3339/Operation Hammerfall

Operation Hammerfall
Date of Scene:	10 December 2017
Location:	Caracas, Venezuela
Synopsis:	SHIELD and allies attack the Hydra base codnamed
Cast of Characters:	Hawkeye (Barton), Nick Fury, Lara Croft, Phil Coulson, Black Widow (Romanoff), Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Gothic Lolita, Quake, Melinda May

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Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Hydra Base Codenamed: Castle
Caracas, Venezuela

The Castle's systems were down and their lead computer specialist was AWOL. This was shaping up to be bad day.

Sunil Bakshi, Hydra's man minding the castle grabs the hacker known as Horizon by the throat. "GET THE SYSTEMS WORKING!" he demands.

The Japanese tech, pales and shakes his head. "We'd have to wipe everything, reinstall it, it will take days."

Bakshi tosses the man aside, and seethes.

Though he doesn't have long, a runner enters. "SHIELD is here."

He curses at the news and his hand goes to the silver key hung from a chain around his neck. He snaps it free and puts it into their last working panel, one that was old, analogue and hardwired to the systems down below that powered the building. He puts in the key and turns. Lights come up on the board and a counter. Their experimental reactor, drawing in interdimensional energy begins to spin up, then, power builds and builds more, spiking the readings. SHIELD might be able to take the base, but they wouldn't keep it, when the power got to be too much the base and much of this city would be gone.

He steps away from the control panel, "Send word to Grim Reaper to meet us on the way to the basement and have the Venom Troopers and get everything out of the building he can. And release any of the pets that Zemo left behind."
akshi sighed then before snapping a look to the security men in the control room, masked Hydra troopers all. "This head's time is done, time to go and form another one."

The men raise their arms in salute. "HAIL HYDRA!"

Bakshi doesn't let a second put upon sigh escape his lips but he wants to.

OUTSIDE

SHIELD was more than coming it was here. Guided by Skye's hack, they knew the location of the Castle, and it entrances. Under normal circumstances this would mean a full scale assault, except Hydra knew that, so the Castle, was built underground, but the real complication was what they put on top of it, the four star Hotel Caracas, where all of South America's rich and famous came to stay when they're in the city. Things had to be done carefully and blasting it from the sky was out of the question. So the plan was this, hit command centre on the top of the building, drop down the elevator from the lobby to the vaults and labs while a third team swept up from the secret underground entrance to sweep up any would be escapees.

At the go signal, SHIELD agents swept into the lobby of the hotel, getting people on the ground and out of the line of fire, to get the vault team to the elevator, while a Quinjet dropped the command center team off on the roof and the final team breached the secret door in the sewers and stormed the compound from below.

For the hotel team, the way is clear, all they need to do is pry open the doors, drop down the shaft and their in the base. For the roof team, when they land three Hydra goons rush out, two with submachine guns, a third a rocket launcher aimed at the Quinjet. The basement team, when the smoke clears, a find a bunch of lab techs, suits and guards crouching in the wake of the blast, the guards, five in all stand up and fire with shouts of HAIL HYDRA as the others flee.

Nick Fury has posed:
    The bridge of the Helicarrier ODYSSEY is bustling with activity. Directly opposite the main view screen/window, and manning the command console, with two large monitors/screens with numerous items of Planetary Security scrolling on them, is Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD.

    All around the bridge in a circular design are the several dozen SHIELD Agents of different ranks and positions monitoring the situation on the ground. The hum of voices and electronics are loud, combined to create a background noise.

    "Maintaining sit/rep com/sec Director." That was the calm, steady voice of his second in command, Maria Hill. She nods to an approaching Level 5, who hands her a data pad, and heads back to his station. "Looks like they are good to go Director."

    "God speed indeed." Fury says, low enough in volume so only Maria would hear. "Let's do it. Coordinate with the ground teams. If they need anything, give it to them. This is going to be quite a show...and I'm hoping Agent Barton is up to the challenge. Bring them home Clint." Fury taps a command on his right screen, and then folds his arms across his chest. "Here we go."

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
"Annd I think I'm deaf again," Clint says as the breaching charge echoes through the Caracas sewers. "But my sense of smell, still working."

Over comms he says, << Breaching basement >> he turns, arrow drawn, the guards fire, he fire, a guard goes down and Clint ducks behind the doorway. << Contact five hostiles, basement. >>

Nick Fury has posed:
    Fury watches as the latest intel scrolls down his right screen. With a frown, and a nod, he actually allows himself a slight smile. "Not bad kid. Not bad." Reading the data sets from Agent Johnson's hack and hard work, Nick Fury can't help but admire the work and finesse that went into it.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara Croft remained outside until the Lobby team had the interior under control... Her work within SHIELD wasn't designed to be militaristic in nature... she was never a member of a military unit afterall. Croft was an expert on the occult and an effective relic retrieval expert. Not a soldier.

When the 'Clear' command was given though, she exited the SHIELD vehicle and adjusted the gear she did have on her person as she hustled toward the lobby and entered through the main doors. Tac gear, a pistol her left thigh and more gear strapped to her back.

Lara moved toward the elevator doors and naturally just had to reach out to test their call button to see if they were still working, cause, hey... maybe?

Phil Coulson has posed:
Rapelling down to the ceiling in full tactical gear, including a tactical black turtleneck, is Phil Coulson. "Join SHIELD, they said, won't be leaving perfectly good aircraft again, they said." Upon landing, he reassures that his submachine gun is ready to roll before nodding to the other agents on the roof. <<Noted on all parts>>, he calls out over comms and readies for the assault.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
"I really hate that saying," Natasha mutters from her spot on the sewers. Her mood is sour to say the very least. Traipsing through a sewer to reach their target was enough to do that. She had her Glocks in hand and back to the wall by the doorway they just blew open. She ducks down low and peeks around the corner then fires off a round. "Four." She ducks back out of the line-of-fire from the guards. "How you want to play this?"

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky was with Phil Coulson in the plan to take the Command Center. Cool and calculated, cold and efficient. Though fully in his role as the Winter Soldier, wearing his pure black tactical gear, his vibranium arm showing easily as well as the red star on his shoulder. Armed to the eeth he rapples down to the ceiling alongside coulson. "I've learned to never believe a 'won't ever again'."

A small grin to coulson then as he checks the ammo clip for his assault rifle before moving forward in a steady pace, pausing a few steps in front of Coulson, preparing for breach. A small nod is given to COulson as if to say he's ready, then he moves his wrist to his mouth <<Preparing for Breach on rooftop.>> he speaks over comms.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen blinks awake as Lara opens her door of the vehicle after the all clear. Yawning once and batting his eyes rapidly to clear the sleep from his eyes, Stephen pops his neck once before opening his door and reaching his long leg out of the ride and pauses to reach back in and grab his cloak by the long collar. "I shouldn't do that." He whispers to no one, his hand lingering on his neck after placing the cloak on his shoulders with a flourish. Stephen rounds the car and approaches the large hotel in step behind Lara, his grey eyes looking up and his cheek twitching briefly before he notes, "Nice place. No Frech Riviera, but, nice." Stephen says before he looks to his right and adds, "Now I'm going to need you to stay out of my way. We both know that any magic could get me in a heap of trouble with the powers that be." Stephen nods sharply to no one.

    Stepping into the hotel, Strange watches the crews hustle and bustle for cover, making sure the lobby is clear all the way to their means of ingress. "Miss Croft, you know this is going to be more dangerous than the army of metal guard dogs we encountered in China." Stephen says with a cheeky smile towards the much more physically capable woman he's going to be pillaging with.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
The call button doesn't work. Elevator is down. Blame Skye. Though one of he 'tourists' in the lobby, pops up when the man covering their section turns, he pulls a gun and fires in Lara's direction.

The guards on the basement level begin to fall back laying suppressing fire down on Nat and Clint.

The roof team, heads for the doors to the command center, when they open for them, three men come out of the command center two firing at Phil and Bucky, the third takes aim at their Quinjet with a rocket launcher and fires.

Iron Man has posed:
Ever seen Deadpool? Remember that part when he's sitting on the overpass? That's Tony right now. Well, Iron Man. Sitting atop the hotel, keeping an eye out. His legs swing idly as he looks around, <<At first I was afraid...I was petrified. Thinking I could never live without Clint by my side....and then...oops, sorry. Didn't realize this was on. All quiet out here kiddos. Just a nother day at a nice normal hotel of evil being run by a multinational mercenary group intent on ruining the world.> And so he taps his fingers together...steepling them, and then he tries corssing them and realizes that's a flaw in the suit design. He can't cross his fingers in the 'jinx' symbol. Something to work on later. Tony...taking things as serious as ever.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Clint looks to Nat. "Smoke show, then get in close and take them out hand to hand?" it was always a favourite.
He yanks an arrow from his quiver and fires, it hits the ground bathing the Hydra guys in smoke. With that done, he gives a nod to Nat then sprints towards, them using his bow as a bludgeon as he quickly dispatches two of them. Of course that's when Tony's serenade comes over the radio. << Damn it Tony >> he says laughter coming through in his voice as he says it. The passage way a head was clear.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Alongside the SHIELD uniforms, the slight girl in the frilly black dress stands out. Then again, she would in most places, short of either a goth club or a cosplay contest. She's also out of place specifically in a SHIELD assault, given her background. But Skye identified a illegal laboratory run by HYDRA as part of this particularly facility, which was enough for Lolita's primary directive to trigger, and enough that she can formally ally herself for this particularly assault.

    Gothic Lolita follows Lara in, at an almost dainty jog, her skirt fluffing slightly as she does, as she follows her over to the lobby, then watches Lara press the button. When nothing happens, she steps past, her fingers brushing the elevator doors...then there's a shriek of metal as she pushes her fingers easily between the doors, then wrenches with a sharp *SCREEECH* as she rips the doors out of their stand, then almost delicately tosses them to the side with a crash of metal, before politely motioning Lara to the shaft beyond.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
As the smoke spreads, Natasha is in the room right beside Clint. A well oiled machine in their synchronization. There is a reason they are teamed together often. She catches one man around the neck with an arm, using him to swing her legs up to take down the second. Then she simply smacks the first on the head with her gun, sending him to the floor in a heap. She glances at Clint and smirks, listening to the two men on channel but then she is heading for that hallway. They need to get themselves established at the proper point to block any strays from finding an escape passage.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara would look back to her 2 companions on this assignment, Loli and Strange. She'd show a slight smirk to Strange. "I will try to steer clear of your magic, Doctor." She'd say to the man in a dry toned reply.

When the button did nothing, Lara released a heavy sigh and then stepped out of the way when Loli moved to take control... She observed the Gothic-one do her thing and it was-- "Impressive." Lara quietly muttered before out of the corner of her her eye she saw the attacker!

For whatever reason, Croft stepped to guard Loli while drawing her own gun. "Shooter!" She shouted while the shot aimed at her clipped right through the side of her vest!

Lara returned fire with two quick pulls of her sidearm's trigger!

Iron Man has posed:
Tony Stark isn't worried too much about stopping people. He's more worried about stopping equipment - big things like tanks and missile and...oh look, a rocket launcher. <<Hey guys. I don't know if you noticed but you have co--oh you noticed. Ok good,>> he says to the folks in the Command Center but as the rocket launcher gets fired he holds out his hand and blasts a bit of an energy beam from his palm. That will turn into a bit of an explosive type thing outside. You know, some smoke in the air after a small burst of fire. That's when he aims his fist down towards the rocket launcher itself and there's a little 'beeeeep' in his suit before he fires a magnetic type dart that lands on the weapon. "Greetings, Hydra. This weapon will self destruct in 5...4...3..." Yes. Tony is being nice and giving people warning. It's the holidays after all. Seems a shame to rob even the bad guys of family during the holiday season. <<For the record, I expect a rebate on every piece of equipment I make sure gets back safely. That's me...saving tax payer dollars.>>

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky breaches the doors and sees the men there awaiting them, Bucky immediately opens fire on those in the room after saying "Contact!", able to down two of them. But then the RPG fires, and Winter Soldier only has a microsecond to react. He draws his sidearm before the RPG fires...and when it does? Bucky attempts to use the pistol with his sharpshooting abilities and shoot the RPG as it comes out of the launcher.

Attempting to pull a Red 2? On the off chance that he misses, he rolls out of the way, taking whoever's next to him with him to dodge. "Get down!"

Phil Coulson has posed:
Phil shakes his head at Stark's remarks over the comms. This is cut short as a welcoming party arrives on the roof, causing Phil to duck out of the way and returning fire at the moment, not expecting the rocket launcher to be used quickly in response. <<Got some hostiles on the roof, one's got an rpg>>. He continues throwing lead down range at the other two since Bucky is focusing on the RPG.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Loli looks vaguely suprised at Lara moving to protect her; it's usually the other way around! But she takes a step back to give her room, one of the bullets ripping through a sleeve before it ricochets noisely into the shaft beyond. "They're going to be obstreperous, it seems." she says thoughfully. "I will go ahead to help clear the way for you." She nods to her two companions, then simply steps back into the elevator shaft. And plummets out of sight, her skirt flaring up slightly around stockinged legs as she angles herself for impact. She figures if there's a car into the way, it should break her fall perfectly. If not...well, the bottom of the shaft will ALSO break her fall perfectly. And a half ton of falling gynoid generally clears the route very effectively. And really, she presumes the talented Ms. Croft and the sorcerous Strange can handle a simple shooter or three.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen reacts a moment too late when the shot rings off and the wizard is basically caught unawares, might as well be picking his nose for all the magic he can do to save people. Stephen brings up a hand to cover his face while bending his back and knees to lower his center of gravity. Luckily Lara is there to not only return fire, but also happens to catch one for her troubles.

    Stephen wants so desperately to counter with his magic and he even does with a snap of his wrists in the direction of the shooter, but stops himself and instead moves forwards, grabbing the door with a spell and lifting it up as a moving hunk of cover. Stephen steps forwards, eventually blocking the line of sight between Lara and the shooter. "Come, we must follow our peculiar assosciate downwards, let the rest of the SHIELD agents worry about the fighting." Stephen says as he moves his free hand towards Lara to usher her into the shaft.

    Stephen steps onto the nothingness air and turns to offer a hand towards Lara if she'll take it and he'll float them downwards if she'll allow.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: Who shot down the rocket? Stark or Barnes? That'll be a debate for the ages, but the end result. The Quinjet flies away safe, and Phil and Bucky have two guys to take out, who move into cover as the agents return fire. Grenades anyone?

LOBBY: People scream as shots are fired. Lara's vest takes a hit, feels like a punch to the guts, but she lives, her target? Not so much. As for the elevator? Yeah, it's crushed under the petite girl in the frilly black dress. Just past the next set of elevator doors is the base.

BASEMENT: The guards are down, as Nat reaches the next t-junction, she gets the sense of someone coming before he takes a swing at her. The Swinger? The mercenary known as the Grim Reaper, with one arm converted into a high tech sythe. Behind him are a bunch of Hydra agents and dark-skinned man in a suit. Looks like they found their stragglers.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
<< Hey, Nat's here too, Tony, don't forget to give her some love >> Clint says as he catches her grin and then sprints on after her. That guy with the Scythe arm? Totally didn't see that coming until the last second. He ducks low, rolls and snaps off a shot, the Scythe blocks them. The good news is the guy is distracted for Nat to counter.

Phil Coulson has posed:
As the guards fail to fall to gunfire and take cover, Phil finds some cover and reaches onto his belt and pulls out a frag grenade, pulls the pin, and tosses it in their direction from behind cover. "Bucky, got anything else for them?" He calls out as he reloads his SMG. He is surprisingly relaxed as he does this, not even a bit of emotion is present in his voice or expresion as he carries out his bloody task.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
As the swing comes in, Natasha flips herself backwards out of range, weight landing on her hands. Then Clint intercepts and distracts. She uses her arms to push herself back up, feet aimed for the chest of the Reaper as she puts her full weight behind the strike. Hopefully he'll go down but if not, he should be staggered and now Clint is more behind him. Between the two of them, hopefully the man will end up down quickly before one of them suffers a permanent loss of limb. <<Tony, keep me out of it.>> she says even though she shouldn't be making comments in the middle of a fight. <<Stick with Clint. He's the love magnet.>>

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    There's a tremendous *SHRRRANK* as Lolita reaches the bottom of the shaft, her heavy body punching right through the top of the car (likely making sure it's not going to be going back up ever) and dropping into a three-point crouch as she hits, the floor distorting into a crater around her as she does. She straightens, small rents in her skirt evidence from her trip through the roof, before she pulls back her fists, then begins punching the doors, great crashing of metal sounding as they dent outward with each impact, before she hops back then kicks off from the back of the elevator to body check the weakened doors to send them flying forward into the room beyond. If nothing else, it might take out a few waiting HYDRA types. If not, they'll at least have to scramble to avoid it, or it fufills her 'intimidateholyshit.exe' protocols.

    Either way, she doesn't hesistate to immediately leap through the new opening, going straight into a charge. After all...heavy duty combat is her purpose, and the quickest way to an opponent's illegal research laboratory is straight through the walls currently in her way.

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky looks like he's been under this bridge one too many damn times. He's impossibly calm. as calm as Coulson is. He waits for Phil's grenade to go off before Bucky moves forward to take point, assault rifle raised to try and gun down the two assailants, dodging and weaving between bullets. The ones he can't dodge? he blocks with his vibranium arm.

Sounds like he has something alright.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara watched man's body go down after her well placed shots ventilated his head. She sighed softly and leaned back against the wall beside the open elevator shaft that Loli disappeared down inside. Another dead body on her mind, great.

"So much for 'All Clear'." Lara muttered while Strange passed her into the Shaft and she re-holstered her gun and looked down at her tactical vest... silently thanking the inanimate piece of clothing for protecting her when she needed it most.

The good Doctor's extended hand got the British woman's attention again and she reached out to accept it and let him guide their descent to join their associate who had gone down to clear the way for them!

Iron Man has posed:
<<I tried that once. She punched Happy in the stomach, he couldn't breathe for two days, and then told me for me the punch would be lower. No thanks.>> He does look over at Bucky and Coulson on the roof and gives a thumbs up. Occasionally a bullet plinks off his armor but the guys seem to have it. "Hollar if you need anything," he calls out. His voice is of course a little mechanical through the suit, but still. And he turns back, to scanning the area and keeping an eye out for something other than personnel. Look at him, following orders like a good SHIELD consultant! Anyone who knows Tony should -probably- write this down or something as a momentous occasion. <<I dunno though. You guys are missing a fun show up here. Coulson and Bucky really have them backed up now. Goooooo good guys!>>

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: Between Bucky's charge and Phil's steady fire, the two rooftop goons are taken out and the way is clear into the command center, where an unconscious tech and a beeping panel with a countdown on it waits. Time remaining: 5 minutes.

LOBBY: Loli's bashing down the door flattens a pair of Hydra goons and spills a bunch of stone disks on the floor from the box they were carrying. The others struggle to react before she just plows through one of the walls and is gone from sight. Strange and his magic elevator trick? Working, but then suddenly not when dimensional energies crackle through the elevator shaft.

BASEMENT: The Grim Reaper takes the hit to the chest staggering back and swinging out with his scythe the air crackles around it. The man in the suit? He's furious and shouts to his guards, "Get them, we don't have much time."

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Holding Lara close to him with a hand around her waist, the doctor remains professional, as he holds her carefully as his cloak lowers the two of them down the shaft long after Loli had already opened the doors of the elevator below them. He lifts his second hand up to his ear and taps at the comlink with a stretch of his jaw, "I'm not quite used to this technology. Spycraft is not my-craft." The doctor says, on channel because he's a novice.

    Lowering down, Stephen cheats a little bit once more and with another spell, Stephen suddenly lurches lower and the cloak catches their fall right before they hit the cab and the hole made by Loli before even that magic too fails. "Demons of D-!" Stephen falls silent when they fall all the way through the elevator roof. His legs hit and then his backside with his head bumping against the back wall. Slowly his hand comes up to rub at the not that will soon form. "Oww..."

Phil Coulson has posed:
As the two nameless goons are felled, Phil rushes into the room and sees the panel and quietly ponders and talks into the comm after he checks to see if the room is clear, <<Command center clear but not secured. Got a tech problem up here, assuming the clock is right, we've got five minutes. I'd wager explosives and a non-zero chance that it is wrong intentionally.>>

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Grim Reaper's blade is not the only thing cracking, Clint hits him with a bola arrow, the cord pins the Scythe to the guys side, and then electrocutes him for good measure. One Widow sting ought to take the guy down.

The other guys? Clint ducks out of the way as they, fire. << Teams. Status? >> he calls out over comms.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    The petite gynoid is unaware of the dimensional instabilities affecting the elevator, but she doesn't actually WANT the two following her to run straight into the HYDRA agents left in the area. Mind, she's producing a pretty impossible to ignore distraction at this point, but still. <<There are some HYDRA agents at the bottom, though I believe I distracted them so they're facing towards me. I'll make an easier path to the vaults and labs. Just follow the hole!>> The last is a bit wry, almost cheerful. But then again, Lolita often is when in the middle of doing what she was built to do.

    Lara and Strange can certainly hear the racket she's making as she methodically continues her path forward, the crashing and shattering of metal bulkheads, rock, doors, and pretty much anything that's in her way echoes back down the rough tunnel currently torn through the facility in front of the elevator. <<Oh, what were these labs building again? Just in case it might be caustic or biological in nature. I'd feel very embarrassed if I released something like that because I was destroying it improperly, and biocontainment units are SO fragile...>>

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky walks over after Phil, putting his Assault Rifle to lean against the computer as he pulls the unconscious tech off the console and drops him unceremoniously to the ground. "Countdown. Likely a bomb." he mutters as he looks over the console. "analog." he mumbles to himself, and what training he has on the matter, he attempts to defuse it.

assuming it's a bomb. would suck if it wasn't.

Iron Man has posed:
<<You guys are so negative. Maybe it's not a bomb. Maybe it's a surrender countdown.>> Yeah, Tony's all positive sunshine and rainbows today. <<Yaaaay, you guys are awesome. We surrender. No more hate....>> he says in that light voice that people do when they're trying to imitate someone else...a little softer, a little higher in pitch. <<Analog...that's good. I mean you were around when those were invented, weren't you Bucky? Ooh where's Cap - that'd be a fun game. I was around when....>> He does lift one leg up though and puts his foot on the edge of the hotel's roof. In case he needs to stand up and go fly a bomb high into the sky or something.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
The bite is fired at the Reaper then Natasha is ducking to the side. She raises her arm and a pfft of displaced air is heard three times in rapid succession. Three more bites are fired and find their targets, send the men to the floor in a twitching pile. As more bullets come there way, she brings up her bracers a la Wonder Woman. Apparently the woman was the influence for the toy Stark built into those wristbands. A repulsor shield fires to life in front of her and Clint, effectively sending the bullets back the direction they came but with much less velocity and not really any sort of lethality. But at least they aren't hitting the pair of SHIELD agents. Not that she can hold this for long...

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara would take Stephen's assistance and she'd smirk up at him. "I'm not exactly a master spy myself, you know." She told him in response before her eyes went down where they were going. "That oddly dressed young woman is very... effective." She observed aloud. "I hope we stay on her good si---"

Lara's eyes went wide when she and the Doctor both fell the remainder of the distance and crashed through the open Lift and down onto its floor.

With a groan, Croft rolled over. "That was unexpected..." Another exhale/groan and she got back up to her feet and then exited the elevator, hearing Loli's distant combat further up ahead and seeing the wake of what she'd left behind her.

Lara spotted things all about outside the elevator and she started to move around, gathering them up, she scooped all the small stone discs up off the ground and put those into her thigh pockets. "Little ones, I know you." She muttered to the ancient relics (because she's kind of odd like that).

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Clint grins. "New toy?" he asks Nat, then, lets fly with the arrows, suit boy is Tasered first, then, his men. Though he does leave two for Nat.

Coulson's call though, that gets his attention << A bomb? Tony, can you get to them and have a look? Phil, work with Tony, Buck, get down to the basement to help clear things out >>

To Nat, Clint says, "Nat, guess what, there's a bomb now."

Phil Coulson has posed:
<<Copy>> Phil notes and begins rifling through the tech's clothing to maybe find a clue, <<Stark, some haste would be most welcome.>> He drops to a knee and looks to Bucky, "What do you think of it? If you need anything, just say so. Also, please don't kill us."

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
@emit Roof: The counter is now at 4:30.

Lobby: Loli's charge leads her to the reactor. A big portal suspended in a translucent sphere, drawing in energy from across dimensions. Basically, a big bargain brand Tesseract. A quick scan of the nearby displays show that the power levels are quickly reaching critical mass. For Strange the reactor is kicking all sorts of magical interference, but it's super easy to find if he chooses to do so.

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky keeps working on it, doing what he does best: performing a multitude of backdoor codes as he attempts to figure this out. "I'm trying." is all he says calmly to Coulson. He really was. While he was most certainly alive in the time period this stuff was used, he wasn't a knowledgeable super soldier agent back then. Well...kind of. it's complicated.

as such, he turns nobs in systematic order, though he looks for a clear access point to the mainframe.

Iron Man has posed:
<<Work work work...>> he says but makes his way over to the Command Center and the reactor. He opens the facemask on the Iron man suit and he looks to the console, then to Coulson and Bucky. "Well...this ain't no small thing now is it," he says as he looks over their shoulders. He's not going to just push his way in. He does use the suit to try to scan for any wires or things in the walls or other access points that might let them override the command console. Cuase that's the kind of thing that might save them some time over having to deal with antiquated gear. "JARVIS, you picking up anything super soldier can use to get around the console and maybe help us from having this whole place blow up? We like not blowing things up....well that's not true. We only like things blowing up that we deliberately want to blow up."

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "You okay?" Stephen asks as he stands up a bit slower than Lara, this is not something he does very often, so he doesn't have the muscles built up for this kind of work like she does. The doctor steps out of the elevator and frowns softly at Lara before he turns his head to another heavy crash caused by Loli's rampage through the Hydra facility.

    He idly steps in a direction and whispers softly, "Lara..." His hands lift up to his head, pressing at his temples briefly before he continues, "Lara, you need to get everyone out." The wizard says as cautious warning just before he walks in the direction of the portal and frowns greatly. "This isn't right."

    Stephen's fingers move from his temple to the com unit in his ear, <<Bomb may be an understatement. Stark, I recommend immediate evacuation of everyone present.>> Stephen is going to do something stupid however. The doctor is moving towards the 'falseract' and puts his hands on his hips as he looks at it for a moment before swallowing and stepping towards the portal as if he means to step into it.

Nick Fury has posed:
    On the SHIELD Helicarrier, Fury is tapping away as the situation continuously gets updated. Data flows, information is processed, and Fury remains on the Bridge. "You know how much I hate this, Hill." Fury says with a grumble and a growl. "I'd rather be there, with the rest of them."

    Hill nods, obviously distracted. She taps her data feed, and swipes it towards Fury's. "Check this out Director. Other combatants we weren't expecting.

    Fury nods. Even Strange, Croft and Stark are getting involved...Fury regards some of the data and video feed curiously.

    "Interesting..." Fury's eye looks at the readout, as he regards Gothic Lolita, and taps his chin thoughtfully. "Hmmmm..." Distracted for a moment, he almost misses the updates from Coulson, Barton, Romanova, Johnson and even Barnes.

    "Good work..."Fury says, his eye narrowing in concentration. "Damn Hydra..."

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita slows as she sees the reactor, then pauses, slowing her destruction. "Oh. Oooooh, that will make a large boom." she says absently, looking back as the others catch up as she moves to the reactor console, checking over the the systems until she can find an input port. At which point, she pauses, then bites off the tip of her index finger, and plugs it into said slot, code starting to run across her eyes. <<Skye...there is a very large reactor here. Can you shut it down before it explodes killing all of us? That would be swell.>> She flips her systems to where she's acting as a repeater to Skye's computer, then watches as Dr. Strange heads towards it, looking slightly alarmed. "Are...you going to try and eat an energy field bigger than your head? Because that never goes well..." she says, frowning slightly. Becaue it doesn't! Ask Lara. She's seen too many villains do that!

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
"But of course there is," Natasha mutters as she drops the shield and fires two shots. The last two men go down. "If it's not a bomb, it's a metahuman who is going to explode like a bomb." She rolls her eyes then glances up toward the ceiling, as though she could see anything important that way. "Was that Sicily? Oh wait, that was Madripoor."

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara glanced back over her shoulder at Stephen as he spoke ot her. "What?" She asked. "Oh yes... yes, they're talking about evacuating now. And I'm fine, yes."

The tomb raider was like a kid in a candy store down here in these wrecked vaults... just picking ancient items up and stuffing them into pockets and onto the bags she had attached to her hips!

Lara was about to turn and head to where Loli and Strange were but something caught her eye, something mounted on an old ornate stand upon a table... She approached it, her right hand reached out for it and before she could pick it up it came to life and LATCHED onto her hand, wrapping itself around it!

Lara took two quick steps backward and then turned her hand around to look at the rune-encrusted glove surrounding her hand. She muttered softly. "The God of Thunder..."

Croft was completely lost inside her own head now.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
LOBBY et al: Readings spike in the reactor. Blue bolts of energy flying out of it and running through the building.
% ROOF: The control panel, the floor and some of the wall of the control room crackles with energy and then vanish. Leaving Bucky and Phil with out a place to stand as they tumble towards the street. Think fast guys! Tony? Save?

LOBBY: A bolt of blue energy arcs from the reactor (get it guys?) and where it hits, reality rips open and something dark shambling and with too many limbs slouches out of it, it's many eyes sweeping the room hungrily. As for Lara, another portal opens there, and this time, a demonic dog steps through, it's eyes snap to her, and it roars rushing towards her.

BASEMENT: "Definitely Madripoor," Clint agrees, when the word comes to get clear. He radios the back up team to come get the bad guy in the suit. "Let's go get the lobby team-" Clint begins before an arc of blue energy lifts him up off his feet and he vanishes. Nat is left alone, but she can hear Lara's hellhound problem just up ahead.

Iron Man has posed:
Tony has clearly been busy working on solving the problem which is why it is total coincidence that over the comms there's the sound of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw playing all of the sudden. "You know...what I miss is the days...of when problems could be solved by the designers leaving an exhaust port open on the outside of the big bad thing..." he says as he flips through some data that is coming in from JARVIS. "Oh...you have got to be kidding me..." he says and he looks over at Bucky and Coulson and just....rolls his eyes? <<Hey guys...you're not going to believe this. Their failsafe runs on its own power grid, separate from what was running the rest of the hotel. From what I can tell, tripping the back up power would then force the reactor to go into reset mode. I swear to god you need to find it and make it blow a oh shit!>> As he starts to fall his jets quickly ignire, which means that he's not falling. But since the other two are....he quickly starts to jet down and try to grab Bucky and Coulson out of thin air before they make little SHIELD shaped squishes on the ground.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    As the monstrous things start to appear in the reactor room, Lolita mmphs, then reaches up to slide her SHIELD comlink off. <<One moment Skye. I need to go punch a terror beyond time and space. I'm hooking you in through the SHIELD communicator to the reactor controls.>> She delicately shifts the the com, cracking the case, then pulling out several wires as she braids them together, using her fingers to strip the tips, then feeding them into the input after a moment, wiggling it around until it has a firm connection, the comm crackling as she moves it around until she gets it settled.

    Then she turns, tilting her head at the devil dog popping out. She owes Lara for taking that bullet for her! Granted, she didn't NEED to, but it's very much the thought that counts, in her opinion. Thus, she leaps at the dog, attempting to....well, just punch straight through it. This might be messy.

    Hopefully Lara knows where to stand to avoid the splatter....

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "Hello there." Says the terrestrial wizard with a smirk towards himself before he reaches up to the false tesseract with a soft smirk on his lips before the thing starts lancing energy out of it's core and the doctor lowers his chin, sets his brows and clenches his fists. "Never. Stop. Punching." He says to himself before reaching out with his left hand as his right prepares a spell.

    "This is gonna hurt." The doctor says, bracing himself and touching the sphere and with a large pop of orange and blue sparks, the doctor is suddenly gone!

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky's continuing to work and work and work...until the floor underneath him and Coulson disappear and they are both falling suddenly. Or rather they are flying. With style. Regardless, Bucky looks like he's about to do a ditch effort action when Iron Man arrives just in the nick of time to save him and Coulson.

With a slow turn of his head, he looks up to Iron Man. "Thanks." is all he says, assault rifle still in hand. He looks down...always paranoid. You never know if something else is waiting for you on the way down.

Phil Coulson has posed:
Phil nearly grumbles as the room disappears from around him. "Oh not this again," he mutters as he begins falling and then is snatched up by Stark, "I'd make an Uber joke, but you'd just buy them to prove a point." He quips dryly as he scans the area, submachine gun at the ready.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara Croft was summarily covered in demon dog guns and goo.

Lara was reading the runes on the glove that was attached to her hand so she failed to notice that there were... demons coming to them? She though the magic around them was mostly all Stephen and Loli, right? Apparently not. She had no idea until, that is to say, Gothic Lolita smashed the demon dog that had lunged AT her to flying pulp that now went all over her...

But hey! It woke the archaeologist up from her fixated trance on the glove.

She winced as the goo rolled off of her face and she looked to Loli, her non-gloved hand coming up to wipe clean her eyes. She was about to say something when she saw Stephen vanish though!

"Stephen?" She called out to him. "Doctor Strange?" She stepped in his previous place... searching for him. Uncaring for her own safety.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
"CLINT!" Natasha isn't one to show her emotions in the field but as her partner disappears, she can't stop that cry of fear. She looks around the area but sees no sign of him. With a frown she forces the reaction back down. She needs to focus on the task at hand. There is work to do. Kicking it into high gear, she heads in the direction of the noises up ahead. She comes skidding into the lobby just after the splatter of the beast. She frowns a bit, looking at the people gathered and trying to figure out what precisely she missed here.

Quake has posed:
All it too was that single cry of Nat's, and Skye isn't a silent listener anymore. "What? What happened?" She's not able to keep the worry out of her her voice. "Nat? Nat! What happened?" Yeah, not so much for professionalism this one.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: Phil and Bucky are safe. But the city? Not so much another of those portals opened up on the street, and guess what? Yep, more hellhounds four in total after civilians.

LOBBY/BASEMENT: Lolli splatters one hellhound, but like in Hydra's motto, two more takes its place. Actually, four more do. They close in on Loli, Nat and Lara, jaws slavering as they do.

As for Barton and Strange there is no sign of either of them.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    If Lara is splattered, Lolita is drenched, demonic ichor and goo running down her face and body, wetting her hair to her scalp. That dress...definitely not recoverable, but she kind of assumed that. It usually does on her missions. As more creatures hop out of the portal and charge the group, she moves to put herself in the way of as many as she can. "I am not the keymaster..." she comments absently.

    Then it's lots of punching as the first dog leaps at her, and is met with Loli grabbing its jaws, then jerks them, shattering its skull as she dislocates the dog's jaws, then smashes it over her knee, ripping it in half then tossing one half at first one dog, then the other. Yup. More goo coming at Lara...possibly Natasha, but she may know where to stand...she's been doing this a long time!

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
<<Clint disappeared. There was an blue arc of something like electricity but not. Then he was just gone.>> Natasha's voice is neutral, no emotion as she taps into decades of putting aside her emotions for the job into play. She is just reporting facts, not speaking about her best friend who may or may not be alive now. She takes that worry and fear and shifts it, channeling it over into anger as she turns her eyes to the hellhounds. She raises her arm and goes for a Widow's Bite, hoping electricity might have an effect on them. She immediately sidesteps to avoid the goo which splatters the floor where she had been standing a moment before.

Iron Man has posed:
Tony Stark is a nice guy. Bucky and Coulson are settled down nicely as he lands. He was about to make the 'need a hand' joke to Bucky when Coulson makes the Uber comment. "True..." is all he says with amusement and he says, "Anyone have any idea where the...rest of the building went? Wait...belay that. Anyone know where we can find animal control?" He looks to the large dogs and makes his way off to one side, starting after one of the evil 'puppies' knowing that Bucky and Coulson will likely find a way to do the same. "SIT!" He says, and then one of the pony sized hellhounds turns to face him. "Bad dog...BAD DOG!" His hand comes up and fires out another energy blast at the hound, though he horribly underestimates how thick their hides can be and apparently only...makes it mad. "Good doggy...niiiiiiiice dog--oh crap." And he's now engaged with a hellish minion as he prepares to try to get a shot off again that won't miss and do something bad like hurt civilians...or other team mates.

Winter Soldier has posed:
Once Bucky is low enough he starts opening fire on the Hellhounds, eventually asking Tony to drop him so that he can operate more effectively. Upon landing, he keeps up his pressure fire on the Hounds.

Phil Coulson has posed:
Once the hellhounds come into sight, Phil begins unloading. He takes the moment to land to reload and lob another grenade at the nope dogs. <<Yeah, we got some hell hounds out here. Subtlety is out the window, at this point>> He hums quietly to himself as he begins raining more lead after his grenade is thrown.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara looked away from the strange portals and then to where the others were now doing battle with more of those Demon dogs. This was certainly escalating far faster than she though it would!

With blood and bits still falling off of her (and not seeming to really care like it was 'normal' for her), Lara lifted her strange-gloved-hand up toward one of the Hellhounds as it lunged right at her! Defensive-minded... had been the goal of the move, but when the dog collided with Lara's hand a massive burst of LIGHTNING blasted out of her gloved hand! The hellhound was instantly fried!

Lara's eyes went huge in, well, shock... but the surprised kind, not the kind the Devil Dog just endured.

Quake has posed:
"What do you mean he just disappeared?" Skye's voice is barely contained over the comms. "People don't just disappear!" Blue flash? Clint gone. That angel of his wouldn't have, would he? "What the fuck is going on there anyway?"

Sadly, no Cap'n to remind her 'language', and really, she might be forgiven, considering her relationship with Clint. Of course, she doesn't really expect an answer. That's the brutal bit of it. They're in the middle of a firefight, and Skye and her worries about one Clint Barton don't rank very high in the order of operations. She knows that. They know that. It just doesn't stop her from worrying. And since she fried everything between herself and Hydra.. and was the one who insisted that *everything* be remote and off of SHIELD proper, she'd been the one to screw herself over on this one royally. There was literally nothing she could do to help from her position.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: The hellhounds manage to bring down one civilian before the trio arrives. The fire cuts into them dropping two of them, but two more are leaping onto Stark. Teeth and claws dragging lines through the armour plating.

LOBBY/BASEMENT: The assault on the dogs seems to turn the tide, and before long they're fried or broken on the floor. That goo? Everywhere now. The reactor rumbles now, it's complaints changing pitch the energy arcs out again, this time causing the bodies of the hellhounds to vanish, not the goo though. That stays. Then those arcs cause other things to vanish bits of wall, bits of machinery and those arcs come out faster and faster now.

However, there's one more flash of light, that doesn't come with an arc or missing bits of building. That flash leaves Strange and Barton standing, bloody and covered with translucent blue goo in the middle of the floor. Both men look haggard and unkempt like they haven't shaved or cleaned for days. Barton collapses on the spot, goo oozing out around him in a puddle.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita ducks as the lightning bolt zaps past to smash one of the hellhounds out of the air midleap, then hmms. "Shocking." She smiles faintly, then glances back at Lara, then pauses as the bolts start to intensify. "...oh dear." <<I'm fairly sure this reactor is about to go out of control...it's starting to open random portals and teleport bits of the base away...I'm not sure how to stop it."

    And then one of those blasts causes Strange and Hawkeye to reappear. Without hesistates she leaps over to them, landing with a clank on the metal as she scoops up Clint. "Doctor...we may want to leave. With speed..." she says. At least the blue ooze, while colorful, means that Clint doesn't get too much devil dog goop on him. More of a mix. Like bits of spam in jello now.
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Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen doubles over and takes a deep breath as his hands find the tops of his knees and he lurches onto the ground. Twice. "By the horray Hosts of Hoggoth." Stephen says, his breathing heavy and labored as he reaches a single hand up to his forehead to act as an impromptu squeegee and he whipes the gunk from his face and flicks it onto the ground with a heavy SPLAT.

    Stephen reaches a hand over to pat on Clint's back. "Good, let it up, you don't want any of that in you for much longer." The doctor whispers to the Avenger before he steps back and gets out of Loli's way of scooping up the archer.

    "I told you to get out days... Oh. Yes." <<Eve---ne le--- --th al- --media-- h-te.>> His com breaks up having not been charged in far too long. Stephen turns back to face the reactor and lets out a sigh. His plan didn't quite work as he'd hoped. Take two!

Phil Coulson has posed:
As Phil unloads his last magazine at one of the hellhounds he curses as it jams. Seeing the two remaining ones go after Stark he mutters and says, "Sorry, Mr. Stark." He pulls out his sidearm and using both hands aims and tries to hit the hellhounds attacking Iron Man.

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky still has ammo because he is pretty conservative about how he shoots so that he doesn't waste bullets. he has ammo left to spare to bury into one of the hellhounds attacking stark, hoping to riddle it with so much led you could use it to draw.

"Aim for the eyes." he advises Coulson.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
<<He's back.>> That's all Natasha says. She has managed to cubbyhole those emotions so she doesn't get all delighted and rush over to Clint upon his reappearance. Instead, she is running for a doorway marked 'Hotel Staff Only' that should lead to the basement areas she had left not that long ago. <<You said we need to cut the power? I'm heading for the basement to try and find a way to do that.>> She's not sure if there will be a line or where the electrical panels might be but she is not going to keep waiting for the entire place to disappear--with all of them inside it.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara looked over at Loli and just shook her head softly back and forth after frying that dog with lightning from her new toy. "That... was unexpected." She said for the second time today.

Flexing her hand, she looked around at the filth left behind as the Hellhounds vanished... she pressed the back of her palm and the gauntlet unfolded from her hand and became nothing more than a fancy hockey-puck in her palm... which she promptly tucked into a pocket on her thigh.

Lara turned around to see Stephen and Clint there, she moved toward them as well. "We can't let this just... do whatever its doing. It has to be stopped, there's too many people in this city at risk!"

Iron Man has posed:
Tony Stark gets slammed down, really. Which is fun for him as he's basically got two giant horses with teeth and claws doing their best to eat him up. So he does fun things like cross his arms over his face or try to kick and get the hounds off him using those energy blasts. Other things like his small missiles and such don't work when there's this many civilians about. Anything else he has...probably won't do enough to hurt them. And so, he gets to stay there and get pinned. There's even a time where he launches upwards, where he tries to fly up and they grab his leg an pull him back down with a metallic 'clink.' Nope...if it were any other situation, it might be comedic.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: Coulson and Barnes gun down the last two hellhounds on Tony. As the people on the street look on, cellphones up. Yep, this is going to be on the six o'clock news.

LOBBY/BASEMENT: The arcs begin to stop and the portal begins to fold in on itself, losing power as the portals stop appearing. The news isn't all good though, the device that was used to jump start this one has begun to overload and while the city might this building and everyone in it isn't. Time to find that box and shut it down. The problem is the basement is like a maze and full of various boxes and gadgets the trick will be finding the right one.

Quake has posed:
It's a shaky but relieved Skye whose voice comes back, "Thank god." Though, not knowing it was Strange responsible, she's got a long line of nasty things she'd like to say to that angel of Clint's, plus a few other things besides. She's not above making up curse words on the spot. "What's going on there? What is it you're looking for?"

She's access to the raw data from where she sits, and a computer that it can't hurt if it comes to that. Sifting through information to find the hidden is what she does best. And if she knows what they're looking for - or at - she might be able to help. She doesn't wait for an answer to begin, already sifting through what she has for this particular base, trying to get ahead of that particular curve.

Phil Coulson has posed:
Foreign country, black ops, yeah this is not a good ting to have video of. Phil gets on comms, <<All right, any way we can shut down cell reception in this area or at least slow down the information from getting out?>> He scowls and goes about securing the area from any other threats that could appear, also grabbing his jammed SMG to ensure it doesn't end up where it shouldn't.

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky pauses then once the hostiles are terminated, and he puts his assault rifle back on his back. He looks then to Coulson, awaiting word to see if they can block/shut down cell reception. Though Bucky is tempted to use his protable EMP for use in times like this...it would do more harm than good.

Melinda May has posed:
Labrynthine basements should be OUTLAWED. The entire time that everyone else was dealing with hell hounds, blue goo, and Heimdall only knows what else, May has been listening to everything on the comms and trying to find the central power control in the basement. Natasha will likely be able to follow her trail of marks at various points indicating it's a wrong turn or a dead end or similar, as well as many many electrical panels left hanging open.

Hopefully that means she's at least narrowed the search down a bit.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita hmms at Dr. Strange, then turns her head, her pupils switching from their normal blue to red circles with a line through it over black as she starts to scan for power sources. "There is a power lead going to the portal...if it's interrupted, it hopefully will cause it to shut down." Pause. "...then again, it is a HYDRA facility, and they are notorious for failing basic OHSA safety guidelines, so it may just blow up, but since it's going to do that either way...." She hands off Clint to Stephen, then begins jogging as she follows the power feed, looking for where it's coming, springing for the basement to help.

Iron Man has posed:
Tony Stark sits up, as the hounds fall over from their injuries. "Nice shooting kids," he says, the armor definitely in need of a paint job. He sits there, a moment, shaking his head from one side to the other to clear the cobwebs. Then, and only then, does he stands up and looking around, there's a sigh as he puts his hands on his hips. "Well...something tells me we're going to hear it from the animal rights groups. Is there such a thing as satanic animal rights groups? I can't help but feel we're about to find out." And so he opens the face mask again and walks back over to where the other agents are gathering, and he looks ot the building. <<Out of curiosity...do I need to get ready to fly away again or have you found that box that was probably built in like the 1920's...just wondering. No pressure or anything.>>

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen was turning back around to face the portal once more when a man is thrust in his direction. "Hey!" Stephen starts to call out but silences himself to take hold of the goop covered and dripping man he's spent plenty of time with already, but his oath as a doctor flashes through Strange's mind briefly before he helps Clint lay down and looks around and tries again, <<St--- --t Clin- --- -f he-- -OW!>> Stephen rolls his eyes and "For f--..." A telepathic spell will have to do, and in a pinch so he makes it more of a burst of psychic energy out into the ether. "I need an extract immediately. Odyssey, prepare for injured. And smelly." The doctor warns them up there as he starts to prep a rapid teleportation spell. Thankful suddenly for the time on the other side to get accustomed to the mystic energies around the portal.

Quake has posed:
"Ah fuckit," Skye mutters. "There's always a failsafe. We'll start there." Because, really, that's likely what the hell is going on down there. And that angle narrows down reams of data she /doesn't/ have to look at to figure out what is going on or how she can help.

And when she sees it, it's not pretty. "Ho-lee-shit. Wow. Guys? You are in deep shit. Tell me it's not - what am I saying, of course it is. Fuck. Give me a few. You're going to be wanting to shut that thing down if I'm guessing right? Anyone near Sub-Section 36-C? It's smack at the end of a.. fucking rats nest actually. There should be a set of double doors? What you want if I'm reading this right is there."

Yeah. Skye has a potty mouth. She knows it. Everyone knows it. May can yell at her later.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
Finding the markings left behind, Natasha realizes someone is already doing the same thing as the rest of them. She has no way to trace the power source directly, she simply can try to find a hallway with no markings and work her way down it while opening anything that looks like an electrical panel. She makes sure to use knife and leave a sign of the areas she checks but she knows that this is likely futile. Their time frame is already gone and she is just waiting for the boom. <<Anyone not already in the lower level, I would suggest evac. Get clear. This thing is going to go any second.>> Yet she continues to work her way ever deeper into the labyrinth.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita glances at the current corridor number as she runs past, kicking off from a wall for a tight cornering as the rock cracks from the impact. <<Approaching that area, if I'm reading this right.>> She slows as she sees Natasha up ahead, turning her head back and forth as she follows the cabling to their end as she darts past her. "This way! It's coming from here..." she says, skidding to a halt as she orients on the source. "

Winter Soldier has posed:
Bucky remains there for a moment before he starts to get moving, but suddenly, he may realize that Nat hasn't gotten out net. He takes a step towards the building, and seems to be debating with himself as he takes a deep breath. and because Bucky is stubborn....

He takes a few more steps unless someone stops him.

Quake has posed:
Of course, 36-C is easier said than done, when Skye has a brainstorm. "Loli? You have your heads up display ready to recieve? I have something for you." She can't talk them to the spot, but she damn well can *show* them. Or Loli can. And all without worry of infection. All it takes is.. A cell phone. A picture. And a quick send to Gothic Lolita. "There. That's what you're looking for. There are a.. uh.." She filters through the pertinent files. "Looks like three or four panels involved that you're going to have to disable. I'll send you them too." And she does.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: A crowd seems to be gathering, and one of the agents comes to Phil. "Not sure we cab do anything about the footage, unless Mr Stark is able to?" he asks, "But the comms from downstairs sound bad. We need to get these people out of here."

REACTOR ROOM: Clint is still just barely, conscious and doesn't do much beside manage to vomit some blue stuff on Lara's shoes while Strange preps his spell. It seems like now is the time to get going and grab any more Hydra toys in case the ladies downstairs don't get it done.

BASEMENT: When the power source is found, the room is a bit of a jumble of wires and panels, though with the photos they can be identified and shut down in the right sequence. There's not much time left.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara came over to Clint just in time to have him vomit on her shoes... she stutter stepped, but... well-- "They already have demonic canine goo on them. So whats the harm in... whatever that is?" She muttered as she went to assist Hawkeye up to his feet.

"Come along." She said to him. "Skye would never let me live it down if I let something happen to you." She'd encourage the worn-out hotshot.

Lara would move to find a way out of here now, stairs? A rocket ship?

Melinda May has posed:
FINALLY. <<Romanoff, I've found the main distribution panel.>> May opens as many panels as she can, having tried to commit the photos to memory. But she's been running like a rat in a maze around here long enough that she's not trusting her own memory anymore. She's pretty sure she can tell which one is the main input line, at least. The cables are as big around as her ankles.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "Sorry bowman." Stephen says with a solemn nod as his hand lowers onto Clint's forehead and the man then falls through a hole in reality and lands on a bed in the infirmary of the Odyssey, some thousands of feet above and who knows how far off. Stephen seems to have a good aim.

    Poking his head down into the floor and out of the ceiling in the medical ward. "Prep him with an IV drip and get ready for more. I will return shortly." That's when he realizes Lara went with Clint, only she didn't get her own bed but instead, the floor again. "Sorry Croft." Stephen says before pulling his head back up and the spell fades with a shower of harmless purple sparks.

    Turning his attention back to the portal and unable to hear everyone beyond bits and pieces in his earpiece, the doctor sighs softly to himself and stares intently at the dangerous sphere.

    His hands snap out and he closes his eyes, "Cyttorak, and your infinite bands, I require your strength to save these friends." Not a perfect rhyme but, hey, Cyttorak doesn't speak proper english, so hopefully it's close enough. Stephen's palms split open with an eye apiece and the unnatural green eyes aim directly at the portal and several large thick bands spawn into reality and stretch to circle around the device, hoping to contain the blast should the teams be unsuccessful.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita halts in front of the jumble of wires and panels, turning her head to take in Melinda, then stepping over to her. "Hello." she says, stepping to the first panel as she rapidly starts to disable it, flicking through the photos as needed that she's got stored in her memory. "If you could take that third panel...red wire, second green switch from the right, yellow toggle, white wires on the lower left side...." she says helpfully. "It would be helpful, as it would be very inconvenient if we all died in a dimensional rift here..." Her fingers move with superhuman speed as she shifts to the next panel.

Iron Man has posed:
Tony Stark is with Coulson, and he nods as the agent comes over. "I could do a little something if you think it's worth it. Assuming they haven't uploaded too much of it to the internet yet." He says that but looking at the people, he frowns. <<If they're available, if we're going to get these pepole extracted, we're going to need some of the jets. It's too late to get them out of here on the ground>> Of course, that's not his call on if those resources are available and it's not like he travels around with 15 Mark units anymore. That would just be irresponsible in its use of resources.

No, he purses his lips, mentioning to JARVIS that a block to the internet from here wouldn't be the worst thing, and if he can start hacking the phones to remove any video and email. <<Right away sir. I'm only the most powerful computer program on the planet but I love scrubbing phones for content you don't want shared. It's every sophisticated AI's dream job.>>

Winter Soldier has posed:
Winter soldier looks to the agent and Phil Coulsen then. "Alright...come on, let's try to get started." he turns around despite his urge to help Nat, taking a few agents with him to help shoo people away.

Black Widow (Romanoff) has posed:
    As Loli passes, Natasha arches a brow but doesn't argue as she follows. Then she spots May as they all arrive. Since there are three of them and three panels, she takes the one that the other two aren't at. Then she yanks it open and examines the interior. The interesting thing? She's old enough she actually remembers these old boxes. She's been trained in how to infiltrate places with these power sources.

Her fingers beging working. A wire here, a toggle there. In moments her panel is disabled but it will require all three before the power is entirely gone.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara looks around at their new surroundings... they were back on the ODYSSEY?

She sighed, relief, assuming that everyone had been saved though. "Hellava-carrier." She muttered, having heard one of the crewmen say that the time she'd first boarded this flying fortress.

Lara winced at herself though. "I've been in America too long... I'm infected with bad punning."

The WAND Agent would start to look around though. "Wait, where's everyone else?"

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
ROOF: When Phil gives the word, the SHIELD agents start calling in the Quinjets for evacuation. There's not a lot so it's going to be a tight fit. One of the agents looks to Phil and Bucky. "Need a ride sirs?"

As for the phones? What footage? Job well done JARVIS.

REACTOR: The bands snap in place and seems to be holding.

BASEMENT: The power is cut, one panel, then a second. All that's left is to kill the third and the day may just be officially saved.

Melinda May has posed:
It takes only a moment of watching Natasha work for May to know what to do as she starts disabling her own panel. She's not nearly as efficient at is as Romanoff, but she gets it done and then looks for a faster way back out than the way they came in.

Hawkeye (Barton) has posed:
Reactor Room/Basement: With all three panels turned off the reactor goes silent at long last as the lights go down and the backup slight the basement in patches. It's just a little spooky with all the hellhound goo around.

Still though, the crisis seems to be over.

ROOF: The evacuation continues outside until word reaches them the building isn't about to explode and then it comes down to crowd control, securing the building and explaining to the local government what the hell just happened.

That last one is best left to Fury.

Gothic Lolita has posed:
    Lolita steps back as the power systems shut down, looking around. "...excellent." she says, idly flicking a piece of demon intestine off her shoulder. "That should prevent it from destroying the building." She tilts her head. "Pardon me, I need to complete the facility's destruction to avoid this unfortunate situation in the future. Be right back!" Lolita practically skips out of the room, before breaking into a sprint again back towards the reactor. As fast as she can get her frame moving as she speeds up to superhuman levels, bouncing off a corner to avoid dropping speed, leaving another dent, then accelerating down the straightaway back into the reactor room.

    And when she reaches the edge of the catwalk, she kicks off, putting her strength behind it as she goes sailing towards the cylinder of the reactor, drawing back a fist as she soars towards it. "HEY KOOLAAAAAAAID!"

    *SHHRHHRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAANK!

    Pretty much went through it like it was wet cardboard, really. Secondary explosions may occur, though she doesn't look back if they do as she skids to a halt on the other side, losing her shoes in the process and ripping up her stockings as she halts, a few pieces of burning metal spinning past her, one setting the edge of her skirt on fire.

    <<Target destroyed. Mission complete.>> she says cheerfully.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen gets the all clear as he can feel the interior of the bands and the inner turmoil has ceased so Stephen thinks it's finally over and thus the wizard cancels the spell just before Loli comes tearing through like some sort of mechanical bad ass.

    Stephen drops to his knees and starts to slump over onto his shoulder but casts a final spell as he tumbles, falling through the floor and onto a stiff bed in the Odyssey's infirmary. "Nurse... Something... stat." He's out of it.