8741/The Ambush and the Train

The Ambush and the Train
Date of Scene:	19 November 2021
Location:	Selene's Safehouse
Synopsis:	Selene and Elektra race against the clock to save the leader of the New World Coven from an ambush on a train in Montreal.
Cast of Characters:	Selene Corvinus, Elektra Natchios

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Selene Corvinus has posed:
Montreal: Late at Night

Selene is at the wheel of a very nice car, a car she picked Elektra up in after the two took separate routes to get some supplies. Now the two are moving at high speeds toward the train station. The ambush was apparently meant to happen there, as the airport was too well guarded by Humans.

The silver sports car races down the highway, weaving between light traffic along the way. Selene's eyes are laser focused on the road as she works the stick shift with her right hand, a pair of her guns laying on her lap that she loaded with silver nitrate rounds. The GPS is projected on part of the forward windshield showing the direct route to get to the station and her phone is playing their team communications. She isn't able to warn Amelia.... she doesn't know who is on the inside or not in this plot.

They're not far from the station now and Selene glances to her side. "Are you ready for this?" She asks of Elektra.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
Dressed to kill. That's the dress code for tonight. Elektra seems to not have spared her wardrobe where it comes to being prepared for this. The sharp black and red armor, a couple of swords on her back which are undoubtedly coated with silver. A pair of sais tipped in the same manner. Yes, she seems ready to fend off against a lycan or three. Or die in the process. But that's pretty much the risk any of them takes when going out for any mission.

And this one was shaping up to be one the most dangerous ones.

Elektra has been silent most of the trip now, her eyes often on the road, or on Selene, studying her but also focusing on the battle to come.

The question is answered by a steely look from the assassin, "This is what I do." she tells her in reassurance, "We will make their blood run tonight." a promise in her lips, deadly daggers in her expression.

Selene Corvinus has posed:
Selene lets the silence play out then. Elektra knows full well she worries for her safety, but this situation speaks for itself. She does glance over at her once more, expressing something with her eyes before she moves the stick shift and pulls around a big semi truck ahead of them.

Some part of Selene was under the impression they were making good time and were going to outrun the ambush, so to speak. She was considering how she'd approach Amelia and her personal guard with regard to this topic...

And then the shouting starts on the radio channel. Gunfire soon to follow. Selene looks to Elektra again before her eyes dart back to the road and she hits the gas even more, the car roaring to its top speeds! "We're almost there..." She says as they make a off ramp turn and race on ahead!

The sounds of shouting over the radio are growing more frantic as the battle at the station really begins to heat up!

The silver sports car bursts through an access entrance to the train yard, slamming through a fence with a strong thud to the women inside it. Across gravel now the tires peal out and race toward the tracks, sweeping between passenger cars on unused train lines.

"There." Selene says as she sees the sparks in the dark from gunfire. "I'll let you out in the tree line there..." She says as the car races toward some shadowy cover in the night. When it slides across mud to a halt, Selene looks over to Elektra. "I'll make the charge. You... do that Ninja stuff you do." She says then with a very brief and small smile showing as she raises her right hand up to touch the side of the other's face with cold fingertips.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
A look to her phone has Elektra frowning. "I had someone tailing Kraven. Seems like he's meeting with some associates. I will get us more info when-" a pause when those shouts start being heard on the radio. The phone is set aside and she is heard taking in a deep breath, focusing, Sel's sharp senses able to feel her heartbeat beginning to slow down, carefully measured. And also a lot harder to detect by people able to hear so well as Selene does!

More of her ninja tricks. But then again, when you have been an enemy slash friend of Daredevil one learns these kinds of tricks. Handy ones.

The tree line is noted, dark eyes taking a measure of the place before she shifts her attention once again to Selene at the cold touch of fingertips on her face. She leans over, her own hand wrapping around the other's head to bring her for a kiss. A quick one but full of her passion. "Stay alive." she whispers, "Or I will kill you after." a wink.

As the car stops she quickly opens the door and jumps out, a foot closing it back and she running towards the tree line, a blur in the night as she becomes one with the shadows, waiting for Selene's charge to call the attention so she can move in.

Selene Corvinus has posed:
The kiss is returned, light and swift, but soft and heartfelt. She doesn't verbally respond as the other gets out of the vehicle. A moment later and the mud splattered silver sports car roars in a half circle and spins around to head off toward the track the fight is going down at!

At the track, there are bodies laying on the ground beside cover that didn't help them. There are figures rushing around inside the small windows of the train and shadows up on top of it, large hulking shadows that are running from car to car on the stationary train.

Two men behind cover with guns turn as the headlights of the silver sports car come blasting up a grassy hill. The car launches in to the air and slams down on top of them, crushing them down against the gravel beside the train track!

Selene is out of the vehicle in a blur of motion and raises her guns up to the top of the train as she leaps up toward it...

Elektra will recognize the sound of Selene's guns even if she can't see them, rapid fire pistols, being unloaded at targets in the dimly lit station under siege!

More of the Lycans gunmen turn toward where the new fighter has arrived, raising their automatic weapons from the train up to Selene ontop of it!

Elektra Natchios has posed:
Being one of the deadliest assassins in the world isn't just for show. Elektra honed her skills through the years. In the Hand, outside it. Countless kills in her hands. And the Lycan gunman she sneaks upon is one more for the tally. Twin blades erupt from it's chest, a brief look of confusion on it's face before she slides the blades back out, letting the man drop to the ground with a slump. She doesn't linger, already continuing her move forward, through their ranks, using the cover of Selene's brazen charge to infiltrate the train through a window.

Long legs slide over one of the broken windows, undoubtedly so by the various bullets that pierced through it earlier. Lights are flickering on the inside but so far she isn't seeing traces of enemies. Most likely in a nearby traincar.

Keeping low Elektra then starts advancing through, following the sounds of fighting.

Selene Corvinus has posed:
Selene is up on top of the train, rushing down the cars and firing her guns at the raging figures atop it!

But inside, Elektra finds bodies strewn across the narrow posh interior of the fancy first class cabins of the train. Most of them are in black suits, or black body armor. Ele will recognize them as Death Dealers, though some look like members of the Coven's hierarchy as well. No sign of Amelia though, as they're all male or female who are clearly members of Selene's team.

Or were.

Shots are heard at the fore of the train, further up ahead, at least two more cars. The two cars are shredded, shot to hell and back with more bodies laying on the ground, including two Lycans, one of which is still gurgling alive but hanging through the window half in and half out. Elektra will know by now to finish him off before he rapidly heals....

But soon there-after a scream from a woman can be heard up ahead!

Elektra Natchios has posed:
Dead bodies. But none that seem to scream as being Amelia. Good. Yet dreadfully similar to Selene's wardrobe, which means these are trained troops and with so many dead it also means that what they have ahead of them is no picnic. At least not for them. For the lycans..., well..., it seems like it's being one so far..

The Hand assassin raises her own mask up and starts to move further forward, stepping past the various bodies. Silent. Moving without a sound. At least until she spots that lycan hanging out, and the scream ahead. She runs forward, silver blade gutting the creature from groin to chest before she begins heading to the sounds of screaming.

<Sel. Three cars up. We need to move.> Elektra says through comms. A smoke grenade is tossing out a window where the largest stack of gunmen are at so as to provide cover for her now all-out running through the cars, and hoping that Selene can use it as well to move inside!

Selene Corvinus has posed:
The gunmen outside start screaming when the smoke bombs come out. The wafting cover of smoke has them running frantically from their former positions as two more are gunned down from above! (Satana is having a good night tonight somewhere!)

"Copy that." Selene says in an utterly calm tone of voice back across the comms. "Coming in from the other direction." She adds before falling silent again.

Elektra's charge forward is right in to a darkened series of cars and aup ahead she'll see it, two Lycans in the car having tossed furniture aside as they stalk forward toward someone on the ground in a silver and gold dress. It's hard to see the woman on the ground, but it must be her.

More guards and Coven members laying on the ground too, some still sort of alive, but likely not for long.

One of the Lycans turns around to see Elektra... his massive black skinned form fully facing her now as he starts to rush toward her through the train cars! His snarling maw opening up as he roars and raises his claws to strike!

Elektra Natchios has posed:
Elektra isn't the kind of assassin that has lived so long by charging in blindly against fighting machines like lycans. That only spells death. And while Amelia may be in danger it doesn't mean she is suicidal. At least not for someone she hasn't even met yet! No matter how important the elder may be to Selene. So she faces the black lycan's form by ..., retreating?

More like strategic withdrawal, which involves a few backflips to get out of the way of those sharp claws. Yet it's all part of setting up the lycan, making him be careless...

Shurikens fly through the air as she jumps over a semi-destroyed seat, the lycan's claw smashing through it right after but getting briefly stuck. It means he's stationary for that split second there that allows for those shurikens to hit. Shurikens coated with silver. It's followed by a small grenade that explodes in a silver nitrate cloud around the creature. Yea, she came prepared to face these creatures.

And with the creature being weakened it means it's time to move in for the kill. She draws her sais, rushing forward, a slide across the ground and she jumps up, both Sais over her head and coming down in an attempt to skewer the lycan!

Selene Corvinus has posed:
The Lycan rushing after Elektra had seen a lot in his day, but never someone quite so agile and armed to the teeth too. She attacks with such swift strikes that the heavy handed swipes of the Lycan in the closed-in space only leave the walls of the train bubbled outward as smoke drifts in through the broken windows.

Elektra comes down from above and strikes hard and accurately. The Lycan goes stiff, its whole body tightening as its muscles seize and the silver in its lungs and body begin to burn away at its core. Deactivating its ability to heal and recover. The beast finally slumps down to its knees and starts to fall forward, look out Ninja! heavy dead creature!

Further up in the train the sound of the woman screaming again is accompanied by two gunshots, a pause, then a third and fourth!

There is silence after that, the sound of footfalls on gravel outside getting quieter and quieter....

Then just darkness and an eerie stillness falls over the station.

Distant police sirens echoing in the dark.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
As those Sais land on the creature's shoulders Elektra feels a sharp pain, followed by a well of blood on her side. A swift swipe of those claws that tores through armor. Yet at least it still protects her from losing part of her ribs, instead it mostly catching skin. It's still painful as hell, and she can feel blood dripping. But no time to stop and look at it. Because there's a dead wolf starting to fall on her.

"Move." It's almost as if she's instructing her body to move, to which it immediately obeys, she rolling on the floor just in time to get out of the way, the body falling heavily next to her. She is down on her hands and knees a moment, breathing hard and looking at the dead lycan before those shots ring out.

She gets up to her feet with a brief grimace but then starts to approach, hands wrapped about her blood sais, ready for anything. "Sel!" she asks out, perhaps just a touch carelessly, stepping back onto the train car where Amelia was at.

Selene Corvinus has posed:
As Elektra advances some worry might creep in to her mind, but as she passes through the smoky cars she'll come to see that the second of the two Lycans in the last car is dead on the ground. There, ahead of its body is Selene, crouched down beside the woman in silver and gold. Selene looks back over her shoulder at Elektra. She instantly sees (smells) the blood on her. She sighs. Her hands are down on the stomach of the well adorned woman on the ground, covering a gunshot to her stomach.

The woman, Amelia, looks up to Elektra. She's alive, her expressive eyes are still in distress, but she's breathing and expressing the pain she's in.

"Can you drive?" Selene asks of Elektra then.