Operation: Gigas Freedom Event Start

[bravenewmods]

True to their word the Seekers lead the teams discretely through the winding streets of Gigas and into service entrances, gaining them admittance into the heart of Gigas’s political compound. Bringing them stealthily along the catwalks, the Union infiltrators were brought to the inner sanctum, close to the captive Gigases and their mission.

Sharp-looking soldiers in fatigues holding machine guns patrolled diligently, although their demeanor was not especially tense. It seemed no immediate operations were taking place at this time as no engineers were present. And in their enormous cages, the Gigases slept. Waiting.

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[windyflower]

As Fuuka looked at the last monitor, she knew what she had to do. "I'll help Rise take care of the Emperor too. I'll try to figure out where its weak point is." She said before focusing her energy toward the enemy.

Hopefully the battle won't be as bad as it looked.

[soulofmagus]

Or it could look just as bad as it appears.

No sooner has Sophia established connection with monitor 3's team than everything goes decidedly explosion-shaped, the escalation of events rapidly outpacing any actions that the command center might make.

"Waver!" Her voice might be startlingly loud, even to Sophia, and there's a squeak of alarm from Gebo as the entire screen is rendered little more than snow with the power unleased by the gigas. A hand lifts, clenched and held to her chest, hoping to see something. Anything.

In the distance, there's a BOOM from the city. Ouka and Gebo both twitch ears, perking up. When things finally do begin to clear up, hazy as the image is, it's not hard to make out the lone figure shielding the rest, and there's a small gasp covered by trembling fingers. How is Kiho doing that? Just how powerful ARE the Seekers?

Sophia says none of this, eyes remaining wide, before she makes out shapes moving, and she presses down on her own warp band to transmit a signal. She cannot see the ceiling damage at this angle, doesn't know that the blast may have been reflected back up into the city proper. Right now, there are more immediate priorities.

"Waver? Can you hear me? Is everyone alright?" How ever are they going to get them all out of there safely?

[toxicrevenger]

"I'll relay to the fourth group," said Pamela. "Oh...I forgot to mention it, but can also make plants walk around like foot soldiers. They're nowhere near as intelligent or strong as Pokemon. The sheer oddity of it might distract the Gigas forces a bit, though."

She glanced around briefly at the other monitors. It looked bad. None of them had gone into this expecting it to be easy, and still, she worried. She tried to have faith in their comrades, but she couldn't help but hope that the gods would show up to help them once again.

[bnw_sheepy_npcs]

"Good, good." She answered tensely, her attention focused on the last monitor. Her expression was steely, remote, the Pressure mounting--not focused on them, but at the screen itself, at what was going on.

They were going to lose there. They were going to get killed. Their blood would be on Maeve and Ceilto's hands, all because of that man. Her eyes glowing a faint amber, the screen began making a strange, low-pitched wail before shorting out completely. She did not seem to notice, or care.

"Rufus!" Her voice crackling with a strange, psychic energy, she cast a look at the large man. "I'm stepping out."

She moved with inhuman speed, passing through the compound, hovering slightly, before exiting and taking to the air. Anyone who happened to look out might see a flash of red and white, a strange and unfamiliar form shooting across the sky toward the battlefield.


[[OOC note: The command center will still be able to communicate with the last group, but will no longer have a visual feed.]]

[soulofmagus]

[ There's a startled growl from the Haxorus standing guard outside, even as Sophia gapes at Maeve's sudden, strange exit, that crackle of psychic voice still ringing in her mind. The screens are, unfortunately, useless to them now. But that's not an immediate concern.

She left us.

Yes, they have Rufus here, but the younger Seeker had abandoned the humans that they had gathered together for this mission. To.. To do something. To head into the heart of chaos, no doubt. And now the command center team had no means to see what was going on.

Swallowing around a dry throat a moment, Sophia turned back to the group, trying not to wring her hands. Gebo hopped off the table and pressed against her legs, while Ouka snarled quietly. Ymir simply turned to look at Rufus, unyielding steel radiating displeasure. ]

..The warp bands may be monitored, or even blocked in there now. Can anyone reach the others some other way? [are they victims? or is there more they as a group can do to get their friends and allies to safety?]

[senpaidol]

Rise boggles after Maeve as she transforms, but only briefly. A lot of people are in trouble in there.

She nods at Sophia's question. "I can keep in contact psychically. I'm gonna go put eyes and hands on the situation...sorry. Himiko, let's go."

Rise closes her eyes and focuses as she holds hand to fin with her Gardevoir. At the same time Rise starts glowing pinkish-purple with the light of Mega Evolution, both of them disappear in a flash.

[burningblossoms]

Yukiko just stops, freezing in place in complete and total shock. Did that just...

Her face turns blue, her fingers clinching up. This was not at all what she'd expected from her boss.

"Did that just happen?!"

[toxicrevenger]

Pamela's eyes widened. "Either it did, or that was a mass hallucination from the stress of the situation. I'm going to go with it actually happening, though."

Unbelievable as it seemed.

[allergictoloveletters]

"It did, and we would do well to accept it and refocus," she said, allowing herself to compartmentalize it and deal with it later.

She frowned as she looked at where Rise and Maeve had been and the air around her got colder.

"We need to make sure we help the others without splitting ourselves up. We've lost a monitor but we can still keep in touch. Stay calm and focus, deep breaths," she was used to high stress in operating rooms and the medic center, she could stay calm in this.

"We need to figure out what each group needs to come out of this alive and go from there."

[windyflower]

As Fuuka was trying to understand why her boss just suddenly decided to leave, she couldn't think about it for long. There was so much going on, she needed to remain calm about this no matter what.

"I'll try my best to see if I can read where the enemy might be. I just hope that I can figure out where their weak spot might be."

Although, she had to admit, things were getting dire. If was difficult but she can't allow herself to panic.

[soulofmagus]

The drop in temperature does not go unnoticed, though there's a small eon of complaint from Gebo. While her human partner may appreciate the colder clime, it's nipping a little too much for her grass-type liking.

Gathering the eeveelution up into her arms, Sophia frowned, then shakes her head. "We must assume our position has been compromised. If we had a means to see within those rooms, there's little to stop them finding us with their superior technology. We must fall back to a new point, and leave this place with as little evidence of our passing as possible."

At least, that's what her gut feelings tell her. Ymir growls once, then floats outside to talk with his fellow pokémon on guard duty. Had they noticed anything, aside from strange humans-turned-dragons?

"Once we know where to go, we can pass on the rendezvous location to members of the retreating teams." If they can reach them, that is.