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

[great_king_of_evil]

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])

Comments

[animusnpcs]

[The cable comes up fairly quickly--they'll have to grab on fast, lest they hit the rest of their team and send everyone crashing down.]

[invisible_friendship]

[Jonouchi didn't hesitate to release the tunic and grappled onto the cable. Once he noticed his hold was as good as it was going to get he crossed his legs around it in attempt to slow their speedy decent.]

[animusnpcs]

[The cable twists wildly around the two of them. Jounouchi is crushed, nearly bisected and spine snapped. Ion survives--but he's trapped in the cable pressed against what remains of Jounouchi.]

[fragileprophet]

[Ion closes his eyes tight and gasps as they begin to spin out of control--their descent grinding to a rapid halt. There's a sickening sound--a crunching snap--and for a long moment he doesn't dare to move. He's winded--he can feel the cable pressing tightly against him at all sides except the front of him--where he's attached to his friend like a leech.]

Are you...

[Whatever question he was going to ask his friend dies in his throat once he dares to open his eyes. The teen he's stuck to is limp--practically severed in half where the rope has winded. Ion's whole body freezes as he stares at the corpse.

He feels a scream rising from somewhere deep inside of him, but never hears it leave. Tears sting at his eyes and blur his vision as, with shaking hands, he grabs at the cable to see how tightly stuck he is.

Don't panic. Don't panic. Don't panic don't panic--

It's all he can do to repeat the order in his head as he attempts to free himself. He's going to have to climb down on his own now, weak arms or not, and Ion knows he won't be able to do that if he can't stay as calm as possible.

But Jonouchi--oh, Lorelei he was sorry--]

Late to the party sorry guys

[ambassadorasshat]

[Luke probably should have gone first. Or second. Or any time that wasn't nearly last, because the more he waits, the more nervous and antsy he gets about what's going on below. He can't see anything, but he can hear screams from down below--not Asch's, that's who he's listening for. If Asch doesn't say anything, he's good to go, right?

It's just him, Yu, and the Persona up above, and a minute or two after Ion and Jounouchi jump, he glances into the dark, fumbling with the bundle of cloth in his arms for a few seconds, testing to see how best to make it into a parachute.

And then he slides out of the Persona's lap and down, hoping the cloth will slow him down even a little bit.

Just like jumping out of one of the trees around the manor. It can't be that far down, it's just dark...just really dark.]

[animusnpcs]

[The fall is long, but fast--the cable resumes and if he doesn't grab on fast, he'll crash into Ion and what remains of Jounouchi. Of course, what remains of Jounouchi has also made the cable dangerously slick in places...

The elevator door that was shaking earlier is rattling now, as if it was suffering its own personal earthquake.]

[ambassadorasshat]

[He spots the cable before he spots Ion or Jounouchi...pieces, and lets go of his makeshift parachute with his right hand. The gloves he's wearing should provide a bit of protection against rope burns.

He spots Ion not long after, and grabs the cable with his other hand, trying to swing his body so that he doesn't hit Ion and also slow himself down by gripping the cable more tightly. If there's another cable nearby, he'll likely try to grab at that one as well.]

[animusnpcs]

[His arm is wrenched out of its socket, but between the stop the jolt provides and his other hand, he suffers only minor injuries.

The cable is swinging now, though, and it's pressing Ion more tightly against Jounouchi's body.]

[fragileprophet]

[Ion looks up, startled, when he hears someone coming.]

Luke--

[He tries to call out to his friend, but realizes his warning will do no good with how fast the redhead is going. He braces himself for potential impact--and would be much more relieved when it doesn't come if the cable didn't wind all the more tightly around his middle.

Ion winces--it doesn't hurt, exactly, but it makes it all the more harder to breathe and all the more difficult to free himself. He has to use a hand to wrench even a measure of space between himself and (what was once) Jonouchi.]

Luke--a-are you hurt?

[The redhead isn't dead, at least. That's a start. He tries to keep himself from breaking down to violent shivers as he stares up, wide-eyed, at Luke.]

[seekinganswers]

[Jonouchi and Ion, now Luke - Sheba does a quick mental count and realizes that there's still one person who hasn't jumped. It makes her ill to dwell on what's happened to Jonouchi, and there's shakiness in her voice as she calls up to Ion and Luke.]

We're going to move further down to give you guys some more room!

[And with that, she's back to shimmying. The rattling door concerns her - it's clearly dangerous. She looks to Xion and then to Dark Pit as she carefully shimmies down the cable.]

What should we do about that? Should we try and force open one of the doors above it, or...?

[alae]

We should get his stuff.

[He looks up towards Asch's body.]

No point in wasting it. But we might as well try to get the door open, too. The shaking one.

[attheclocktower]

[Xion clenches her part of the cable convulsively. Between what happened to Junouchi and Asch and trying to decide what to do now (not to mention Yu still has to jump), it's... she doesn't know what to do. Still, she doesn't like the idea of trying to get through the shaking door.]

If there's something behind it, we won't be able to leave through it.

[Not to mention whoever was opening the door would probably be knocked out.]

I'd say try to get past it, but there's no time. [Not with Ion still tangled up and Yu still trying to get there] Try the one right above it.

[She wishes she had her Keyblade so much right now]

[seekinganswers]

[Having fallen with Asch, Sheba doesn't have too far to shimmy before she reaches Asch's body again. The thought of looting it is sort of off-putting, but... they're right.

She looks for what he has. The swords are obvious, but she can't take them both - not with a busted arm. There's poppies and bandages, she sees - those could be useful. Gritting her teeth, she shifts her bad arm so that her hand comes to the cable and grips it as tightly as she can. Pain shoots up her arm but she forces herself to deal with it and reaches out quickly to take the poppies and bandages, which she tucks into her boots for safekeeping. She switches back to clutching the cable with her good hand for a few moments, then switches back to her bad one long enough to snag the lightest of Asch's swords, which she gets as firm a grip on as she can before bringing sword and hand back to the cable, adjusting it so that the hilt of the sword is against the cable when she clutches at it again.

Assuming she manages not to fall during any of this, she starts to shimmy back down the cable to catch up to Dark Pit.] Any idea how we're going to get those open? ...preferably before whatever's behind that door bursts...

[animusnpcs]

[The door groans and bulges out suddenly--as if something was pushing through to the other side.

Then the door sighs and returns to normal, as if nothing had ever pushed on it at all.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Yu watched in relative silence as the others jumped down below - some alone, most with another despite his warning. He doesn't know whether he could dissuade them further or not, but what he does know is that he should give them a little more time before he jumps down after them.

Which is why he continues to mentally brace himself, as one by one, he couldn't sense his emotional ties with those who went before him. Without thinking much, he tore a bit of his shirt off to wrap around his hands. Though soon enough, he takes one more breath and looks up towards with one last look at his Persona, he nods, sliding down into Izanagi-no-Okami's hands as he faced the aspect of himself that showed his progress of his last journey.]

See you soon, me.

[With that, he jumps backwards, swan-diving through the ring of red light and humming "I believe I can fall" under his breath as his Persona faded in static and prepared to flip as he tried to use his jacket to slow some of the descent.

I believe I can fall
I believe I can help save 'em all
Glide to the darkness and through the light
Likely get the biggest fright
I believe I can soar
Hopefully see an open door
I believe I can fall

...Somehow, he's glad he left the bus stop sign behind for this one.]

[animusnpcs]

[The fall is rapid, though it takes some time--and then the cables come up quickly. Slick with blood and with people already hanging off of it, it will be nearly impossible to avoid a crash of some sort.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Without thinking, he uprights and braces himself, trying to angle it so that as he turns, he can kick off the walls and bypass the others. Only when he's clear of the others will he grab hold of the cables with both wrapped hands.]

[animusnpcs]

[Yu manages, through some miracle, not to directly strike anyone as he passes. He grazes Asch's body, though, and the cable swings, twists, and the body falls free--the body crashes into Sheba, and will next strike Dark Pit unless Sheba does something to prevent it.

The swinging cable coils around Yu's arms, and then gravity takes its course both of his elbows are broken backwards as the weight of the rest of his body comes down over top of him. The cable twists around his legs as well, but does not break them.]

[seekinganswers]

[Sheba doesn't even have time to scream before Asch's body crashes into her - the cable is twisting and it's all she can do to keep holding on. She moves to try and catch his body on instinct, but the sudden motion of her bad arm sends another stabbing pain through her and she bites down hard on her lip to keep from crying out.

This, at least, keeps the body from immediately falling down to crash into Dark Pit. But Sheba very clearly can't support the weight for long, and she glances down frantically.]

I - what should I--

[The body begins to slip from her already shaky grasp. Dark Pit will have time to see it coming before it actually falls.]

[alae]

[Since Sheba's slowed him down, Dark Pit wraps his legs around the cable and reaches out with his good arm, doing his best to grab onto Asch's shirt and hold him. He's well aware he's probably going to strain his wrist further, but he doesn't care right now.]

[animusnpcs]

{Asch will provide extra dead weight for Dark Pit, and will wrench his arm a bit, but for the moment as long as he can keep hold of the cable he will be fine.]

[attheclocktower]

YU!

[Xion's scream echoes as he falls past her - not him too not him too, she can't handle losing him too. But then he seems to come to a halt below her, though she can see the cable wrapped around his arms. The way his arms are bent though doesn't look good. But he was okay. He was alive.

She looks down at him for a few more moments, breathing frantically, then up again at the people above her, including Ion tangled with Jounouchi and Dark Pit holding Asch's corpse. She closes her eyes tightly for a moment, ignoring the wetness, then opens them again.]

E-everybody! Try to get yourselves untangled. I'm gonna try to look for a way out!

[There's tears in her voice and on her face but she takes a moment to grip the cable extra tight with one hand and wipe at her eyes. That done, she looks around frantically, looking at the doorways and if there's anything else that can help them reach them]

[ambassadorasshat]

[And up above the part of the team playing hot potato with Asch's body is the part of the team basically just freaking out over the whole situation.]

Y-yeah, I...my arm. I-I can't move it...

[Well, that's not entirely true, he can move his fingers and hand, somewhat, but trying to move the whole arm sends a wave up pain up it.]

Where's Asch? He made it here, right? Shouldn't he be somewhere...? Asch?

[When he doesn't get a response, he prepares to slide further down the cable, but aborts that idea when Yu falls through, causing a slight distraction.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Yu makes a nearly inaudible gasp when his elbows snap in a sickeningly way, too much in shock to make more than a strangled noise as he hangs out below the others. He doesn't even register Xion's voice for a brief moment as he adjusts to no voices in his head at all.

Yes, that somehow freaks him out over two broken elbows and- wait, is that Asch-?

Oh no.]

....I'm- alright. [He says in a rasp, because hey - he ain't dead or eaten yet; it's all good.] Keep... looking for something we can use to get to the doors.

[Getting out of the elevator shaft before another team decides to drop in is the top priority, he decides as he does the same and tries to untangle his legs from the cables without losing grip. It's kind of painful, okay.]

[animusnpcs]

[The more struggling happens, the more the ropes tighten around Ion. Still, he has some give, with Jounouchi's body being crushed further little by little.

Asch's stomach seems to bulge out like the door did--as if something were trying to push out.]