towerofanimus | [Massive Infiltration Plot] || [Semi-Open]

[Massive Infiltration Plot] || [Semi-Open]

Characters: All the characters who signed up for this infiltration, too many to write them all here. Characters who stay behind and do not infiltrate can tag into the mingle thread.
Setting: The Cafeteria, then the Elevator's Shaft and finally the Administrative Floors. The 29th of July, in the morning.
Format: Action most likely.

Summary: A month ago Ganondorf planned an infiltration to go and pay a visit to Riki's floor-- Given what has happened these last weeks, the 'Evil Alliance' has accepted to allow Enoch and the people he gathered to use the infiltration in order to do their own thing. Namely, retrieve scientific instruments from Jason's laboratory, so as to study the Collar Fluid. The infiltration will begin on the 1st floor, the Cafeteria.

The first thread is a traditional mingle thread, happening before the infiltration and briefing begin; anyone can tag into it. The second thread is a quick briefing before the infiltration starts, where Enoch and Ganondorf will explain to everyone what to do and what to expect in case they don't already know. Then there are the seven group threads, one for each individual team infiltrating.

The OOC post is here for more information. If you have signed-up but didn't pick a group yet, please do so here. While the infiltration takes place, the villains who stayed behind are unleashing a distraction on the tower and those who don't go.

Warnings: Administrative floors, danger, death, horror. Anyone tagging here is probably going to die, or at the very least meet with a terrible fate.

Mingle || Briefing || Meanwhile, in the Cafeteria...

Group 00 (Ganondorf, Sephiroth [OU], Veigar, Ocelot and Jin)
Group 01 (Enoch, Lancer [AU3], Patrick Dawn, Tohko, Raven and Ryoji)
Group 02 (Xion, Fon Master Ion, Yu Narukami, Asch, Luke, Jonouchi Katsuya, Dark Pit and Sheba)
Group 03 (Nesir Aeser, Zett Takajo, Kain Highwind, Solas and Minato Arisato)
Group 04 (Kyoko Sakura, Amelia, Shepard, Homura Akemi, Terra, Sephiroth [AU2] and Labrys)
Group 05 (John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Naoya Toudou, Dave Strider, Riki [AU3], Sora and Riku [OU])
Group 06 (Zelda, Ruler [AU1] and Saber [AU5])

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[It's fortunate that she's around allies, or at leas around people that wouldn't mock her for being held like a young girl. She grabs at a pauldron, not exactly wanting to take the initiative to clinging to a man.]

[ Ganondorf frowned upon seeing the red ring of light. He had no idea what this was, maybe a security system? But this didn't matter, risks were to be expected and they couldn't go back now that they had gone that far.

Still holding Jin, Ganondorf would go through the ring of red light using his flight ability. Without asking his opinion to his passenger, this goes without saying. ]

[As soon as they pass the ring of light, all superhuman powers are disabled.]

[Jin admittedly had no idea what the red ring of light was exactly-- but it was clearly not anything good.]

Are you fucking insane--?!

[Which made it pertinently clear when they had passed through, and even if Jin wasn't particularly avian-inclined, it was easy to tell that they weren't flying under Ganondorf's power anymore. Before he had had a chance to protest.

Asshole.]

[Ring of red light. Sephiroth's not so blinded by desperation to get down the lift shaft that he's about to go barreling through that without waiting, hovering and seeing what happens to Ganondorf/Jin first.

Well - that explained what happened to Veigar before them well enough. Shifting Ocelot's weight a little, without spending too long even looking at her, Sephiroth peers around in the gloom. As if there might be another option, free-falling not being his idea of fun.]

Well this is inconvenient.

[Well. Great. She frowns deeply. How far down is it? She doesn't want to be injured and on her way to the administrative levels. There's no way that that will go well.]

Drop me. I'll be fine.

[Even if she's not 100% sure, her confidence still shows through her tone. If she's really unlucky, Ganondorf will break her fall.

And a moment later, she's falling in the air.]

[ ... Welp, that was not as planned. He had expected the powers to be cut sooner or later, but he had been betting on later. He scowled at this turn of event and quickly tried to think of something to do-- And what to do was quite obvious as he straightened his hold over the Darknut Sword.

He sighed as Jin spoke, though. ]

Oh, maybe you would have preferred for us to wait, needlessly observing the situation and letting the anxiety build inside of us, only to eventually run back to our dorms?

[ Could you feel the sarcasm? Even when on the brink of death, he could be an asshole. While he spoke however, Ganondorf tried to redirect them toward the closest wall. ]

Hold on tightly!

[ Ganondorf smashed with all his strength the massive sword against the wall-- He didn't expect this to stop their descent, but at least slow it down. He would simultaneously also try to push against the wall with one of his foot, covered with armored boots (albeit made of film), to try and gain more stability.

He wouldn't be able to focus on breaking Ocelot or Sephiroth's fall however, that much they could only rely on Jin if that was necessary. ]

[Sparks fly as Ganondorf's descent slows. The blade's edge is quickly ruined, but by the time the next section of cable appears, while they're still falling quite quickly, it shouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to grab hold.]

...

What th-- Aaaaaahhhhhhhaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

[As Veigar falls rapidly, the Yordle bellows a string of curses as he flails, looking through his bag of tricks.

He should have figured something like this would happen. After all, the Administrators where nothing but pathetic cowards who wouldn't dare to challenge his true might!!

Alas, he wasn't all myth, magic and legend! The Yordle was a mastermind! Albeit a bit of an eccentric one... okay, insane more like it, but still! After a few seconds of digging, the yordle pulled out a familiar device. Familiar to his roommates who kept taking it without permission! But familiar nontheless... After a few moments and a press of buttons and small levers, somethings popped out from the device and became much larger!

Behold!!!!

Balloons.... yes, balloons that were now slowing down the decent of the Yordle. All those times he complained about people touching his balloons and he finally gets to use them! They called him insane! The jokes on them!

Unless of course these balloons were to pop too...]

[His descent is stopped by the balloon--he should have no trouble floating down and grabbing hold of the cables beneath the gap, once he's within reach of them.]

[The balloons are a mighty success! He shall reach the cables and relish in this unique victory by way of inflatable object. This time however, he will wait for his allies....

Just in case something else happens.]

[After letting Ocelot go, Sephiroth scowls down after her. There would be little point having come this far, there had been too much involved now for him to just turn around and go back up. Sorely tempting as it was.

Ocelot's confidence is near enough a slap around the face though. He will not be considered a coward, no matter how badly this ends. Sephiroth positions himself horizontally, undoing the buckle at the center of his jacket as well - anything to increase the drag on the way down.

And then Sephiroth lets go of his powers and falls. Arms and legs extended as far as they will go in the hope that it will slow his descent some. On the look out for the first possible grab-hold on the way down.]

[The cables will come up quickly--though everyone will have to grab on fast in order to not slam into anyone already fallen below them.

All clothing on Sephiroth's arms and legs are torn through from friction alone, and soon his skin is going with it, but it does slow the descent.]

No, but there's something to be said for not flying right into the goddamn sun!

[He was more sarcastic now than he was really angry-- he couldn't just leave it at that if someone was still talking, after all!

Nevertheless, he did move his arm to grip Ganondorf's as the sword did the trick. And once the cables started showing up again, he reached out his arm-- silently glad for the fact that his jack included fabric covering his palms-- and grabbed the cable, both hoping to get a grip and hoping to slow their descent along with the sword's efforts. At the same time, he moved a foot to push against the wall of the shaft like Ganondorf. His shoes weren't exactly military, but at least they had some kind of grip.]

[The cable wraps around Jin's hand and crushes it almost entirely, leaving it a mangled mess. It traps him pretty effectively, though, and stops his descent.]

[ As everyone else appeared to do correctly on their own (if you could call that correctly), Ganondorf wouldn't have to worry about them. Not that he would have worried about them anyway.

He kept his attention entirely focused on the next section of cable as he spotted them, and at the first ocasion went to take ahold of them, attempting to grab the cable to put an end to the descent. ]

[Oof.... ouch.... seeing what happened to his team makes him think twice about touching those cables...

Maybe he should float down just for a bit longer...

Or maybe poke it with something and hope it would do whatever to that and allow him to use that as leverage down instead of one of his precious limbs... or anything else for that matter.]

[He'd expected the friction to argue with the slowing of his descent, but clearly even his (film-constructed) leather attire wasn't enough to stand up to it. It had pulled leather tensely around his arms and legs, then somewhere in the back of his perception Sephiroth noticed the distinct feeling of material opening; leather shredding. Except it didn't stop there, the feeling extended to tearing his skin underneath, the release of tension being entirely too deep - followed by the familiar sharp stinging sensation of raw skin exposed, where the friction has ripped and burned at his flesh and the air continues to rage past it.

Sephiroth doesn't have time to do a once-over of the extent of the damage though, nor pay very much mind to the burning dancing across exposed areas of flesh. He is much more focused on those cables that come up. Both gloved hands grabbing for the nearest that passes him, as soon as he can make the movement, since grabbing with one arm will make one joint take the entire shock of stopping. As soon as he gets purchase he'll pull himself upwards with as much strength that he can muster, gritting teeth firmly against the stretching of already damaged skin on his arms.]

[The cable wraps around Ganondorf's arm and clatters against his armor, squeezing it tight and wrenching his arm but otherwise causing no serious injuries. Sephiroth's hands are further rubbed raw by the action, and he slides a bit as a result, but aside from the painful shock of the sudden stop on his arms he receives no further injury. Veigar is moving slowly enough that he will find he can grab hold of the cable whenever he wishes without any injury at all.]

[Well, that was one way to stop.

Excruciatingly painful? Oh hell yeah. He'd be glad the the adrenaline and all that probably helped nerf some of the pain but yeah that wasn't going to last. He'll have to figure out a way to take care of his nice new array of flesh, blood and bones once they got to some solid ground.

For now though, he let out naught more than a grunt and a low growl for the pain.

He let go of his grip on Ganondorf's arm for now so that he could use his actually-functioning hand to untangle his now-dead one from the cable, grunting a bit more in response and replacing his grip on the cable with his good hand once his other was unstuck.]

[ He winced and grunted as the cables wrapped around his arm, squeezing and wrenching it. Well that was painful, but given the height he fell from and his current lack of power, he considered he did fairly well. In fact, he was nearly surprised not to have lost a limb. Guess using the sword to slow down the descent had paid off, and wearing an armor under his robes had never proven so useful.

Still holding the large, but mostly ruined, Darknut Sword, Ganondorf worked on painfully freeing his arm from the cables and tightening his grip over them. And then took a look around to see what had happened to his teammates now that he was out of danger. Time to see if the team was still complete. ]

Sephiroth? Ocelot? Jin? Veigar?

[ He spoke in his usual, if only annoyed, voice as he called them all to make sure they were alive and in one piece. You could not guess by his tone that they had just jumped into the elevator shaft, nope.

He then looked down. His mind was already focused on the next step: finding the door to Riki's floor in order to find the power cores. According to what he knew, what he had been told and what distance they fell, he suspected they weren't too far by now. ]

[The world narrowed down only to Sephiroth's grip around the cable and then he- slipped. Pulse froze and breath was held as gloved hands slid roughly down the cable between them, lighting up the insides of his hands like someone set them on fire.

After what seemed an eternity of not knowing, the startling painful shock to his arm muscles was almost welcomed. Sephiroth curled himself up to his most able, scarlet-skinned biceps peeking through shredded leather at his arms. The muscles quivering slightly at a combination of the searing burning at their flesh-level, and the iron-hard determination not to be letting go. The cable feels like it's pulsating in his grip, in time with his racing pulse. Occasionally Sephiroth squeezes the cable tighter to make sure he can still feel it properly.

Carefully, though not without a grunt of his own, Sephiroth gets a sore leg around the cable so that he could better anchor himself. The contact of raw skin, within shredded leather, with the cable sends a stinging shudder through him. Under his shoulder armor, muscles screamed and twitched. Though for at this least moment, willing his arms to release the cable at all wasn't something he'll be able to perform easily.

But he was alive, and in one piece. That breath is finally released and his silver head looks around; for the others, for the details he can make out of their surroundings now. He hears Ganondorf above him and forces some of his weight more into the leg that's anchored, he needs to release some of the tension in his arms lest he rip actual muscle inside. To retain some of the strength there. He works his arms out of their locked position minutely but this releases more of a growled response from him than he intended.]

Down here.

[Ocelot grabs for one of the cables almost at once. It's still far enough that she could be severely injured, and she needs to stop that however possible, grabbing with one hand and extending her other in an attempt to slow herself down, or at least balance enough before things can go south.

All she can do is hope that her allies aren't badly injured. She doesn't have anything to wrap wounds with on her right now, and if worse comes to worst she only has five bullets. For going against one of the administrators, it doesn't sound like it will be enough.]

[Ocelot's arm wrenches hard as she stops, muscle tearing beneath skin and elbow bending at an unnatural, painful angle as it snaps. The elevator cable wraps itself around one of her legs and squeezes tight--it's not broken, but it would be uncomfortable.]

[Veigar closed one eye, sucking in air as a pained gesture when he heard or saw the damage being done to the team. Honestly... He didn't think that even if they had been thoroughly prepared, that they would be able to avoid the constant trickery and traps that the people they were after were known for.

Alas, this won't be the last and it's just going to get worse from here on in but hey! This is what they knew they would be after and they weren't going to be deterred. He certainly wasn't...

Finally grabbing hold and slowing himself down. He reached the destination, wiping away at his armor and robe before looking up at Ganondorf.]

I'm here.

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