Syraei and Kesai 4 - RPLOG
Participants
Date
28/3/2013
Log
The QRF operatives had established their own moderated nanite bubble, isolating themselves from nanomagic influence. The very first thing they did was blow the door with a standoff door breacher, sending the steel and reinforced glass separating the outside world from the laboratory tumbling into the lab with a sharp, ear splitting bang. Shortly after, cylindrical grenades skittered across the floor and began spewing smoke and tear gas. A muffled, electronically amplified voice called through the growing smoke. "You are in a biohazardous facility. Surrender immediately! You have 10 seconds to comply!" Through the smoke, there was sounds of activity - They were setting something else up.
The door skitters across the floor, shredding both of Antiman's emplaced mines.
Meniatz calls out to the source of the voice. "I'm kind of keeping your experiment from killing everyone right now! I could stop, it might not end well!" Sie telepathically communicates with hir sister-mates as sie continues to send an electrical current into the microwaves. "Of course, if you /really? want this place to end up like Vegas, I could stop sterilizing the grey goo your scientists have been making here." Though sie felt more comfortable staying there to regulate the current, Meni was confident that the charge would last long enough for hir to fight if sie really needed to. Even so, Sie hoped hir bluff would work.
Antiman had managed to get behind a piece of equipment when the door was breached and hir Mine emplacements were shreaded with them, *If we get through this I'm going to figure out how to rig a door so a breach doesn't remove traps.* Sie takes a bandana when sie realizes that the QRF tossed tear gas and wets it from hir canteen and quickly ties it around hir beak. Sie chuckle purs a little at Meni's message, *You didn't need to tell me once love.* Sie pulls out one of hir improvised granades and holds the fuse close to hir slow match.
As the smoke fills the room, Dio starts to cough and does his best not to rub at his eyes. The lion's days in law enforcement had told him that rubbing usually makes the tear gas worse, but it's awfully hard to resist the natural reflex. With the time he has left, Dio types away on the keyboard and begins the procedures to open Kesai's tank. While he waits for that task to finish, Dio shuffles through his pockets to drop a small stone ball on the floor, making it roll slightly towards the soldiers but not within their personal bubble. Seemed innocent enough.
Tau gets behind cover and prepares hir rifle to aim carefully at the door, trying to catch any sign of one of the men or women so sie could hit a limb. At this point, sie might not even go for non-lethal, if those horrible nanites got out it'd destroy everyone in the city. "Look people, we're trying to keep everyone in the city from dying here, alright? Do you *really* want to risk that? Do you *know* what they're keeping in here?"
The team outside hesitates for just one minute to consult with his radio at the attempted bluff. The smell of the natural gas leak in the sewers completely permeated the drainage systems and now, air was rushing in from the hallway the QRF team was occupying. Syraei pipes up from just inside the breach they'd made to enter. "Mistress, the tunnels are primed with natural gas now. And the QRF breach has provided sufficient air to make all of the tunnel system explosive."
Dio might want to consider himself the best hacker in the world, or at least the luckiest. The small cylinder filled with Vegas nanites dropped out of sight with a hiss before the nanomagic powered microwave incineration system popped online with an audible high energy hum, but the silicon carbide thermal shield did not immediately fall into place, saving Kesai from being cooked alive. Instead, the system doused the entire room in a blast of microwave energy that neutralized all nanites in the room, good and bad. In a torrent of fluids the capsule Kesai occupied burst open and the unconscious vixen tumbled out while the Vegas nanite cylinder reappeared in a triple sealed and armored transportation case right beside where Kesai had collapsed.
The time QRF had set forth expired and the expiration was announced by the deafening clatter of machinegun fire. Bright red tracers ripped through the air, discouraging any return fire as can after can after can was tossed into the room with them. Bright red, marked AN-M14 INCEN TH3. Thermate grenades and their fuses were going.
Meniatz ducks behind the terminal and pulls out a lead-lined case from hir bag. Sie pulls out a vial and pours it over a grenade. Though Meni usually detested biological warfare, sie was left with little choice. Sie sends a telepathic method to Syraei and hir sister-mates. "Syraei says tunnels are filled with natural gas, so we should avoid using fire as much as possible. I'm going to grab Kesai as we start to make my way through the tunnels. When I throw my grenade, we need to get out." Meniatz grabs the fox before lighting hir grenade and tossing it behind hir, leaving the match on the floor. Sie dashes through the tunnels for a moment or two before taking flight within them.
Antiman coses hir nictitating eyelids against the teargas. Sie ducks behind the equipment as the QRF team fires into the room and toss thermite granades, *Shit they be serious.* Sie lights the fuse on hir granade and counts 1..2.. and throws on three into the doorway. Sie backs away from hir cover keeping it between hir and the door as sie backs away towards the tunnel, "You heard the herm! Time to go!" Sie extinguishes hir slow match to prevent from blowing hirself up, "Toss granades and extinguish matches."
It would seem the time for talking things out has turned to running out as indicated by the clear message of a torrent of bullets. Getting Meni's message, Dio nods and starts to concentrate some of his efforts towards the nanites around the stone ball he dropped. Like some sort of massive shotgun, dozens upon dozens of tiny stone shrapnel pieces fly off the ball at lethal speeds down the hallway and towards the soldiers. Just in case, Dio also extinguishes the match Anti gave him and sprints for the tunnel.
Tau did hir best to avoid the teargas, and wished sie still wore clothes so sie could try and sheild hirself. Then the grenades came. Sie couldn't be happier to get out of this hellhole. Sie just had to worry about suffication in the tunnels, or something causing an explosion. Sie put the safety on hir rifle, and destroyed the slow burn match. Sie was nervous of anything on hir bandolier possibly causing a spark or something. It was highly improbable, but the fear was there none the less. Through the hole to the tunnel sie went and prayed sie'd get the hell out of dodge safely.
Syraei nods slowly. "I will ensure your escape." Syraei approached Antiman, reaching for the remote detonator the Gryhon had stashed away as the first thermate grenade flared to life behind them. It was a searing, bright blue light. So much brighter than the sun that it would certainly sear anyone foolish enough to watch it burn. "I will remain behind and cover your escape with the threat of destruction. There is no time for argument. This is the only way to ensure neither troops, armored vehicles nor aircraft follow you."
Winces and all six eyes begins to cry as the grenades detonate in the hall amidst the screams of the dead and dying as she stared deep into Antiman's nictated eyes. "Please... before anyone else dies." She winces again as more screams of pain and death and outrage roar down the halls. Her emotions were warring with the control placed upon her by Meniatz and it was visibly tearing her mind apart.
