3301/Our Die Hard

Our Die Hard
Date of Scene:	22 December 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Punisher, Mystique, Kaelyn Silverleaf

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Punisher has posed:
    December is here. Midtown Manhatten is decorated with garland, lights, and ornaments on street lights, buildings, on the cabs zooming through the streets. There are shoppers bustling around going into the Toys R Us and the massive Lego store next to the M&Ms. The sun has set and the chill is up, but the scents of hot dogs, roasted nuts, car exhaust, and humanity abound.

    Among the many tall buildings here in Midtown is the Prudential Securities building. It is home to many businesses and a lot of wealth goes through the computers inside this building. Today, however, the top floor is hosting a Christmas Party for the Movers and Shakers and Wealthy of New York City. There is booze aplenty. Music booms over the speakers. Men and women, made bold with alcohol, make mistakes they will have to admit to later. There are streamers and crackers and eggnog and presents for all.

    Suddenly the elevator doors open to this party, and many men with guns come pouring out into the room. Screams of delight become fear as the armed terrorists begin to take control of the room.

    Frank Castle had come here because he knew one of the people upstairs was doing some pretty rotten stuff under the table. Exotic underage prostitution and weapon trafficing were top of the list. He is making his way around the building moving towards the loading docks.

    At street level, it is not as apparent what is going on immediately, but the guards inside suddenly look concerned and there is a click as doors lock.

Mystique has posed:
One of the 'movers' or perhaps one of the 'shakers' is a blonde woman in a black dress that is lowcut on her chest and non-existant on her back. She's got heeled shoes and white gloves that go up to her elbows.

Raven Darkholme, the most wanted woman in the world... she could take on the face of anyone though, so tracking her was one of the hardest jobs law enforcement could possibly ever fathom, even her bloodtype could be changed at the blink of an eye.

She'd come here for a very very specific reason, to get information from the Chairman of the MTA, the authority of the metro transportation system... And she was in a private office with him, getting a little personal--because thats how espionage works sometimes. You had to butter some people up, even older merried mean couldn't resist the charms of a shapeshifter who was able to become anyone they wanted. All you had to do was find out which celebrity they liked most and then...

The gunmen/screaming broke up their intimate chit chatting/flirting though,.. the MTA Director moved to open the office door to see what was going on while Raven looked-on with a frustrated/disappointed glare.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Meanwhile? A certain redhead was well, she was shopping, and in the bottom of the building and all for the most part. She was looking through a list of tablets and all, the woman curiously looking over the various tablets, hoping to find something robust enough she could use for future artificing and magitech working. Then the odd woman sees the guards on the lower levels start acting up? She glances around curiously and slides around a corner out of vision from most folks.

Kae tugs her phone out of her pocket and mutters something while she taps the screen. Suddenly it has a little elf-sprite on the surface that calls out "Processing!!!! I will have a layout of the bulding for you in...." There's a little count-down as the phone begins rendering the building.

Punisher has posed:
    "If you will all settle down, I can promise this will be over quickly," comes a loud accented voice from the main lobby. A tall, thin man with a goatee strolls along after the gunmen. He is not carrying a weapon himself, and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry as he walks. "You there," he says pointing on one of his soldiers. "Go to all the offices. Bring everyone out here." The man jumps up and begins to head down the hallway. He spots the MTA Chairman sticking his head out. "Achtung! Heir! Schnell! Schnell!" the soldier yells pointing at the Chairman. He is running up to him to grab the man by the collar when he sees Raven in the room as well. "Fraulein! Schnell!"

    In the lobby, the guards go into the store that was connected on the first floor and seem to be ushering people out. "Closing time! Closing time!" they call even if the proper close isn't for another hour. They don't see Kae as she slips out of the store and hidden in the lobby. The layout of the building is showing a fifty story building. There is a main elevator near the security station and a service elevator in back. Stairs are located to the left of each elevator. The building has shopping on the first floor but mostly office space in the higher ones. Except for the fiftith floor which is the lounge/party area for the highest executives. And where the party is.

    Out back, Frank doesn't know, but he has picked the lock to the service door. He slips inside and makes his way to the service elevator. He hits the button and then makes his way to the stair case just in case some security man is actually watching elevators.

Mystique has posed:
Raven was seated on the edge of the desk when one of the gunmen entered the room and started speaking with German accent. Raven stood up and she replied in German. "Ich komme. Ich komme!" She said then, moving toward the man with the weapon and shrugging her way past him out into the hallway, demonstrating that she wasn't really afraid of him but that she was complying (at least for now).

The blonde would follow after the MTA Director and she'd move into the main party area where the others from the gala event were being detained. Her pale blue eyes would go to the man that was barking out orders, she'd stare at him with a very icey anger in her eyes...

Raven would come to stand beside the MTA Director and because she was still on her mission she leaned up close to him, a man who appeared to be old enough to be her father where-as she looked to be waaaaaaaaay out of his league.

Punisher has posed:
    While Raven seems to be calm and ice, the rest of the guests looked paniced. They don't look like they even know what to do here as they almost always have personal guards and security around them. Now, however, this party was supposed to be safe. They are lost and afraid from real danger. "Please," says the CEO of Prudential. "There is no real money here. We can't give you anything to take."

    Goatee laughs and shakes his head. "It is not money we want, but what you, as the money, can buy us." His gray eyes flick from person to person, looking as if he is cateloging them. When his gaze lands on Raven, he frowns. "I do not know you, and that is wrong. I should know everyone here." He snaps his finger and the young soldier brings his weapon up towards Raven.

    Frank is making his way up the stairs. Fifty flights is a lot, but once a Marine always a Marine. Despite what he is carrying, he makes good time. He makes it to the forty-ninth floor and stops for a moment as he slips out into the floor proper. He makes his way to an office where he begins to undo the AC Vent.

Mystique has posed:
Raven's eyes went from face to face as the men talked and when the attention fell upon her she responded to it by raising up her hands and holding them palm outward. "I'm an actress." She said. "I work on Broadway. I was..." She glanced over at the MTA Director. "Hired just this afternoon to come here and provide a 'good time' for a man who's had a lot of bad luck lately."

That was true, the MTA Director was in a lot of hot water for the security camera footage that he was still trying to cover-up as being faked and unreal. He'd been a strong supporter of President Underwood and he'd wanted to maintain the 'truth' that they had manufactured.

Raven looked back to the Leader of the gang. "Look. If I'm not supposed to be here, I'm more than eager to just walk right over to the elevator and make my way out." She said to him with a faint smirk tugging at the corner of her red lips.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
"Yup something's up.." Mutters Kae, she activates her somebody else's problem field, really just something that kinda messes up electronic surveilance and makes it magically most difficult to track her, not that her natural magic doesn't sometimes play all kinds of havoc on electrical systems when she lets it. The woman then slips away while looking at her phone. She tugs a pair of glasses free from her pocket and puts them on as she puts her phone in her pocket though the display is now pitched onto the inner glass of the glasses. It would seem high tech, but actually done through arcain means.

Kae taps her chin and using the layout, steps between two pillars, she waves a hand and a ripple appears before her "Lets try a few floors up, this should be a safe place." And as she steps through she's in a large supply closet some 20 floors up...."

Punisher has posed:
    "I wish we could, Fraulein, but that just will not due am I afraid. What is the expression? Wrong place. Wrong time." Goatee chuckles at his own joke, perhaps the only chuckle in the room. He looks to another of his soldiers and nods. "You know what to do." The man gets up and heads towards one of the office. This man seems to have communications devices on his back.

    Frank undoes the AC Vent. It is smaller than he would like. He slips off his jacket and vest so he is just in tshirt and black cargo pants. He takes off the boots as they would make too much noise in the vent. He begins to move his way into the system and pull himself up the shaft leading to the fiftith floor. If the plans he had were right, he would come up into the office of the CFO of Prudential.

    The guards on the first floor are using cameras to make sure they got everyone. There was a momentary flash of what looked like a person, but then nothing. One guard hurries to the point they thought they saw something, but arrive just after Kae had disappeared. His radio shorts out as he walks through the space she had occupied a few moments earlier. The twentieth floor is empty as those businesses had gone home for the night and the top boss was already upstairs.

Mystique has posed:
Raven would look right at the Goatee man while he chuckled... She thought of seventeen different ways she could disarm him and snap various bones on his body but... she withheld her rage. Now was not the time to expose her identity as a shapeshifter and have every cop in the city here to arrest her (even if there would likely be many here soon anyway, they wouldn't be looking for Raven Darkholme.)

Raven chose to just offer the main a soft smile. "Had to try." She said quietly at him before her eyes flicked away to watch where his men were going and what exactly they were doing.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae nods slowly... "Sooo ummm. yah..." She taps her phone now, trying to get a layout of the flor and when the magical apperatus says there's no one here but her, she nods... She looks through the diagram and hmmms... "Ok, lets see if I can jump up to the 49th floor..." she mutters, and looking for what appears to be a secluded area she hmms, picks out another closet and gates her way to that one too, the woman appearing in a slightly more cramped space... Aaand she steps in a mop bucket.. luckily it was empty..

"Ok not the way I wanted things to go..." she mutters, then the woman reaches into her backpack, getting a chirp from her favorite construct pet dragon... "No Fanhuil, not this time, you'll be in danger... " The little creature ducks back down into the backpack, and Kae pulls out a few tubes, each one having a number of tiny clockwork insects, really not much bigger than the athropods they're based on... She opens the tubes and sends out the small wasps, dragon flies and mayflies to begin surveing this floor and of course the floor above...

Punisher has posed:
    The comm soldier disappears into the office. In a few moments, a change comes over Goatee. His eyes roll back in his head and he stands stock still for what seems like 15 to 20 seconds. Just as quickly, he blinks and his eyes are normal again, but he looks towards Raven. "I'm sorry once more, but we cannot find a Broadway actress that fits your description. That is twice now I have had to ask who you are. I shall not ask a third time." Two soldiers come up towards Raven.

    "No, please!" cries out the MTA Chairman. "I can vouch for her. Sh-she is with me..." he stammers even as he is trying to get his wedding ring off his finger. Goatee snorts with laughter looking at the slightly overweight beuracrat and the stunning blond. "The city does not pay you enough, Mein Herr."

    Frank comes up into the right office, but he doesn't hear the sound of Christmas party like he was expecting. He frowns as he moves towards the door, opening it just a crack, and peering out. He can see the crowd down in the lobby area of the floor, but can't make anything else out from there.

    The magical inscets find the jacket, boots, and heavier supplies that Frank left on the 49th floor. They also find the opened vent and quickly zip up them, buzzing about. They can spot Frank by the door. Assuming one goes high, it will slip through the open door and let Kae know about the group of hostages one floor up.

Mystique has posed:
When the realization was relented that there was no broadway actress matching her description came out... Raven just snorted and lifted her hands up in the air. "Ya got me. I'm actually a SHIELD Agent and I'm on the verge of calling a helicarrier in here right now to put you all into that floating prison of theirs out at sea..."

She smirked at the Goatee man and glanced over at the MTA Director when he spoke to protect her. She just sighed then and shook her head. "I'm a prostitute, okay? Now you've embarrassed me in front of everyone. Thanks." She'd say then in a dry tone, knowing full well that the party guests eyes were all on her and the situation.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae sends one of the insects to try and light on Frank's collar. If it can it will rest on his shoulder and it's little red eyes would twinkle a bit as Kae would litterally communicate to the man using the insect as a go between. "Do not flinch, you're the only one who can hear me. If you will agree to let me help, I might have a way to get you the intel you'll need to assault this place." There's a pause, then Kae adds "I've sent Automata onto that floor and I'm getting a layout of hostages. I'd like to try and get as many of these automata on the hostages as I can, one per person, and I think I can get them out... At the very least I can burn the mana in the automata and ward them well enough to keep them from being harmed in any crossfire... Can you wait till I get up to you?" she asks, and without waiting Kae frowns and concntrates briefly...

A ripple might appear near Frank, but out of view from the door and Kae would step out. She looks to Frank then to the door before she frowns and looks to Frank "Whatcha think?"

Punisher has posed:
    When Raven mentions SHIELD, some of the soldiers look startled and actually run to the window, looking out. Goatee, on the other hand, simply laughs and nods. "I like you, Fraulein. Perhaps we can find something better for you than this swine." He walks over to the MTA Chairman and grabs his ear. "This is for lying." He yanks the man's head down as he brings his knee up. There is a crack as a nose is broken. THe Chairman falls back screaming in pain. "You," continue Goatee, "are not nearly as valuable as the others here. You will be the first out the window if need be." He looks back around to the crowd. "You will all be safe as long as you are useful. Remember that, bitte."

    Frank tenses up at the sound of the voice, but doesn't flinch. He slowly turns his head as Kae appears. His eyes narrow as he takes her in, but alreday demonstrating that she might be of help here. "Alright," he says in a gruff voice that doesn't sound like it is used much. "Get me the intel, and lets get this place secured."

Mystique has posed:
Raven just gave Goatee a small smile and a little nod of her head. "I aim to please." She responded to him then as he approached the MTA Director and she watched... the violence that resulted from their interaction...

Raven just took a light step back and kept her hands slightly up and at a surrended-position. "So much for my paycheck tonight, I guess." She muttered then now that she saw the busted nose and the waterfall of gushing blood that that was going to cause. Another soft sigh escaped out of the blonde woman's lips and she looked back up at the terrorists.

"What are you having these titans of industry buy for you?" She boldly asked of him then.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
As they talk?Well the tiny little clockwork insects are working their way into the room, either in through vents, under door, etc. They relay information to Kae, and she displays that on a tablet which she holds up so Frank can see... "Information is coming in now..." she mutters, and tugs out a couple spheres from one of her pockets... She offers both to Frank... "Disorientation spheres.... you might kind of call them an Arcane flash bang... Push the button in their center and throw, they'll go off when and where you want em." she says and continues to offer the small golf-ball sized spheres...

"Ah here's the info..." she says and hands a pair of what looks to be wire-rimmed glasses to the anti-hero... "This will display the area in real time with the hostages and the like." she says and tugs a small rod from her pocket as well as a couple more of those spheres.... "I've got the automata set to attach to the hostages and generate a ward when, if we enter..." she adds.. "But it won't last too long. And won't do anything to protect us."

Punisher has posed:
    "And this is the moment where I tell you my master plan, Fraulein? Like I am some James Bond villain and you are....." Goatee pauses as he tries to think, "Pussy Galore or another of the ill named Bond Girls?" He chuckles and snaps at the soldiers at the window. "Get back over here. She is lying and you behave like ameteurs." Right now, there are ten armed men forming a half circle around the hostages. Men and women decked out in party clothes huddle together, sitting down, in front of the armed men. Goatee is up front, being the center of attention. Eyes are on him. Eyes are on Raven. She can probably feel the mix of emotions coming from the hostages. Anger that she is talking. Hope that she can do something. Lust from the men and jealousy from the women.

    Back in the office, Frank looks at what Kae is handing him. He looks skeptical at spheres and glasses. "I don't use things like that. You can. Just keep up with me as we go in." He opens the door a little wider and duck walks out into the hall. He reaches into the pocket of his pants, pulling out his Marine K-Bar knife. "You ready?" he whispers as the begins to move down the hallway slowly.

Mystique has posed:
Raven couldn't help but let a slow smile form across her red lips. "I prefer Foxy Cleopatra. But I don't think I have the hair for it." She knew that that was Austin Powers and not James Bond, but why mention that?

Raven watched the armed men form up around the hostages, she remained standing where she was though with her hands up casually offering herself continously as surrendered.

"This is quite an operation though. I mean... I've seen things like thisn in Hollywood, but never in person." She looked back to Goatee and gave him another warm smile. "Its exciting." She said, pointedly chosing that word. If there's one thing that Mystique likes, its playing things and people into her favor. She COULD likely just sit down and be a A-typical hostage, but this was far too interesting to not play with it some, like a cat with a little mousey.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae peers curiously, she shrugs and nods... As she moves to follow Frank, she then taps her chin... "Ooh the PUnisher I've heard about.." she mutters "Ya may not use them, but they will cause a synaptic overload in the mooks and make em easier to disable." she states, then shrugs as she taps her pad, setting the insect's ward activation for her glasses... She then adds "Ready when you are, the wards are in place, just waiting to be activated, we'll only have about 2 minutes." she says, informing Frank as she pockets the two spheres she tried to hand to Frank and spins a pair of the spheres n her hands as she glances at the rod she was carying, yay for wands and such!

Kae follows behind now, silently, no she's not military, but at least she's good at moving without making any noise!!!

Punisher has posed:
    "We are disabling them," Frank whispers as they get closer to the lobby. He looks back towards Kae and points to the men at the far side of the room and raises an eyebrow, asking if she can get there quickly. He then looks back and makes his move forward. He slips up behind the first soldier, closest to him, stands, and presses the knife to the man's throat. He may pause a moment, but it is not much. The knife is pulled and the soldier drops.

    Then it is welcome to Bedlam!

    Goatee smiles at Raven, playing right into her traps without realizing it. He opens his mouth as if to say something, but suddenly one of his men is dead. He blinks, completely caught off guard for a moment at the open aggression. He was not expecting this. These were the fat and rich. They do not fight. Who? Who is this? His eyes roll back once more and he becomes still.

Mystique has posed:
"In fact..." Raven was saying to the Goatee man. "If you guys can wrap this up in a timely matter, I'd love to tag along to wherever you're going next." She'd continue to smile before she glanced down at yourself. "You can search me too, of course. To make sure I've got no ill intentions toward you and yours." She'd glance over just in time to see the fighting start and it instantly made her roll her eyes and sigh.

Raven turned around then and she walked over to a chair a few steps away, she sat down on it and leaned back, crossing her legs at the knees and reaching out for someone's champagne glass which she'd lift up to her lips to sip from.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae nods slowly and steps through a little ripple, appearng behind those guys... She then glances around, and taps them on the shoulder... When they turn she holds her hands up, and out drops one of the spheres... She whispers "Sorry.." And before they can even get a word out the sphere hits as Kae closes her eyes and well the guys end up simply frozen... Kae peers at them a few moments and pokes one, the fellow falling over and clattering on the ground "Well that worked better than I thought..." She whispers, and gives Frank a thumbs up... She notices the knife across the throat and sends another small bug over to fix the throat wound and possibly prevent death to the fellow... It does nothing to wake em...

Kae mutters "There goes more magic..." to her self and looks to Frank and shrugs as if to say now what?"

Punisher has posed:
    With three men dropped, the rest begin to look around, trying to identify the threat. They were used to Heroes that liked to talk and announce themselves. Frank is already moving after dropping the first soldier, although he doesn't notice the magic heal. He now makes a noise like a bull growl as he takes on the next, grabbing the automatic rifle by the muzzle with one hand, pushing it upward, and driving his knife forward with the other. He is yanking the rifle away even as the man falls back in a gush from the wound. Eyes turn toward Frank as he yells haven't yet to fully spot the smaller magic user.

    Goatee reactivates with a gasp and a lurch forward. "No. No. No. No. THis isn't how it is supposed to go!" He turns and spots Raven just sipping her drink. "This is you! You caused this! Delaying me while your john sent his enforcers after us!"

Mystique has posed:
Raven wasn't even watching the fight, she was just sipping her alcohol and looking at the fish tank with the exotic ocean life swimming around inside of it... she pondered getting a fish tank herself, but then she reminded herself that the fish would all be dead within a week because she wouldn't really care anymore within at least a day.

Wait, was Goatee accusing her?

Raven's eyes looked back at the man and she uncrossed her legs, her entire left leg was exposed all the way up to her hip in her slinky dress and she rose to stand back up upon both of her heeled feet.

"Are you serious? I already told you who I was and what I was doing here."

This could go bad... Raven started to walk toward the fish tank, eyes monitoring the fighting and Goatee.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae peers curiously at folks, and watches Frank, another bug is dispatched toward the wounded in hopes to stabilize him or freeze him so he can be stabilized later. Kae was never one to enjoy the shedding of blood or the loss of human life... Still she turns toward another thug and the rod is pointed at him...

The man stares and smirks "And just what are you going to do with that stick?" He says in a german accent... Kae responds, and in German << This?>> She says and suddenly a bolt of blue zips out from the rod and blasts that fellow straight backward several feet, sending him tumbling and limp against a wall... "Ooh yah almost overkill.." she acks and ducks as she turns toward another fellow.

"Nope don't get seen distraction is getting made..." She mutters and pokes up above the couch and unleashes another bolt of blue at another fellow...

Punisher has posed:
    "Where is he! Where is he!" Goatee is furious and losing control. Even as his men are being stabbed and zapped, he looks for the MTA Chairmen. He had promised that the chairman would be the first to die. He tends to make good on that promise one way or another. "There you are," he is practically shrieking now as he grabs at the man.

    Frank pulls the weapon out of the dying/not dying man's hand. Barefoot with the blood of the men across his chest, he stands there with the automatic rifle and shoots towards another soldier as he was turning to run at Kae. The man tumbles in that direction but with a bullet in his back.

    The guests are screaming and huddling and look like they might bolt, but the soldiers are dealing with Kae and Frank right now rather than kill them.

Mystique has posed:
Raven continued to watch and stalk in a wide circular arch that was inching her way closer to Goatee. She moved languidly and fluidly with a sway in her hips... She could see the commotion going on in her peripheral... but her focus was solely upon Goatee as he scrambled for the MTA Chairman.

When he found the man, and pulled him up and into a hostile situation thats when Raven reacted. In a blaze she rushed him!

Raven's body slipped down onto the ground and slid toward Goatee's legs, she spun herself around and did a double-legged footsweep, hoping to drop/floor the Goatee'd one to the ground while at the same time vaulting herself back up into a standing position with her evening gown swirling around her legs!

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae gahs as the fellow slides to her feet after having launched another one... Another bug is deployed on this guy, and she glances to the hostages... She calls the insects to form a wall around them and activates the wards... "2 Minutes!" she shouts out as a shimmering wall of energy appears around the hostages and between them and the attacking men... "You guys stay there now!" she calls out, then several bolts of energy go flying toward other fellows, one zipping by Frank and hitting a fellow that had aspirations to come up behind him. Heck the bolt even changed directions to avoid the Punisher and then whip around and hit the other fellow, sending him flying off in a vector opposite the incoming bolt...

Kae turns now and tries to take aim at another, only to have the rod kicked out of her hand... The man glares at her and calls out "Ahah! Not so much without your stupid stick frauline!" Kae blinks and looks at the fellow then the 'stick' then the fellow again, she then points a finger, gun style at the felllow, who's eyes go wide as the bracelets and the woman's eyes glow briefly.. "Freeze." She says quietly and well he's instantly incased in ice... "No good without my stick..." she mutters quietly as she moves to go pick up said stick....

Punisher has posed:
    Electricity crackles momentarily from Goatee's fingertips as he grabs hold of MTA, but then he suddenly doesn't have his feet under him any more. He lands on the floor with a loud twack. The electrcity from his fingers is launched randomly around him. The fish tank shatters and a massive wall of water and fish come flooding down into the lobby.

    Frank spins around as Kae takes out the man behind him. He looks over towards Kae and nods in thanks. He cracks another man across the jar with the butt of the rifle he is holding and is making his way past the hostages now and towards Raven and Goatee. He seems to pause as he goes through the crowd. The butt of the rifle turning as he examines each face for his own mission.

Mystique has posed:
Raven was back up on her feet and moving now over to help the Chairman (her mark). She glanced over to see the fish tank burst and the fish all begin a quick path toward a shallow grave. "About as long as they would've lived for me too." She muttered to herself while reaching her gloved hands out to hold up the MTA Chairman. "Come on, lets get you to some medical attention."

Raven would turn around with the Chairman, holding onto him.... she'd spot both Frank and Kae, assuming they were responsible for this ambush against their captors.

Raven glanced down at the Goatee man she'd taken down, then back to Frank. "Kill him." She told Frank, unsure of whether or not he'd listen though... she was quite curious to know!

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae hears the Kill him statement and points out "Worse punishment would be to stick him in that hole owned by Shield, where they could porbably turn em states evidence..." She states matter of factly, dealing with the last couple henchmen in a most novel way. First and foremost one manages to actually catch the young mage, wrapping arms around the young woman and picking her up...

She squeeks and calls out. "Mage you nitwit!" Then as the guy puts his hand over her mouth, thinking it will stop her from talking her eyes glow as does one of her rings, and suddenly Kae is deposited on her rump, hard... Of course behind her is a small ferret... She looks at the ferret who gives an indignant squeek... "Don't ask me, it's the first thing that came to mind!"

She says to it, then another fellow dives for her and Kae waves a hand.. Suddenly a ripple appears between Kae and the diving guy, and another one at a 45 degree angle away.. Suddenly he shoots into the first ripple and out the second one and lands in the middle of one of the nicer tables, laying still for now... Meanwhile, Kae is still sitting down, rubbing her now massively sore rump...."

Punisher has posed:
    "Maybe," Frank says towards Kae in regards to Goatee. "My way has a better success rate." WIth that, the Punisher lifts his rifle and fires towards Goatee on the ground. Even with the quick aim and fire, the shot is true and blows off half the head of Goatee as the bullet hits his right eye. "Coulds and probablys don't hold a lot of weight with me."

    The soldiers are surrendering to the Mage as she cleans up. THey also feel they might get to live if they surrender to her. The wards are keeping the hostages safe and also from bolting which would cause more mayhem than needed right now.

    Frank finally looks up at Raven. "If he is dirty, we should take care of that now too." He gestures with the muzzle towards the MTA Chairman. "Can't trust a thing he says."

Mystique has posed:
Raven would stand there and watch the finishings of this poor mercenary group... the mage woman was handling them with a strangeness... but a skill level that was impressive at least.

When the Punisher reacted and killed the man, Raven looked from the splatter on the floor over to Frank. She'd heard of the Punisher and she had to assume that this was him. Raven smiled at him, sweetly, while holding the MTA Director.

"He has the key to unlocking a wealth of new opportunities... for Punishment." Raven said to Frank. "I must take him to the ambulances below. Worry about the rest another time. No reason to rush, when perfection is the true goal."

Raven would turn around then and help the whining MTA Chairman toward the elevators.

Kaelyn Silverleaf has posed:
Kae doesn't like the loss of life, her frown shows it... She glances at the remaining soldiers, then hmms "A little more I think... All of you put your weapons on the ground and do me a big favor, grab your budies and get into this circle I put on the ground, ok?" She says, and pulls a bottle of salt of all things from her pocket. She draws a near perfect circle on the ground nad waves a hand, the salt glows, turns silver and has runes suddenly forming around it.. "Hop in there, all of you, take your budies with you.." she says to them...

She glances now to Frank and then motions to the fellows surrendering... "My way ok?" she says simply.... But she waits while looking to the Hostages "Yer all safe there, just wait a few more moments and we'll evac you down to the ground floor, allright?" she offers with a smile.

Kae looks at Raven, and the Chairman and tilts her head "I assume Mr Chairman there is what?" She asks curiously, and as the men would get their ilk into the circle, Kae smiles and waves a hand, suddenly they all freeze in place as if encased in some kind of odd plastic-like energy field. She waves her hand again, and they dissapear, now ported off to the nearest shield facility, with a note from Kae saying what they did and where it happened, along with all the video evidence they could want...

Kae now glances toward the hostages and mutters something before waving her hand at them and sends them off to the lower floor, before Kae suddenly flops into a chair and wipes her brow... "Don't care what folks see, magic's hard work." she mutters.

Punisher has posed:
    Frank huffs at Mystique, but lets her have her target. He looks back over the hostages and does spot the one he wants. He grabs the man and drags him away from the others. He looks towards Kae. "This one is mine and who I came for. You can take care of the rest." He gives her a nod of acknowledgement. For what she did even if he disagrees with the end result.