AtomicEmperorSonya Mayfield, Quentin Taylor, & Task Force RAVEN.
Written in collaboration with @tsukune, @Zombiedude101, @Mr Allen JSonya pressed her back against the wall, her eyes peaking around the corner ever so slightly. The rest of her team did the same. The Frog woman managed to spot some cells - Good. It means they are right on track. All Sonya saw was some unconscious scientists... Oh, if they're unconscious, then that means that the prisoners might be, too. That'll make her job a little harder. Okay, their mission should be securing the area, then they'll go get around to getting the prisoners out of here. Sonya couldn't sniff the air - this mask stopped that - so she would have to rely on her sight and hearing.
Quentin looked to her for further, taking slow and steady breaths to make wearing that damned mask as comfortable as possible without giving his position away from the Vader-like respiratory noise it could give off. Somehow, he had a hunch he'd wind up encountering one of the fuckers from that facility again - either the huge bastard wearing the mask or that obnoxious bitch who'd first got the jump on him.
"Swarm Queen," Sonya started off, turning to her team-mate in the back. "Can you get us eyes on the location?"
Nikki nodded. "I'll try." She releashed her swarm of insects, and mentally pushed them into the surrounding area. Their senses were thrown off by the narcotics in the air, but Nikki was able to tag all of the unconscious REAPERs. She put them all over the halls just as reference so they could get around. Otherwise, there wasn't anyone standing. "I don't see any guards or anything - none that are conscious."
"Alright, RAVEN," Sonya said, "Our job is to secure the area, and get those prisoners out of here. Got it?" She asked, and the rest of RAVEN nodded their heads. "Alright, move out." Sonya stepped into the hallway, sticking to the walls. The rest of RAVEN followed right behind here, with Quentin and his shotgun taking point.
After a short trip, they made it to a moderately wide hallway. It was lined with rows of metal doors, and it was long. There were some unconscious REAPERs and scientists lying around. Otherwise, that was it. Sonya felt as if something wasn't right here. Which is why she was hesitant to step into the open like this... a sniper always sticks to the shadows, takes a shot, then vanishes without a trace. An open firefight like this would not be preferable.
However, the real threat came from behind them, and not from where Sonya expected. The group heard ice freezing behind them, and Sonya peaked around her shoulder to spot Snowblind - only getting a second to look before the cyro-witch fired a spear of ice at the center of the ground.
"Behind us, move!" Sonya shouted as she dove out of the way.
It was unnecessary, as Adam swiped his arm across, and created a gust of wind powerful enough to knock the spear into the wall. RAVEN immediately pointed their guns at her - but Snowblind managed to teleport away before they could pull the trigger.
"Bloody teleporter..." Sonya hissed underneath her breath. "You guys know the drill."
Another sound of cracking ice came from the other end of the hallway, and it was followed by another blast of ice, which hit the wall because Sonya managed to dodge. When they looked down the hallway, they were greated with some old friends....
"... Well, well, well." Heartbreaker said as she stepped down the hallway, twirling her revolver around her fingers. "I heard that you joined up with NEST, Quentin-boy, but I couldn't believe it." Heartbreaker laughed from underneath her mask. The sound of her voice was enough to grind his teeth together behind the mask's filter, prompting him to answer that by pointing his 870 towards her side of the hallway and firmly squeezing back on the trigger.
Heartbreaker's reflexes and body-control were so great that she managed to kick an operating table up, and duck behind it. Shooting a shotgun at that range wasn't that good of an idea to begin with - but, hey, she got under his skin there. "... Rude as fuck." Heartbreaker taunted. Coming from one of the side hallways were the Mannequin, and Fig. The Mannequin's eye twitched as he stared down the hallway.
Snowblind teleported right in front of them. Holding her hands behind her back.
"Heartbreaker?" Sonya said, "Damn it. RAVEN, take cover!" They knew that her shooting ability meant that any one of them could get their heads blown off in an instant. Sonya ducked behind an opened cell door with Inkshade and Quentin swallowed his frustration and pressed up against another. While Adam and Nikki stood in the room, seemingly in clear fire of Heartbreaker.
However, Adam called out his own Echo. A golden copy of himself that was easily twice his own size. It acted as a shield - Heartbreaker whipped out both revolvers, and opened fire on Adam's Echo. Bullets slid off it's body. Nikki had summoned her swam of insects, ready to act as a smoke-screen - but she knew that Snowblind and Fig would decimate hem. However, she had some of her bugs push forward, and try to sneak up on them.
Sonya poked out for a moment to shoot at them, but Snowblind teleported out of the way. Quentin, on the other hand, knew he'd be better off saving his remaining shells until he got closer to them and loaded in another.
"Damn it, of course we get the annoying ones." Sonya said to herself. She turned to Inkshade. "We're gonna need..." Sonya looked down at the cannister of Metahuman depressant gas that was hanging off her vest, and Inkshade's. She got an idea.
Sonya peaked outside, and saw that Adam and Nikki were standing there. While Adam's Echo was tanking all the hits. Which would come in handy.
"All-Father," Sonya said. "Grab your canisters and toss it at them." She said. The gas won't bother anyone that's wearing a mask - but it'll definitely act as smoke-screen, and give Sonya and the rest of RAVEN to pull their heads together and create a plan.
Adam nodded his head, and pulled the cannisters off his vest, and Nikki handed him hers. Adam gave the cannisters to his Echo, and he held all of them in one hand. With two fingers, the Echo pierced the cannisters, and quickly tossed them down the hallway. The Changeling Unit, and Heartbreaker quickly scattered - but the gas quickly filled up the entire hallway.
Sonya grinned. They now had the perfect window of opportunity, and Quentin was the first to seize it - pushing forward, passing cell after cell, using the opened doors as cover.
Adam and Nikki started pushing down the hallway, using Adam's Echo as a shield.
Sonya and Inkshade had another idea... They both turned invisible. Using their out of sightness as cover, they both clung to the ceiling. Climbing towards them quickly as they could.
"Damn it!" Heartbreaker hissed, taking steps backwards. She knew that the NEST bastards would be pushing in, which is why she held onto her revolvers tightly. She hated to lose ground to them. Only thing that Heartbreaker thought of would be a good idea is to retreat. She can't shoot what she can't see, after all. "Changelings, fall back!" Heartbreaker ordered, and the group pulled back into one of the side hallways. Snowblind teleported away.
Heartbreaker's order didn't go unnoticed. "Shit, the bastards are pulling back." Sonya said into the comms. "Gotta push in after them. We need Heartbreaker and the Mannequin!" Sonya hopped down, and turned visible. Inkshade stayed clung to the ceiling, invisible.
They went down the same hallway the Changelings did. Sonya, followed by RAVEN, chased after the Changeling Unit. She was following their footsteps - however, she stopped when it came to her that this could be a trap. "Swarm Queen." Sonya said.
"I already tagged them." Nikki said, "They're right down this hallway... they're in some room. Let me get some more bugs in there." She quickly sent down more of her insects, and scanned the room. Placing them on everything just to get a feel of it. Insects didn't have the best senses, but the way Nikki was gathering information, it was like feeling everything in the room to make a map. She felt, armor, weapons... Oh No. "... They're in an armory." Nikki said, worried.
"Why can't we ever have someone with magnetic powers?" Quentin complained over the comms, before finally suggesting "Fuck it - what about the containment foam or something, will that work?"
"... Those poor bastards." Sonya said, grinning. She put her hands on her hips, and shook her head. She had a plan. A perfect plan! She grabbed her cannister of the Metahuman depressant gas. "They forgot that we have, Inkshade, the sneakiest of all the RAVENs." Her tongue flopped out of her mouth - contained by her gas mask. She rolled her eyes. "Boys, and gals, can you give me your gas cannisters?" She put her hand out, and the RAVENs gave up their canisters.
"Alright, here's my little game-plan," Sonya started off, raising a finger up into the air. "I'll toss these down the hallway, and Adam will use his air powers to force the gas into their little armory. If it works, it should fill up their room - or, at very least, cover a great deal of it. While that's going on, Inkshade will slip in through a vent or something, and set off a few explosives. Which should be distraction enough for us to push in, and take them out!"
"That works too, I guess." Quentin remarked. If it worked, it was a chance to get his hands on the bitch hiding inside. If not, they'd have wasted more than just the cannisters, but he wasn't planning on going down that road.
"Ready Adam?" Sonya said with a grin.
Adam switched over to his air manipulation, and took in a deep breath. "Yes." Adam said, preparing himself.
"Now, when we get in there, I can't stress this enough, but don't kill Heartbreaker or the Mannequin!" Sonya said, "They might be our only way to getting to the bottom of this madness! Understood? Alright, go!" Sonya pressed the button on all of them, and tossed them down the hallway. They started dispensing the gas all over the place - but Adam pushed them into the room using the best of his ability. It did fill the room.
Inkshade converted to her liquid state, and went up into the airvents.
"Stay safe, Inky." Sonya said, throwing her wife the peace sign.
Inkshade quickly moved through the vents, and made it to the vent that lead to the armory. Like she had suspected, the room was filled with the gas. She could hear Heartbreaker shouting, and she could get a good idea of where everything is. Inkshade crawled out of the vents, clinging to the ceiling. She changed her color to match the enviroment. Maria came close to the grenades, and created inky tentacles - she pulled the pinn on all of them, and hopped far away as she could - making it back into the vent just as they exploded.
"... What the hell?" Heartbreaker said, "God damn it, Snowblind." She said to her Hands of Science associate. "Thought you said this stupid plan of yours would work!" She grit her teeth. "Alright, we need fall back-"
The explosion was rude enough to cut her off - the sheer explosive pressure knocked Heartbreaker over, and burned her badly. She let out a cry of pain, as she hit the ground. Bloody, and beaten... However, what was worse was that her mask was damaged. The gas that RAVEN filled the room with started pouring into her lungs. Her last sight was seeing that cyrokinetic bitch teleport away, and RAVEN walking up to her.
She had to grin, as they aimed all of their weapons at her. She could barely make out anything. "Ah... damn it..." Heartbreaker said, before passing out.
Sonya quickly looked around - she couldn't smell a damn thing in all this gas - but she saw that the Witch Mother, and Fig were also unconscious. She grinned. "Mission accomplished?" She shrugged.
"Not yet." Quentin had his 870 trained on Heartbreaker from point blank range. He looked ready to squeeze the trigger, yet he'd remembered what she'd said about needing her alive - despite the trouble it had been last time. Instead, he planted a boot on one of her shooting hands and crunched down, knowing it'd be a fun experience for her wake up to. She deserved that, at the very least - from his perspective, anyways.
"Agent Tay- Counterpoint!" Sonya immediately piped out. She knew that Heartbreaker and Quentin had some bad blood, but that was no reason to injure a downed opponent. "We took her down, that was unnecessary!"
Quentin released his boot from Heartbreaker's fingers and looked towards her. "We had her once and she got away, and you've seen what she's like with a weapon. This'll even the odds if she tries anything again." was his excuse, though in truth he hadn't forgotten walking into an ambush with her gun planted against the back of his head, then later waking up to her in that hellhole and the nightmare it entailed.
"... And so will handcuffs." Sonya pulled her handcuffs from her belt as she knelt down and put them on Heartbreaker's hands. Tying them together. The rest of RAVEN put cuffs on the Witch Mother and Fig - followed by power inhibitior collars around their necks. "Agent, you need to stay in line." Sonya reprimanded Quentin. "I don't want you getting hit with a suspension, too." She pointed at him, reminding him of another person who he'd come to respect.
Rolling her green eyes, Sonya stepped off. "Grue, prison wing has been secured - we ran into opposition, but we managed to handle them. Changelings were present on the base. We managed to capture Heartbreaker, Fig, and the Witch Mother - Mannequin seemingly got away."
"Understood. Agents on on route to lend a hand." Dana said. "Good work, RAVEN."