Role Play Board: Power Play - Part 2

Power Play - Part 2 - snake in the grass

Posted by Vixen on 10/17/2008, 7:42 pm
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The Present:
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The fight had been quick and brutal, she had done what was needed to end it, but their had been a cost. Her arm despite her ability to heal was badly damaged, hanging limply like a weight to one side.

“Over here I heard something”

Her heightened sense detected the chatter between to guards from what felt like about fifty meters away, I needed an exit and fast. Calling upon the spitting cobra I secrete venom that burns and melts the air duct panel, then like a spider I scale the walls, my body sticking to its surface like industrial glue. I enter the shaft and slowly begin to traverse the vents like a maze. Mentally mapping where I have been trying to find my way out of these torture chamber.

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Two Weeks Earlier; Canada
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“Vixen nice of you to show, we’ve finished most of our tests, but if you could go other the area. Maybe use your senses to try and see if theirs anything we miss”

“Not a problem, I cant see how this is going to help Michael, if your t-spheres can sense it. I doubt my nose is going to have any better luck”

Lex’s clean up team did their job well, as always right down to the microscopic level the place has been sterilised. Any link of Waller being anywhere near this place is gone and by the looks of the CHECKMATE ground team shouting at one another to my right, it appears she’s made enemies as well as friends in her recent transactions.

“There”

Michael hears my faintest whisper and is on me in a second.

“What is it Mari, what do you have”

“A scent, its faint but she was here, her and Lex. Stood no more than a few metres away from where I am now”

“Can you get a sense of movements, over scents”

“Its hard, they used powerful agents to clean up the mess, whatever IT was. I cant seem to smell anything else, which bothers me”

“In what way?”

“Well if they’re so good that I don’t pick up on anything, why do I smell Lex and Waller, the two people who shouldn’t be here?”

“A trap”

“I don’t know, but I’m going to try and find out. I’m heading back to base, I’ll see if J’onn or Ted has any further leads”

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Present Day:
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It been nearly thirty minutes and so far staying in the vents seems to be working, my arm is slowly getting back sensation, and all other wounds have healed completely. Better still I’ve located Waller’s new office and have been watching her for the best part of ten minutes.

Its strange, watching her work so passionately, I could almost forget she wants every meta human on the planet dead.

Suddenly I scream, electric currents rip through my body as I fall from the air vent.

“Vixen, I hope I haven’t opened any wounds. Just so that you are aware of what’s happening right now, well in the ten minutes you sat watching me, I had security lock down this office and the adjoining sectors. No one gets in, or out. Except on my say so, which by my estimates gives us about five hours of air before we suffocate”

“Please, the minute I stand up all I need do is channel the strength of the ape and snap your fat neck like a twig”

“All I need do is pull this trigger”

“The gun moves swift, looking down the barrel I can almost feel the heat from the laser pointer, at this distance she doesn’t even need a clean shot, but its their anyway, proving the point that she still holds the upper hand.

“I see my associate never did get what we needed, but I’m a little better at persuasion, Vixen, I want to know every leagues members identity, we already have some. But I want every last one, their families, their strengths and weaknesses”

“Isn’t going to happen”

“Then this is going to be a painful five hours, at least for one of us”