6735/Warriors and Weapons

Warriors and Weapons
Date of Scene:	02 March 2019
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Snake Eyes, Yin

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Snake Eyes has posed:
It's a beautiful day in British Columbia. The sun is shining in the sky, the temperature is moderate and there's a light, refreshing breeze blowing. What a great time to be alive. Just about the perfect day to land a plane at a remote airstrip and offload crates of automatic weapons, too.

Word has reached Action Force, aka G.I. Joe, about the possibility of a terrorist strike. Based on evidence they gathered on the dark web they narrowed the location down to somewhere in Southwest Canada. When radar caught an unscheduled flight heading out to the woods they deployed one of their best recon troops to gather more information. Snake Eyes is the man they called upon, dropping from a plane so that he could HAHO in from several miles away in order to silently approach the target site. As soon as he hits the ground not terribly far away from the airstrip he takes care of putting away his chute so that it will be hard to find and proceeds on foot towards his destination, maintaining stealth despite moving quickly.

At the airstrip the smugglers' plane has just landed. It taxis towards where a trio of cargo vans and a few guys with pistols on their hips wait for it. At the edges of the airfield men armed with rifles and shotguns pull security, some in pairs that patrol, others in four man teams at the corners of the airfield's fence, trying to make sure they can view all the possible approaches. They seem to be alert to their surroundings, checking in with each other via radio.

Yin has posed:
Forces are split today. Just one of those things, now and then, everything lands on the plate at once. Gun runners here, there, and oh great, here too. Time to delegate.

Yin is hastily inserted by hoverbike, parking quite some distance away to avoid alerting anyone by engine noise, and makes her way on foot to the meeting location. Moving quickly, and silently. Coming across the site, she pauses, pulling out a milspec phone and snapping a couple pictures, sending them by encrypted uplink to Mackenzie Station.

Guns. She hates guns. Hmmm, what's the best angle to slip up on them from here? She quickly reviews the satellite picture from overhead, then puts it away and moves to a good entry point.

Snake Eyes has posed:
With his own electronic device Snake Eyes also takes a few shots of the scene, focusing on faces, armament and identifying marks on the various vehicles. All stuff for he intel section to make use of. The ninja, after ascertaining that he's taken enough shots, makes the call to proceed towards the airstrip in order to determine what, if anything, he'll need to do next.

Moving low to the ground he moves through the woods like a ghost, readying his suppressed weapon for action in case he needs to take out any of the sentries from a distance as he makes his way towards the fence.

The plane eventually stops by the vans and after a moment the large door on the port fuselage opens. Inside it is a pair of men carrying submachine guns. The guys waiting on the ground approach the plane as crates begin getting handed down.

It's clear that whatever is happening is happening quickly. There may not be much time before the guns are all offloaded.

Yin has posed:
Yin drops into the grass and starts making her way closer. Basic fencing, just high. Thank goodness for people not wanting to spring for concertina for a supposedly honest airstrip. People watch gates, not fences. She listens for the periodic jingle of the fence from the wind, and.. one big jump up and a monkey climb, and she's atop the fencepost, with surprisingly little noise, then a drop down behind a patrol.

A short sprint puts her behind the hangar, in a quiet spot. Next to get in and mess stuff up..

Snake Eyes has posed:
The masked man approaches the airstrip from the other direction and checks carefully from side to side to make sure that there's no one looking his way before he darts out of the woods, jumps at the fence and vaults over, propelling himself with his free hand. Hitting the ground he tumbles smoothly and ends up back on his feet.

Another short run before Snake Eyes is behind the office building, peering through it's windows at where the weapons are being unloaded. His electronic gizmo is produced and some more pictures are taken before he sends a message on it: 'No time to wait. Making a move.'

As the crates are passed from the people on the plane to those on the ground they're carried towards the nearby vans. The first crate is placed down inside of the vehicle and quickly opened by one of the criminals. He lifts an automatic rifle and inspects it closely, beginning to field strip it to make sure all of its pieces are in place. When another crate gets to the second van the procedure is repeated. Better to be safe than sorry when picking up illegal weapons, after all.

Yin has posed:
Yin grabs a coat from the hangar and tosses it on, then just.. wanders the short distance over, as if she was one of their crew, playing the role masterfully. A couple of tube caltrops are palmed and casually placed on either side of a tire when nobody is looking, then she starts moving to the next van. If someone comes close, she plans to get them to follow out of line of sight - and add them to the cargo in the vans with a blood choke.

Snake Eyes has posed:
Not wasting any time Snake Eyes puts his device away and moves in towards the plane, using everything in his surroundings to remained concealed from view. Between his skill and speed he makes it to the side of the vehicle and starts to sneak around the back side of it, briefly double checking to make sure that his weapon has a round a chambered.

The guys loading the van tend to move by themselves. They don't notice the caltrops being deployed but one of them does end up getting spotting Yin. He heads in her direction with a curious expression on his face.

The rest of the guys at the airfield, the ones on guard duty, continue what they're about. Little do they know they've already failed at keeping people out.

Yin has posed:
Yin gestures to the one moving her way. "Hey, can you give me a hand with this?" Once he gets closer, and behind the van, her hand snaps out, covering his mouth and dragging him down into a blood choke. She casually stashes him under the van, after making sure he'll stay out. She relaxes, letting her senses extend outward, and raises an eyebrow at the very strong qi signature at the very edge of her perceptions. She moves on to the next van. Eventually, that disappearance will be noticed, but they might chalk it up to laziness. She keeps out of line of sight of that new qi signature as best she can for the moment, which makes things so much harder.

Snake Eyes has posed:
When he comes around the side of the plane Snake Eyes takes one final look around before darting towards the vans. His plan is to start taking out the crooks beginning with those amidst the van and working his way towards the plane, which he'll disable with a hand grenade before ducking into one of the hangars and dropping out of sight of the remaining bad guys.

Silently, Snake sneaks up behind one of the fellows who's disassembling a weapon, smoothly drawing his sword with one hand and attempting to insert it into the man's heart.

The other dudes continue to go about their work, oblivious to what's happening to their comrades working among the vans. Most of the crates seem to have been offloaded by now, however, and the guys on the plane are anxious to get back in the air.

Yin has posed:
Yin casually joins one of the unloaders to 'help' unload the crate. Two people enter, one Yin leaves. that should leave four.. wait, three? I sense hijinks. This is speeding things up. They have got to be noticing the thinning now.

She takes on the mannerisms of the cargo loader, and makes her way over to the plane, then slips around to the side of the plane, making her way to the fuel tank, pulling out a squeeze bottle of sludge. If she's going to immobilize this plane, she needs to do it now before they get spooked. It'll take a little bit to work it's way through the fuel lines.

Snake Eyes has posed:
"Hey, where'd you guys go?" calls out one of the guys carrying a crate. As he sets it down in a van he turns around to find Snake Eyes' blade heading for his throat. There's no time for the victim of the attack to make a noise before the ninja strikes him down and shoves the corpse into the back of the van. The masked figure turns towards the last two loaders as they accept the last couple of crates from the guys in the plane.

One of them says to the other, "I can't wait to get my hands on one of these AKs. We'll have the cops outgunned for sure."

The other replies with a big grin, "Yeah, nobody'll stand a chance once we get going." They begin to carry their cargo towards the vans.

As they get closer, though, Snake Eyes prepares to take them with his katana.

As the last of the guns have been offloaded the two guys in the plane start to close the door, one of them calling towards the cockpit, "We're empty, captain. Ready to take off when you are."

Yin has posed:
Yin casually picks up a final crate, carrying it over to the van where she just sensed the life signatures dropping out. In a casual tone of voice, barely audible over the engines, she says, "Yin, Gamma Flight. Organization and mission parameters? Extraction plan?" That bit was slightly annoyed, since things are about to get weird and crazy, and she's not sure what kind of craziness they've been doing to throw her plans off.

Snake Eyes has posed:
When he hears the words come from the young lady's mouth Snake Eyes tilts his head slightly to the side and steps out to where she can see him, gun in one hand, sword in the other. The blade gets sheathed. Producing his cell phone thing he quickly types on it before showing it to the other person: 'Snake Eyes. Need to know. Prevent weapons and personnel from leaving this site. Awaiting reinforcements, no ETA.'

The guys in the plane have closed the doors now but the engines have begun to sputter. The ninja looks towards where the plane is malfunctioning, then back towards Yin. The two remaining cargo handling crooks approach their vehicle and Snake moves to draw his sword again, ready to take care of business. He glances at Yin and nods his head at the one on the left, assuming she can handle him.

Yin has posed:
Yin pops off in ASL: <Muted? Similar.>

She casually waits for Snake Eyes to make his move before gently silencing and taking down the loader with a graceful, albeit brutal, bit of taijiquan. She presses a few pressure points to keep them out cold for awhile.

<Heat set plastic. Cylinders will freeze. Tube spikes under the tires.> She hrms at the sword work. <Try to minimize killing, the dead don't rat out accomplices.>

Snake Eyes has posed:
After neutralizing his target with a blade through the neck, lowering the body to the ground rather gently, he turns back towards Yin and puts away his weapons. <Good work. Much quieter than these,> He taps one of the hand grenades that hang off his web gear. <I will try not to kill too many of them.>

Now that there's a bit of breathing room one of the radios on a downed cargo handler squawks: "What's up with the plane? We ready to get out of here?" They may start to react now that there's no one to answer the radio call.

Yin has posed:
Yin picks up a radio and mumbles incoherently into it in an imitation of the handler's voice, in a calm tone. There's still engine noise, they'll never notice the difference. <Do we need to knock out the crew? The perimeter? Or can we just drive a van off and break it against a fence?>