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[seeingtwofold]

WHO: Sollux Captor and the entiretly of the Infiltration crew.
WHAT: Team Red and Team Blue do their thing to break into the indentified Capekiller base. But, as it turns out, it was all a trap to begin with. Still - it's a good effort.
WHERE: The location Sollux and Rose pegged as the Capekiller HQ, confirmed (inaccurately) by scouts. This is in

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TEAM RED: RECEIVE DISTRESS CRY.

[seeingtwofold]

[Team Blue is in shit - something's gone wrong, and they've been both discovered and overwhelmed. It's time to do your job and get them out of there.]

[Unless you'd rather save yourself, of course. Because really, there's nothing stopping you from running right now.]

[But will you?]

[hate_actually]

[having just spoken to Sollux, Karkat looks legitimately scared but also like if anyone argues with him he'll]

[...]

[... I don't know, bite their kneecaps? really hard? everyone on this team is taller than he is.]

[in any case he swears under his breath and turns to the assembled TEAM RED with his seriousest little face on]

Team Blue messed up, we're going in.

[whatisglub]

Karkat!

[ Feferi is looking reasonably distressed but seems to be keeping her calm... seems to be. ]

Is there a plan? Do you know where we're going?

[hate_actually]

Plan?

[stares at Feferi in IMMENSE FRUSTRATION]

The plan is we wait for little miss astral projection to get her spectral ass back inside her comatose meat sock so she can tell us where the others are, and then we get in there and we stop everyone else from dying horribly. That's the plan.

[whatisglub]

[ Yeah okay no. That seems to irritate her a little, at least as much as she ever is frustrated. ]

Now is not the time to be crabby! Now you know I am not trying to make waves, but you are not the sole team member here who's worried. All that effort you are putting into being ornery, you could better put into leading!

Now I know you are capable of handling this effishiently, so let's do this!

[hate_actually]

Okay, you know what? Now is also not the time for shitawful fish puns, so how about you shove a jarringly seafood-related noun in it unless you're actually going to suggest something useful.

[mr_lineface]

[Batman's voice crackles over their voice channel, cool and menacing.] I'm going in. I'll cover the rest of the team while you're getting inside and will meet you ahead, assuming you move quickly. Or you can continue to argue and I'll go myself.

[whatisglub]

[ putting a hand over the mic ] See, Karkat?? All you're doing is making people uncomfortable!

[ and then back to the communicator-- ] That's the closest thing to a good idea I've heard yet, but only if you're sure you can handle it!

[paintedonsky]

[Elaine comes stumbling up from...where ever it was they stashed the unconscious body of a thirteen year old. She looks more than a little panicked.]

This isn't- Okay, here's everything I could see-

[And she lays out the direction all the capekillers she could spot in the time she was in there were coming from, how many, what they had on them, etc. Whatever the mods end up describing, there you go. For the ones she could see, at least. Any high tech/magic stuff they had that blocked her sight is beyond her.

When she's done, Elaine's wings manifest in the real world.]

Tell them to get them to the windows or roof or whatever, I'll grab anyone who comes out that way.

SORRY FOR BEING SO SLOW my internet was a royal pain last night

[hate_actually]

[to Batman:] Wait the fuck up, you don't even know where -

[oh thank fuck there's Elaine. He listens, obviously relieved - well, kind of. She doesn't exactly paint a reassuring picture.]

Okay. Okay, great. [he takes a moment to cover his face with his hand, but he looks a bit more composed once he's lowered it.] Okay. So Batman goes in ahead because I guess he does what he wants, and you two - no, wait, Belloc, you need to actually come with us to show us where we're supposed to go. Having someone outside who can fly wouldn't be a terrible idea, though, can Egbert do that?

DON'T WORRY

[paintedonsky]

[Elaine hesitates a moment, obviously wanting to actually go- but this is what happens when one is on a team. She lands next to him, nodding.]

Okay. But we need to go now, or we're only making it easier for them to get us, too.

[dothewindything]

I can! [ sort of to the side. he'd been listening as Karkat did the leader thing. ] It's not flying exactly, but yeah. I can do it.

[hate_actually]

Close enough, John! As long as you can stop people falling out of windows to their useless deaths, you are exactly what we need!

So, okay, you stay out here with Turlough, everyone else follow Elaine, let's go.