9735/Rogue And The Sentinel's Groins

Rogue And The Sentinel's Groins
Date of Scene:	23 October 2019
Location:	Friends of Humanity Warehouse
Synopsis:	Scott leads Rogue and Kitty on a raid of an FoH warehouse in search of Sentinel parts.
Cast of Characters:	Cyclops, Shadowcat, Rogue
Tinyplot:	Sentinels

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Cyclops has posed:
"So, once again," Scott continues, as he finishes his summary, "We know there's three large trucks here in this warehouse, and they may be full of Sentinel parts that were en route to the factory. It was in the computer manifests that we got there, set to arrive, but as the factory was destroyed, they didn't go anywhere. We should expect Sentinels at the worst."

The last time Scott did one of these missions alone, it didn't go optimally for him, as he didn't have eyes in the back of his head. He has team members with him, this time. "Having looked at the structure, I'd like to enter quietly from the roof--- to the north side. If nobody is home, this should be quick and easy. A quiet mission, in case this can lead to more of these shipments."

They are standing near the docks adjacent to the warehouses, as Scott looks at the other two, his silence prompting for any questions.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty brought Lockheed with her this time, the little dragon resting on her shoulder as they get the briefing. Kitty is dressed as Shadowcat, and has spent the trip here hacking the cameras in the area that are networked. "Ok, we should be able to pull up a view of the area should any reinforcements show up," she says, connecting her feed to Rogue and Scott's communicators.

Kitty glances at the warehouse. "Well, I can get us through the ceiling. Or walls. So once we get inside though, what's the goal? Are we looking to quietly sabotage the parts to the point of not being functional? Steal them? Trash them?" she asks. She grins over to Rogue. "I think last time we kind of ended up doing all three, but then that was a bit improve," Kitty says of the shipment the stole on a spur of the moment mission objective change.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue is close by to where Kitty is and she'd been feeding Lockheed cheese poofs here and there while glancing over to Scott, pulling them out of her jacket and flicking them up to the dragon whenever he looked at her.

Once things start to get serious though, she stops and just puts her gloved hands into her jacket. A glance to Kitty and she shakes her head. "Just don't wanna go on a chase against the Cops again. If we can avoid that this time..."

"That being said..." Rogue puts her green headband up and around her forehead so as to help keep her hair out of her face and she then glances upward toward the sky, then shoots off up into it like a bullet out of a gun, high up now she can see the whole property of where they're infiltrating. Eyes in the sky. Rogue Drone.

Cyclops has posed:
"I would prefer to sabotage them if we can, and place trackers on them, to see where they end up," Cyclops replies to Kitty. "If they are full sentinels that stand up and try to nullify us, destroying them is an acceptable outcome as well." Some tension entered their leader's voice: perhaps being shot twice by nullifier beams and cracked in the head and taken hostage made him less patient about Sentinels than otherwise.

Scott didn't do anything other than watch the cheesy poof feeding: no comment about it. There are other battles to fight, and the dragon getting snacks during a mission briefing isn't one of them tonight.

Shadowcat has posed:
The description was just as apt for Kitty's previous run in, short of the taken hostage part. "Right, let me program a few quick," she says of the trackers, pulling out her tablet and tapping away on it quickly. Most of this stuff has been pre-written and just needs to have the parameters set and be executed.

She's soon finished with them, passing a pouch of trackers to Lockheed to takes off up into the air to deliver them to Rogue before returning back down to them. "Alright, comms on," she says over comms to Rogue can hear them.

Kitty looks to Scott, "Ready? Want to have Rogue fly us up? Or want me to air walk us up? Or, you know, we could look for a ladder or something pedestrian like that," she says, gazing towards the warehouse and looking for any sign of lookouts.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue swoops in and down toward the purple dragon as he delivers her those items and she gives him a little affectionate pat on his head before she pockets the trackers and continues on around her perimeter sweep.

"Things look quiet from up here too." Rogue comments over the comms before she circles back and ends up on a downward sweeping arc from behind Kitty and Scott, intending to grab them both up if she gets the order to carry them like one of those roller coasters where your legs dangle around beneath you!

Cyclops has posed:
"Take a look inside, Shadowcat, and report: see if you can do it without being spotted, and we'll decide. Your anti-sensor tech is on, I hope?" Cyclops decides, looking up to Rogue, giving her a slight nod, and moving physically down along the side of the warehouse, to position more appropriately to cover his team. Scott's role isn't a primary one on something like this: ideally he will do nothing.

The interior of the warehouse is dense with boxes and gear. The three trucks are wedged amidst boxes, their huge covered backs difficult to reach with the amount of gear stuffed into the warehouse. There doesn't appear to be a living soul, at least, but the eyes of cameras dot here and there in the interior from beams by the ceiling, in the dark warehouse.

Shadowcat has posed:
"Alright," Shadowcat replies in the comms. "Yep, detector and nullifier defeaters both. Will take a look from above to start with, people don't often look up." Seeing Rogue zooming down, Kitty lifts up her arms to either side so Rogue can easily grasp her beneath the arms and zoom her on up faster than Lockheed could. The little dragon flaps along behind her, landing on Shadowcat's shoulder once she's deposited on the rooftop.

Kitty drops down quietly to her knees and leans her head down through the building. Getting a good look and then pulling her head back, popping back to her feet to run quietly to another spot, and repeat the reconnaissance.

That continues about eight times as Kitty gets a good look at the inside of the place. "Cameras in the corners. Give me a minute and I'll see if they are networked and I can feed them a loop. Bunch of parts. Boxes all over, with three big trucks in there. Covered backs so it could be complete Sentinels beneath," she says. Kitty gets to work on the camera, working her expandable tablet. It's not quite as nice as Lorna's, but considering she made it herself without a whole factory behind her, it's still pretty sweet.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue does the pickup and delivery to the rooftop then lands there herself and lets her long boots crunch on the dirt and muck up ontop of the roof. She paces a bit while her eyes scan the horizon, having to shake her head a little to let the winds from the west take her white hair out of her face...

She glances back to Kitty then when she comes back up with word on whats inside the building and she softly nods her head before looking over to Scott. "Want me t'bring the roof down ontop've it all?" She asks with a sassy grin because she knwos thats a no. "Covert, right? I can do covert. Its just not as much fun, ya know?"

Cyclops has posed:
"Loop those cameras, and we'll come inside; don't get into the crates without us, please," Cyclops determines. He's now in cover behind a forklift, though he half climbs it to improve his visibility of the surrounding area, keeping sentry.

"I know, Rogue," says Cyclops tolerantly, infinite patience at the moment. "If we have a sentinel, I know you have experience crushing them even if you're not able to get close, and are immune to most of what the Friends of Humanity can throw at you. I'd still rather you be bored."

The security cameras aren't difficult to set, though they are an expensive set, and it's not trivial. Someone does care about the contents of this warehouse, clearly.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde mutters to herself, some of what she's saying going out over comms. "Ya ta dat ta da... haven't patched your router in 8 months have you? Oh don't mind me, just a regular part of your network. Ohhh, nice hardware. But then the computer controlling them is relying on Windows Defender for its protection, so why even bother?" she says. "Ok, recording some footage. Applying Pryde Video Looper to make sure there's no recurring images on any of them that would be spotted easily and... injecting it. Ok, we're good to go."

Kitty closes up the small tablet and slides it into a pocket of her costume. "Alright, going in from above," she says. Kitty pats Lockheed, resting a hand on him as she phases the two of them down through the ceiling and over onto one of the taller stacks of boxes. They crouch down on top of them to look around for anything that she failed to spot before. "Inside," she whispers.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue just watches Kitty go on inside and leave her and Scott up on the roof. She puts her hands on her hips and just stares at Cyclops, then motions to the roof. "She's not coming back up for us, is she?" She asks. With a smirk, Rogue walks over to the access doorway and glances around it a moment before she just rips the chain and padlock off of the handle like they're made of Christmas wrapping paper.

She puts her gloved hand on the old door handle and pulls it open, slowly, quietly, it creaks but she keeps it quiet.

Once its open she uses her foot to shoot the chain and padlock over so it holds the door open and then she glances back to their fearless leader and motions for him to head on in first. "After you, Fearless Leader." She says, still smirking.

Cyclops has posed:
Scott evenly moved across to back Rogue up when she goes for the door, prepared to blow the hell out of anything that peeked from the door as Rogue opens it. There's no target, though. Cyclops sighs a little at her, but heads in: there's no point in talking about the crunched door and it's evidence of forced entry right now. He heads in through the door she opened.

Cyclops begins to quickly look over the boxes from the roof stair access, but heads to a small admin office on one end of the warehouse; it's raised on the upper floor catwalk, so it's nice and close. Because Scott can smell delicious paperwork and administrative work from miles away. He goes there first, forced to weave between boxes that are littering even up on the upper area, taking pictures of shipping labels as he goes.

"Rogue, mind moving some of these boxes by the trucks so we can get into one?"

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde replies over comms, "Shoot. Sorry. Was just making sure no one was somewhere I can't see," she says. "You guys in? Ah, there you are," she says as Kitty spots the pair up on the catwalk.

Kitty whispers to Lockheed, "Go check out the rest of the building." The purple dragon responds by extending his wings and flapping up into the air. The agile little flyer moves about through the warehouse, looking about for any signs of people being here.

Kitty pulls out her phone and gets the license plates of the trucks. She pauses to look at the sizes of some of the crates. "Want me to open one up?" she asks Scott over comms. "Can phase the lid off, and Rogue can push the nails back into seal it back up after." She isn't going near to the trucks themselves yet, but has her hardware to keep her from being detected by Sentinels.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue just smiles to Scott all proudly as he moves on isnide the stairwell, not even really thinking about how she just left evidence of the forced entry. She's really good at this covert ops stuff, obviously. Its not her fault! She knows HOW to do it, but she's struggling with her own personality versus Carol Danver's knowledge and training.

Once they're inside, she's walking along the catwalk behind Scott and just grinning down to Kitty and Lockheed. "You just want all the glory." Rogue says in a 'loud whisper' back to Kitty before she nods toward Scott and then steps up and over the railing of the catwalk.

The southern belle gliiiiides through the air like she's standing on a ice slide that ends with her landing upon the floor near to where Shadowcat is. She walks over to the boxes and starts checking them out idly before she decides on which to move... and much like a video game, Rogue leans forward and starts to push stacks of boxes as if she's trying to solve a puzzle to unlock the next level.

"Maybe they're full'a things that won't try'n kill us. Ha ha ha."

Cyclops has posed:
"Mmmhmmm. I'm looking for shipment logs. I have file cabinets, so I may be in the right area," Scott answers, while hunting around inside the admin office. There's paperwork everywhere, so this is already a little damaging to his organizational OCD.

"Look into the trucks or boxes if you'd like, I'm most concerned with the trucks, though," Scott answers, distracted by his lists, and trying to figure out timetables and what he's even found up there.

But then there's something. "Raw materials for the master mold to use. Doesn't sound dangerous. I don't have the trucks here listed, though."

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty is deciding which create to check first, when she hears Scott talking about shipping logs. "Hrm, well, maybe the trucks can help us out there," Kitty says. She heads over to one of the trucks, checking it out from the outside first, looking in the window at the interior of the cab. She doesn't go into the back of the truck yet, but phases through the door and gets inside.

"So back around 2017, maybe 2018, insurance companies started getting people to let them chip their vehicles. Record all sort of data. Do you drive too fast, corner too fast, speed up to stop lights and brake hard," she says. "They are pretty common by now in commercial vehicles for insurance purposes," Kitty says as she's ducked her head down near to the floor of the semi to peer around beneath the dash.

"Oh gawd!" she exclaims softly. "Dude, stop putting your gum on the bottom of your seat!" she says. She turns back to the bottom of the dash. "Yep, here's one."

Kitty gets her tablet and interfaces with the device, starting to download the data. "So I can pull up how fast it's gone, changes in direction, etc. Just need a little reconstruction and we'll have a map of where it's been too lately," she says. She sits back up while the program is running. "Want me to check out the truck contents?"

Rogue has posed:
Rogue gets the boxes pushed around enough that they're all nicely and neatly organiz... no, they're in the shape of a Smiley Face that is aimed up at where Scott is. "Check it, Boss." Rogue then says over the comms so he'll look up and out at the floor to see her creation. "This is how you make me feeeeeeel." She says in a silly voice, like Forrest Gump almost.

And with that said and done, the Belle turns and skips her way to the trucks to start to look their backends over, she even wolf whistles. Hopping up onto one she flips the latch and lifts the back up to get a look inside the vehicle.

"If there's paeople inside'a this, I'm gonna scream." She says while shoving the door up.

Cyclops has posed:
Cyclops did move to the balcony area above them to look down, with a clipboard covered in papers he's going through. From the vantage point, he does look like a disapproving factory boss for a moment. "Glad to see you smiling," Cyclops answers dryly, but his tone isn't annoyed: only distracted by business.

The back of the truck opens with a heave of crying metal, showing what is in the back. Cyclops abruptly moves the clipboard to one hand, going for his visor, but he manages to not fire.

There are racks of hanging body parts that shake and glisten eerily. Legs, arms, cyborg parts, maybe. Or small sentinel parts. There's a metallic groin with a half-stump leg hanging right in the front by the door.

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty finishes up retrieving the data. She goes through the glove boxes as well, and also checks the visor for keys. Because you know, that works in movies. She phases back out of the vehicle and then checks her tablet. "Ok, looks like they have come down from Canada," she says. "Or, well, this one anyway. I'll do the rest.

Kitty uploads the map with the results of the truck's route to Scott and Rogue's phones, and then goes to the next truck to repeat the process. "What've you got back there Rogue?" Kitty asks. "I don't hear any demands to surrender yet, so I'm taking that as a good thing. By the way, did you see the FoH video we overwrote their MeTube channel with, from that human lady that helped the mutant kids and got hurt?"

Rogue has posed:
With the door open, Rogue's hands fall down to slap gloved palms against the outsides of her thighs in that green and gold bodysuit she's wearing, a light smack resulting from either sides as she whistles lightly at what she sees.

She hears Kitty's question as she steps further inside the truck and picks up one of the metal arms off of a hanging rack, holding it in her gloved hands now she looks it over. "I didn't kill my wife. It was a one armed man." Rogue says quietly as she stares at the metal appendage. "I don't care, Kimble!" She continues before making a quiet 'Ahhhhhhhh' sound simulating her inner imagery of Harrison Ford leaping off a dam and disappearing into the river down below.

Back to reality though, Rogue hangs the arm back up. "We got Sentinel parts. I think... they're kinda small though. Maybe they're tryin' t'make human replicas now? Creepy ass weirdos that they are."

Cyclops has posed:
"Resist the urge to do a Peter Pan, please," Cyclops says, betraying that he DID in fact understand Rogue's joke, but that's about as far as he'll take it, in his dry, deadpan tone. "Yes. It would be a lot easier to hide them at this scale, to nullify us, wouldn't it. Or worse, even smaller."

"I'm very uncomfortable leaving these parts here without heavy sabotage," Cyclops says, tone dark. Even if he's turned back to his papers, the scowl can be heard in the leader's voice. "Shadowcat, how confident would you be about sabotaging these parts, or do we need to destroy them?"

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty finishes up downloading the other truck's routes and then goes around to check out the parts. "Let's see," she says. She takes one of them and after a bit of effort, manages to phase the the outside casing off one of the parts. "I'm best taking out memory. Hard drives, digital storage, that kind of thing. Though micro-circuitry doesn't love me either. though, this... hrm."

Kitty gets out her tablet and hooks it up to the arm. "Um... wow they really aren't very shielded in this state. Give me five and I'll modify Pym's virus to be extra effective. Then just need to run around and upload it to each," she says.

Unless Scott tells her otherwise, that's what Kitty does. The parts will function just enough they won't be discarded, but will be so ineffective that using them will just be a waste of time. She leaves a couple of key pieces left undamage to take with them for Forge and Tony to examine. Just enough they aren't likely to be missed.

Plus? They'll phone home if they get the chance and reveal their location.

Cyclops has posed:
"Good, make it so," Cyclops answers Kitty's idea, nodding to her. "Rogue, I have some boxes for us to find, and do the same thing with. I'll read you the numbers, and we'll bring them to Kitty," Cyclops suggests, returning to his administrative nest.

Once all of the strange parts are sabotaged or tagged, and the boxes returned to some semblance of the disarray they started in, the team is able to slip out: and hopefully, in the end, end up with more information than they came with.

Cyclops pauses, though, staring at Rogue as they head out. "Just don't name it," he sighs at the souvenir she kept.