Angel de Paor's Story

Two Years Ago

It was early morning, approximately 4:30am, and in her sweats, baggy hoodie and her hair in a messy bun, Angel paced back and forth in the main laboratory. She had a map of the world on the dual large screens with red markings in several countries. She hadn’t slept all night, she was exhausted and slowly running out of energy. She made her way to the kitchen and poured coffee in her Marvel Universe Storm mug, this would be her 7th one. Her hands were shaking feverishly but she didn’t care, to her the mission was more important than her health. She faced the large screens and took a sip of her coffee, she felt frustrated.

Tony wandered out of the guy’s room shirtless and in his boxers. He glanced at Angel ready to make a witty statement but he could tell that now was not the time. He grabbed himself a cup of coffee and stood next to her “The hell Chaos, did you not sleep?” he questioned recognizing the exhaustion in her eyes. Angel simply shrugged and took another sip of her coffee.

Tony shook his head, grabbed the remote off her desk and turned off the screens. “The hell Ton!!” Angel shouted. Tony rolled his eyes and set his mug down on the desk, he walked over to Angel and grabbed her cup and set it down as well. He took hold of her hands and chuckled “Angel, you’re shaking like a mad woman.” he noted. Angel pulled away and shook her head, she snatched the remote from the table and illuminated the screens. Tony sighed in defeat and sat down at his desk. He twirled in his chair and sipped his coffee “So, are you going to tell me what this is all about?” Angel opened her mouth ready to respond but closed it again, she paced momentarily and then nodded.

“Last week, it wasn’t an accident. They knew we were coming but how. Tony they stopped you from using your power and mine was severely weakened. All of us struggled and we almost died...some of us did die…The Midnight Rangers are becoming more powerful, their leader is gaining information on us. Do you think they teamed up with The Watchers? But that wouldn’t make sense…I’m just trying to prepare us for our next mission. We need to be more ready this time.”

Tony nodded in slight agreement “Yeah, last week was tough. But how do you expect us to defeat them if half our team is asleep? Angel the next outing in in t minus 12 hours. We’re going on an all-night mission and here you are, sleepless for what? Nearly 24 hours? Seriously go get some rest”

Angel plopped down in her chair and titled it back. She rested her legs on her desk and closed her eyes “You know I only need like two hours of sleep to be fully rested right? I can do that at any time…urg, but if you insist. A power nap will do”

Tony glared at her for a moment “Man this bitch is cray” he muttered. He turned on his computer and began browsing the internet mindlessly, it was too early to start any work.

A couple hours later, Angel rubbed her eyes open, Tony hadn’t moved an inch. She felt well, it was not 8:30am, and the others would be up soon. Angel peaked over at Tony’s screen, she couldn’t make out what he was reading. “That looks sketchy, what is that?” Tony glanced over at her and furrowed his eyebrows “I found out why the assassins, the Midnight Rangers, are after us.”

Angel shrugged “Okay why?”

Tony duplicated his screen onto the dual screens at the front of the lab. Angel lifted a brow in confusion. “Why do we all have numbers next to our names, what do they mean?”

“It’s how much we’re worth, in millions…USD. I think I figured out why they knew we’d be there last week. They’re baiting us, world domination doesn’t seem like they’re top priority anymore.”

Present Day; 9:00 am

Angel’s eye fluttered open. She had the dream again. She had dreamed about a conversation her and Tony had approximately two years ago. This was a reoccurring nightmare for her. That week, the team had lost 8 of their members, they were so few now.

Angel sat up in her bed and slipped into her slippers, she grabbed her satin blue robe and made her way into the common area.

She grabbed the remote and turned on the dual screens at the front of the lab. “Typical…” she muttered. On the screen was The UnderGrounders names and a number next to each individual. For the last four years the numbers rose frequently, they were now worth nearly a billion dollars as a collective.

Angel made her way to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of coffee in her now beat up Storm mug.
Tony wandered into the room, shirtless and in his boxers of course, and glanced at the screen, he rolled his eyes and sighed “You’d think after four years they would just give up.”

Angel chuckled and poured him a cup of coffee and handed it over “Considering we’ve eliminated more than presumably half their group, I think they’re just pissed. I mean sure the money’s nice but at this point, I think they just want revenge more than anything.”

Tony nodded, grabbed his mug of coffee and plopped down at his desk. He swiveled in his chair, staring at the screens in annoyance. He decided to open up Netflix and duplicate his screen onto the large screens at the front of the lab. “It’s Saturday morning and way too early to start worrying about this shit” he noted and began streaming Family Guy.
Angel nodded, sat down at her desk, put her feet up and watched the show in silence.

Evan Richardson

Evan woke up with a groan after hearing some TV show start up in the common room. "Ugh, what time is it?" he muttered to himself as he rolled over to look at the clock. 9:12 am, much earlier than he would have appreciated waking up on a Saturday. "Well, now that I'm up, I may as well stay up," he said groggily as he forced himself out of bed.

Walking into the common room, Evan saw the teams two "founding" members watching Family Guy. At least, "founding members" is how Evan pictured them. Tony and Angel, the two with the plans, the two in charge. Well, better them than me, I suppose, he thought to himself with a small chuckle. "Morning, guys. Breakfast being made or are we scrounging for ourselves?" Evan asked as he made his way towards the fridge before opening it to look inside.

After not deciding on what to get to eat, Evan grabbed a soda out of the fridge and made his way over to the pool table. He sat his drink on the side of the table, grabbed one of the cues, and set up a game just for himself. After a short while, the occasional 'clack' of the pool balls could be heard against the TV.

Trevor was already up and had been sense five in the morning, waking up early due to bizarre dreams involving talking snakes was not the best way to start out the day. After dream, he didn't trust himself to sleep again. Rolling out of bed as quietly as he could left the shared boys room heading for the garage, if he wasn't going to sleep then he was going to go tinker with salvage tech. So now at 9:17 in morning he stood leaning over a work bench dressed in a jumpsuit the top half tied around his waste and grey sleeveless shirt humming to a song he had playing on his phone well just finishing his reconstruction of the Midnight Ranger's tech.

"Alright you hunk of junk," he said pulling off his earphones and pulling out a laptop to plug into the device ",tell me your secret" powering it up and began connecting to the device. It seemed be going okay until seconds later the device started to crackle.

Damn it, I thought it was in better shape then the last ones. he thought angrily as grabbed the wires that connected to the device pulling them out before the device sent a pulse that would overload his computer, he end the hack program at the sometime. He watched as the device crackle and sputter before giving a small explode sending metal chunks all over garage. "Ah hell" he said sighing, he began generating a magnetic field to pull up the chunks into the air depositing them in the garbage. Just as he finished, his stomach let out a loud growl. "Oh right I guess it is time to chow out." Grabbing his laptop, Trevor turned and step onto a metal disk generating electromagnetic field through the disc causing it rise of the ground slightly. With a gentle hand motion began moving towards the elevator to lower levels, seconds later he was floating through the lab area and common area heading towards the kitchen. "Good Morning, Amar, Chaos" he said to Angel and tony passing behind the couch where they were sitting watching Family Guy "E" nodding to Even at the pool table as he passed heading toward the kitchen. "so I'm in the mood for bacon, hash browns, and cinnamon buns anyone else want in on that." speaking to room at large as he open the frig and started pulling out the food. Once done gathering the food headed over to counter to start prepping the food.

Alice was awake the second she heard Angel get up and quietly shuffle around until she closed the door of the room, probably going to the common room to relax a bit, maybe Trevor would be making breakfast for them all that morning? She sighed as she rolled over in the bed, closing her eyes, how long she had been up now, just staring at the ceiling, she had lost track. She definitely had to get up though, staying in bed so long was never good, she was sure she had read somewhere on the internet that if someone slept less than eight hours they would die at an even earlier age yet at the same time she had also read that if you slept more than eight hours you would also die at a premature age. Why did everything in this day and age cause you to grow ill and die? If you ate too much sugar in your foods you got cavities and diabetes, if you didn't eat enough sugar your sugar levels could go down to dangerously low levels. If you eat too much fibre.. well, you could simply say you will spend a long time on the toilet. If you don't do enough training or sport you were unfit and had the possibility of suffering Coronary Heart Disease among so many other illnesses, but if you do too much sport and it takes over your life then you're still unhealthy as the social side of life along with rest hours would be lacking. Another example would b-.

Stop.

The red head groaned as she swung her legs out of bed resting her forehead in her hands while her elbows leant on her thighs. "I need a shower" she muttered to herself as she stood up, creeping over to the end of the room where the door of the showers were. A nice cold shower, cold shower. Yes, that would definitely wake her up.

Half an hour later Alice stepped out of the girls dorms, jeans and a hoody, her red bangs still plastered to her forehead completely covering the burn as the rest of her burgundy, as it was wet, just fell however. "I'll take you up on that," Alice called over her shoulder at the offer of getting Trevor to make her breakfast as she made sure to quietly close the door and turn around "Morning all" she called out seeing four of them already up

10:13 am

"Morning" Tony and Angel mumbled at the same.
Tony glanced over at Trevor "Hook me up Sparks" he said in reference to breakfast. The duo refocused their attentions to the screens chuckling at every one liner.

Suddenly the screens turned black with a large warning sign in the center. An alarm sounded from all the devices, it was loud and screeched.
Tony and Angel got to their feet covering their ears at the ringing. Tony glanced around at his papers, no mission was scheduled today.
"Whats the code??" Angel yelled. Tony shrugged in frustration, "It doesn't say it anywhere!" he shouted back.

Angel began typing on her computer all sorts of codes, anything to try to get the ringing to stop and to find out what the hell was going on, nothing was working.

About five minutes passed, migraines were kicking in. Tony groaned as he hurried around the lab, such an alarm with no warning was unusual.

Finally, the alarm stopped and on their screens appeared a low quality video of a blank wall. Tony glanced over at his computer, the video was streaming from another location. "It's live" he announced.
The duo paused awaiting for anything or anyone to appear on the screen.

A few seconds of no sound or movement passed until finally a man with a black mask stepped in front of the camera. The film captured him in medium shot, he wore a black t-shirt revealing dual dragon tattoos wrapping around his crossed arms. "UnderGrounders, we are growing tired of your games. Too long have you wandered killing our clan. Two years have passed and now it's time for incentive." He disappeared off the screen momentarily and returned pushing two individuals in front of the scene pinning them against the blank wall. They were no older than 14 - 16 years of age. "I do not expect you to recognize them, although you should. They too are special, they too are the reason humans will go extinct. Like you they are worth a lovely sum, only 1 million for both their heads. We have acquired a list of all the individuals whom posses your abilities. If you do not turn yourselves in, we will eliminate every.single.one." The man chuckled, and nodded his head. Two shots were fired from off screen, killing the innocent. The man watched the two slide to the ground, he glanced back at the camera and threatened "For everyday you do not present yourselves we kill"

The screens went black, Tony shifted his eyes at the team. "okay" he mumbled. Tony closed his eyes and focused, turning back the clock to an hour previous.

9:13 am

Angel stared at Tony in bewilderment "You just came from the future, didn't you?"
Tony nodded and whistled loudly calling everyone to the room "Team" he said sternly.
"In exactly one hour two innocent individuals will be killed. Before I traveled back I grabbed the coordinates. The MRs will be situated exactly 20 minutes east from here, for one, that is way too close to where we reside. The closest they've ever been but I still believe it's simply a coincidence. If we drive through the underwater tunnels we can make it there on time to save the innocent and to kill the kidnappers. We must be discreet. They intend on spamming our systems with their message, they will not see us coming. Gear up! Meet in the garage in three minutes"

Angel nodded and ran to the girls dorm. She grabbed her fighting suit out of her drawers. The black and purple patched suit is made up of apparent thin leather material, but in reality its bullet proof, fire proof, and water proof. Comfortable, light and ease to maneuver in, the whole team wore them. She tied her hair up in a messy bun, grabbed all her little gadgets and made her way to the garage. Suited up, Tony was close behind her.

It took Alice 0.1s more than Angel to realize she had to get the gear into action. Two innocent lives were at stake. The quicker they got there the quicker they got a jump on the Rangers the quicker they could get the prisoners home and start to deal with the scars that had most probably been inflicted on them.

While Alice rushed to her own dresser, stripping down while getting her own red and black suit with a black undershirt, some faraway part of her brain wondered how Angel knew whenever Tony came back from the future because she wouldn't have been able to tell. Well, she would have hopefully been able to tell after fifteen minutes had ticked by yet Angel always seemed to know before he could even tell them himself. Tony's power was a scary one. To think the whole world had just jumped back a whole hour because he willed it to?

Alice fought off a shudder as she zipped herself up, grabbing her guns, strapping each into their special holders on her thighs, picking up her small pack that she tied around her waist, extra ammo always came in handy, if not she would have to get in close, and personally, she would prefer to do it from a distance just because, if she got too close all she saw was red. Why was her suit red? Simply so she could identify it. It wasn't because she liked the colour. She hated the colour red and everything it represented.

As she followed Angel, she saw Tony as well. They were both following behind Angel, and Alice couldn't help but shudder at the thought of his powers; yet then again, all of her teammates powers were scarily dangerous.

Trevor pulled his attention away from the pre-maded Cinna buns he was lovingly putting on a tray to go in to the team room. Floating in he listen to Tony, tell them about how the Ranger's had a bunch of other specials and were go to execute them unless they gave themselves up."These MR's certainly know how to ruin a nice day." he muttered as listen then Heard Tony give the order to gear up.

Trevor nodded quickly headed back the kitchen to put the food away with promise to eat when this done then grab a small bag of chips, energy bar, and Gatorade before heading boys room quickly stripping of his work jumpsuit and slipping on some pants. Turning to leave he snag the long black and silver coat hanging by the door, putting it on as he headed for the garage. He found Alice, Tony, and Angel already waiting, with a final check to make sure his weapons were in the inside coat pocket. While he waited pop open the bag of chips and the Gatorade Not exactly the breakfast of champions I planned on, but sounds like I'll need the energy. he thought dug in to his meal.

Evan

Evan returned Trevor's nod as he passed the pool table, and decided to take up Trevor's offer. "Could I get some eggs with that, man?" Evan asked just before Alice entered and asked for Trevor's breakfast. "Morning, Alice," Evan greeted their most recently awake teammate.

Then Tony gave his "pre-mission speech", ending in the somewhat usual, "Gear up! Meet in the garage in three minutes". Evan set his pool cue on the table, and went back into his room. He was already wearing his dark grey t-shirt as his pajamas, so he threw on his armored jeans (black, of course), and leather jacket. He double-checked to ensure all of his cards and other assorted items (knives, dice, various small objects) were in his pockets before following Tony out to the garage.

Alice and Angel arrived to meet Tony slightly ahead of Evan, but he fell in behind Alice. His stomach grumbled, though it was muffled under his jacket. "I might stop by Waffle House on the way back," Evan said to no one in particular.

9:18 am

Tony chuckled at Evan's comment "Waffle house sounds good, we'll be there before 11" he said confidently. Tony loved how even in the darkest times the team still had optimism, granted they hadn't lost a "soldier" in over two years. Tony climbed into his black Zenvo ST1 and awaited for everyone to take their seats.

Angel hesitated by the car and shook her head. She walked over to her black Aprilia RSV 1000 R motorbike and put on her helmet. She swung her leg over and started her motor bike, it roared to life. She lifted the screen of her helmet and glanced back at the team.

Tony rolled his eyes at Angel "You know, carpooling is better for the environment. As so called heroes you'd think we'd take care of our world"

Angel giggled and grinned "The world is already doomed. Once you master your power just go back in time and fix all our mistakes. Meet you guys in the ally behind the building the MRs are in. See you soon." She winked and sped off to the front gate. She entered the pass-codes and the doors gradually opened. She drove down a small path through a blocked forest until she reached the entrance to a tunnel. Angel pulled off her left glove and had a scanner at the entrance scan her finger prints. Welcome, Angel. Safe drive the automated machine chimed. The doors opened and she was off through the underwater tunnel going 220 km/h.

Tony glanced back at the rest of the team "Let me guess you guys want to kill the environment too? That's why I'm here isn't it...to clean up after mankind...alright guys lets go! I'm starving and I want to get this over with."

OOC. I don't generally accept controlling of characters but someone is welcome to make everyone (well at least my characters) arrive to the destination in their next post :) Also don't be afraid to do your own thing once we get to the building. As long as it's not making another main character (Angel, Tony, Evan...) get hurt or something write whatever you wish.

Also, if anyone wants to create another character (or if all of you want too) we could make an Midnight Rangers/The Watchers team. That way our villains aren't just NPCs, we'd have two stories going but it could be fun. Let me know! :)

BTW awesome posts so far :DD!!

After tossing the now empty bag and bottle into the trash and recycling,Trevor smiled as he maneuvered his metal disk to the ground, hopping off next to Tony car. "Amar when carpooling can clear my name," he said hit the button to collapse it before clipping to his belt as he swinging his lag over his silver/black MV Agusta F4 CC and putting on his helmet "I will join you in carpooling." He pulled down the visor he started the bike racing off after Angel, pausing to activate gate.

With no other barriers in the way, Trevor hit the gas taking off and hitting a speed of 235km/h down the underwater tunnel. It was the only time he could push his bikes to this kind of limits. It didn't long to catch up to Angel and with a little push from his bike past her speeding on down the tunnel. Minutes he began slowing down as he exited the tunnel in to the outskirts of a city. Ah civilization what fresh hell have you cooked up. he thought as he head for the location Tony gave the Team and was not at all shock to find it was an empty area full of abandon building. "Really you asshole you don't just have to ruin my breakfast you have do it in a cliche way too". he muttered as he passed by area. He decide park a block away and walk up to appear he was just sight seeing local.

Once Parked, Trevor removed his helmet, leaving it on the handles, and slipped on a pair of sunglasses. Moving closer to the site hide behind wooden crates, first he was going to do was figure out what the hell they were walking into. He closed his eyes and began feeling out the area. The place was not as hot as he hopped it would be, but their were trace amounts of electrical energy and only ton of metal. Trevor focus was so keen that he didn't sense Angel's approach."What do you see?" "Jeez." he said quietly heart jumping into his throat."You scared me, Chaos, don't sneak up on me.. He her her giggle "Well whose fault is that, always be aware of your surrounding, Sparks." Trevor rolled his eyes "yeah yeah." before returning to sensing the area "Look like nine inside with six outside paroling all armed, two vehicles it felt like SUV, four generator powering some heavy duty equipment, and camera set up. Once done he open his eyes and looked his teammate "Wait here I'll be right back." he said "wait where are you going?" whispered Angel as he started move. he turned to her with a smile "I'm just going to make some friends." with that he hurried off. He remembered there was a point were if he was quick he knock out one of the patrolling guards. Luck was on his side one of guards was there waiting as soon as his back was turn, Trevor attack quickly grabbing the man at shoulder, generated just enough volts to knock out him out. Then generated a EM field to lighten the guard so he could haul him out of sight. Once he was sure guard was hidden, he started to go over the man's pockets looking for how he stayed in communication with his group, He found the guys ear piece and phone, before heading back to Angel, now with a connection to the MR's comm system he started listening to radio chatter as clone the guards phone with his gaining access to the guards stored texts and phone messages "Okay we should know when the kids get here now."

Evan

Evan smiled as the other teammates hopped into their vehicles and took off. "Sorry, man, cars have never been my thing," Evan said to Tony as he kick-started his Harley-Davidson 1200 Custom. The engine roared to life with a bass hum, and Evan strapped on his helmet, zipped up his leather jacket, and revved his engine. Having seen Angel open the door to the tunnel, Evan waited until everyone had taken off down the tunnel to close it. Evan scanned his palm on the machine and chose the 'Lock' option. Garage, secure. Goodbye. the synthetic voice said before closing the doors behind Evan.

Evan then took off down the tunnel, following Tony's taillights until they left the tunnel and emerged in the city. Evan saw Tony go off in one direction towards the coordinates, and decided flanking the building would be the best option. Well, I saw Angel and Trevor leave first, and there goes Tony. No telling where Alice is gonna go, however. Hmm, perhaps I'll circle the building and scout out what I can before this gets loud, Evan thought to himself. He pulled forward and headed off towards the building's coordinates. As he neared the building, he saw Trevor's and Angel's bikes, and a short way away, caught Trevor's attention. Evan signaled to tell Trevor his plan to scout out the building, and proceeded to circle around it once.

These Rangers sure know how to pick the shittiest spots to set up camp. Or maybe that's their plan? I'd better let Chaos and Sparky know the general layout. He finished his circle around the area and returned to Angel and Trevor, leaving his bike near theirs. Evan then slowly made his way up towards the two. "Abandoned warehouse. Large open area inside, they may hope to surround us and keep us out of range. It looked like there were some standing guard outside pretending to be local, but I'm not sure they're Rangers. No visual on the hostages, they're most likely upstairs, in the warehouse's office. Probably well guarded. We need to find the hostages and secure their position first," Evan wrapped up his scouting report. "I'll head around the back, see if I can find find some way on the roof, remove their 'high ground' advantage."

9:42 am

When Angel arrived she could not believe the cliché that was the building the villains were situated in. Their predictable nature bored her, she had a feeling this mission would be over before she knew it. She saw Trevor arrive from afar and walked behind him as she examined the dimensions of the building. "What do you see?" she questioned. "Jeez"

She did not bother watching Trevor knock out the guards, instead she closed her eyes and focused on her inner energies. It was a ritual in a sense, to get her to calm down and control her ability even greater.
"Okay we should know when the kids get here now."
Angel's eyes fluttered open and she nodded. "Unless they're already here...gosh where the hell is Tony, Evan and Alice?!"



Tony examined Alice closely, he thought she was slightly weird but never had a problem with her overall. In fact he liked Alice, he thought she was cool and appreciated her mutual care for the earth. He glanced back in his rear view mirror and debated messing with Evan who was following closely behind. He chuckled to himself and thought differently Not the time Ton.
When Tony turned at a corner he noticed Evan had gone a separate way, he appreciated the competence of his teammates.
"What's our plan then?"
Tony glanced over at the redhead and shrugged "Same as always, kill everyone in sight, make sure the hostages are safe and go eat waffles"
He pulled over in a back alley and stepped out of his vehicle. He ran over to the rest of the crew just as Evan was saying "I'll head around the back, see if I can find find some way on the roof, remove their 'high ground' advantage."
Tony nodded in agreement "I'll come with you dude, we'll cover the high ground you guys cover the main area. Looks like this warehouse has two floors, we'll find a way in from the top, you guys eliminate everyone here. Guaranteed they got some eagle eyes for Ev and I to kill"

Angel locked eyes with Tony for a second and said "We do not need to kill everyone."
Tony huffed "What's with you? You say that everytime we're on a mission. If any of these bastards live they'll go back to their leader and find some way to kill us anyways."
Angel smiled sarcastically "And yet, you call me Chaos."
She bowed her head and turned on her heel, Angel did not like killing. She had seen so much death and she tried to spare as many lives as she could, of course that never turned out well.
She walked over to the main entrance of the building and glanced over at the team "If we're here eliminate then why not walk through the front door?"
She grinned and kicked the doors open. She peaked inside but no one was insight, in fact the building was dark. She took a couple steps back and shouted "Tony, do we have the right place?"

Just as she spoke shots were fired from all around, literally all around, above, behind, in front, inside the building.

Tony reacted quickly he made time slow down and examined where all the bad guys were and then he reset the clock back a couple minutes.

Angel smiled sarcastically "And yet, you call me Chaos."

Tony grabbed Angel's arm to stop her from walking away. "They're watching us" he whispered. "They will not shoot unless we pose a threat. Evan lets go to the roof there are a dozen guys up there and we'll run into a couple on our way up. You guys, move quietly to the building, Angel, do not kick the door open. Sneak in, the lights will be off"

Tony began to sneak around the building, one guy came around the corner pointing a gun at his head. Tony slowed time and dodged, he walked up behind the guy and grabbed his head...he snapped his neck with ease killing him instantaneously. Tony glanced back to see if Evan was following when he reached a ladder. From above three guys were ready to fire at him, Tony paused time, climbed the ladder, walked up behind them and resumed the clock. "Hey, whatya you guys looking at?" Bewildered as they started to turn Tony kicked them over the edge, they weren't dead but an easy kill for Evan.


Angel huffed, sometimes Tony's power annoyed her, it was useful but his know it all attitude irritated her. She snuck over to the doors and nodded at Alice and Trevor "One of you open the doors" she said as she began to form small twin tornado's in the palm of her hands.

Alice

Kill everyone in sight. Simple enough.

The redhead followed Tony to the group, her eyes going from Tony to Angel and back to Tony as they spoke in such a way that one could nearly define it as banter. It was ironic. Here they were all in readying themselves in their own ways to commit a mass murder to save two innocent -probably not so innocent anymore- victims yet to do that they had to murder so many people. How many families would lose a caring family member? It was wrong on so many levels, but these people were passed the stage of talking out their differences nor did she have enough trust left in her to trust more than the people that were around her now.

Alice positioned herself beside the door, her hand quietly snaking around the door knob and gripping it tightly as her gaze focused on Angel and Trevor. "Three" , she started the countdown, "Two," the girl took a deep breath, "One" . With a burst of force, her hand turned, opening the door and shoving it forward so quickly the movement was fluid, no stumbling or hesitation. Just as soon as she had opened the door she was already quickly jumping back out the way to give Angel full aim at the men with guns inside so she would not get in the way of the attack.

9:56 am

Angel glanced over at Trevor as Alice was counting down, she nodded towards the doors and said with a wink "When they open, give some spark to my twins will yeah?"
The doors flung open, everything on the inside was dark and quiet, the twin tornado's slowly grew in Angels palms, she peered inside waiting for any sign of movement.

A moment later she could see someones eyes glowing in the light, Angel smirked and blasted her now F3s in to the warehouse. "Now" she shouted to Trevor signaling him to incorporate lightning blasts into the loose and wild tornado's.

Guns began to fire from inside, Angel grabbed her twin daggers from the inside of her boots and sprinted in. It was hard to see but enemies were coming at her from all angles. One grabbed her arm and twisted her, she spun free and threw a dagger into his heart. Another pulled at her hair, she fell to the ground "That hurt" she thought. The individual. face masked stood above her pointing a gun at her face. Angel grabbed him by the wrist pulled him down on top of her. He scurried, trying to get up but Angel took one of her blades and stabbed him in the neck. She rolled him off of her and got to her feet. She was surrounded.

Her eyes began to turn grey, wind was rising around her, she was ready to attack.


The roof had a large center piece, taller than Tony, and hard to see around. He peered around the corner but no one was in sight. Tony always had to be cautious, he did not like weapons, he was very cocky with his natural abilities.
When her turned another corner, it was an ambush. Five guys came at him, one with daggers, three with rifles and one with dual pistols. Tony slowed his surroundings as they began to fire.

He dodged every bullet with ease but he could feel himself weaken. This mission had to end soon, a migraine was slowly setting in.

Tony walked up next to the guy with the daggers. He grabbed him by the back of his head and slammed his face into his knee. He then moved onto dual pistol guy, he stood in front of him disarmed him and twisted his neck, killing him. Lastly he moved onto the trio with the rifles. He disarmed one of the enemies and bashed his face with the rifle and then he simply shot a couple bullets in the remaining enemies.

Tony resumed time at its normal speed, he tossed his rifle and wandered around the roof. He finally reached a door and kicked it open. It was a set of stairs leading to another door. He made his way down cautiously, he opened the door slowly and peaked inside, it was the white room in the video, it was currently empty.


"I SAID TELL ME" Scarlet shouted at a man bound to a chair. He shook his head, tears rolling down his cheeks. "Where are they? Where do they reside?" The guy shook his head again, she grabbed a book near by and threw it against a wall. She was in her so called lair, it was a large library like room with many secrets.

Scarlet began to pace back and forth, she was frustrated "So, you're telling me you'd rather die over telling me the UnderGrounders hideout..." She walked up to him and placed both hands on the arm of the chair, her face just inches away from his "Feel that?" she questioned slowly raising her hand into a shape of a claw. "That is your soul being slowly ripped from you and being banished to the underworld." The man didn't budge, with a flick of her wrist his soul was consumed and his body turned blue and lifeless. Scarlet shook her head "Useless" she mumbled.

A couple minutes later her second in command came running into the room, he glanced uneasily at the body before he spoke "Scarlet, I don't know how they did it...but the undergrouders they're at the warehouse, they've ambushed our men"
Scarlet stared at him in disbelief and scoffed "DAMMIT!" she shouted. "It's that fucking time traveler. Porter streamed a video live didn't he? Idiot, i told him not to do it. If you see Porter kill him. He's the reason this mission was comprised. And send out another wave of soldiers. I WANT THEM DEAD.NOW!"

Her second nodded and sprinted out of the room. Scarlet began to pace in rage. If the second waved failed, she would need to call for backup, she was tired of the UnderGrounders, she wanted them dead, she wanted her fortune and she wanted their souls.

Trevor nodded and following Angel and Alice to the front doors,next to the wall the opposite side of Alice readying himself to sneak in. He paused when He heard Angel "One of you open the door. He turned look a Angel and saw that she already had two small tornadoes prime. He let out a small sigh "I would Like to go on the record and say that I don't fully agree with this plan on action. he said then stopped as Angel looked at him. "but since I have nothing better suggest I'll follow your lead."

He watched the doors as Alice started a count down, but glance back when she hear Angel say "When they open, give some spark to my twins will yeah?" just catching the wink. Smirking he started up a charge, feeling the light tickle as the energy takes the form of blueish electrical energy. "Primed and ready, boss." as Alice open the door. A moment he saw Angel blast the room and heard "Now", quickly moving to combined His electricity with Angel's wind. That was when all hell broke lose, as gun fire sounded inside."Okay now wh-" he started to ask,but stopped as watch Angel charge in knives drawn"That was stupid question, Trev he said to himself "the answers always charge into hell." Taking out his metal desk, hitting the button to expand it, he hopped on as he generated a EM Field to make it levitate and followed Angel in.

He quickly regretted doing so as bullet came out of everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Quickly ducking behind a barrel Oh this just dumb he thought generating a larger Em Field to defect the bullets. Glancing over he saw a bunch of enemies baring down of Angel Typical he thought charging up a bunch of rogues barring down on a lady he gave a smirk "Sucks to be them." he said as shot a bolt magnetized energy at group of five moving in on her and with a wave of his arm moved then over to a steel beam, where became stuck to it unable to move."You'll thank me in a minute." he said as he past, just then a duo armed with assault rifles appear to Trevor left. He quickly charge up another two bolts and sent them at the attackers, watching as their body jumped and twitched as the bolts hit them, one even started shooting in the air. Cool I've been able to get one these idiots to do that yet. he thought with awe.

While his back was turned he missed a second enemy duo armed with a RPG a floor up taking aim at Trevor "Take this you Freak said the one holding the weapon and fired. There was a loud whistle as it shoot towards Trevor followed by a louder explosion as it hit filling the room with smoke "Ha ha!" said the first "Did we get him?" asked the second "yep." said the first loading his launcher again "Now let's take care of two others." "But your sure you go him?" Asked the second man "Yeah, I'm Sure now nighty-nighty girlies. said the first taking aim again. Suddenly the weapon was whipped out the First's hands by a chain of light "You know I'd say get your eyes check," said Trevor rising out of the smoke a small nick on his right temple to hover in front the two men holding the weapon a loft with his powers "but you two assholes aren't going to be around that much longer" with that he began waving his arm to make the RPG start hitting the two men repeatedly, before using his powers to rise the men up and toss them through a broken window. "Assholes" with that he return his attention to battle a foot.

Alice

Alice moved out the way, giving both Trevor and Angel to charge in, the last thing she wanted to do was get in the way of the blast as she herself unhooked both guns from her thighs, flicking the safety off with such ease she didn't even have to look. It was ironic really. she could remember when she had first picked up a gun, how she had fumbled with it, only to shoot her own foot in the midst of the struggle to take the safety off. Thanks to the fact that her brain had subconsciously believed her foot was the target it had made sure her hand had specifically aimed for her foot; at least that was the conclusion she had come through as she breathed hard, limping out of the armory to where everyone else was. Now they laughed at it but at the time, the vibrant colors that she could suddenly see were overwhelming. It had all been shades of grey until crimson spouted everywhere. small puddles on the ground where she had limped on until she got to the common room or the chill room, depending on who you were talking to, how it got on the person who treated her hands, on his clothes, how they had to extract the bullet, chucking it on a small container as she sat half dazed from the painkillers she'd had injected into her neck, making everything surreal as her teammates poked and pried with tweezers trying to pick out all the shards that had shattered when it had hit the bone in her foot. The chinks as they fished them out, how the metal was stained with blood.

They had come a long way, that was for sure. With ease, Alice shot two of the men that were shooting from the far side. One shot per man; they both toppled over the banister taking another one of themselves out. Two more shots were fired. Not hers, however, this was coming from behind her. As soon as she'd heard the shot she'd spun around on her heel, moving to the right as she did, her sole aim to evade the incoming bullets. If she had stayed standing as she did only one bullet would have hit her as it was on course, yet the second shooter was such a lousy sniper it had gone, of course, or maybe he was so good he had predicted she would evade that way. Shooting her own guns at them, she could see their bullets coming towards her, in such colours, she could easily pinpoint exactly where they were coming from. Yet unlike Tony she could not reverse back time nor could she move quick enough to evade them. The bullet furrowed in her left shoulder blade, just under her clavicle too close to her heart for her own liking even though she had done her best to avoid it in those few nano-second she had to do so.

That had been the best she had been able to do, make sure it did not hit her heart directly. A wry, sour smile cursed her lips as only one of her two shots hit the mark, she could already see the other starting to reload already. He sure was confident. Once a sniper's position was discovered it was in their best interests to run and find a second hidden to the eye spot, yet this man was either too confident or an idiot. Probably both. She could feel the force behind the shot push her backwards, cocking her right gun towards him as he aimed at her through his scope. The first to shoot would win. Both shots rang out in sync, only one shot hit though. Hers. After all, he had predicted she would dodge to the left; yet Allice had stood where she was, holding her ground, having predicted that he would predict that she would dive to the left and shoot him only after she avoided his shot.

Too bad for him, his arrogance and mistake had cost him his life as he slumped against his own gun

Evan

Evan watched as Tony scouted ahead, whizzed around a group of guards, and made his way inside. Dammit, man, I can't cover you in close quarters, Evan thought, before deciding to stay on the roof and provide ranged cover to everyone inside. Suddenly the door to the warehouse burst open, there was gunfire, and tornadoes...was that an RPG? I need to find a skyli- oh, lookie there, Evan halfheartedly laughed to himself.

Evan kicked the glass, opening the skylight, and looked inside. Damn, it was a mess. Angel was surrounded, Tony had to be in one of the hallways, Trevor was on the ground floor, fighting hand to hand, and Alice was bunkered down, and had just taken a bullet. It was chaos. "Well then, let's see how they fare against this ace in the hole," Evan said, charging up his cards. The bright blue glow grew in Evan's hands, and then it rained blue fire inside the warehouse.

The four men behind Angel dropped, enemy reinforcements coming from behind Trevor never made it out of the hallway, one of the men shooting into a back hallway keeled over, the sniper that had a bead on Alice received a card in his eye, and lastly two men aiming for Alice on the 2nd floor never got their shots off.

"Ten cards, minimum ten Rangers dropped. Looks like I won that bet," Evan said, blowing off the finger-gun he had made mockingly. The inside of the warehouse looked clear from Evan's perspective, save for some inevitable back hallways that he couldn't see. Suddenly, the sound of SUVs on gravel grabbed Evan's attention. He looked over the roof of the warehouse to see three- no four...five...several SUVs full of Rangers pull up. "Oh, shit," Evan said.

"Uhh, guys, not to ruin the moment, but we've got company," Evan yelled into the skylight, "I'll hold as many off as long as I can, but get ready for a party!"

10:02 am

Angel's eyes grew wide as the four men charging her fell to their deaths. She glanced up at Evan and mouthed the words Thank you. The room was now empty, all was quiet, she was confused. Her eyes shifted between Trevor and Alice, she shrugged and said "Is that it? Wheres Tony and the hostages?" She felt uneasy asking such a question, to think they killed these men for no legitimate reason.

Tony came running into the main area and spun on his heel. His eyebrows furrowed in frustration "I've searched everywhere, they're not here"

Angels mouth fell open she was ready to explode with rage, to think that Tony had lead them through a mission without a proper plan or insight. Just as she was ready to speak Evan announced from above "Uhh, guys, not to ruin the moment, but we've got company, I'll hold as many off as long as I can, but get ready for a party!"

A wave of relief came over Angel, maybe Tony wasn't incompetent after all. Tony glanced at her before he ran to the front doors "I saw that look" he noted.
Angel rolled her eyes, walked over to Alice and examined her shoulder "Are you alright? Do you feel weakened, can you fight? It's not enchanted or poisoned is it?" she questioned.

Tony peaked out the doors, about two dozen Rangers were heading towards the building and coming out of one of the SUVs were the hostages.
Just as the enemies were about to walk through, they paused as their apparent leader received a call. He mumbled a few words to his soldiers, Tony couldn't make out the exact sentence but by their reaction he knew what was coming. The MRs all steadied themselves, pulling out their guns and other weapons. The two enemies holding the hostages shoved them back into an SUV and readied themselves as well.

Tony took a few steps back "They know we're here, hostages are in the back vehicle, make sure they don't drive off" he announced. He glanced over at Trevor and said "My power is slowly becoming useless, I may not be able to use it. They're all wearing their army tags, with enough power, by electrocuting one, you'll electrocute at least half of them... so this should be easy for you. Light them up"

Just as he finished speaking the Rangers burst through the doors firing their guns in chaos. They did not take a moment to aim or to even consider their surroundings.

Bullets were flying in all sorts of directions, Angel grabbed Alice by the arm and ran towards a table lying on it's side. She sat down behind it and began focusing her energies on her power. She closed her eyes and from above, where Evan had spoken through the skylight, the clouds were rolling in. She was creating a storm and within seconds an F2 tornado touched down right in front of where the enemies stood.

A Ranger dodged the tornado and charged at Tony, by the looks of it, he was weaponless "A fist fight? Awesome"
Tony and the Ranger began their one on one battle, the individual was equally as skilled as Tony, dodging as many hits as he could and hitting with great power. Tony was getting cocky but just as his confidence rose he received a cold punch to the face, causing him to stumble down and slam his head against the ground that will help the headache. He sat up and shook his head trying to regain composure. The Ranger grabbed Tony by his suit and lifted him a foot above the ground. Tony struggled for a moment but then kicked the Ranger in the stomach setting himself free. The Ranger, on the ground took hold of his stomach in agony. Tony slowed time by a few seconds, casually walked behind the Ranger, grabbed him by his head and snapped his neck. Dead.

Tony examined the room ready for his next challenge, he was ready to charge at an enemy but loud ringing sounded in his ears, his migraine was becoming severe.

OOC: I will be ending the mission soon, in the next post or the post after, this mission will be completed so try to position your characters in a way the mission can end. Once this mission is over, I think it's a good idea for our characters to get a bit of small talk in, build the relationships and plot for the next mission.

If you guys don't want a break from all the chaos and want to keep writing action sequences let me know. However, I do enjoy some character development and I think a small break from all the action will be nice.

Alice

Alice had heard the conversation not really focusing on it. She didn't care right now about if the mission was a fluke or not, she was struggling to stand upright. Her arm had gone numb? She couldn't move it and it simply fell limply down her side. her right arm applying pressure trying to stop the leakage of the colour red withiout success.

"I suddenly can't feel my arm and my side's going numb the red-head responded to Angel as she felt the girl drag her through the room which was the battlefield. In truth she hadn't really heard the girl, she'd just supposed she'd asked if she was okay. As more shots fired, and the engines of the SUV's could be heard Alice looked towards Angel who was crouched next to her, unhooking the right-hand gun from its holster and holding it in his hand, "Do you have a plan in particular? she asked glancing over the table, quickly and going back to her crouching position, hah, as if she could fight in this state, she could barely focus her vision which was usually hard when everything was different shades of grey.

Evan

Evan heard the doors blast open as he ran over to the side of the roof above the action. Squads were going in, there were still handfuls of guards outside, and he could see the hostages inside one of the SUVs. Evan started counting the Rangers outside, then thought it would be better to merely count the clumps of soldiers. Seven groups, too spread apart to target two groups with one card, so seven cards for the Rangers, one for the SUV tires...The group should be able to handle themselves inside, right? Evan's mind raced. This is what I get for being the only one on the damned roof, Evan thought, drawing cards from his pockets.

Eight cards, let's make 'em count.

Four cards in each hand, Evan began his charge. Seven were set to explode, the other he aimed for the tires. With such a grouping of cards rigged to blow, Evan's eyes began to glow blue, almost appearing as though they had caught fire.

Blue fire rained from the roof of the warehouse onto the groups of Rangers outside. Seven explosions rocked the ground simultaneously and Rangers fell to the ground in groups, blown around by the surrounding concussion of the blasts. The explosions weren't as lethal as Evan could do, a few broken bones, burns of varying degrees, and general ache was what Evan had aimed for. Much more force behind the cards and they'd do serious damage to the surrounding area, the pavement was getting away with scorch marks as it was.

The eighth card flew past all of the explosions in a downward angle, seemed to hover above the ground as it turned mid-fight, and sunk itself into the front right tire on the hostages' SUV, rocketed out the other side and blasted through the front left tire with just as much force.

"Oh, I am gonna feel that in the morning," Evan said to himself. The only Rangers left appeared to be inside the warehouse.