"That's me, the $6 Million Can Opener"

[iamjaimesommers]

WHO: Jaime Sommers (iamjaimesommers), The Shadow (sable_cloak), Sarah Connor (terminatefate), and any POLICE CAST that would like to participate. And anyone else it makes sense to show up (the Master?)! (Tag yourselves in when you get here

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[sands_in_mexico]

[Sitting at his desk, his face snaps up from the paperwork for Lassiter and could smell the burning rubber. He followed her as quickly as he could only to lose her in the process. Navigating through narrow areas with crutches were never easy.]

What the hell?

[He heard the uniformed street cop hit the wall and called for a couple to lend the other a hand. Without hesitation, they did so.

Sheldon remembered the schematics that Jaime had given him and the first thing he needed to do was to find someone that could not only read it but hold Jaime down. It was time to break out the taser. Checking the charge, he didn't want to shoot her but he didn't see much of a choice. Jaime was affected too.]

Jaime?

[He has the taser in his hand.]

[iamjaimesommers]

[There was another cop unconscious against the wall, and one cop holding a gun trained on Jaime which she seemed entirely oblivious to.

The silicone on Jaime's upper arm is melting/burning slightly, through her shirt as well. Sparks fly from random spots from her arm.

Jaime smiles at Sheldon by a battered and broken elevator door as if she were on a stroll through the park.]

Hey there, cowboy. These elevators are slow today, aren't they?

[does a deep knee bend, clearly preparing to jump into the elevator shaft]

[sands_in_mexico]

Yeah.

[Sheldon didn't know what else to do at this point other than to take action. He pulls the taser up and without delay, he pulls the trigger and hoped that he didn't miss.]

I'm sorry.

[The smell of the silicon was enough to alert him to call the doctor.]

You! Call the hospital.

[The cop that was stunned at first until Sheldon shouted the order to call finally moved.]

Don't stop for anyone, got it?

/slides in

[sable_cloak]

[Lamont is already reaching over the edge of the front desk at the command to call the hospital. As the cop arrives, he hands the phone to them, the number already dialed.

The woman appears oblivious to events around her, and he isn't familiar enough with the police department to know if this was an attack, or another brainwashed officer. All he knows is that her arm is sparking, and now another officer on crutches is responding with a taser. He scoots by the front desk, the officers there too busy calling the hospital to stop him.]

/crawls in, late; notifs aren't working, so...yuck.

[terminatefate]

Sarah came skidding around the corner from the desk she'd been working, going through reports on suspicious packages. She immediately fixed on the sparking arm, her eyes wide in alarm. Was that--

"What the fuck?" Her head ached from the sudden surge of pressure as her stress level rose. Sparking meant metal, metal meant death...and that taser wasn't going to do the trick if that woman was a Terminator. She caught sight of Lamont and threw a someone's gotta do better than that look at him.

Her hands felt as if they were both supercharging, snapping and crackling with energy already. The lights flickered. This shit was wrong as fuck.

Yikes! I know what you mean.

[sands_in_mexico]

[Sheldon looked over his shoulder at the sound of the footsteps of the approaching Lamont. He's never met the man before and the taser was their best defense. Bullets wouldn't do much damage and if stopping or shorting the circuit to her arm would help, he didn't mind the repercussions that would follow. He cared about Jaime and cared for her which made the decision very hard to make

[iamjaimesommers]

[the taser dart strikes Jaime in the LEFT shoulder, sending her convulsing and falling into half-consciousness. However the insulative failsafes in her bionics prevent the electric shock from carrying into her cybernetic limbs (it's 70s sci-fi, bear with me)--and does nothing to stop her right arm from doing what it's doing, the upper arm of which is now hot enough that the rubber skin has melted away completely around a round metal housing inside the robotic arm, which is glowing with heat. The bad scent grows worse as the failsafes in the arm are failing and the fleshy part of her right shoulder begins to burn from the situation.

Having already bent to prepare to jump into the elevator shaft, Jaime's convulsions from the taser strike send her about to topple into the shaft...

SARAH: You notice that unlike a terminator, the skin around the metal arm is not real skin. You also notice that she obviously does have real skin elsewhere, which is now burning from the arm heating up]

((ooc: FYI the point of the taser hitting her fleshy

[terminatefate]

Sarah moved quickly, pulling Jaime back from the elevator shaft and studying her as she did so. The woman wasn't a Terminator, but she could tell, now, that she had been enhanced using machinery. That, in itself was horrifying. There were upsides, like strength and the ability to use lost limbs, but still, it made Sarah's skin crawl as she moved Jaime to relative safety.

Her hand flashed out to slam a tight, precise EMP blast, aimed to knock out the overloading power pack that was obviously about to blow. Bright streaks of pain flared through her head as she did so and she grimaced. No words were necessary, so she just grit her teeth for a moment.

Her eyes flicked back to Lamont and then Sands.

"That ambulance better the fucking quick," she snapped.

[iamjaimesommers]

[Her power pack--and thus all of Jaime's bionics--shut down. Jaime, already stunned by the taser dart, completely passes out.]

[sable_cloak]

It shouldn't be long.

[Lamont watches the woman go limp and has noted the bionics. He kneels next to Sarah, setting a hand on Jaime's forehead. He looks down at her face and narrows his eyes at the unconscious woman as he concentrates. Her behavior was much like the other victim he's helped, she seemed oblivious to all.

He goes very still as he cautiously initiates his telepathy. He's more concerned about backlash from Jaime's mind, than he is another telepath at the moment.]

[sands_in_mexico]

[Kneeling for Sheldon was extremely difficult for him but the fact remained that he still had her schematics. Trusting someone to use them properly was a difficult matter. He pulled out the chip from a hidden compartment in his watch that contained the tiny memory card and replaced the one in his Black Jack to read it. This was how he knew to use the taser

Masterous should correct or supplement if need be. PS y'all are AWESOME

[iamjaimesommers]

[Lamont notes a few things about Jaime's mind:

- what triggered her to do this was a series of carefully, expertly laid hypnotic suggestions, some to forget her being hypnotized and some to instruct her to make her way as swiftly as possible to the bowels of the police station. These suggestions were put in place relatively recently.

- Her obliviousness was linked in to some of her OWN memory blocks she's subconsciously put around old (from several years ago) memories. There are also some memories flat out missing but it's NOT from recent tampering. More like brain damage that happened a few years ago.

- Her mental awareness and vitality is fading FAST. ]

[sable_cloak]

[He does not react to Sheldon's revelation of the information as he moves a hand to her throat, checking the woman's pulse. The fading of her mind and body are severely concerning, and far faster than he'd expect.

The revelation that the mental blocks are not all from outside sources is concerning to note but not his current concern. That she was slipping away was his focus.]

Blast it.

We may not have time to wait for the ambulance. We'll lose her if she doesn't get help now.

[There is precious time, and without her conscious mind to guide him, he will have to search through brute force to locate the point in her mind where the hypnotic suggestions were put into place in order to undo them. He does not want to send her off to the hospital with the mental suggestions still in place, if he can undo some of the damage in time.]

[terminatefate]

Sarah just frowned, glancing over the device as she tried to figure out what the fuck could be done. Her EMP had done enough damage. Resuscitation was one thing, but the problem with that was goddamn machines. If they restarted her--assuming they could do that--would her arm just continue its overload, or worse, just detonate?

"Well, this is a fucking mess," Sarah said, her voice a snarl. "I shut her down. The only thing I can think of doing is chest compressions until the damn bus shows up."

[sands_in_mexico]

Sheldon made a decision. "You did what you had to in order to save lives. Jaime wouldn't expect anything less." He knew that it was a steep price to pay but they were agents first and foremost with the promise to keep as many people safe meant a sacrifice had to be made even at the cost of their own lives. Sheldon hated the ever present fact that he wasn't physically able to do anything to stop her life from ebbing away.

He did what came to his mind and that was to give her air. He dropped his crutches and extended his bad leg to keep from bending it to perform mouth to mouth. There was not a moment to lose. He wasn't about to let what happened to Jaime that happened with Elisa.

[sable_cloak]

Contact wasn't necessary to maintain the mental connection, and so Lamont moved back to allow Sheldon room. He stayed close though, to keep the connection as strong as possible. There was no time to lose, while the officer kept her body alive, he had to save her mind. His first priority was locating the memory which contained the point at which the brainwashing had occurred. There were a number of memories in the way, and so he had to push caution to the side as he sent his mind racing against time, in search of that point.