then smuggle me inside." He wiggles his fingers as he says "Smuggle me" and seems to have a particular fondness for those words.

     Gathering any equipment they may need, the group heads out to the restaurant that serves as a front for the mob via SHIELD communications van, courtesy of MJ, pulled into an alley a block down the road. The windows are all boarded up on the second and third stories of the target building, and no telling what sort of security measures they have installed...

     Mona is the one to take over the planning phase now, as she points at a display on a large screen inside the van, "According to the blueprints from your local government there are a few methods of entry... Rooftop access, climbing up from the sewers, and cutting or blowing our way in through the brick. Stealth is... possible but may be difficult, we may just need to fight our way in, get the Fugitoid where he needs to be, and get out before reinforcements arrive." The Salamandrian looks to the others, asking "What... do all of you think?"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would go to glance over at the area and consider. "Well, we know there will be heavy security and alien tech that we don't know the ins and outs of. As well as weaponry and firepower." That would slice and dice almost all of them. "Why not.. Do a bit of both? We figure out where an area is that's likely to have a computer zone. We break in around there. One team makes as mch noise as possible and the other goes to sneak towards the computer interface. Even better i fwe can rig up some sort of duplicate of Bunsen." That wasn't his name! She would gesture at Honeycut.

"They're expecting likely some sort of breach, so why not give them what they're after? The team goes to break in, gets immedaitely pinned down, and all the security in the area is dumped on them. Other team goes to sneak in to find an access port and goes for it. Then the groups disengage. If discovery is highly likely and we don't necessarily knwo what we'll be up to.."

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride smirks, wagging a clawed finger at Mary Jane. "I like the way your human sidekick thinks, Mona." At least she isn't making 'pet human' jokes like she does about the Mutanimals' own resident human amongst monsters and misfits. She then jabs a thumb in Kai's direction. "And she is very good at breaking things."

Sundance has posed:
"Y'all know my pick is shoot first and ask questions eventually if at all." Sundance offers, as he looks at Sally, and smirks, "I like the idea of a Mutanimals raiding party, sure." He gives Kai a quick look, "You're an honorary mutanimal, Kai." He offers, giving her a big grin, "We go in the front, smash things up, y'all go in via the roof and get him where he needs to be?""

Kainashi has posed:
    Kainashi's tail gives a wag at the fact that yes, Kai is very good at breaking things. Lots of things. Sometimes even on purpose. Her tail wags even faster when Sundance pronounces her as an honorary Mutanimal, and she practically bounces on her feet, takes out both her crowbars from their back holster and taps them on the ground. Let's go, let's go /let's go/!

Mona Lisa has posed:
     Mona tilts her head as she looks across the others, and then gives a nod to both Sally and Sundance and then MJ in turn, saying "Alright then... Hmm. I suppose Kai, Sundance and I will cause the diversion while MJ, The Fugitoid and Sally will infiltrate the building after we start the diversion..." She looks almost apologetic to MJ, saying "Unless you'd rather be part of the diversion team? I can go with the professor if so, I just... I have the most advanced hardware here, so I think I can cause the loudest distraction, Sundance is likely going to be best put in a sniper position, where Kai's ability to break things cannot be matched... that leaves Sally's mixed skillset ideal for the infiltration and either you or I with her and the killer robot..."

     "Pacifist robot!" Honeycutt says with a finger extended, "I maintain my innocence!"

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Mary Jane Watson would shake her head, "I can handle it." Strangely enough, her past memories did include some actual experience with that sort of thing. "I take it that you can handle whatever security we run into?" She would inquire to Team Ninja (but without the DoA lineup) to them. "So we let you make noise, we get in and head in the opposite direction.." She would go to grab some random basketballs, a few noisemakers, then quickly duct tape them together, cover them in silverfoil, and hand it over.

Sally Pride has posed:
"This works. Your tech is the best bet to match any tech they got from the Ultrons. Sundance has his guns, and Kai," eyes the crowbars, "is Kai. Good girl, but don't get too far ahead of the others." Sally unfolds her arms and pushes up from the wall. "We'll make sure the Professor gets where he can do his thing."

Sundance has posed:
"Isn't it Updogs?" Sundance asks Sally as she calls them Ultrons. He knows the real answer but this one is funnier, "When are we gonna hit 'em?" He asks, as he considers, "When the robo guys are there? Or when it's just the mob?" He looks at Kai and hmms, "I think you could eat that pizza blob guy."

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai pauses her excitement as Sally looks at her, her ears drawing back a moment, as she pauses in her excitement dance and sloooowly holsters her crowbars on her back, and then gives a bright, toothy grin again, and flashes a thumbs up. Tail wagging, going from side to side to side and she wants to get going, jumping practically, rubber-tipped toe claws tapping dully against the ground as she bounces, ears flapping.

    And she pauses, shooting a questioning look to Sundance as she points up, and then points to herself ... what *is* updog?

Mona Lisa has posed:
Mona's big, amphibian eyes go half lidded in unamusement as she says "They're UTROMS, not Ultrons, not Updogs. If these were Ultrons we'd have way more backup..." as she sighs, and then opens the back door of the van, saying "Come on everyone. As Raphael would say... Let's kick some tail." Her sword springs to life with a glow and a hum as she walks out, and then crouches down, expecting the others of team distraction to follow her, and team stealth to do as they must.

     It isn't long before Mona, Sundance and Kai are in their respective positions, and Mona slings one of her explosive disks at the glass windows of the empty restaurant, soon followed by the pads on her wrists morphing into guns and spraying the interior of the front with plasma fire, mobsters soon spilling out to try to return fire from both the first and second stories!

     Meanwhile, MJ, Honeycutt and Sally are at their entrance of choice, ready to burst in when the commotion inside has reached the desired level...

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
Who was Raphael? There would be a curious look in the face of Mary Jane as the groups go to split up. She goes to keep quiet, even as she goes into 'alert' mode. One hand going to unseathe the very, very big basterd sword on her back as she would sweep ahead. Her own steps surprisingly silent for how the woman had been so jocular just some moments ago. Darting along, sweeping for security and going at a fast trot.
    Sonja had among other times spent years and years as a thief matched in skill only by a Cimmerian dog.

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride is a cat. Granted she's a big cat, but she's still a cat, and a predator. She can be stealthy when she wants to be. Seeing as Mary has the large melee weapon she lets the woman go first, and draws her own blaster. "Stay between us," she utters to Honeycut. Safer if he's between the two combatants for cover. Also harder for him to try to run off. Not that she expects him to, but Mona keeps acting like he's the biggest scumball in an animate tin can.

Sundance has posed:
"Nothing, what's up with you?" Sundance replies to Kai, with a grin. Then he moves to head for his position, "C'mon Kai, lets go mess them up."

He follows Mona on to the front of their target building, swinging his shotgun out and getting behind cover as she lights everything up with those plasma weapons, "Maybe I need an upgrade." He says, before popping up and firing his shotgun, sending buckshot out towards the mobsters, before ducking back behind the car he's using to avoid the return fire.

Kainashi has posed:
    The canine pauses, and then her ears flatten to the side at the joke as she gives her best 'that was bad' looking to Sundance, and then she rolls her eyes and trails.

    Kai follows behind, tail wagging as she slips silently second to Sundance, slinking in shadows, stalking in the shades, and as Sundance decides to unload some buckshot, she leans down and LIFTS a second vehicle, bracing herself against a wall before she drops it and kicks with both feet to send the smaller vehicle sailing into the mobsters!

    It's a ruff life.

Mona Lisa has posed:
     The Mob really don't know what hit them with this much firepower. As folks start returning fire from the building, Mona drops a smoke grenade to cover the distraction team repositioning, followed by an explosive disc hurled at one of the windows which quickly explodes, sending a mobster flying out of the second story. Mona advances under the cover of the smoke, the others only able to see her from the glow of her sword as the other hand reaches up to spray plasma fire over the top of the brick into the broken window.

     "I... I must say, I think we could have done without this much violence..." the robot walking along with MJ and Sally says, passing through doors and holes cut into abandoned apartments to make hallways. Passing a cannister of Mutagen. Passing illegal extraterrestrial weapons. It's the big, somewhat out of place mainframe computer in the corner that they're interested in. "Here!" Honeycutt says in a hushed voice, a cable extending from his finger just like with the other computer as it reaches into a USB slot and he starts to hack into it. "Let's see... There we are... and... Oh! Well that's different. We mayyyyyyy have a small problem..." Klaxons start to make noise as the Fugitoid's face turns happy, but apologetic, saying "Not to worry! It's only a local alarm, so the plan can continue, but we should probably expect some company and I cannot move from my present location until my work is done, so ah... Please don't let anything destroy me!" It's then that... things start dropping out of newly formed holes in the ceiling. Rat-sized, but metal, with two legs and oversized heads and a singular, cycloptic rectangular red eye equipped with large, pincing jaws... which immediately leap for the trio in the room with the mainframe computer!

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
And this serves as a lesson to Doctor Honeycut, aka the Fugitoid that in the future trusting random strangers to perform a rescue and reconaissance operation may not be the best idea if he wants to avoid collateral damage. Consider it a life lesson and a circumstance where regrets were made! Mary Jane goes to jog along with them right before Fugitoid goes 'small problem' and Mary Jane makes a mental note to put in a request to have a strike team sent here to confiscate everything after..
    "I thought the idea was that you would /keep/ one from going off." She would growl over and move to unsheathe the large basterd sword over on her back then towards the things coming down. "And what sort of pestilence is this?" And then there's the eerie shift in her. Casualness turns over to tenseness, playfulness to aggression. A smile turning over to somethign sadistic as her entire body goes on edge as the sword is unsheathed. "Come, little vermin. LEt me be your Pestilence." And she goes to face the horde of oncoming beasts with a feral like glee over at them, blade in front of her twirling.

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride ... just rolls her eyes as the local alarms go off. "Knew this part was going too easily," she mock laments, even as she flicks the safety of her blaster off with a claw. "I feel like I've seen this scenerio in one of Mondo's video games."

Just then the robotic chompers start stomping into the room. "Oh, I remember these." She grips her energy blaster in both hands and opens fire. She's aiming for those single 'eyes', the optical sensors being the most delicate part of their construction as she recalls. Blind them, or blow them up when the shot pierces the electronics inside. She's not really being picky about which.

Sundance has posed:
As Mona rushes off into the smoke firing plasma and swinging her sword, he actually shakes his head a bit, "That is downright impressive." He says, before he swaps to his revolvers and charges after her, blasting gangster goons as he emerges through the smoke, kicking one guy back through the door he had just emerged from.

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai nods in agreement with Sundance as she follows him through, relying on his cover fire to come in low, grabbing her weighted chain and giving it a swing she latches it around someone ankle, picks him up and slings him at another mobster, knocking them both into another room and slamming the door, reaching up and stealing the knob so that the bolt gets stuck with a CRUNCH.

    Tailwag, move on.

    she slings a couple of smoke bombs herself to add to the confusion as they go.

Mona Lisa has posed:
     "Sorry!" the robot says cheerfully, "I wasn't anticipating Earth-designed software protections on a computer like this, quite ingeneous really to layer their protections like this, something I might have to try in the future but-YEOW!" the Fugitoid says as a mouser clamps onto his head, and another bites the cable connecting him to the computer, the professor starting to flip out and say "AH! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!" as another finger opens to interface with another port, trying to multitask and continue where he left off with one hand as the other bites into his eye casing, cracking the glass covering his robotic eyes. More and more mousers fall from the ceiling like there must be a crate of them just overhead, making getting bitten almost inevitable if they stay put, lest they think of something.

     Down below, there's a drilling noise as the concrete under the smoke of Team Distraction's own smokebombs part and cylindrical robots pop out of the ground behind their position, immediately spinning and trying to whip at them with electrical cables!

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
This is connected wtih a series of slashes, stabs, smashes, crashes, skewerings, and general beatings coming over as Red SOnja gives (and receives) stabs, and receives (and gives) bites. There's blood, fuel, coolant, metal bits, fleshy bits, and lots and lots of things on fire and wires as the redhead goes tos lash her blade through the air merrily as she goes to hack up chunks of everything. "Be faster with it." She would warn over as she goes to try and whack her hand hard over on the back of the mouser that had attached itself to Honeycut.
    There is then the sound of Mary Jane's muttering giong over with something along the lines of 'overwrite with Clippy' that would make no sense out of context as the sound of the melee, the fires, and the small explosions would continue.

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride kicks a Mouser that lunges past the gunfire at her. "Less nerd talk, more doing nerd thing!" Though even as she snarks she reachs over to grab the Mouser latched onto Honeycut's head, hooking her claws between it's teeth and prying it apart. Until the hinge of the jaw itself breaks and she's able to pull it off.

"Okay if you little bastards are so hungry..." She pulls one of the energy magazines from her belt, presses the overload switch, and shoves it in the broken Mouser's mouth. Then throws it back into the horde to explode like a kamakazi bomb. "Chew on this!"

Sundance has posed:
There's a lot going on out in the street, but as the concrete cracks and breaks, Sundance rolls out of the way before the cylindrical, one wheeled robot pops out, "The hell?" He asks to nobody in particular, though he fires a single shot at it from one of his revolvers.

More than anything else he's trying to test the armor on it. If the shot penetrates? Awesome, he can go on to another one. He does, however, have to duck behind cover in order to reload his revolvers and stay out of the way of those electrified tendrils.

Kainashi has posed:
    And as Sundance ducks, Kai comes into cover. Good thing about her 'guns' is that they don't need reloading... unless there's food nearby. Protein!

    She gives a silent snarl at the one-wheeled mechanation, and she braces herself, tearing off a muffler from another vehicle that she slings to deflect one whip, but ends up taking the second tendril to the back.

    There is a rapid expulsion of air, her eyes going wide as all of her fur stands out, muscles contracting and jaw clenching, and then she grabs at one crowbar and SLINGS it as hard as she can for the robot's head!

Mona Lisa has posed:
     The issue with these enemies is not really the difficulty of overcoming them, but rather the sheer number of them. Luckily, MJ and Sally's room is spared more of the malicious machines when Sally shoves an overloading energy core into the maw of one of them and hurls it back up into the ceiling they keep coming out of... setting off an explosion that sends more ceiling crashing down on them but luckily no more mousers, the lights flickering as the last few remaining are quickly dispatched and Honeycutt gives a thumbs up. "My virtual assistant Beaker reports that the hack is complete and I have compiled keycards ready for... oh. Ready for pickup? Well that's not ideal... Oh well! I'm sure I can rerout the delivery to a dead drop point and... Hmm. Yes. Okay, THERE! Done! We can leave now!"

     Outside, the Coyote one-shots the first Rodney that pops out of the ground, Kai quickly dispatches another with her crowbars, but there's more and more tunneling out of the ground. Mona's sword slices through a third, but for each one they strike down, another pops up, treading water... until a pizza dough delivery truck screeches into view, powersliding around until it turns 180 degrees and the blob monster Michelangelo has in the interim dubbed "Pizza Face" explodes out the back of the truck, roaring as it charges into the fray with angry bell-pepper eyebrows. "Team Stealth!" Mona says over the comms, "MJ, Please tell me you're done in there, we need to fall back out here!" Mona starts to back up, firing both of her wrist guns at the Pizza mutant before a Rodney pops out of the ground behind her and entangles her leg with an electric whip, tripping her to the ground and shocking her with a feminine yell of pain, her energy sword clattering against the concrete out of her hand.

Mary Jane Watson has posed:
There's the sound of more stabbings, stompings, skewerings, and the hiss of things being set on fire over as Red Sonja goes over the comms, "Yes, we're done here." Then more of a yell over as she calls out, "Come, Rodent! We shall crush you to your silicon bits another day!" There's more hurlings - in this case it's Doctor Honeycutt launched through the air like some sort of volleyball, landing over against something equally as haphazard - some sort of dome'ish looking thing with a mop of red fabric atop it's 'head' and a large oversized broadcaster and two optics goggling in terror.

"Meep Meep MEEP!"

Sally Pride has posed:
Sally Pride kicks the remains of a Mouser. "Only good thing about robots is not having to go easy on anyone." Right now isn't time to ask about what the heck MJ is using to get Honeycut out, it's getting the job done. And she's seen weirder. She just springs after, all too ready to get out of this place with everyone else, go find where the IDs got relayed to, and get farther into the mission before something else happens to complicate things. Because this is probably only the start of the complications and convolusions.

Sundance has posed:
Falling back is seeming like a great idea at this point, as Sundance fires off the last of his ammo as he backs off towards the extraction point, "Lets go, Kai!" He calls out, "We'll go get some ice cream!" He knows THAT will definitely get her attention, as he rushes back to the van, leaving a couple more smoke grenades in his wake to help keep their position hidden until they peel out.

Kainashi has posed:
    Kai is definitely slowed a little bit as she tries to catch her breath, spinning the weighted end of her chain as her ear flicks, hearing over the coms that they need to clear the area.

    She braces herself, looking at the pizza terror, her teeth bared, scarred face tightened, but she raises her ear at Sundance's call. She had intended to fight -- but there were people down.

    So Kai retreats. She skids on her knees and grabs up Mona Lisa, the superstrong pup lashing her over one shoulder as her armored pads skid and create sparks, in her other hand she grabs Mona's sword, and then she reaches and grabs smoke bombs to cover their escape, eyes wide as she makes it to the van with a leap, a skid on her back, and as she flops backwards, ears limp, Mona to one side, sword to the other, missing a crowbar, she brings her right hand up and puts it to her lower lip and just signs 'BAD'.

    And then gives a thumbs up. Because she smells a bit like singed hair and really, really does want that ice cream.

Mona Lisa has posed:
     With everyone piled into the van and Pizzaface screaming down the alleyway towards them, MJ puts the Van in full reverse, tires screeching out of the alleyway, and then takes off with the pedal to the medal down the road, the Mighty Mutanimals making their escape with their mission accomplished...