Who: All involved in the attack on the Immortality Gate What: Restoring Humanity Where: A field outside Lawrence (no SPN Fans, not that field. That would be silly :p) When: 23rd January - Afternoon Rating : TBD Status: In Progress
Romana was ready. Or as much as she could be. She'd planned for all the eventualities, She'd set up a team to destroy the Gate and Buffy had set up the combat end of it as she did so well, She didn't know what to make of the whole situation, especially now with the Doctor gone. His advice would have been welcome at this juncture. Martha of course knew well what she was doing, she was smart compatant and at any other time in any other situation would have been a valued ally. But right now, given that it was the Master, Martha was less than reliable. Of course thats what she said about Romana wasn't it. But the Time Lady was ready to do what she had to do to destroy the device. She knew full well it was the only way, and the Master knew it too, he'd told her all he could about the device and no one blamed her. No one blamed her for this. Just Martha. But here they were all the same, ready, every one of the assembled to do what must be done.
They'd set up a ways away from the Gate itself, Romana happy to leave the set up of the attack to the Slayer and her people. Her tech team, the usual suspects in regards technological things, and of course Fred who had been at the gate with her when it had all gone so wrong. He'd changed government policy, rerouted millions to...somewhere. Who knew? Or his clones had. His clones, the uncontrolable ones. Romana put all thoughts of her worry out of her head for now. It was easier to focus on the mission ahead. It was sensible. It was tactical. "When the combat teams are engaged then we move in. We get to the machine, we reverse it, reset the human template, Babs, you have the code we need ready to upload. Then we destroy it, as safely as we can of course but completely. So that it can never be rebuilt. Never reused. Understood"
Pandora would have been proud of Romana right now, War Queen once again, thinking with tactics, holding a gun, ready to use it if she had to. Romana was far from the Doctor at the best of times, she'd do what she had to do to save this planet. In this instance though she would shoot to injure if she had to. She truly hoped of course that she didn't have to. She glanced around her team once last time and nodded satisfactorily before glancing across to the combat squads being briefed. She would wait for their signal and then they would begin and hopefully everything would revert to how it should be. Her world, rather, her universe was impacting on this one and every sense the Time Lady had told her that was an anomoly, that was wrong and that she should do all in her power to fix it. It seemed the acadamy training could find Romana even after so many years and so many hardships. She didn't know if that was a good thing or not.
[ooc: Annnd finally. Sorry this took so long guys, crazy few days. I would suggest as usual that subthreads are the way to go. The combat lot split into as many teams as Cara thinks, Romana's Tech squad if someone wants to subthread that for us and Anne Amazing will be puppeting the Masters into things. The combat squad can do what they can to huge groups of them, consider them bad guys for those purposes but there are humans underneath. :) Who yes, will wake up very confused about all this till heaven does something wacky to fix it :p And they will :D Have fun guys, and post this thread assume all is back to normal