It's the end of the world as we know it

[skinners_box]

Who: Everyone and then some!
When: Tuesday night through Thursday night
Where: Station Alpha Omega
Summary: The inmates are running the asylum.  Or so they hope to be when this is all over.
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence, language, possible nasty ethical dilemmas, our characters

And I feel fine~

We'll start threads for major teams/locations, hop in and

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Team Self Destruct

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Teams can start threads here for their work deactivating the self destruct. They can scatter to other teams once they're done.

[adashofrain]

Come on Harry! [Rainbow Dash, all dressed up in her new magicked ninja suit is already zooming out of the gaping hole in the cafeteria, heading straight for the first floor]

[harry_b_dresden]

[There was one unforseen consequence of that cloak of hers. It made her ridiculously difficult to follow in the chaos, a shifting mass of color changing to match her surroundings. Harry followed as best he could, at a dead sprint already, map in hand]

Second left, Dash! If there's interns, try to blow past them and wait for me in the closest secure area you can hole up!

[adashofrain]

Got it! [She flies faster, zooming around the corner, weaving between interns before stopping dead in a little alcove]

[harry_b_dresden]

[Harry bursts into the next room.

Three of them, instead of keeping their guns trained on the doorway they're looking around, trying to figure out what exactly that was that just whizzed past them, half visible, nothing much more than a ripple in the air. Harry raised his left hand in a fist and pointed his staff, using both it and the force ring at once to scatter the interns like bowling pins. If he didn't have to kill, he wouldn't.]

So far, so good. You remember where the charge is supposed to be?

[He glances into the alcove as he passes, spotting Dash now that she wasn't moving.]

[adashofrain]

Yep! I'll go take this one out, you go get the next one! [She grins at him, then zooms back out into the hall, flying straight for where the charge should be]

[harry_b_dresden]

[Harry winces as bullets whiz through the air just past Dash's heels when she darts through that open area. Odds are, she doesn't really even understand what they are, and he hopes to hell she never finds out.

He turns, sprinting back through the defended room and catching a recovering intern a blow to the temple with his staff-nothing personal, mind you-taking a left and tugging the door open to a room marked "maintenance."

Maintenance his ass. The charge is right where it's marked on the map, covered up by a rack of dusty brooms and buckets that look like they haven't been used since the human cleaning staff became...obsolete. He puts his 'berry up to his mouth]

Found it, Dash. We bring these down and meet up in the same spot, ok? Make sure you rip out all the wires.

[adashofrain]

Yessir! [She's already trying to use the magical gold rig he made her, concentrating as hard as she can on the charge. It pops and sparks, and then whatever had been making it tick shuts off.] I think I did it! How do I know when it's safe to smash?

[harry_b_dresden]

Put your ear up to it. If it's ticking, then don't kick it. Otherwise, go to town.

[He does so with his own, nodding before he pours water over it. He waits until he's sure its flowed into all the important components, then he freezes it, smiling when he hears it crackle and pop.

He pulls the map out of his pocket, getting his bearings, concentrating on figuring out a route to the next charge so intently that he almost doesn't realize he's wandered into what looks like a little break room, and that he isn't alone.]

Hell's bells.

[That's all the communicator picks up before a good ten seconds of gunfire. Harry's crouched behind a huge boxy machine of some kind, a terrified looking woman with sunken eyes and greasy, curled hair that might at one time have been pretty blonde firing wildly at him.

It might take a second for Dash to realize she can hear the noise both through the communicator and through the wall-they were just in an adjoining room]

[adashofrain]

Whoa! Harry, are you okay? Do you need back up? [She stares at the 'berry, then at the wall, crouching down] I can't tell if the thing's ticking with all that noise. I can come help you first.

[harry_b_dresden]

[Harry's crouching as low as he can, water pooling around his feet. Apparently the machine is a water bottle dispenser, a replica of what one might find in the rats' cafeteria]

Destroy it, Dash, that's priority one. Just... be quick about it, I'm stuck in here.

If you do come in, make sure she doesn't get a chance to point the gun at you. I just need one distraction.

Look. [He chances a glance around the corner, but recoils back at the gunfire]

If you do come in, wait for her to stop shooting and take something out of her gun, like a little box. Then hit her, that'll be all the time I need.

[adashofrain]

Okay, okay... [Dash listens close to the bomb, but it's not ticking anymore. With a grin, she flies up, then dives down to slam into it with her hooves, reducing it to nothing more than parts.

Flying fast, she swoops around the corner, but kinda forgets what he told her, going straight for the intern, kicking her in the side with her back hooves]

[harry_b_dresden]

[Harry whips around as soon as the fighting stops, intending to use the distraction to seize the gun, hopefully detain the intern.

Sometimes, though, that just isn't in the cards. Dash's kick was effective enough, sending the woman sprawling and gasping, but the gun was still in her hand, and it was still loaded. She's moving to bring it to bear on the pony, and Harry's too far away to get to her physically. The machine at his right is leaking all over the floor by now, and he has only one real option. He raises his hand, frost forming on his lips and around his eyes as he dips into the Winter Queen's power.

Kill the mortal woman. Save the spare.]

Iiz slen-Nus!

[The words slither from his throat, forming the spell in the air almost of their own volition. The water springs to their command, ripping through the air impossibly fast, enveloping the woman and nearly covering up the sound of the gunshots

[adashofrain]

[Dash stares at the iced over woman, horror clear on her face. She's speechless. Even when she tries to say something, it just comes out as a scratchy squeak.

After a long, long moment, she turns her gaze to Harry, huge, pink eyes staring at him blankly, wings flapping uselessly in the air]

[harry_b_dresden]

[Harry looks down at the woman, frost melting on his skin]

I'm worry, Dash. I'm sorry that had to be done.

But I'd rather have you alive and her gone than the other way around.

[He turns away, taking the map out of his pocket]

Should be a left here, then the fourth right to get us where we have to go next. We still have a job to do.

[adashofrain]

Um... yeah. A job. [Dash stares back at the dead woman, shivering] Let's--let's do that.