mission - computer part retrieval

[amachinemind]

WHO: Everyone (reply to your corresponding team thread. Teams are here).
WHEN: A few hours after dawn.
WHERE: Starts off at the sub before branching to four different locations; two teams in the city zone, one fairly near to the Meat Factory, and the housing district to the north of the Sub.
SUMMARY: Shade issues his first mission - to retrieve

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TEAM 1 - SKYSCRAPER (Ikuto, Nena, Rhyme, Beat)

[amachinemind]

[catchyourheart]

Ikuto had been fairly- well, to be blunt, surprised- that he'd been announced as a team leader. The phrase 'team leader' when tagged to Ikuto usually meant nothing, since the team would usually end up as a shambles with someone else taking over for Ikuto's lack of leadership skills- maybe that was the reason, or maybe Shade just wanted to see if he'd gotten any better at.. caring for others.

Whatever. If this was Shade's little game, he wasn't going to play it.

There was one thing that Ikuto hated more about missions that having to fight- was the waterways. It wasn't that he didn't like water, it was just a nuisance. Fortunately for him though, being the agile creature he was, he spent most of the duration of the tunnel almost half way up a wall on a fourty-five degree angle, staying as far away as literally possible from the water itself

[abeatdown]

Beat had been starting to go stir crazy, being cooped up in the Sub for so long without being able to go outside. The only thing that'd made it bearable was Rhyme. Even so, when he finally got his first breath of fresh air in what felt like years, he felt a lot better about the mission they were being forced on. And even if he didn't like Ikuto, Rhyme and Nena were on his team to make up for it.

In the damp, dark tunnels, however, his good mood was rapidly tapering off. He'd take the Sub over these never-ending waterways. He'd insisted on carrying Rhyme piggyback as they travelled through them, because like hell he was going to let her get soaked and catch cold and get sick. Besides, she wasn't heavy.

"Fourty minutes?!" Beat huffed, adjusting his grip on Rhyme. His patience was wearing thin by now. "Yo, Blueberry, we been walkin' long enough. Find a shortcut."

[unholyspirit]

"Yeah, yeah!" Nena nodded in agreement to Beat's words, practically skipping down the waterway. Nena, though, was actually quite happy about their mission assignment - a skyscraper sounded like fun, and the boredom had been beginning to drive her insane. "C'mon, three open streets, we can take that in way less time than fourty minutes! Right?"

TEAM 2 - ELECTRONICS STORE (Soren, Sora, Riku, Watanuki)

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Re: TEAM 2 - ELECTRONICS STORE (Soren, Sora, Riku, Watanuki)

[inallhonesty]

Soren hadn't been quite sure whether to be pleased or terribly annoyed that he had been placed in charge. The idea of being in command didn't bother him in the slightest (although admittedly, it was a change), it was only that all three of the team members he was commanding had never been on missions before. Still, perhaps because of that, Shade had given him a straightforward and (theoretically) safe mission. Best case scenario, the rookies would have no opportunity to screw up.

Soren knew better than to rely on best case scenarios. "We surface in around three minutes," he stated idly, continually looking from the surrounds of the waterway to the hand-drawn map he held. It wasn't perfect, he conceded - but it would do for this. "Keep quiet," he added somewhat more harshly.

(OOC: Ahahaha hope I did that right. *early in the morning*)

[crownedsky]

Sora was debating whether or not to have his Keyblade out. From what he heard, the outside world was full of monsters, and he didn't want to be killed. He looked up at his team leader, what was his name? Oh right, Soren!

"Hey... Soren," he whispered. "Are we going to need our weapon now?"

[livesinshade]

Riku was nervous. Hell, he was more than that. He was frustrated and nervous. He already had the Dawn against his hip, prepared for the surface he'd heard so much about.

"Watch out for these things Sora. I saw one when I got here... These aren't Heartless."

Riku observed Soren with disdain. "I never voted for you to be leader," was all her could say before sitting in a darker corner of the sub and going silent.

TEAM 3 - WAREHOUSE (Squall, Ranulf, Ed)

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Re: TEAM 3 - WAREHOUSE (Squall, Ranulf, Ed)

[hislionheart]

Squall kept a close count on every manhole they passed under, waiting for the one they needed to emerge from to appear. He didn't even check to see if the team he was supposed to be leading was keeping pace. He didn't want to lead. It meant being responsible for other peoples' lives, when those lives could so easily be taken out here in the field. But at least he was fortunate to have a smaller team, and that the two of them weren't other-worlders. They had experience, and wouldn't whine or mess things up.

He paused and turned on Ed, eyes narrowed as he tried to make him out through the tunnel gloom. "We'll boost you up there first," he gestured to the manhole above them. If he'd counted right, this would take them not too close to the warehouse, but not too far, either. "Same as usual: check if it's safe and we'll climb up after you."

[thealchemyotaku]

“Boost me up?” He repeated lowly. Under a normal circumstance he would have exploded in an aggressive rant about how short someone was calling him but he could understand how serious the situation was, they weren’t out of harms way just because they had gone underground. He fixed Squall with a dirty look before walking past him, making a point of knocking his shoulder against him in the process just to let him know that whilst he’d remained quiet about it, implying that he was short just wasn’t acceptable. He stepped up onto Ranulf’s cupped hand, awkwardly balancing himself as he was boosted up before he pressed his palms flat against the manhole cover to lift it off and hoisting himself up

[lolcurtsy]

Throughout the entire time he'd been in the waterway, he'd walked silently along behind Squall without any witty remarks. He hated these waterways. There were small, and often filled with water to an extent where it made his skin crawl- his ears drooped, and anytime his tail touched the water he'd hiss slightly in pain. Perhaps the fact that his change power didn't work down here made him edgy- either way, as Squall announced that they were under the right manhole, Ranulf had quickly sprung into action, helping Ed up, seeing the light peek in through the gaps to the side.

Hearing that it was clear, his face flicked to Squall, his cap swaying slightly. "You next. I can get up fairly easily," he tilted his head to one side, calculating the distance, before continuing, "Want a hand?"

TEAM 4 - HOUSING DISTRICT (Jenny, Jansen, Jack)

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Re: TEAM 4 - HOUSING DISTRICT (Jenny, Jansen, Jack)

[mymancard]

“OKAY! Nobody said anything about the water! No amount of money is worth this! I’m freezing my butt off! I’m probably gonna’ catch a cold or-or the flu or worse! I could get pneumonia!” Jansen exclaimed overdramatically as he wheezed and tried to wring out some of the water that had soaked into his kimono; his shoes were full of water and he felt weighed down by all the fabric he was wearing. “You guys are crazy! I’m good at running and all but that-that was just nuts! Just-just let me catch my breath! Okay?” He really hoped that the worst was over. After all what could really go wrong inside a housing district? It was pretty tame compared to what he had been hearing about the other missions. “...Phew.”

[timetorunagain]

Jenny turned on him skeptically. "Jansen, please. You can go overground if you want but that leaves you wind open for monster attacks, and it's much better to avoid that. Save the complaining till we're back at the Sub? Do you really want a monster to get us before we even go up outside?" She almost hissed back at him, before sighing and continuing her straight forward hike down the rest of the waterway she was leading them down. Of all people she had to be teamed with... Jansen, and Jack?

She knew it would either be this corner or the next one when they could finally go up and outside- some manhole, somewhere- and running into a spot of bother with the water levels wasn't a... well, good thing. At least it seemed to have died down to just ankle height now. "You holding up okay, Jack?" she said quietly, looking over her shoulder back at him, and mostly ignoring Jansen, before addressing both of them. "Just a couple more turns, then we can go outside."

[mymancard]

“No-no-no-no-no... I’m good here,” Jansen murmured as he stared at the ceiling of the waterways, dreading to think of what kind of vile creatures were lurking just inches above their heads. “So what’s the plan of action? This mission’s gonna’ be a breeze right?” He asked hopefully. It had filled him with dread to hear that he was going to be so close to real-live monsters but he had quickly gotten over it and cheered up immensely when he had learned that the beautiful blonde-haired woman was going to be leading their team.

(OOC: Hope you don’t mind me going again ^_^)