Black Air Mission 1: Great Basin Desert

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 11:36 am

"Yes, but I don't want to kill whoever is coming through."

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:58 pm

"Well they did fire explosives at you... but you have a point."

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:10 pm

Before Sara could respond, a man in a uniform very similar to the one they found in the box slid up the rope, with amazing dexterity on just his feet.

He was wearing an oxygen mask over his face, so they couldn't get a great look, but the tail sticking out the back might give some hints as to his identity.

Arms akimbo, he fired two machine-pistols at Sara and Nick!

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:23 pm

"Holy shit, Simon!?" she shouts as she turns to stone to brace herself against the bullets.

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:27 pm

Nick cursed colorfully as he flew aside and fired a TK blast at yet-another-evil-Simon.

by **Zoe Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:34 pm

Literally sliding up the rope again was another familiar face, manipulating the friction coefficient of the floor to knock anyone standing on it to the ground.

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:35 pm

"Simon" dodged Nick's blast by jumping and clinging onto a wall, firing again.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:38 pm

"Why are you fighting us!?" Sara shouts, drawing up rock from the ground to protect herself against the bullets, not even bothering to stand up right now.

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:43 pm

"This is dimensional vertex point 2159-stroke-delta. Don't pretend like you don't know what's going on here," Simon growled as he fired.

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:48 pm

"We don't! We broke in!" Nick said as he tried TKing not-Zoe into Y.A.E.S.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:52 pm

"We're trying to bust this place up because Black Air is a bunch of assholes! We were just investigating the distortion." she says, continuing to cover under stone walls she's pulling from the ground.

by **Zoe Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 5:11 pm

"We're the ones keeping people like you SAFE, and this is how you repay us?" Zoe shot back.

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:00 pm

"Black Air doesn't keep anyone safe but itself!" he said.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:14 pm

"I don't know what it's like over there, but here they hurt people and experiment on them for their own gain."

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:21 pm

"Then why did you attack us, and where is Sunburst?"

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:24 pm

"Attack you? You shot a bazooka at us and then came out shooting!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:29 pm

"You should probably ask our Black Air about that. They stuffed his body in a crate and labelled him. That's the kinda shit we're here to stop." she says, finally standing up.

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:50 pm

While it didn't look like they believed her right away, they at least stopped shooting.

"We offered a peace offering, and were nearly pulled into the void." Simon insisted to Nick.

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:53 pm

"What peace offering?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:00 pm

"You didn't identify yourselves and asked me to step into the distortion." Sara points out.

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:22 pm

"You were the ones..." Simon started, before stopping, and taking a deep, frustrated breath.

"Let's start again. Who are you?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:25 pm

"I'm Sara Stanton, I'm with the X-Men. Hell, I know you. You're Simon Kipling. Our Simon was the best man at my wedding."

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:28 pm

"Nick Varkan, and we know our her too," he said, motioning to Zoe.

by **Zoe Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:29 pm

"We know you, of course, Nick, but you're not ringing a bell..." Zoe said, musing, before Simon elbowed her in the ribs.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:49 pm

"I probably never met you in your universe. I'm from the UK."

by **Zoe Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:52 pm

"So, you're on Black Air detail over here?"

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:58 pm

"Sortof? The British Government here is helping us find their facilities, but we're an independent group. Strictly voluntary membership."

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:59 pm

"What do you mean, 'find their facilities?" Simon asked, frowning.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:02 pm

"It looks like they have operations all over the globe. We busted on in Antarctica where they were experimenting on mutants. This one is in Nevada in the United States. I don't know if your end of the distortion is somewhere else." she adds just in case.

by **Nick Varkan** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:03 pm

"Black Air are criminals here. So I'm really hoping you're not with them."

by **Zoe Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:03 pm

"So, you're NOT affiliated with them? That complicates things," Zoe said, looking at Simon.

"This is a huge security breech."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:06 pm

"For what it's worth, we were trying to seal the hole."

by **Simon Kipling** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:17 pm

Simon paused, and nodded. "Nick, can you disrupt the cosmological constant in this universe?"

by **Nick Varkan** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:36 am

"Uhhh... no? I'm going to go with no," Nick said, clearly unsure of what that even meant.

by **Zoe Walker** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:56 pm

"Alright. Sara, was it? Can you stretch yourself over the hole to provide a targeting surface for a Z-354 dimensional suture?" Zoe asked.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:00 pm

"If it's just a surface you need I can provide that. I'd rather not stand in the way myself."

by **Simon Kipling** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:10 pm

"Why not? Oh...oh, the power levels must be much weaker in this universe."

by **Nick Varkan** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:50 pm

"Considering I can't disrupt reality itself like your me? I'd say so."

by **Simon Kipling** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:00 pm

"Well, what CAN you do?" he said, with some impatience.

by **Nick Varkan** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:06 pm

"I'm just telekinetic," he said, "Though a powerful one."

"Which... doesn't seem so impressive at the moment."

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