291/Mystique's Escape(Rescue)

Mystique's Escape(Rescue)
Date of Scene:	05 March 2020
Location:	Canadian/US Border.
Synopsis:	Hydra and Weapon Plus have an encounter on the boarder and Mystique escape when Diana, Carol and Agent Venom all come to the engagement.
Cast of Characters:	Raven Darkholme, Flash Thompson, Carol Danvers, Diana Prince, 44

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Raven Darkholme has posed:
    War.

    War has arrived.

    War is upon the world.

    War, in countless ways has never NOT been upon the face of Earth.

    This war, unlike most any before it is a war of the survival of a species, this is a war of extinction. Adapt or die has become adapt AND die. Those in the formerly growing minority have become targets by the past with the means to change the future.


    The sun sets on an empty road in North New York in the dense forrests between Canada and Vermont. A lonely dirt road rumbles with life briefly as a semi travels down the road, a red and black and gunmetal grey container on the back rocks back and forth on the suspension. A near useless cattle gate swings open and the driver flashes the xenon headlights twice before he proceeds in.

    The truck is headed towards a remote, and secretive base from another very different and yet just as secretive facility. It's contents a specific mutant woman who has long been one of the greatest foes of humanity since her mutation developed. Mystique is kept in a coffin like container under near constant sedation.

    No longer the problem of Hydra, who is still technically possessing her with the trailer, she is being shipped today to the Weapon Plus program, and as they say, loose lips sink ships...

Flash Thompson has posed:
The worst parts of wars are always fought in secret. It's about denying assets and turning them to their advantage.

Amanda Waller saw Mystique as an asset to be taken. And is no good in the Weapon Plus program. Not when she already has a place all picked out for her.

Having gotten the communique, Waller deployed her assets in the area. In this case, it was supposed to be Agent Venom meeting with Harley Quinn to make plans.

Except at the moment, Harley's not around. Which leaves Venom to their own devices.

And little do they know how much of a blessing in disguise that may be. "We capture the package and take it back to Waller." they say to themselves. "And casualities are kept to a minimum."

"We will kill if we want."

"We will only kill if we //must//."

Clearly bonding has not gone completely smoothly -- which is why the weapon was supposed to have someone with them when they deployed. Staning on the skids of the Blackhawk as it silently flies over the route of the truck. Arriving at the drop zone, Agent Venom prepares their muti-gun, and checks their gear one last time before leaping from the helicopter at height. They lift their arms and with a pair of silent 'shwips!', form a web-glider as they descend towards the truck.

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol has been using her infuence and ability to boss analysts around for months trying to get a solid lead on either the Brotherhood, especially their leader Mystique, or Rogue. Hell she went so far as to even hire an evidently old friend one Jessica Jones, to try to track Rogue down.

Many rocks have been overturned.

Finally a hit in the SHIELD resources on the Brotherhood that looks to be actionable. If by actionable you mean probably not actionable by SHIELD directly because the Canadian resources receiving the package are ... well legitimate government activity north of the border and Carol isn't entirely positive if the intercept will happen in their hands or the people supplying the brotherhood mutant to them.

Which means Carol has to be creative and a bit black ops about this, but you shouldn't go into an unknown situation without backup even if you are Captain Marvel so she places a call to an old friend from her JLA days and explained the goal to Diana. Getting their hands on the Brotherhood leader before she vanishes into a blackops Canadian operation to try to find a lead to restoring Carol's chunks of missing self. It's good to have friends.

Of course she isn't expecting other people to be going for the prize. Damn fog of war and all that.

"We should probably try to be as covert as possible though, wouldn't do for the Canadians to be able to track this back to the Avengers or SHIELD..." she opines as they head to the target.

Diana Prince has posed:
Diana Prince is returning from a trip north, though she's inside of the 'Invisible Jet' - an alien tech that allows the Princess to will the jet into existence to take the shape of whatever she desires it to be in the moment. She generally keeps it in this form, the interior of the jet is expansive and allows many people to reside inside of it. Its translucency is determined by Diana's will as well, and from the outside it is entirely unseen, on the inside it is a bright clean cloud-white in hue.

Together, inside the jet, Carol and Diana sit side by side at its controls. When they reach their target, she glances over to Carol and then to the holo-indicator that is hovering just below the large view port before them.

"I believe we are coming up on them now." Diana says then. "There is no sign of any issues currently."

Gibson (44) has posed:
     The role of John Sublime tonight will be played by Gibson,     An exchange between organizations, simple, payment upon delivery type deal.

  The drop-off had been arranged, and the border crossing had been arranged as well. An unofficial stop in the border, where the 'coffin' would exchange hands and so would be money.

  A thin man in a sharp suit, sans tie waits outside another truck, the money in this case was in a case, standing next to John himself.

  "They're coming up now, sir." Says one of the Weapon Plus men, standing guard at the border. "Good, the less time we spend here, the better."

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    The truck that Hydra sent is quite large and the man behind the wheel drives cool, casually, and with familiarity of his job. Seems Hydra has full logistics teams at least. The man beside him looks out to the awaiting truck at the sneaky boarder crossing and spies the men beside and to which he turns his head at the driver and with a resounding clack, primes a round into the firearm he holds, strapped to his shoulder. "Be cool man."

    Inside the trailer, Mystique remains sedated and unaware that she's actually being moved they have her so incredibly drugged up. There is a group of Five armed men and a rather large mounted machine gun in the middle facing the back door. Just in case.

    The crew remains unaware of the invisible jet and its passengers nor the approaching gliding alien-bully combo headed in their direction.

    The truck comes to a stop next to the second and the driver hits the air brakes with a heavy HISS as the truck squats to help drop its load. The man in the side seat climbs out and walks around to the back before motioning John and his associate over. "She's this way fellahs."

Flash Thompson has posed:
The black-suited figure drifts through the air, silent and barely visible until the truck stops. Cutting his glider, Agent Venom falls, and lands -- in the space between trailer and truck. He suspects that the door may be covered, so instead, he rips through the metal at the connections of the airbrakes and the hitch of trailer and truck as he shrdes the metal and lurches within as he leaps at the machine-gun nest.

"Rarrrrrghhh!" Venom cries out in delight as he descends upon the defenders, tendrils flying from the main mass to reach out to grab at people to throw them against the sides of the trailer, uncaring apparently if he gets shot at. "We are here for the package, give it over, and we will not hurt you..."

"...much."

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol looks at the truck still in mtoion down below and the Canadian welcoming committee and nods. "Looks like we managed to get here before the handoff of Mystique if the intel is right. Which is good... I mean I would go into Canada for this terrorist but doing it right on the border lends a bit more ambiguity to the situation."

she hasn't ntoiced the Klyntar yet, he does sort of blend well in the dark after all.

Carol taps some controls that briefly appear on the sleeve of her uniform and the colors slide to black and grey. She doesn't reconfigure the general look but more just the colors to stand out less brightly. (https://imgur.com/a/V1mBk3E).

"Thanks again Diana." she ntoes with a smile and then slips up to her feet heading for the hatch, tapping the panel to open it and.. then pausing as she looks down. "We've definitely gto a complication Diana.... someone else seems to be crashing the party." which is her cue, she flings herself out of the invisible jet and just lets gravity work falling fast, with a bit of extra speed to land with a THUMPH behind the truck. Her hands raising and she targets the joints of the back door of the trailer on one side and grabs it trying to just melt and rip that half the back door right off.

Suddenly the situation has gtoten very exciting.

Diana Prince has posed:
Diana, at the controls of the jet, looks to Carol as she rises up and prepares to move and leave through the aft of the vehicle. But as the trouble is announced, Diana's eyes go to the display that is zooming in on the convoy to showcase it in bright and light view. "Oh bother." Diana quietly says before she reaches out and slides her hands across one of the display screens which shifts their edges from a bright green to a pulsing yellow. She moves to stand up from her chair then. "Lanis. Stay close but keep out of sight and above the convoy. If I call for you then swoop down and prepare to either retrieve wounded or engage enemies." Diana tells the Artificial Intelligence inside of the jet. It softly speaks back to her and acknowledges her.

Within moments, Diana is then at the hatch of the vehicle and security her sword and a quiver of arrows to her back while her right hand clutches the golden glinting limbs of a finely crafted Themysciran bow.

Diana follows Carol out of the Jet, the two women appearing in the sky out of seemingly no where! She descends behind Carol, observing and monitoring how she can get involved best...

Gibson (44) has posed:
     As the truck stops, John picks up the case of hard currency next to him, it's a Haliburton, and of course, filled with US bearer bonds, largely untraceable, and one of the choice methods of currnecy accepted by both criminal organizations and blackops government agencies around the world.

  John's men immediately point their weapons at Carol. "You are interfering with offical Canadian Government business. Stand down NOW."

  The crashing in the back of the long trailer makes John look even more concerned. "THE ASSET!" He yells, practically taking the gun from his counterpart and unloading on the as yet unknown Agent Venom.

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    The sudden jolt of weight on the back of the cab causes the driver to lean forward and he reaches under his seat to grab his personal defense weapon as he starts to open the door and a light goes off inside the trailer. "CrAcK- Stay inside the truck. You know the rules. -cRaCk"

    The door shuts again on the cab but the driver moves out of his seat and into the back behind the driver seat. He's scared as hell.

    The hole Agent Venom cuts is close, and quite lucky as he cuts into the holding cell Mystique is secured in, causing the gas they were sedating her with to escape and disperse into the open air. The agents inside all turn towards the standing windowed coffin and raise their PDWs, laser sights are pinged up and onto Agent Venom when one guy shouts. "The FUCK IS THAT?!" And starts to fire at that side of the trailer.

    The man who called John and his guard over is now standing next to Carol just watching her blast the door off its hinges with ease. No matter how thick that metal is and how armored Hydra made it he is just ... shaking in his work boots and jeans. "P-prob-" He's cut off as the heavy turret facing the door clicks once and then BUZZES. A constant stream of bullets errupt from the turret in Carol's direction and the bullet hose is going to clear any hostiles trying to sour this deal.

Flash Thompson has posed:
"tHe AsSeT!" comes the mocking cry from inside the trailer as Sublime unloads his pistol into the inky blackness. But there's Venom, alone with Mystique. So hot. As the lasers line up on him, the bottom of his face splits open and rows of large, razor-sharp teeth make their appearance as a disgusting large tongue whips out. "The girl is ours!" they cry out as inky black tendrils fly out onto the path of the laser beams to try to latch onto guns and rip them out of hands.

When they notice Captain Marvel, the Klyntar side of Agent Venom //hisses// at her, while the Flash side grunts, trying to take back control. "We are here for her, not to hurt Mar-vell." he growls.

"We can do both!"

"Stay on mission!" snarls Flash as he fights to keep control, grabbing the sedative bag that was being IVed into Mystique and forces it on the symbiote in order to dull it enough for the human to take back full control.

Which may be enough to jolt Mystique awake. And with him between the soldiers and the blue mutant, Agent Venom is a rather nice bullet sponge at the moment.

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol honestly looks distinctly unimpressed at John's men and the guy shaking in his boots. "I'll be taking the terrorist off your hands." she notes, right before the machine gun buzzes to life and starts to just fire a hail of bullets.

She takes a deep breath and turns slamming the door down between herself and the people who aren't as bulletproof as she is, actively shielding the people she is stealing from. You know because she is a hero.

"Make sure whatever went in from the front does not get Mystique!" that is just shouted up into the sky to Diana, not using her name or anything of course, because covert(ish) ops and all.

At which point she stops ignoring the hail of bullets and raises her hand and blasts it with a turret destroying level blast. Dollars to doughnuts that rocks the hell out of the whole prison trailer. "Surrender the Terrorist now!" she shouts after her blast.

There is a pause "A Klyntar?" well that... is not what she was expecting.

Diana Prince has posed:
As Diana descends she takes advantage of having the 'high ground' and starts to use her bow to fire off arrows at the men with the guns! Several golden arrows sweep down out of the sky and zip toward the chests of the men firing the guns!

When Carol shouts up to Diana, Diana flies down out of the sky and lands with a thud on top of the vehicle then starts to run across its roof with her bow at her left and her coiled up lasso in her right. When she reaches the front of the stalled vehicle where the 'thing' had gone in, Diana is quick to follow it and should it still be in sight she'll sweep her lasso out to try to knock them down and stun them with it its long length of limb twisting twine!

Gibson (44) has posed:
     The disregard for John and his men garner a vein in his head to start thumping hard. "You alien CUNT! The asset is ours! This is the government!" John's C8-SFW rifle blasts at both Venom and at Carol now.

  As this goes down, the bacteria that is Dr. John Sublime stares down Agent Venom. The mutant that had been on John's personal detail takes an inhaler and presses it to his mouth. One sharp hiss and the concoction starts to work its magic. The BDU he had been wearing rips and tears at the seams. Before long, he's running towards the trailer, crashing into it, and tackling Venom through the trailer itself, punching a hole right through it.

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    The four men shooting at the 'rear' intruder, Venom, are methodical, well trained and suddenly brought down by the attack by Diana. Expertly aimed arrows find their marks piercing the men in the back causing them to drop onto their faces in the container. The fifth man in the trailer is still standing with his heavy turret still spewing bullets at Carol but his target is changed when the door gets put between her and his gun so he then finds the newest victim and aims his spray at Diana. "The fu-" The soldier behind the mounted turret is bullseyed by the blast from Carol, and as her light show fades away, the power of her attack is visible, a pair of smoldering legs drops to the ground without a torso and the turret itself is nearly completely gone, along with a hole in the upper corner of the trailer near where Venom and Mystique are still working.

    Super soldiers they've heard of, but this is something different. This is insane.

    Venom between the cab and the trailer is making some quick work with the gas and drip sedatives keeping Mystique complacent, though her enhanced physiology are causing the effects to begin to wear off already.

    The last guy, who was shaking as Carol landed next to him raises his submachine gun towards the Kree heroine and tries to pop a few rounds into her. "This was supposed to be easy!" He screams in terror as the trailor itself and the truck by extension rock back and forth from the heavy blow from John.

Flash Thompson has posed:
The lasso wraps around Venom's leg and he's yanked backwards.... but suddenly the leg is just //gone// -- Diana just //rips// it from the body. But there's no scream, no pained noise. Instead, the symbiote goops back together, as if -- does it even //have// legs? That much is uncertain as the black goop drips, drops, and forms the leg again, and they chuckle darkly. "The package is to be brought to our handlers!" they growl out.

Turning to face Diana, he lifts an arm to fire a webbing -- but he pauses. "No..." Flash growls.

He didn't sign up for this to fight Wonder Woman!

And that's just enough time for the enhanced mutant to slam into him, shattering the side of the trailer, ripping it open as it throws Venom, the mutant, and Mystique clear. Slamming into the ground with a growl, Venom starts to bulk up, tendrils grabbing at the mutant to throw a hard punch into his face. "Out of the way, freakshow!"

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol takes a deep breath as she watches the whole chaos in the trailer now. "Son of a bitch." she mutters to herself. Then of course there is the whole asshole using really foul language and shooting at her. She shakes her head then just gives the door to the semi she is holding a toss, aiming to land it right on top of John Sublime, with the gun.

She hovers a couple feet up off the ground and approaches the scrum where Agent Venom, the drugged up mutant, and she thinks Mystique went flying. "Surrender now or so help me god I am going to blast you so hard they will be picking up pieces of you in Vancouver." someone is really running out of patience with the circus in front of her.

Diana Prince has posed:
Diana has fought ghosts before, entities before that were impervious to her lasso's entwining grasp... but this had felt different. She'd had him, at least for a moment, she'd felt the tension in the line but then it'd been... gone. The lasso is snaps back into Diana's hand where it coils up again around her fingers. She watches Venom spin around and glare menacingly at her... but then the fight comes to the symbiote and he... along with the others end up outside.

By the time that Carol is laying down her threat of sending pieces to Vancouver, Diana is rushing out of the busted out vehicle, lunging onto the pavement and sweeping her eyes around for additional threats while Carol handles the bulk of the situation.

Clearly, Mystique has made a lot of friends in high places.

Gibson (44) has posed:
     The drugged up mutant starts to wail on Agent Venom, the MGH coursing through his body has already been working well. He's crazy strong, much like the rest of the group, minus a certain C-bomb dropping doctor.

  With the hulaballoo outside the trailer, John only had a moment to look up and see the flying trailer door, colliding with his body, it squishes and splats into a puddle of red goo.

  The roid raging mutant however, does not bear Carol any mind, he has tunnel vision, and that only is focused on Agent Venom in this case. Beefy hands keep slamming into the symbiote, grabbing at the 'flesh' and tearing at it. He doesn't even know what it is he is fighting, only that this is his enemy, and he must kill.

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    Mystique gets thrown from the fight and lands heavily in the foliage and rolls to a stop against a tree, her yellow eyes opening slowly and lazily as she tries to focus on the outside for the first time in a long time.

    The last guy that had been near Carol the whole time is super easy to take down, barely and inconvenience and is clipped by the HUGE DOOR that Carol throws at John and he's at least incapacitated by the door. This is when the truck and trailer lurch forward with a mighty show of torque but it's not exactly fast as the truck is damaged and the trailer is barely holding on by a thread as the driver wants to get out of this whole situation. Now.

Flash Thompson has posed:
As Venom is ripped into his skin goes flying and pouring around the mutant's hands, thick black ichor that just moves and the more that the mutant fights, the more it may realize it is in the grasp of an alien 'tar pit' as the symbiote is absorbing it and laughing manically as it does so, all teeth and anger control issues. Flash is losing control of the symbiote, and it's not going well.

He manages just enough to turn to Mystique and he growls. "....there is a helicopter in a clearing fifty meters to the north. It will take you to safety!" And then that control slips again as Venom startts to rip back at the mutant. "You want to see what's under me, let's see what you taste like, MUAHAHHAHAA!" they skree in delight as the Klyntar starts to //devour// the roid raging mutant in front of everyone.

Carol Danvers has posed:
Okay. No one is listening.

She continues to hover towards... and okay that is disgusting. Klyntar are disgusting and actually moderately dangerous. "Don't let the alien symbiote touch you.. things are a real problem in some sectors..."

She dips down, checks her angles, bit of a calculation on physics, then angles her hands and fires a photon blast right at Agent Venom and his late night snack. She is pretty sure it won't kill the thing but rather is going for angle and distance. She did threaten with Vancouver which may be an exageration. "Where did Mystique go... do you have eyes on her." trying to spot the mutant hovering back up higher into the air.

Diana Prince has posed:
Diana sweeps her golden bow back around behind her where it is clipped to her quiver of arrows on the back of her harness. She sweeps her stare around the area, leaving Carol to deal with the strange Symbiote. If that thing is from space? Well... Carol has more expertise with that then!

Out in the grass, the very nearly empty field is suddenly changed when a long and elegantly designed craft suddenly appears, with landing gear down and it's hatch open, the invisible jet is suddenly much more visible and Diana is moving toward it. "I do not see her, I am going to get in the air to have a better look!"

After the Princess rushes up into the Jet, it near-silently whisps up into the air and is gaining altitude to search for the missing Mystique... never an easy thing to do.

Gibson (44) has posed:
     The hulking mutant is suddenly devoured, or in the process of being devoured by the symbiote. By all means he's putting up a fight, even if he is stabbed by over fifty sharp teeth. The gross...goop just giving way to the fists and arms of the mutant. That is, until Carol came in with a blast, sending the two blasting of agaaaaaain!

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    The heavily damaged Hydra truck continues to roll forward, the driver slamming through the gears as quickly as he can trying to put distance between himself and the hoard of heroes and supers back there when... "Oh my god!" He shouts to himself and looks back over his shoulder to the ground near where he was parked moments ago. "The money!"

Flash Thompson has posed:
The blast slams into Agent Venom, and the Klyntar/Human gestalt screeches in pain as it recoils as the pair are knocked through the woods, going tumbling end over end and digging into the ground as they hit a rock and the kinetic enegry carries them airborne and into the distance, out of the fight for the forseeable future.

Raven Darkholme has posed:
    Landing against the tree, covered in leaves and grass and mud, hearing the sounds of an explosive conflict, Mystique reacts about as fast as she can and with a bit of effort to push the toxins out of her lungs and body, the shapeshifter's form ripples.

    A large black and white furred wolf loaps away from the scene and is moving faster and faster away from the battle without taking a chance to look back and grab onto the freedom suddenly afforded it. Moving into a run and a sprint, the shapeshifter slips away into the trees and forrest, just wanting to secure freedom before doing anything else.

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol is so bloody angry right now at the Klyntar fucking all of this up. Swear to god. IF he wasn't already blasted she would probably blast the alien again for good measure. "They had to have an extract plan." she says over the comm to Diana as she hovers looking around the area where Venom and the mutant ..and Mystique ended up after being tumbled out of the semi. "Do you see anything?"

Carol slams her fists together and outwards .... the trees in a big wave forward (well above wolf height) just get removed in a fan pattern trying to get a better view of what is going on.

Damnit she is going to get away and it is all that symbiote's fault, who is it working for is a valid question right now.

Diana Prince has posed:
Diana is in the jet high in the sky, she's searching for people though... she isn't aware of Mystique's ability to transform into other things. She knows she's able to emulate living beings, but not living creatures.

"I have no eyes on her. I am sorry, Carol." Diana replies over their shared comms. "I am still scanning, however and there are additional emergency services on the way, they will be here shortly." The jet is doing a circular search pattern around the scene, its engines audible in the sky screaming with an alien-like whistle on the winds.

Carol Danvers has posed:
Carol can't see anything either, she also doesn't know the living creatures business. Also the fact that authorities likely from each side of the border are coming sits poorly with her. "Damnit." she points down and just blasts the money out of spite disinigrating the bearer bonds out of sheer spite and then soars up into the air to rejoin Diana.

Once back into the invisible jet she just slumps into a chair and puts her face in her hands and mumbles "I will find her ... even if I have to rip my way through whatever organization is employing a Klyntar."