A Hotel of Two Tales

[ngm_hydra]

The decrepit-looking hotel near a waterfall in Colombia was a case of the facade not quite matching the interior. Early 20th century grandeur fought against years of disuse and nature's reclamation. While the first floor retained some of it's moldy and waterlogged appearance, it was a deception to keep the local guerillas uninterested in the goings on inside the building. With late night experiments leading to flashing lights in some of the windows, the locals, gun-toting or not, spoke about the old hotel as a haunted location.

The head of that nest was counting on interlopers of the goody-two-shoe variety. Though the planned team wasn't the ones in blue and white. Either way, Huntress 19 had called in assistance from extra nests.

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[shadeblossom]

"Oops!" Only not, because... well... shiny. Hana was almost tempted to push the button again, just for science, but there were other matters at hand.

She ducked down to the side of the desk, drawing the shadows around to her and coalescing them into a katana, the shape familiar in her hands. She dove at the nearest catspiderbot, the shadow blade arcing swiftly toward it.

[molecana]

Gina followed Fin's lead and chose a wall, stepping on a few of the robots on her way.

"Huh. Taupe. I never liked taupe."

She smashed through the offending wallpaper, grabbed the wall studs, and yanked back, pulling them out.

Let's hope it wasn't a load-bearing wall.

[ngm_adults]

Fin stomped over to a wall. His stomping was aimed at some of those robots on the way there. They were too small for a proper hit, so they could meet the mighty bottom of his feet.

Once near a wall, he stopped stomping and punched a wall. He left a sizable hole in it. He peeked through the hole. "Hello? Is there anyone to hit over there?"

[i_can_hit_that]

Quinn took a pair of shots a couple of goons who thought they might try sneaking up behind the group. They ended their lives wondering how they'd been found out. They were so quiet!

[pussyfootaround]

Felicity was a whirl of claws, weaponry, and long, platinum blonde hair.

When finished, crouched and surveyed the scene, picking up some small pieces for herself.

Things she could study. Things she could use.

[ngm_hydra]

It was robotic carnage! (Except for the two the sniper had shot, they bled something red instead of sickly green.) Despite their numbers being rapidly depleted or ignored in some case, the little machines tried to zap those mercenaries.

The commotion was signal enough for the waiting HYDRA troops waiting. Some of the open trap doors had heavy metal plates fall down through them. Even as the loud metallic clangs echoed through the room, poles shot down to let HYDRA goons enter the room in the hurry.

The HYDRA agents coming down from the holes in the ceiling had back up. More green-suited goons poured into the large lobby through the double doors opposite where the merc team entered.

[symkarian_princess]

"More incoming," Nika announced as she reloaded one Desert Eagle. "Leave the walls alone unless you want to continue damaging them with HYDRA creeps. Take the people down first then back to structural damage."

One of the large metal plates had fallen between Nika and Felicity with a floor-shaking clang. She raised her freshly reloaded gun as she backed away from close-quarter combat distance. She shot at green goons as they slid down the pole.

[molecana]

Gina stepped towards the group of goons swarming through the doors.

"Hi, boys."

She squatted down like she was going to do a power lift, sunk her fingers through the carpeting and into the floor slab beneath, and yanked upwards and back, in a "pulling the rug out from under them" motion.

What? Nika said to leave the walls alone...

[ngm_adults]

Fin turned from the wall that had several holes the size of his fist in it. He grinned at the HYDRA agents coming down the poles to get hit.

He rushed one of the poles with his shoulder down. If he smacked several of the HYDRA goons and stepped on some robots on the way there, even better.

[shadeblossom]

Since Fin and Gina seemed to have the live HYDRA agents in their sights, Hana stayed focused on the robotic ones. She cut and stabbed at the clanking critters, ducking in and out of the shadows as needed to avoid any stray bullets or zaps.

"How's it looking out there, Quinn?" She asked conversationally. "You're missing a lot of fun in here!"

[i_can_hit_that]

"My bluetooth must be damaged. I swear I heard you say this was fun, Hanna." Quinn said, snapping off shots at HYDRA goons who now realized that there was a sniper in taking them out.

Oh, and he was pretty good, too.

"Maybe it's time I came inside, then. Sounds like the cool kids' table is inside."

[pussyfootaround]

"Come on in and join us, handsome," Felicity said lightly. "We could use the extra bicep boost." All this while she was still in motion - all fluid leaps and lightning quick punches. She was no tank, but she was fast enough and light enough to make a difference where a difference needed to be made.

She may or may not have "meowed" as a slashed at another HYDRA agent.

All the while, she was all too aware of the distance that was being placed between herself and Nika.

[ngm_hydra]

Gina knocked over most of the HYDRA goons coming through the double doors. They weren't quite ready to have the floor move under them.

Fin flattened some robots on his way to the pole. When he hit the pole, he sent HYDRA peons still on it flying. He bent the pole as the ones who made it to the floor tried to flee from him.

Hana took out several scampering robots before they could zap her with their lasers. The robotic numbers were quickly diminishing under her onslaught. The few left were trying to get more spread out to not hit the men in green and zap the people fighting them.

Nika and the Black Cat took down several HYDRA goons. But more kept sliding into the room. The flow was momentarily abated near the double doors. But those coming from the ceiling continued coming from the poles not near Fin.

Some of the HYDRA goons were massing between Nika and the closest member of Wild Pack to her.

[molecana]

Gina waded in to the mass of fallen HYDRA agents, picked one up, and tucked him under her arm.

"Fun? Hell yeah, I'm havin' a freakin' blast!"

She grabbed a stray length of rebar, and twisted one end into a loop around the HYDRA goon's arms, scooped up one of his comrades, and added him to her HYDRA-on-a-stick contraption, too.

"Dis is even better than a mud rally!"

She spotted an agent trying to scramble to his feet and for his weapon. She picked him up by the back of his belt and shook him until he was disarmed, while the other two waved through the air on the end of the girder.

[symkarian_princess]

Nika was picking up on the idea these goons were trying to isolate her from her team.

"Fin," she called out, "bowling pins."

Hopefully, a large man knocking these men out of the way would open up a lane back to her team. In the mean time, she backed up a few more steps as she fired into the crowd of green uniforms.

Nika had just set her left heel back when there was an odd whirring noise beneath her feet. She didn't even have time to look down before the floor opened up under her. She did manage a surprised squawk before plummeting down.

The trap doors slammed shut above her once she was through them.

[pussyfootaround]

Black Cat whirled at the sound of a squawk and the sound of doors slamming shut. She brought her heel down on one of the HYDRA agent's heads and elbowed another one out of the way.

"Boss!" She yelled out, eyes wide behind her mask. Nika was nowhere.

Talons snapped out of her gloves with full force as she grabbed the nearest HYDRA agent and slammed him against the nearest wall. She dug her claws into his neck. "Where. The. Hell. Is my girlfriend?!"

[shadeblossom]

Hana's shadowy game of whack-a-mole came to an end when Felicity yelled. It took her a second to realize they were down a team member. She shadow hopped closer to the other woman and looked on anxiously. "What happened?"

[ngm_adults]

Whatever Littlest Boss asked, Fin tried to do. He saw Gina having fun with the little green men. He smiled to himself, lowered his shoulder, and charged at the knot of little green men between him and Littlest Boss.

They went satisfyingly flying all over. Except Fin was left with one small problem. Where there should have been a Nika, there wasn't.

"Littlest Boss?" He could have sworn her voice had come from over here.

[symkarian_princess]

While the team couldn't see Nika, they could hear her through the comms. She had a very ripe Eastern European vocabulary until there was a soft thump.

"Uhn. Why the hell is it so bright?"