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nextgenerationmarvel2013-08-24 06:32 pm
ngm_villains) wrote in nextgenerationmarvel2013-08-24 06:32 pm
Veridian Under Siege
Time: 11:00 am Friday
Where: Veridian Dynamics
Who: Purifiers, Vargas, Marcelo, Sage, possibly others
What: The Purifiers have chosen to make a statement, and Marcelo's corporation is the unfortunate target.
Warnings: Possible violent content.
The time had come for the Crusade to make a big statement, to show its power and purpose to a world that seemed drifting towards damnation. The Brethren had made their orders, and Vargas was to lead a handpicked group of Purifiers in an assault on a major corporate power that had aligned itself with the mutant curse. Originally, Vargas had insisted they assault Shaw Industries directly but it had been vetoed by the Brethren on the grounds that Shaw Industries was a virtual fortress, possessed not only of defences but of actual weapons systems that would likely have turned any effort at attack into a bloody debacle, let alone the presence of numerous powerful mutants, but also because Veridian was an international corporation and the effects of the attack would echo beyond the borders of the United States.
They would make the approach by two directions, one from underground, blasting into the subbasements of Veridian and the other from the ground, approaching in an armoured helicopter. The attack from the ground would be directed by twenty armoured Purifiers, men equipped with heavy weaponry and armour proof against all but the strongest of attacks. From the air would descend another twelve, modern-day Disciples and Apostles, armed the same but made up of the most experienced and capable members of the organization, all former military men, mostly former special forces. Along with them would go Vargas himself, brandishing the blade he'd found many years ago, near the beginning of his personal war against the forces of genetic corruption.
Though he was the commander of this mission, he knew that in the end, he was naught but a servant, a faithful slave to the One True God, the Lord of Hosts. He had spent the journey to the Veridian Dynamics tower in prayer and contemplation, eagerly imploring the Lord's blessing in what they had to do. Their misson was to make a wreckage of Veridian Dynamics and seize Marcelo Alencar da Silva as a hostage. Vargas would have preferred that he be made a bloody example of, but the Brethren were wise and believed he had value as a hostage. Getting Veridian, the most important company to so far subscribe to the Shaw girl's blasphemous drive to accept mutants into the body politic to abandon the plans and getting rid of a prominent mutant sympathsizer to Brazil would be victories. He would trust his masters, both Earthly and Heavenly. He was a soldier, pledging his sword for Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To doubt or question was not his to do.
As they approached, they opened up fire against the side of the building. It was then that they got their first surprise. While the Vulcan cannon they used was capable of shattering individual panes, it wasn't capable of inflicting collateral damage. In fact, it was barely doing the job on individual panes as it was. Clearly, the glass being used in Veridian wasn't ordinary. But it didn't take long for enough of the top few floors to be cracked open for the teams to go in, lead by Vargas himself. The security guards armed with tasers and net guns were another small surprise, though the tasers were useless against the armoured shell of the Purifiers and even the nets, while somewhat inconvenient, assumed ordinary human targets or close to them. Knock-out gas would have been highly effective, save for the full NBC protection offered by the Purifier armour.
In the end, the difference lay almost as much in the intent of the Purifiers. Veridian security had likely been organized around preventing theft and vandalism against motley bands of supervillains or mere terrorists, not military-trained men with heavy weaponry bent on making a statement about the enduring power of their faith before the world.
Where: Veridian Dynamics
Who: Purifiers, Vargas, Marcelo, Sage, possibly others
What: The Purifiers have chosen to make a statement, and Marcelo's corporation is the unfortunate target.
Warnings: Possible violent content.
The time had come for the Crusade to make a big statement, to show its power and purpose to a world that seemed drifting towards damnation. The Brethren had made their orders, and Vargas was to lead a handpicked group of Purifiers in an assault on a major corporate power that had aligned itself with the mutant curse. Originally, Vargas had insisted they assault Shaw Industries directly but it had been vetoed by the Brethren on the grounds that Shaw Industries was a virtual fortress, possessed not only of defences but of actual weapons systems that would likely have turned any effort at attack into a bloody debacle, let alone the presence of numerous powerful mutants, but also because Veridian was an international corporation and the effects of the attack would echo beyond the borders of the United States.
They would make the approach by two directions, one from underground, blasting into the subbasements of Veridian and the other from the ground, approaching in an armoured helicopter. The attack from the ground would be directed by twenty armoured Purifiers, men equipped with heavy weaponry and armour proof against all but the strongest of attacks. From the air would descend another twelve, modern-day Disciples and Apostles, armed the same but made up of the most experienced and capable members of the organization, all former military men, mostly former special forces. Along with them would go Vargas himself, brandishing the blade he'd found many years ago, near the beginning of his personal war against the forces of genetic corruption.
Though he was the commander of this mission, he knew that in the end, he was naught but a servant, a faithful slave to the One True God, the Lord of Hosts. He had spent the journey to the Veridian Dynamics tower in prayer and contemplation, eagerly imploring the Lord's blessing in what they had to do. Their misson was to make a wreckage of Veridian Dynamics and seize Marcelo Alencar da Silva as a hostage. Vargas would have preferred that he be made a bloody example of, but the Brethren were wise and believed he had value as a hostage. Getting Veridian, the most important company to so far subscribe to the Shaw girl's blasphemous drive to accept mutants into the body politic to abandon the plans and getting rid of a prominent mutant sympathsizer to Brazil would be victories. He would trust his masters, both Earthly and Heavenly. He was a soldier, pledging his sword for Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To doubt or question was not his to do.
As they approached, they opened up fire against the side of the building. It was then that they got their first surprise. While the Vulcan cannon they used was capable of shattering individual panes, it wasn't capable of inflicting collateral damage. In fact, it was barely doing the job on individual panes as it was. Clearly, the glass being used in Veridian wasn't ordinary. But it didn't take long for enough of the top few floors to be cracked open for the teams to go in, lead by Vargas himself. The security guards armed with tasers and net guns were another small surprise, though the tasers were useless against the armoured shell of the Purifiers and even the nets, while somewhat inconvenient, assumed ordinary human targets or close to them. Knock-out gas would have been highly effective, save for the full NBC protection offered by the Purifier armour.
In the end, the difference lay almost as much in the intent of the Purifiers. Veridian security had likely been organized around preventing theft and vandalism against motley bands of supervillains or mere terrorists, not military-trained men with heavy weaponry bent on making a statement about the enduring power of their faith before the world.
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She noted the intruder moving in her direction, but she didn't react. Her primary goal was to reach Marcelo's father. Once she found him, she could deal with her shadow.
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But for now, she would lead him right to Marcelo's father.
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He had to appreciate what kind of security personnel his son had hired. Those men had tried their best to slow down the men in powered platemail while a couple others tried to get Luíz to the ground floor to relative safety.
Though he had now lost both of them to their pursuers. Luíz was running up the steps, swearing to God he would actually use the fitness facilities at home if he made it out alive.
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"We need to get you out of here," she told the man without preamble, taking his elbow. "Come."
With her knowledge of the building schematics, she turned them toward the quickest route to an exit and potential assistance. As she did so, she sent a message through the security system to Doug describing her situation and requesting backup.
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"Give me the old man, mutant, and your death need not be a drawn-out torment." She was armed, yes, but there was little or nothing she could do to stop him. No matter how good her aim was. He could move quickly enough to anticipate her actions.
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And then there was a crazy man with a sword in front of them. "I'd prefer to stay away from crazies with swords."
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Rachel was the headmaster of Xavier's now. Her presence had to be as not recorded as possible. That didn't mean she would leave her fellow X-Men without help. She headed straight toward Sage, Luíz, and Vargas after getting as much information from Doug as possible.
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If Rachel was going to do something, she'd have to do it big and very, very quickly.
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"Uh uh uh." Rachel shook a finger at Vargas like he was a very bad puppy. "No hurting my friend there. Or the man she's protecting."
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"Excellent timing."
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He looked over the man seemingly frozen in front of him. Then he poked Vargas in the chest to see if this was real or Luíz was imagining it.
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The psi-witch may have me now ... but she cannot stop us. He thought, knowing she wouldn't hear him through the psi-inhibitors.
The Movement could not die. The Crusade would go on.
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"Hmm. I can't hear his thoughts. He doesn't look like a thinker to me." She rubbed her chin. She held him in place with telekinesis, but she also used it like a thousand little fingers, trying to find anything that could technologically be blocking her telepathy.
"After you escort Mr. Alencar da Silva out, could you do me a favor? Contact the Avengers to see if they have a facility to hold this nutter? I'm not taking him back to the school."
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She turned to Luiz and tipped her head toward the exit. "Shall we?"
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Then Sage interrupted his thoughts. Yes, getting out of there sounded ideal.
"Once out, we need to find Marcelinho." Luíz hoped his son was all right and actually outside of the building. Hopes that went against what he knew of his son.
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She eventually found the small piece of technology blocking her telepathy in his ear. She popped out the tiny ear piece and let it float into her hand. She would give it to someone to look over the technology when she got to the school.
"Well, Vargas, I should probably go digging around in that head of yours." She patted his cheek patronizingly. "Not that it'll take me long. And your bosses are probably smart enough to not let a zealot like you into their greater plan, but you never know what I can glean, right?"
She stepped closer to him. "And when I'm done, you'll feel what a mistake you made. Now, I'm on the side of good guys, so I can't do to you what you did to Coffeeshop Bob. And I won't physically do to you what you did to one of my former students. But the brain is the most powerful organ in your body. You know all about belief, don't you, Vargas? How belief can override physical reality."
She leaned close like she was going to whisper a secret in his ear. "You remember what you did to Stephanie Shaw. Now, you're going to feel it."
Rachel would, after gathering what info he knew out of his head, make him feel like all his major joints were dislocated at the same time. Then he would believe that none of those joints could be moved. That would keep him in place until the Avengers put him somewhere contained.