Neena Thurman is getting too old for this shit (godplaysdice) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2014-04-23 22:51:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, clarice ferguson (blink), kitty pryde (shadowcat), laura kinney (wolverine), natasha romanoff (black widow), neena thurman (domino), yuna |
"I think I have had a very eventful vacation. Kiss me."
Who: Blink, The Black Widow, Domino, X-23, Shadowcat, and Yuna. She doesn't have a code name (yet!)
What: Extraction from Cerberus's Clutches!
When: Monday, 4/21
Where: A base somewhere, then Urdnot Ranch.
Rating/Warnings: High. Triggers: Light mentions of Torture, Gun and Physical Violence, Medical Stuff.
Status: Complete!
The week had been every bit as long as Natasha had declared it would be. There had been more questions, more torture, and the ever-present eyes of the shadowy woman. Neither Neena nor Natasha had broken - quite a few times they’d joked with each other about how much better at this Natasha was. That only seemed to anger the shadowy woman more, and eventually it all paid off.
They’d been moved towards the end of the week to somewhere else, somewhere both women suspected was the place they actually wanted to be. Of course, that was when the real fun had started. Days later, they were left in a white room with no windows and a single door. It reminded Neena of where she’d spent her youth, and not in a pleasant way.
She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to reorient herself with her surroundings. That was harder than she thought. There were drugs still pumping their way through her system, and her arms still stung from half a dozen cuts.
“I don’t know about you…” she whispered, her voice hoarse, “But I’m thinking it’s about time we checked out of this hotel.”
Natasha was totally okay with checking out at this point. “Da. I think I have had a very eventful vacation. Kiss me.” She leaned in, hoping Neena would get the hint. She’d had lockpicks in her cheek this entire time, and it was starting to annoy the shit out of her.
"Ooo la la. I thought you'd never ask," Neena quipped. She shuffled a bit closer to Natasha, and pressed her lips against the other woman's mouth. It felt like a great time to prove a point about what the other woman had missed out on, but she didn't really have the time or energy. Instead, her tongue went searching around for whatever it was she was supposed to find.
It eventually touched upon something metal that wasn't a filling, and she started trying to suck them out of there.
Nat groaned, hoping their minders were enjoying the show. She pulled back once she was sure that Neena had the picks, then shifted so she was blocking Neena with her body. “We won’t have much time.” She tried to make it look like she was getting her freak on with Neena.
"This is going to be so much fun," Neena muttered around the lockpicks. She quickly pulled her arms backwards a bit and then pulled her legs through them, finally able to have her hands up front where they'd more easily be able to pick a lock.
And lucky for them - hah, luck - the door was one of those types of doors that had a lock on both sides. How Cerberus overlooked that, Neena wasn't able to say. Probably, she reasoned, as she started picking the lock on it, this place hadn't been a place meant to hold prisoners for very long.
It did have all the trappings of a make-shift cell, which Nat was grateful for. While Neena worked the door, she twisted herself around until her arms were in front as well. “We probably have about twenty minutes before they know we’re gone.” And then she couldn’t estimate past that point. “The intel is probably in an office.”
"Less than twenty, depending on who we come across on the way," Neena mumbled. She still had one piece of the lockpicks in her mouth, using it for torque as she agitated the tumblers and pins inside the lock with the other pick. Finally, there was a soft click and Neena was able to pull the handle down.
"You ready for this?"
“Ready and willing.” Nat nodded, and as soon as the door opened, she darted out low. She tripped up the first guard, jamming her elbow into his throat, then lept up onto the other man and twisted him towards Neena.
Neena jumped up and looped her arms over the man's head, pulling backwards. The fact that her hands were still bound together made throttling him that much easier. Soon he was on the ground, and she lifted her arms clear of him with a satisfied smirk.
She took a second to collect his weapons, then nodded at Nat.
Nat pulled a knife off of the other man and cut their bindings free. Then she slit their throats. “After you.”
They couldn’t make any noise that way, and she owed them that after the past week. The information better be worth it. If they could close this cell down entirely, that would be for the best. It meant killing everyone here. Or capturing them.
That was exactly Neena's plan. They probably needed at least one person alive to talk to, but that part could wait. Neena looked down the hallway one way, then the other way. Her gut was telling her to go right, and so she pointed down the corridor, "That way."
If this was one of the cells she'd been researching, the layout wasn't familiar so far. But maybe that mysterious luck she had would keep on working out for them.
“Da.” Now that they were moving, Nat felt like it was all woth it. Everything hurt, everything ached, but now it was time to truely do their mission and she chomped at the bit for it. Patience was everything, but even hers wore thin.
Two bodies later, and they somehow found the server room.
It was definitely good to be on the move. Neena hated it when she had to sit still or keep her hands tied for too long. Now that there was a gun in her hand and the real mission was in progress, she could push away every other concern.
The server room was huge and cold, and it felt amazing underneath her bare feet, "You know. I have a friend who can blink every single one of these servers out of here. So I'm thinking we can hold this room until Kitty and Clarice show up to help. Unless you've got a flash drive somewhere else in your mouth."
Neena glanced at Natasha like she was entirely certain that Natasha was capable of that somehow.
"It's somewhere else," Natasha joked, then started to barricade the door. "How long until our ride is supposed to come?" She wished she had a gun. A gun would be really nice right now.
"Of course it is." Neena replied, dryly. She set herself up a place to shoot from, then checked her clip, "Twelve shots, I better make them count. And I have no idea. Sometime today. They're supposed to flash in to my location after a week, no matter what. It's definitely been a week. I think."
She hoped. It was hard to keep count, really.
Outside the door, it seemed like the entirety of the cell was getting ready to break in, but the grey-eyed woman was no where to be found, and in fact hadn’t been seen in two days, at least by the spies.
When the door burst open, there was a flash of pink and three figures fell out of a portal. Kitty landed on one man and flipped off him. “Okay we have twenty minutes before the cavalry rocks up so lets do this before we need them!”
Clarice threw guns towards Neena and Natasha. She had her game face on, but after seeing Neena’s condition she didn’t pull her punches.
"My heroes," Neena replied, dryly. The sight of Clarice could have torn her apart at that point. There was a part of her that sincerely wanted to crawl into the safety of the other woman's arms and call it a night.
But they had ninja business to take care of, first. She caught the guns tossed in her direction and opened fire.
Behind her, there was the familiar sound of claws punching through flesh. She almost yelled at Kitty, but an unfamiliar, much more lithe figure sprinted past her and threw herself into the fray. That wasn't Logan, "Who the hell is that!?"
"My name is Laura," The girl replied, while beheading one man and twisting her leg around to stab another man in the chest with her foot claw.
"She's his clone," Kitty explained, pirouetting on a man's chest as she kicked at his buddy. Her own bone-claw cut across another's face. The carnage almost gave her pause. Dream!Kitty would have shouted something about it. But she didn't always agree with her dreamself. Real life, and the influence of much more violent versions of herself had made Kitty far more accepting of killing. Age of Apocalypse Kitty was relishing this. Besides, this was Cerberus, and that made it personal.
"His daughter here." She took a few blows, then knocked the man out. "She comes to the school eventually."
“Walk and talk, people. We need to get into these servers,” Natasha called out. Two bullets per man.
“On it.” Clarice blinked the computers away. Unlike literally everyone else, right now, she was avoiding lethal blows. Plenty of broken bones, some severely, but it wasn’t in her nature to kill someone when she didn’t have to. But someone needed to take charge, so she would. “We have fifteen minutes. Shadowcat, set the explosives. X, check the exits, make sure no one gets out. Try to keep a couple alive, we need someone to talk.”
“Yes ma’am.” And Kitty sank through the floor.
"Oh baby, oh baby, I love that authoritative tone of voice," Neena quipped. She wasn't bouncing around like her dream self would have been. There wasn't enough space for that for one thing, and she didn't really have the energy. Plus, Kitty and Laura were doing enough of that for everyone.
So she shot someone going for Kitty's back, and took another man down before he could flee in the direction Laura wasn't charging off into. Her clips were soon empty and she switched to the backup gun she'd stolen off a guard.
Laura, meanwhile, nodded at Clarice and charged off at maximum vampire speed. The carnage as she flew past guards in the hallway was probably sickening, but the vampire didn't particularly care. She came back a few seconds later with a scientist, who she'd bitten and then mesmerised, "This one will talk."
Without another word she dashed off again.
Neena arched a brow, "I'm glad she's on our side."
"Jubilee turned her. Long story." Clarice ported one soldier away as he snuck up on Neena, then twirled and kicked someone in the face. Natasha grabbed the scientist. "Do you have a place for him?"
The pink girl nodded. "Yeah. There's a place. It's where we're going after this."
Kitty had some explosives, lets not ask where they came from. She set them in several places - their initial scouting had assured her this was an abandoned place, and it was in the middle of no where.
"I'm not asking. That seems like a good idea." Neena looked a 'thank you' at Clarice for covering her ass, then turned to put a few more slugs in a guard that was closing in on Natasha. All three of the guns she'd gotten hold of were empty, now, so she started using the one in her hand as a bludgeoning weapon.
Meanwhile, Laura dashed in with another man who'd been trying to escape with a briefcase, "The lower floors are clear. No one has escaped. It is better if you do not ask questions."
Clarice nodded and looked at her watch. "I think we've got everyone up top cleared. Just need to wait for Shadowcat to finish what she's doing and we can get the hell out of here."
"Thank god," Nat muttered, groaning. "I need a vacation from my vacation."
"I am right there with you, princess," Neena said, cheerfully. She was so very ready for this to be over.
Laura put her claws away and did one last sniff check. The only life forms her nose could scent out were the ones they'd gone in with. She nodded, then stood there and waited patiently. her shirt was filled with holes and she was covered in blood, but she looked to be completely unharmed.
Kitty came out of the ground like a ghost. "Charges are planted, and I fried the video feeds. They don't have an external connection so they won't know our faces. We've got about two minutes before we blow up."
Clarice nodded. "Everyone in." She opened up a portal. "We have a doctor waiting, she uses magic." She eyed Neena. "You're going to get looked at. Both of you."
Neena groaned, and rolled her eyes, "I'm fine. I don't need a doctor. I just need a nap." She stepped through the portal as she talked, though now that the combat was over, it was a very shaky step indeed. In fact, she felt like she was stepping down a tunnel and into the abyss.
A strong hand caught her arm. "I'll be the judge of that," Yuna remarked, sternly.
Laura, nearby, was pulling two scientists through the portal.
"Thank you," Clarice said to Yuna. "I'm okay. Neena and the red-head are the ones that really need help."
"Whatever you do, no needles," Natasha snapped. "I am so very tired of needles." She sank onto the floor and rested her face in her hands. She didn't think she was going to move until she had to.
"Just toss a quick cure on me," Kitty said, rubbing her shoulder. "I'm going to clean off here once I shove our friends into lockup, then head home."
"I'm sorry to say that the two of you probably are going to need more needles. I can tell just by looking at the both of you that you're desperately in need of IV fluids," Yuna replied, sounding a little sad. It was clear the two women had been handled roughly by other human beings.
She quickly turned her attention to Kitty and tossed a cure spell at her, then rounded back on the more stubborn two patients, "But I understand why you'd be shy of them. Only... if you've been injected with things you'll definitely want the fluids to help flush it all out, too."
Yuna glanced at the other, quiet girl who seemed to be covered in blood, but there didn't seem to be any cuts or injuries to be found there. Clarice didn't have much of a scratch on her either. That was good.
"Why don't you both just rest here for a moment." Yuna tossed a refreshing cure spell at the both of them, and chased it with an esuna - just to get a head start on treating any toxins. Then she motioned for Clarice to follow her into the other room.
Kitty figured that Yuna had her hands full, and the worse she had were cuts and bruises she could take care of herself. "Good job, everyone." She nodded at Clarice and Laura, then dragged their prizes off to superhero lockup with Laura. After that? Shower, and give Clarice ten bucks to send her home.
Clarice followed Yuna into the other room.
A shower and a trip home sounded good to Laura, too, who definitely didn’t want to come home covered in blood. Cass wouldn’t appreciate that at all, and it would raise more questions than she felt like dealing with. She helped Kitty haul their guys off, silently.
In the other room, Yuna hugged her arms against her chest, “If they’ve been held for a while, they’ll definitely be dehydrated and in need of nourishment. And I know… that Neena, I mean, I have a file about her. I know that she doesn’t like doctors or hospitals or needles already, but this is beyond what we can handle here. If they were drugged, we need blood tests, and there might be internal damage underneath the bruising. That means I also… can’t really sedate them before we take them in. But they need a hospital stay or at least x-rays and bloodwork.”
She already knew that there might be hysterics or escape attempts by at least one of her patients in that case, and she was hoping that Clarice would be a calming influence, “Now I can call ahead and let my supervising Doctor know to admit them. We can port them straight to a room and get it all taken care of at once. But… I’m hoping that you’ll stay around during this. I can’t imagine that either of them wants to be poked at and prodded, and you have a rapport with at least one of them.”
Clarice’s lip formed a thin, thin line, and she nodded as Yuna talked. “I’m only going to leave Neena’s side long enough to get her daughter, then you’ll have to pry me away with a crowbar. As for Nat, I’ve only just met her but I’m pretty sure she’s trouble too.”
"... Well, you probably do need to get the other two home, too. I think I can keep an eye on these two troublemakers long enough for you to handle that. And I can make that phone call while I do it."
Yuna reached her hand out to Clarice's shoulder, and squeezed, "It should give you a minute or two to steel yourself, too."
“Okay.” Clarice reached up and squeezed Yuna’s hand. “Thank you. I’ll get the girls home while you arrange things at the hospital.”
"The next few hours will be... an adventure, for us all. But at least they're safe now. And working together with them, we'll have them on the mend that much more quickly," Yuna encouraged. She offered Clarice a smile, and then went to check on her wiley patients. They weren't escaping on her watch, that was for certain!