Black Air Mission 2: Oakington, Cambridgeshire

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:08 pm

"About tomato size?" he asked.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:14 pm

Laura Weston wrote:"I've got a broken pane on top of that greenhouse, Graham. Going to take a closer look," she said, buzzing down and hovering around the hole so she could get a view from several angles.

The ((very roughly)) tomato-sized hole revealed an oddity--while looking through the glass from the outside, tinted or not, revealed raspberry bushes, that wasn't what Laura saw THROUGH the hole--there were, indeed, tomato plants down there.

by **Laura Weston** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:40 pm

"We have a tomato-sized hole. And while through the glass, it looks like raspberries, there are definitely tomatoes in this greenhouse," she said into her radio before pulling an energy bar out of a pocket on her shoulder and starting to quietly munch on it.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:46 pm

"Begs the question of how the body got where it is, especially considering the door is locked," he radioed.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:47 pm

"I'm on my way. And what do you mean it looks like raspberries?"

by **Laura Weston** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:49 pm

"It's like the glass is making it look like there are raspberry plants inside, but if the glass isn't the way, it's clearly tomatoes."

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:51 pm

"I might be able to pick the lock if I had a wire or something."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:53 pm

"Time to throw some more stones at the glasshouse then. We're busting down that door."

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:54 pm

There was a THUMP from the inside of the greenhouse, and Laura could swear she saw the plants rustle on their own.

by **Laura Weston** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:56 pm

"We've got movement in the greenhouse, possibly the plants themselves," she reported, wolfing down the rest of the energy bar and tucking the wrapper away.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:57 pm

"Oh, if we're doing it that way," Graham said, voice deepening as he grew into his satyroid form. Then he tried punching through the glass around the lock.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:59 pm

Sara runs up behind him as he does so, having shifted to stone on the way over.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:05 pm

Graham had no few difficulties punching around the lock, through it would take two or three swings--it's reinforced glass, but it's glass not withstanding.

There were rows after rows of tomato plants in here, despite what the CSI guys had said--clearly, they were growing tomatoes here.

On the floor near the door, one tomato lay, squashed open.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:09 pm

He quietly hissed in pain as he tried opening the door from the inside.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:17 pm

It opened! And Graham got his hand dirty from some tomato juice that had splattered on the door.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:26 pm

"You could have waited a minute." Sara points out as she walks up. "And so much for no tomatoes. I wonder how they're doing this." she says, glancing back and forth between the view through the glass and the open door.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:29 pm

He extracted his bloodied arm and removed a shard of glass. His wounds were healing quickly.

"I didn't expect you so fast."

He made a face at his hand.

"Eww. Tomato juice."

by **Byrna Cooper** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:33 pm

Graham Jaeger wrote:"Eww. Tomato juice."

"It's healthy."

Bear peered around with her good eyes, frowning at the rustling.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:37 pm

Byrna Cooper wrote:
Graham Jaeger wrote:"Eww. Tomato juice."

"It's healthy."

Bear peered around with her good eyes, frowning at the rustling.

The rustling had stopped, at least for now.

There was something odd, here. Bear knew something about ballistics.

The hole was in the roof, yet to hit the farmer at the other end of the field, any weapon fired from here would have had to curve--or the farmer's body was moved. One or the other.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:49 pm

Frowning, Graham tossed the piece of glass into the greenhouse foliage.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:54 pm

No response.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:01 pm

"Hmm... Are there any glass shards outside or did something break in through the roof?" she asks, mostly directed at their 'ballistic-tech' Bear.

by **Narrator** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:11 pm

Bear would notice that the glass did, indeed, fall outside of the roof.

by **Byrna Cooper** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:53 pm

"The shards are outside.. Whatever caused this.. Started out inside the greenhouse."

Bear did some quick calculations, trying to see if it was a well-placed arcing trajectory that did this.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:07 am

Byrna Cooper wrote:"The shards are outside.. Whatever caused this.. Started out inside the greenhouse."

Bear did some quick calculations, trying to see if it was a well-placed arcing trajectory that did this.

Not unless gravity was fundamentally different in the area of the greenhouse.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:06 am

Graham returned to human and looked down at the smashed tomato in the doorway, calculating its trajectory to judge the direction it came from.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:28 pm

IT came from the plants! Or, rather, from the direction of one of the rows of plants. That is, assuming it followed normal trajectories.

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:35 pm

Laura lowered herself gingerly onto the roof, continuing to look through the hole.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:43 pm

Laura Weston wrote:Laura lowered herself gingerly onto the roof, continuing to look through the hole.

The roof supported her weight; the glass was definitely pretty strongly re-enforced, making the fact that something punched a hole through it all the more intriguing.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:51 pm

Graham let out a 'hmmm' and sniffed the juice on his hand. Hadn't the tomato scent seemed... off?

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:53 pm

"I'm on the roof now. This is some pretty tough stuff."

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:57 pm

Graham Jaeger wrote:Graham let out a 'hmmm' and sniffed the juice on his hand. Hadn't the tomato scent seemed... off?

A little off, yes--there was SOMETHING strange here, for sure.

Could they be...GMOS?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!???!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!!??!?!?!!?!?!

by **Graham Jaeger** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:06 pm

"Flying tomatoes with super-strength. You were right, these Black Air people are nuts."

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:12 pm

Rustling.

by **Laura Weston** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:16 pm

"Possible incoming," Laura reported from her perch.

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:20 pm

"Wouldn't be the strangest thing these people have done..." she says, keeping her eyes open for anything that might come out of the vegetation and stepping into the greenhouse.

by **Graham Jaeger** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:22 pm

On instinct, Graham had his bow up and drawn within seconds. He watched very carefully now.

by **Narrator** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:24 pm

Silence. Nothing moving as far as they could see...now...

by **Byrna Cooper** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:53 pm

Bear, likewise, opened her satchel.

"Everyone, be careful.. Seed pods have been known to shoot seeds at the speed of sound in certain instances.. And the physics aren't normal here.."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:27 pm

Sara nods and carefully heads further into the greenhouse.

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